[Ah, it is religious, as he thought — and a much more interesting phenomena than what religious texts where he comes from say, surely. As far as he's aware, neither Elria nor Ishmael nor any minor deities have such a thing.]

I would agree that recording history is an important thing, though I had never considered that the Gods themselves would have a copy of it, so to speak. Personally, I would very much enjoy reading all of that history...

...though, death does not interest me in the slightest, huhu.

[It's more fun to watch the world change before his very eyes, to commit the passage of time to memory and watch how people grow and adapt, how many wars they start or how many trials they overcome before the primordial chaos takes them all. Opposition is interesting to him. Simply reading about it doesn't evoke the same effect.]

It is a holy art of a type, then, being a scribe? You must feel honoured being chosen for such a role.