Iwa pele, gentle or good character, is the tradition's highest value and the odu return to it constantly. There is a well-known verse in which iwa is personified as a wife who is neglected and leaves, and the husband — who has everything else — finds nothing works afterwards and must go and find her. The system is explicit that ire, the good things, come in kinds: money, children, long life, victory over enemies. And it is equally explicit that possessing them without character is failure. A frequently quoted formulation holds that character is all that is required — that if a person has money without character the money belongs to someone else, and that a person's character is their guardian divinity. In a religion organised around efficacy, where people consult diviners about concrete problems and pay for results, the insistence that the results are worthless without character is the counterweight the tradition supplies against its own machinery.