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"I have," you reply. "Why did you want to speak to me?"

"You were raised on the Great Steppe," says the smith. "Raised to believe in the gods, in the spirit world, and in the legends of your tribe. To believe in magic. Am I right?"

You nod.

"I am here to tell you what all shamans already know," says Svarog. "That all of those things are the same. Manifestations of people's hopes and fears, given form through a universal energy that mortals like you might call belief or faith."