"...oh. Oh, dear." He sounds somewhere between startled and concerned. "I would very much like to not encounter any gods, my own or anyone else's, to be frank."

A pause, then: "A friend of mine genuinely thought one of ours had spoken to him. And maybe he did. I can't say one way or the other, I suppose, but it made him do awful things. If Gaerdal Ironhand truly encouraged Wulbren to wipe out all the followers of Gond, I...don't think I actually want anything to do with Gaerdal Ironhand."

"Your ideas are certainly...preferable."