His expression says it all, in response to that deflection - that absolutely doesn't count - and somehow it only sharpens at the explanation.

"Your father is one of the gods who bound themselves to an entire world, shaping the life here forever. And then he was ready to throw it in the trash when things got difficult, which..."

He waves a hand. Yes, yes, shitty of the Betrayers, everyone has heard it.

"But my point is - they feel a connection to each other, and they made a connection to Exandria." (Earth, Gaea, Midgard, Terra; it has a lot of names, all these thousands of years later.) "Isn't that why he's so angry, being cut off from both for so long?"

And it's more than bitter frustration in his voice, in his expression; they're strained with bleak sympathy, too.