I find it somewhat amusing that the priests were laying into each other with broomsticks, like some kind of Harry Potter military re-enactment.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'