"And maybe she'd find a place or someone who didn't treat her or Aldran as people on a pedestal. "
Hopefully.

"I...changed it. I didn't like the name I was given."
Is Ras a boy's name? (is liking her more already). Her previous name was Shanras, right?

"and they used that person as their next meal, to show us the futility of the action. "
*shudders*

"they tell of the geists living with the Gods and being sent by Them to help the chosen khertan"
Do you mean psyvens?

"You're three days old?"
XD

Why am I getting the feeling that there is a big geist conspiracy or something?

DarkDragonne