#and certain developments in endwalker did not help even a tiny bit

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Junelezen 10: Shrine

Continuing my catch up pictures while the computer room isn't roasting.

Like just about anyone born in Ishgard, Dusk was raised to worship Halone. When his family fled emigrated, the intensity of that worship fell off considerably, as Gridania prioritizes Nophica and most of their ceremony was spent on soothing the Elementals anyway.

As such, he is not really one for prayers to begin with, although She usually comes to mind first when he has a mind to. He has a whole mess of conflicted feelings about that, though. He knows it's not Halone's fault Ishgard wound up the way it did, and he's aware there are reforms happening in Her church there, but ... he suspects he's never going to feel entirely comfortable with organized religion in general or Halone in particular again.

He'd prefer to be comfortable with it all, mind you. It's difficult to shed completely. His family is hardly a bunch of holy rollers, but they do all consider themselves part of Her church, and he can't deny prayer can be comforting. For now, though, the best he can do is avoid thinking himself in circles about it too often.