[Elliot considers it for a moment, trying hard to see that point of view]

...Yeah. It's different from how I was raised so it's hard to wrap my brain around, but I guess if all they knew how to do was rely on their gods...

[Elliot's dad, as affectionate as he was, tended to lean hard towards the "if you get captured, I'll leave you to die so you better fend for yourself" mode of parenting, so Elliot wasn't exactly prone to dependency.

It's debatable if this was a good form of parenting. Olaf's a complicated man!]