"Why would the Forwards care about a prophesy from a dead god in whom they do not believe?"

After being chased by dogs and climbing the stairs of a large building, John sees a dead god.

"1 see why the refugees took it for a dead god," said Vala.

She would never be taken to any palace of a dead God.

You remember a while back we all had us a problem with that thing that thought it was a dead god?

Now he had a god as an ally, even if it was a dead god.

Some people come at night to honour the dead god's ghost.

I can no longer walk in your world because I am a dead god.

He lay back and stared at the dome, the white, unblinking eye of a dead god.

Against everything, being loyal - even to dead God - make sense.