Cool, new toys to play with!

He'd advise thinking of them as for emergencies, or else for exceptionally calm and planned use if that use happens to coincide for some reason with an occasion when just normally casting spells wouldn't do. Being cursed right in the Will save is unpleasant and potentially dangerous and it lasts yea long at least when he did it today mimicking a third circle spell.

These people have never used their Will saves for anything in their lives except getting out of bed in the morning, but the warning is taken.

(It doesn't sound fun, but neither is mana drain from Spells, and it's novel! Skills of course are the gold standard, typically with no acute downsides.)

They can make their own decisions, they're grownups, but it seems like he got the Miracle he got because he was casting a specific spell a lot so it seems like probably they will only get them for spells they could also just prepare and cast the normal way, which doesn't have a curse side effect!

But he has limited Golarion-cleric spells per day, right, so this gives him effectively extra spell slots? And local mage Spells don't have discrete usage limits, but consume personal mana, which is far from infinitely sustainable even with mana potions, so it's still a capacity increase.

And him getting counterfeit Planar Inquiry is probably because of casting it a lot, but hopefully non-casters still get Miracles more loosely inspired or drawn randomly... Golarion clerics are all casters, but local [Clerics] probably didn't have to be [Mages] to get Miracles, right? That would be weird?

He is not an expert on whether that would be weird or not.

Probably only the Quarass knows for sure, but a unique class feature being gated by a completely different class would be odd. It's not really important to pin down, though; presumably they'll know in a few years.

Presumably.

Anyway, he needs to go meet with the king again since the Quarass got back to them.

And they're going to get on a conference call.

"We will send an envoys to A'ctelios Salash to make inquiries. They will stop at your office for a detailed briefing. Have Hamil or anyone else capable free them of the god-censoring effect.

"We will not reach out to Terandria, for now. They are averse to necromancers, and are unlikely to cooperate with us. Furthermore, Khelt has already been more active than is characteristic in recent centuries, and we do not wish to alarm with our neighbors with more foreign overtures. Two of Calanfer's allies are also formally at war with us.

"Regarding the Dragonlord of Flame, we are skeptical that is it possible to locate a Dragon which does not wish to be found. We doubt even the Drakes have heard hide or hair of him. Even if Teriarch is not dead, he may be in a deep slumber, or sealed beyond where mortal hands can reach. By the example of the Creler Wars, perhaps the Dragons of old may again rear their heads if the world once more descends into crisis. However, unless we create such a crisis, or allow one to pass... we are pessimistic."

Nothing the Quarass said in her letter is new information to Fetohep, or indeed to modern historians. However, the perspective to identify the best avenues of investigation is, he supposes, the difference between one who walked with ancients and he who merely succeeded them. Despite that no secret knowledge has been conferred, and that not all of it is actionable, he finds himself satisfied. The Quarass' pronouncements are sound, and ones he or his archivists would not have arrived at on their own.

"The Antinium of Izril may be better placed to investigate the latter two. The Dragon more than Terandria, but if the Drakes can be convinced to petition Calanfer, perhaps with an emphasis on recovering Draconic heritage... it is still unlikely to bear fruit."

"The Antinium do not have influence over Drake foreign policy."

"We may have clues to the status and whereabouts of the Dragon."

"...on Golarion dragons tend to be either good or evil depending on their subspecies and color. Is there anything like that serving as a possible guide to the likely disposition of this dragon?"

"Dragons' physical characteristics are believed to reflect elemental affinities, and particular lineages of Dragons were known in ancient history for benevolence, cruelty or other personalities. There is not a known deterministic relationship between physical characteristics and character.

"Teriarch is a known individual, however, and appeared in many momentuous times of history. He fought against his Dragon brethren in the Dragonfall wars to liberate Chandrar from their tyranny, and again against the Great Wyrms when they they vied to overflow the Zeikhal, and against the Crelers when they came from Rhir. He was sponsor and guardian of the harpy Empire of Iltanus... which is more controversial. He has been ally and enemy of Khelt. There are more, I am sure, which I do not remember. Good or evil is a difficult frame through the distortive lens of history, but he is... heroic, let us say, more than villainous, in the instances he is moved to action."

"That's reassuring... Klbkch, your leads on the dragon, will this result in anything happening around the same time I'm scheduled to be landing in Izril again such that I should be thinking about contributing to an expedition, or no?"

"We suspect him to reside in the High Passes west of Liscor. The most straightforward way to locate him would be to send search parties, but it is a very large area to search, the High Passes are extremely lethal, and Antinium are not adapted for the environment. Xrn does not believe she can locate Teriarch's lair by magical means. If or when he is located, your presence with a diplomatic expedition may be useful, but short of that... are there cleric spells which could assist in locating a person?"

"...there's one for locating objects, but while it's long-range as my spells go that means hundreds of feet, not miles, and I'd need a quite good idea of what object I was looking for."

"My own location spells failed, likely due to warding, but yours may be able to bypass them. How precisely do you have to specify the object? Does metamagic such as [Extend Range] works with your spells?"

"I haven't checked interactions with local metamagic but I'd be able to use metamagic items from Golarion if I had any. I'd need a clear mental image of the type of thing I'm looking for, and a unique item I can't find at all unless I've encountered it firsthand."

"Does it locate exactly one instance of the object, or does it return all matches—as in, if you used it on a gold coin, would you be able to sense all gold coins in the area, and identify a region of particularly high concentration?"

"No, I'd get the nearest."

"I cannot immediately think of how that would be useful. We will contemplate the general matter further."

"On a related note, Voyager Silverfang has set for Manus. Is that direction of enquiry still worth pursuing?"