It's taken some doing, but he seems to be on the right track now; the chapter began with the different ways oracles trained, before a very brief aside: the godless oracles of Avalir, who had learned to forge their own connection to divinity. Apparently, it was a calling of lifelong devotion and meditative seclusion.
"The word you're looking for is 'manipulative', and no, he wasn't."
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"The word you're looking for is 'manipulative', and no, he wasn't."