Myrkul wants to be the God of Death again, but not strongly enough to do anything about it. He’s waiting (likely in vain) for the portfolio to fall into his lap when Jergal overreaches in his manipulations of gods. I doubt that’s going to happen; Jergal is smarter than all of the Dead Three put together, and then some.
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