@orp Part of the issue: the story doesn't specify what happened to the previous saints. Do they die of old age, thus requiring new ones to be !summoned, or do they simply summon them at intervals and send them back after a certain point?
It wasn't made perfectly clear in the story, which in my case as a reader, is part of the issue. It also doesn't help when the people speaking have order of magnitude longer lives, and thus making them capable of having "met" the past saint. In other words, it could be a 300+ year timeframe.
Also, it sounded like it requires a HUGE amount of energy. Do they have to
collect Saint Stones (do the gods give them at sporatic intervals), or do they have a finite number of charges, or does it recharge, or are there unlimited numbers of charges for summoning saints? That's also an unknown. The stones were implies to be different that even the ones that the Saints themselves make, ergo… 😂