Draiss looked at her, before giving her a smile that radiated so much evil that the imp demonlord would have seemed like a cheap charlatan. "Because my realm infects any that enter it, binding them very slowly to me. If there was another god that had touched you, it would have repelled the binding, and the only one so far has been Hinata and Inaola. Of course, the bonus of the binding is that you become much more durable, as well as gaining the lesser immortality of an outsider like Aviendha, Karamiel, and the Ghaeles."<br/><br/>He allowed the smile to vanish, before shrugging. "Similar, but the avatars have considerable divine power on their own, and while they usually decide with me, several of them have told me to go to hell before."