[He's quiet again for a moment, but there's kind of an almost mental buzz of concentration, like he's really mulling this over.]

Several of the Venerans I spoke to did their level best to explain the local religion to me... The sense that I got from them was that the Legacies weren't necessarily specific... Individuals, so much as. Abstract forces?

[He thinks that's the phrasing they used, from what he can recall.]

The creature we encountered being a literal deity would seem to contradict that, but... Then again, I suppose it's in the nature of a god to be somewhat unknowable, isn't it? So... Guh. Maybe the locals were simply... Wrong?