"I can attempt to find out. I did not see her making speeches in my scries."

"If no one picked it up just from me selling channels in Liscor without also as you did becoming curious about the details I would guess that she's not spreading it either but mislike relying on guesses with the stakes as uncertain as they are."

"I will attempt to [Scry] and [Message] her today."

"Do you have any angles on finding old records that might shed more light on which gods are motivated in what ways? I tried something that - should have worked - and I am pretty alarmed that it didn't."

"Manus is the oldest Walled City, likely the oldest city in Izril by some measures. You will have more success directly petitioning them for records than us."

"How old is it? Khelt is old and their library had nothing."

"I am unsure. The Walled Cities were built by Dragons. I believe they are said to predate recorded history."

"Caveating that races can be better or worse at recording history."

"How would I go about attempting to pull their records?"

"How did you pull Khelt's library? Their librarians may not have contact with Manus' recordkeepers, but it would be less out of place for them to make a request. The Drakes may not be eager to share their knowledge, however."

"I went in person with the support of the king of Khelt. I do think there's a risk that if someone is not already apprised of the situation enough to have quite thoroughly broken through the mental block on gods they may fail to turn up results even if they exist."

"...Mental block on gods?"

"The thing where people keep saying 'of course, the gods are dead' in response to any sentence about the gods including ones that logically require some gods to be alive."

"I have never attempted this, so I was not aware. That may be problematic.

"Is Voyager Keisha Silverfang subject to this effect?"

"I didn't check her much. She was fine with Desna being alive, but I think people react to local and Golarion gods differently and I was also at the time in the habit of saying "patron" instead specifically to avoid the problem."

"We can easily test it, can we not? Are we under it, ourselves? Provide an example of a sentence and an expected response for someone under the effect, and a plausible response for someone not."

"You don't seem to be but I can try. The individuals who appeared to you in your visions were gods, and they were of this world, and since they were doing things they appear to have been alive."

"That parsed ordinarily. We believe so as well."

"I agree. How would somebody under the effect respond?"

"I think you're clear; someone who had it affecting them would probably say something like 'but the gods are dead'. The dancer who is a [Cleric] now is able to - by saying 'the gods are alive' - evidently release them from the effect."

"And, to confirm what you said before, they had the [Cleric] class, but not the features of Golarion clerics such as spells granted at dawn and daily channels."

"Right. They have some Skills that mimic some of those things - the necromancer for example got an Unholy Aura that mimics a negative channel in repairing undead, which is useful in Khelt."

"None of us were offered anything in imitation of clerics. Or the [Cleric] class, for that matter."

"The king here mentioned that there also used to be [Paladins] locally, but perhaps that is not what you mean."

"No. The god of magic offered knowledge and power without qualification, and that of war—"