Good question! I'll get into it more in later chapters, but since you're curious...
Casting divine magic is painful, because you're channeling a god or higher being through your fragile mortal body. As you do it more, and your connection to said god deepens, it becomes easier to do more and is less painful, but you still have limits. Once you go over your limit, your body starts to fall apart and you'll almost certainly die.
Dying this way is horrifically painful, and is completely forbidden in the Church of the Highfather.
that's the church for me. church of immortality! not metaphorical immortality, i want my clerics to turn me into a lich ... so i can read comics for the next thousand years.
Casting divine magic is painful, because you're channeling a god or higher being through your fragile mortal body. As you do it more, and your connection to said god deepens, it becomes easier to do more and is less painful, but you still have limits. Once you go over your limit, your body starts to fall apart and you'll almost certainly die.
Dying this way is horrifically painful, and is completely forbidden in the Church of the Highfather.
that's the church for me. church of immortality! not metaphorical immortality, i want my clerics to turn me into a lich ... so i can read comics for the next thousand years.