"Yes please, I'm currently operating on very little information."

"The god resides under Rhir. We do not know its name. Rather, all who learned of it have died, or were destroyed to eliminate the liability accompanied.

"We have been at war with it for thirteen thousand years."

    He pauses, recollecting.

"There has never been a time when the Antinium had a... relationship... with the god, as the peoples of your world do with yours. We were created by it. But we were ignorant of it—or what it truly was—for a long time. Then we broke free, and far later after that, we began to understand. Only finally, at long last, we came to fight against it. We did not know of civilizations that ever worshiped it. Not as we interpreted at the time; though when I now recall... I cannot say. It is not... or rather, we did not conceive of it as a god of things and domains, as you describe the gods of Golarion. Perhaps it is a god of madness, destruction, and twisted things. It did not have [Clerics]. It did not speak, it did not have teachings, it did not have churches. There were only monsters, endless of them in varieties each more terrible than the last, birthed from something of unimaginable power that bent reality with its dreams and erased Hives with mere stirrings.

"...Stirrings. I did not mention. We believe it is sleeping. Moreso, it is trying to wake up."

AAAAAAGH

"I don't believe that description matches either god who enclericed someone here - they introduced themselves to their clerics with domains and names."

"No, we do not believe they are it. Three gods, or entities who claimed to be gods, spoke to Xrn, Wrymvr and me. None of them were similar to the thing we found under Rhir, none of them were—

"If the god of Rhir could project their power to Izril, this is not how it would appear."

"Do you believe I should prevail on the clerics of local gods here to renounce their patrons?"

"I do not know. Before you arrived, we believed that gods were... the thing we fought. Something twisted, incomprehensible, fundamentally opposed to life which could only bring destruction. It is why we were alarmed, and sought urgently to meet you. On understanding your accounts, the possibility became salient that one may not representative of all. The ones we saw, on the last day of Mouring, varied. The thing that met Wrymvr, he did not like. It was closer to the thing of Rhir than the two we met, yet not, and... stranger, not in a good way. So Wrymvr said, and I do not comprehend his meaning, but that being, we would deny entry.

"The others, I find harder to judge. We do not trust them, in any case, not enough to allow them to claim us. But neither have we sought the patronage of Golarion gods yet."

"It's not for everyone, but... it's usually for the people who it's offered to. On Golarion.

Do you know if any other people outside the Antinium have been affected?"

"Not that I am aware. No new clerics have appeared in Liscor.

"If I understand correctly that the individuals on your side did accept the offers from their gods, do they have any ability to communicate with them? Could they provide intelligence?"

"I have their reports of the visions they experienced when they were approached - one of them also received a magical object, and has the [Prayer] skill, but the other can presumably also pray, just not... skillfully."

"What does [Prayer] do?"

"I'm not sure precisely. It - gets observable responses to prayers that are going to get observable responses, faster, is what we noticed when we were trying to get clerics of specific Golarion gods. I don't know if it makes them louder or more comprehensible or cheaper to grant or possibly even somehow less voluntary for the deity in question, though I am so far not convinced enough of that last to have stopped using it."

"My intuition would have been that it empowers the god more strongly, at least as one of its functions. I find it implausible that it be detrimental to the deity, or they would not seek it out and grant it to their minions."

"Iomedae didn't, so far as I know, grant it to me, so I was unsure for a while, but local gods also issuing it is a point in its favor, yes."

"Whom did the gods select on your side? That all three living Centenium were approached on our side is at once informative and... not, as it is in a sense only one piece of information, not three."

"A professor of necromancy and a dancer were each approached by a god relevant to their professions. ...we also got a Caydenite on the same day but I think he's just a normal Caydenite, I wasn't trying for one but may have sold Him short."

"Caydenite is one of the Golarion gods?"

"Necromancy sounds concerning. Or so surfaces races I would expect to say."

"I was concerned about the necromancy too but it seems that the kind practiced in this country is not Evil; I checked that before I agreed to work here. Cayden Cailean is a Chaotic Good Golarion god - like Desna - but I didn't attempt to establish a church for Him because I had very little sense of His value. It was very edifying to meet the person He chose."

Xrn makes a contemplative sound.

"That is interesting. Your Desnan, Keisha Silverfang, did not strike me as particularly noteworthy. Then, we did not speak for long. This necromancer and this dancer, were they high level? Did they seem—thoughtful and intelligent, or did they seem gullible?"

"I... was not evaluating them for that specifically when we spoke, but I would say they seemed thoughtful and intelligent. They did not strike me as off-model for clerics as I understand them, which indicates above-average Wisdom. They seem willing to be cautious about their clerichood and their deities at the King's direction. I don't know their exact levels - the dancer is younger but I was able to get an alignment reading off him, so probably at least about level ten. The professor I couldn't but that likely just means she's true neutral."

"It may be that they are not optimizing for pure power, then. And that they perhaps have some similarities to the gods of Golarion, although it is not nearly enough information for to draw conclusions. On the matter of levels, it is then suggestive that there is an additional reason us Klbkch, Wrymvr and I were selected of all we know. My selection is wholly reasonable for the god who approached me. Klbkch, plausible, but more of a stretch. Wrymvr, only very abstractly related."

"Is there a security reason to keep the names of these entities from spreading amongst ourselves?"

"It is unclear to what extent it empowers the gods in question, and how strongly we are opposed to doing so. If two living people knowing makes a god twice as powerful as one person knowing... It is likely not so steep, but for the god of Rhir, we have a better understanding of the risk factors; for these gods, we do not."

"In seeking more information I have, not publicized anything, but directed a trading partner on another plane to look for information - its failure was alarming - and approved a plan of the King's to speak to a more-immortal neighbor who may remember something if bribed to consider the question."

"...Then it is unlikely that you telling us will do much harm. Us three have only debriefed each other on a high level on those that contacted us, and did not share the names in particular. The Queens received a similar briefing, and nobody else.

"If you believe it useful, we can add one more person to nine knowing their descriptions. I do not believe it is prudent to share names directly, however, as they provide limited operational value for the risk they incur... unless your King's neighbor returns information that names would be useful to index on, possibly."