"I don't recognize the Three-in-One title either; I'm used to 'Lady of Graves' or 'Mother of Souls' when one gets more formal than 'the Creator' or 'the Judge'. ...It may be appropriate for someone with [Prayer] to try addressing Pharasma directly in case She wants to take some kind of action here, in the event that it's not Her."

The necromancy professor has [Prayer], the bartender and dancer do not. And of course the existing [Clerics]. Does Blai want to do it, or... he's the highest-leveled, right, so his [Prayer] should be the strongest, at whatever unclear thing it's doing?

"I'll do it but first I want to hear from the King what he wants done here."

It'll be at least a few minutes and probably more for the King to receive the message and generate an opinion.

While they wait:

"My god's Laedonius Deviy," the dancer volunteers. "God of Dance and Love, and also of Meetings, and, erm, Art and Song? Have you heard of him?"

He looks eeever so slightly uncomfortable.

"No, I have not. Were you - trying for Shelyn -"

"I wasn't actually praying."

"Well," says Blai to the bartender, "yours I expect is Cayden Cailean and He's - fine - I don't really get the point of Him but he's Chaotic Good and He's the god of, uh, alcohol, and - adventuring and courage, I guess. He's ascended, like Iomedae."

"I'd heard of him, my friend told me about it—I wasn't specifically praying to him, but I was thinking about him yesterday, I suppose." He shrugs. "Not much adventuring to be done around here, but alcohol and courage? Sounds about right."

"What courage is called for?"

"Well, courage isn't only for fighting monsters. You need courage to apply for that apprenticeship you've been eying. To ask someone out. To confess something, to move to a different city, to take on new responsibilities. To speak up against wrongdoing or stand up for yourself."

...Blai is not sure what he was expecting, but now that this bartender has said all that, it's clear that that's exactly what he should have been expecting.

"Well, congratulations."

He scratches his head.

"I guess I'd better get started on that whole religion thing. Put all the nonsense I come up with somewhere."

Can he find some of the other clerics to chat up?

Probably, there are after all several of them around even if Blai is now pacing waiting to hear from the King if this was all a dreadful idea.

What if instead of hearing from the King that this was all a dreadful idea, he hear it IN PERSON.

A messenger comes to ask him to see the King in the palace. It's only a fifteen minute walk.

He'll be there at once. Well, in fifteen minutes. Possibly the new clerics should come too but if he were them he'd be nervous about it and he does not have the authority to insist.

"If there's something to be concerned about, delaying it will only make things worse," says the professor. "I'll come with."

The dancer hesitates and nods as well.

To the palace with the three of them, then. (The Caydenite's just a Caydenite, he's fine, good luck on that book.)

The King is seated on his throne as he receives them. He looks unperturbed. Or maybe that's just the withered face.

"Select. Professor Ariens. And you, young man—I do not know your name."

    "...Hamil, Your Majesty."

"Hamil.

"Select Artigas, I received your message, but do not yet understand the precise implications that alarmed you. You discovered three [Clerics] selected outside your halls, is that correct?"

"One was granted a circle by Cayden Cailean. I wasn't aiming for this or expecting it but I believe it will be fine; He's Chaotic Good and seems to have chosen a fine priest. Any of the gods we were expressly trying for could have tipped Him off.

"These two, I don't recognize their gods - one sounds sort of like Pharasma and one sort of like Shelyn but they aren't, and also they have the [Cleric] class but not a cleric circle to match."

"And they do have gods, not like the [Acolytes] you have produced? How do you tell?"

"They had visions in which the gods introduced themselves."

"That is unusual, is it not? You know more of this than we do. What is your assessment?"

"This doesn't happen on Golarion. The kind of leveling people here do is unknown there altogether. Visions aren't unheard of - the Caydenite got one, apparently. It would not be the strangest thing to ever happen, if an obscure empyreal lord or demigod decided to start establishing a cult in a particular location by vision, though it would, on Golarion, probably be accompanied by somebody getting a circle. Two at once, who nobody's heard of - that's bizarre."

"Something of our system and not yours. More than ten thousand years ago, there were [Clerics] and [Paladins] on this world. They were not empowered by gods, which are and were long dead. Perhaps these... empyreal lords, you speak of? What is a 'demigod'? Could there be such beings borne of our world?"

"Empyreal lords and demigods are both Golarion phenomena and I would expect them to be accompanied by Golarion circles. They're god-like beings but of lesser magnitude."