Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one.
And as for death - we get what we expect.
The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.
Let fools believe what fools believe.
Order is its own reward.