 It is not clear how carefully he watches them, although he does at least make nominal efforts to appear to be paying attention.The remarkable reception of the Iron Faith among the Hazlani cannot be understood in abstraction from Hazlik.Vaasi, the language of the Church of the Lawgiver, was of course the native tongue of the Hazlani, and the social order was at least as oppressive in Hazlan as in Nova Vaasa, preparing the ground for the reception of The Lawgiver's message.