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I guess technically "By the Nine" is a religious exclamation.
"you're finally awake"
The nine... Muses? Mothers of Heimdall? Months of childbirth? Worlds on Yggdrasil?
The nine divines you apostate!
Sorry you're going to have to elaborate :p
It's an elder Scrolls reference :)
You could substitute any number and get a superficially meaningless swear that means “substitute appropriately heavy blasphemy here”.
"By the Seven" if you're ever in Westoros.
I thought they were mostly secular in Västerås.
Lolno they have both old gods and new.
Nine rings for the mortal men doomed to die?