He's somewhere vaguely resembling a courtroom. Where the magistrate would normally sit, there's a masked creature that looks something like a skeletal black bird.

Five other beings are also there.

There's an archon, somehow managing to rotate its inner rings in a friendly manner.

There is a large dog, giving him a soulful concerned look. 

There's an arbiter inevitable, resembling a multicolored metallic sphere with a pair of metal wings.

The devil is a robed figure appearing almost perfectly human except for the horns and eyes.

And the figure in the Abyss’s box is similarly almost-human, but Blai being a Worldwound veteran can immediately identify her as a succubus. Wearing a chunky but low-cut knitted poncho, her hands are occupied with a set of needles trailing a scarf with a checker pattern on it.

She smirks at the decedent.

Oh no. Why is the dog concerned. Why is there a devil here, that's not allowed, clerics of Iomedae can't be evil, obviously it would be open and shut if he'd died a couple of years ago but now - well it's possible She renounced him in the last few seconds when he was out of spells and wouldn't have noticed? - is that a demon? Did he manage somehow to fuck up all the way to Chaotic Evil?? How did he do that? Did he forget to thank the man who sold him breakfast this morning. He might have done. He can't remember. He is dead and he will never eat breakfast again. Shit what if it's not that and actually he did something just absolutely unforgivably appalling while in the River of Souls and now he can't remember it and that's what they're here to judge him for. What kinds of conduct get you flipped from probably-Lawful-Neutral all the way to Chaotic Evil while you're just floating along in the River of Souls? Did he eat someone? Is he missing time in which he ate somebody's soul???? Are all these creatures reading his mind right now. They probably are and the time he was screened for wizarding potential the Academy wizard made such a face at him and said he had a miserable hurricane of a mind not even bright enough to be put to use and now that poor concerned dog is having to listen to all of it just to do its job. His or her job. He cannot identify if the dog is a male or female dog from here and the only way he knows to check this in dogs would be incredibly rude. If he were even capable of moving his visual perspective and he basically isn't. He also definitely can't tell on the inevitable or the archon but probably, unless (as is entirely plausible) he's mistaken, you present as a clockwork item if you would rather be an it. If he offends the angels will they stop trying to win his soul? His own feelings might not matter at all but other people's are sometimes operational constraints. Wait, what is even the operation here. Is he supposed to be aiming for somewhere in particular? Does he have any influence over this process? Iomedae might want him for something and She's in Heaven but if instead she renounced him and he can't remember it and that's why there's a deMOn oVER THeRE?? then maybe he should not take up space or budget or whatever limited resource Heaven has? The archon can probably judge that better than him but WHAT IF it promised to do its best at this trial and only THEN learned that apparently he is interesting to DEMONS and now it can't go back on its commitment, then he might have to do something to get the ideal result without the archon forswearing itself, only he has no idea what. Should he be worrying about Nirvana and Axis's budgets too? It doesn't seem like the correct answer would be to try to go to an Evil afterlife, because in the long term more souls in an afterlife increase its capacity and power, but this time might be a special moment in history with Heaven and possibly also all its friends and allies being overstretched. Maybe the responsible thing to do would be to go to Axis and ??earn Axisdollars?? and ??donate them to Heaven?? Is that even a thing, for some reason seminary did not cover this. Fuck, they are going to go over his entire time in seminary, that's going to SUCK and that poor concerned dog is going to get MORE CONCERNED. What if they don't even get to make arguments because they pull up a zoomed in scry-image of him standing over an elderly halfling with a knife asking Vicar Rey technical questions about the use of cauterization to prevent inconvenient infections, and then the bird skeleton - whose gender he ALSO cannot discern! Are they doing that on purpose?! - is like, I don't know why I even bothered to gather you here today, that's really about all you need to know here, and then he goes to Hell and he has wasted all the Good lawyers' time. And also the Axis lawyer. If that's a meaningful consideration maybe stalling would be helpful in some situations but his non-evil lawyers outnumber his evil ones so it is not appropriate at this time. Unless he is forgetting something. Something important. Like having eaten somebody in the river of souls. He probably didn't do that but only probably.

"Do you know your name?"

"Blai Artigas." He was actually kind of attached to the Select part but MAYBE he ATE SOMEBODY and has been renounced, it's not like he could tell from here. Probably even if you get to go to Heaven they have a different title system.

"Do you know where you are?"

"Judgment." AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

"Does it sound to you like we are speaking in a language you understand, using words that you are familiar with, at a speaking speed you can follow?"

BUT THE BIRD IS THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS SPOKEN. WHAT DOES IT MEAN, "WE". IF THE AXIOMITE WERE SPED UP BY A FACTOR OF SIXTEEN AND SPEAKING TIEN HOW SHOULD HE KNOW "So far."

