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How will Idrila appear to Argenti?

I keep thinking about the theory that Argenti sees Idrila as looking like his mother.

Argenti believing his mother akin to the goddess of beauty… thinking that because, when he learns of the belief that Idrila may appear to the seer as that of which they find most beautiful, he thinks to what he may view as true beauty and he remembers his childhood, remembering his mother as the most beautiful thing he knew.

After all, he’s heard motherhood described as one of the most beautiful things, so what love in the vast universe he travels, could be greater and more beautiful than a mother’s love– his mother's love, so unwavering and radiant amidst all the violence of war before she was taken away? 

He knows that gazing upon the god may drive him mad if he succeeds in finding the missing Idrila but, what if he could glance his mother just one more time before succumbing? So, he hopes and he prays that maybe they’re right… Even if they’re wrong, in all his dedication, maybe they would take the form of her as a gift. A blessing. 

And what if to him, Idrila’s blessing will be no different than an act of his mother’s love? That it will be a kiss on his forehead or a pat on his back? That Idrila’s light that will fall upon him will illuminate his being in warmth like the arms of his mother after a long day of battle raging? That it will fill his stomach like the meals she so desperately scrounged for? 

Argenti dedicating his life to a goddess who may not even be alive because they might resemble his mama. in any way.