Throughout the Middle Ages, churches in Britain and Europe were regularly filled to the rafters with the hardworking peasant classes. With no air conditioning and little in the way of personal hygiene, the atmosphere could get a bit ripe with the intriguing odour of the great unwashed, particularly in the summer. This is why a bench seat for the congregation is called a "pew".
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.'