[They all sit still. Citizens enter and prostrate themselves. Agmar sits deep in thought.
ILLANAUN (to Agmar)
Two holy pilgrims have gone to your sacred shrines, wherein you were wont to sit before you left the mountains. (Agmar says nothing) They return even now.
AGMAR
They left us here and went to find the gods? A fish once took a journey into a far country to find the sea.
ILLANAUN
Most reverend deity, their piety is so great that they have gone to worship even your shrines.
AGMAR
I know these men that have great piety. Such men have often prayed to me before, but their prayers are not acceptable. They little love the gods; their only care is their piety. I know these pious ones. They will say that the seven gods were still at Marma. They will lie and say that we were still at Marma. So shall they seem more pious to you all, pretending that they alone have seen the gods. Fools shall believe them and share in their damnation.
OORANDER (to Illanaun)