[ She takes note of the things he says, but a lot of it is the kind of thing she can only hear, nod in understanding, and not offer up a useful response for. He seems so much more studied in these ways than she is that she has to take him at his word. However, there's one thing that her history here can speak to: ]

I can understand what you mean about small numbers of followers meaning less stability... but I've seen new gods with very many followers suddenly vanish. Plus, if you look up the original myths of the gods that people here are, uh, standing in for... some of them are incredibly well known. I can't imagine how a god like Odin - my current god - could have needed an incarnation recently, and at the same time as a much more minor god like Forseti becoming his equal.