Hold Up.
First. Theyre fully armed soldiers, ready to fight (and be violent) for their god. Thats the text.
Second. They were ready to kill Imogen (or feed her to the Ruiner), and they would have succeeded. Thats also the text.
if BH's responses are not polite or coddling, its bc the fully armed soldiers responded to their presence with violence, right off the rip. violence is hard to meet with politeness, it really fucking is.
BH didnt even intend to say that Imogens carrying predathos. they said it was defeated. the armies didnt need to be here anymore. that was in fact, a reasonable thing to say.
lets not be the foreign army on foreign soil invading a land in protection of their gods. lets... not do that.
its absurd to me that people see how "oh BH are intimidating the armies" as if BH wasnt outed by an angel then a cleric tries to kill Imogen by Summoning Their God before BH could say a word edgewise. To quote Ashton, "that was Rude"
also ignorance would have been bliss - but the situation left BH control when the angels snitched
for better or for worse, imogen wants to save the gods from death by digestion. that is the intent. she doesnt want to fight the armies of several gods (bc she will lose). she is on their side (or she will die. i mean the gods will too but her first! she doesnt want to die).
the armies are afraid, rightfully so, but like thats bc the angels snitched. all BH said was "predathos was defeated. go back". they said nothing like "we about to shakedown your gods for all of their lunch money" (which they might lel but like they didnt say anything intimidating until again... they were threatened!!)
its ABOVE the soldiers' paygrade and i dont think BH would have flaunted that knowledge of predathos in Imogen anyways
lets lay out the scene. a whole army surrounds a group of nine. The nine are beaten to hell and back but still they are kept at bay by weapons. a cold breeze could destroy them. thats text.
