Did he experience even a moment of - decision - about channeling negative, or is he just evil and possibly in need of the Hell Is Bad And You Can Still Channel Negative If You're An LN Abadaran lecture.

He thinks he did experience a moment of decision, but he's not totally sure; anyway, he was aiming for negative going in because it seemed like it had the most interesting research applications.

He can confirm either way with Detect Evil, right? Can he check himself in a mirror?

Yes, a mirror works fine, or just looking down at yourself, auras cover the whole body. This will only work if he's got enough levels in something to detect.

No reading from Detect Evil.

He's a Level 15-20 [Trader]. Would that read? (Other people can volunteer levels and calibrate readings; it looks like you start to produce an aura around Level 12-13, though dips in other classes confounds it a bit.)

So apparently he's Lawful Neutral. Blai is too, probably, unless he's nudged Gooder recently.

Well, that's good.

"Do people from our world actually go to Hell and Heaven and so on?" someone asks. "How would we know?"

"I don't know or have a good way to find out; Scrying is fifth circle and Sending fourth."

"Our kind of scrying can't find dead people, wherever if anywhere they go. Maybe your kind is different."

    "Is there a way to replicate your Scrying without a fifth-circle cleric? Temporary buffs, or something. This is important to clarify, I think," says the Abadaran.

"There's magic items that can let anyone scry but I do not have one and would need to be able to cast the spell to make one even if I otherwise knew how."

    "Can we import one from an, uh, inevitable?" says someone who is aware of how their texts were procured.

"A crystal ball? ... maybe, though they're pretty big and I'm having trouble imagining an arbiter carrying one, if nothing else, and Planar Inquiry can't summon anything too big. There's a spell that can repair broken magic items, so in principle we could buy it in pieces, but I think restoring a crystal ball would be beyond me, since it would have been created by someone substantially more powerful than I am."

"Could a skilled [Mage] study and repair a deconstructed crystal ball? Our scrying orbs are [Mage]-artificed; do yours require a [Cleric]?"

"Golarion wizards can also make them. I have no idea if [Mages] could repair a crystal ball taken to pieces. I'll see if I can price one at all the next time I talk to Shfan, it's bound to be grotesquely expensive but potentially very high value, and maybe Shfan can just get someone to cast Ant Haul on it, at this kind of price range."

Nod nod wait

"Can we get Golarion spellbooks?"

"Maybe? They're - well, smaller than a crystal ball, but in most situations less of a commodity item, they belong to wizards who are very attached to them. I can ask. - I can ask after first showing some people my one-page cantrip, the one I use to clean things sometimes." He got modestly better at this before he started spending every free minute praying.