Hill reflected on the Catalogue of Gods he had recently seen. Singers indeed made their living by gathering information and spreading stories—like the various past and present lives of Cyric, the Prince of Lies.
Otherwise, if someone were clearly a Thief, the first reaction would normally be that it's one of Mask's people.
Only the underlings of Singers would first think of Cyric.
The ever-unpredictable Prince of Lies, Cyric, always bestowed generous rewards on those who created trouble for the Singers on his behalf.
If they could capture the Singer himself, who liked to take on human form to sing and find merriment, Dark Sun would even temporarily abandon his schemes and conspiracies to pick a fight first.
Hill indeed agreed with this catalogue's depiction of the Singer.
He still remembered how the God of Singing had behaved in Gerns.
