Sweetheartsoldier - Ranger's Dislodgment

Reading book two without first reading book one:

“In order to be loved, you must submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”

In order to fulfill my own goals, I must edit this writing from ten years ago no matter how embarrassed I am to have written it.

Tired of stories where the author worldbuilds a whole religion only to chicken out at the last moment by making the main character a skeptic. You mean to tell me that there’s all this richness in lore and culture, but you’ve trapped me with the one person in this society who doesn’t care about it? So bland. I could meet an agnostic easily enough by walking down the street, but your story is my one chance to hear the perspective of someone who follows whatever religion you’ve contrived. You made this whole world; convince me that your character really is from there.