"Do you understand that you had, while alive, the capacity to take actions, and that those actions had effects on the world and on other people?"

"Yes." It's a terrible system and Iomedae had some words for Pharasma about it.

"Do you understand that the purpose of this court is to determine your alignment and which afterlife you are assigned to?"

"Yes." HERE COMES THE FULL COLOR PICTURE OF THE HALFLING OR POSSIBLY THE CONVICT.

"Very well. In that case, we will proceed with opening statements." There's a sound that, to Blai's ears, resembles dice rolling, though he doesn't see any dice. "I have randomly selected Heaven to deliver the first statement. You may proceed when ready."

what was that noise. is he going to be assigned to an afterlife at RANDOM - oh it's for statement orders.

"This case is complex in its details, but simple in its essence. While he lived, Select Artigas' actions had effects on the world and other people, and those actions were in the main taken in accordance with Law and advanced the cause of Good."

"Whether you measure by hours or by impact, the primary activity of Select Artigas' life was service at the Worldwound, an activity widely recognized as Good for both protection of innocents and opposition to the forces of the Abyss, in re Diritias, and as Lawful when done under the aegis of a Lawful military organization, in re Bethador. He ran his fort with a keen strategic eye, optimizing for repelling demonic incursions without wasting resources or exposing those under his command to excessive risk. Select Artigas was both more Lawful and more Good in his administration of the fort than others in similar positions. He did not siphon off fort resources or permit others to do so, even in cases where his orders could have been interpreted to permit it. He meticulously obeyed his appointed superiors and the regulations to which he was subject. He was unusually lenient and even-handed in his choices of punishments. When given a great many opportunities to do Evil, he ignored the vast majority, which is a higher Good than never having had those opportunities in the first place--in re Fortax."

"And then, of course, we come to more recent events. Asmodeus evidently determined Select Artigas to be unsuitable as one of His clerics, and Iomedae determined him to be suitable as one of Hers. The choices of the gods are not finally dispositive in this court but should be given all due weight, in re Ortz. Upon being thus appointed, Select Artigas sought out instruction on Iomedae's doctrine and Her church's priorities with the intent of serving Her effectively. He destroyed the fort's scroll of Malediction, the one prominent case in which he destroyed what some would consider a valuable resource, and did so for no gain other than denying it to the forces of Evil, which is Good under in re Alethoc. Through both transitions he continued to operate the fort to the best of his ability, demonstrating that he did so for its own sake and not out of hope for any infernal reward. Shortly before his death, he joined the Chelish Constitutional Convention, an institution whose purpose was to develop a post-Asmodean form of government for Cheliax, a mission he took on without hesitation despite his fears and which ultimately claimed his life. 

"It is evident that Select Artigas has thoroughly turned away from the service of Hell and committed himself to the cause of Good with his heart, as he had long before done with his actions. He belongs in Heaven, with his allies and his goddess."

"Thank you. Hell?"

Okay but what if the archon is just SAYING that though. What if it doesn't want him anywhere near it and it has to say all that nice stuff anyway. What if he goes to Heaven and then everyone there hates him forever!

"We in Hell agree with Heaven on one thing," the devil says, showing a snake's tongue. "This case is indeed simple in its essence. Priest Blai Artigas has spent his entire life as a sterling servant of Hell, obeying its commands without ever questioning what they were. Throughout his life, he has killed, tortured, and tyrannized as Hell commanded him, with hardly a thought to the damage he did to others or to the moral aspects of his decisionmaking; in re Costel. He simply obeyed orders, in re Hegenbach. To him, slaying demons was no different from flaying orphans or vivisecting slaves; all were activities done at the urging of his superiors, neither done for the sake of goodness or evil, or out of a belief that good or evil would result; to both he displayed a 'depraved indifference,' in re Hewart. When Hell had no further use for him, his activities hardly changed a whit; he simply changed his slavish obedience to a new master. Hell concurs with Heaven that his obediences were Lawful, it simply disagrees about the statement that they can be counted Good. Blai is damned.

"Further, we wish to prove that no atonement occurred. Under Newton, five prongs must be met to determine atonement. As I am sure everyone here knows," except for the deceased, "these five prongs are feeling regret for previous actions, taking responsibility for previous actions, changing relations with those affected, attempting to repair the consequences of previous actions, and reliably and consistently changing behavior. This fifth prong is not, on its own, sufficient to ensure redemption, and as none of the other four are met. Therefore the deceased is Lawful Evil just as he was when he was a loyal servant of Asmodeus, to Whose serve he should justly now return."

Yeah that all sounds about right honestly except he is as of the last thing he can remember working for Iomedae and She doesn't want Hell to have him or indeed anyone or indeed to exist at all so hopefully the inevitable has something really good when it's its turn. Was he supposed to go find all those people he hurt? Why the fuck would they ever have wanted his personal attention even if they weren't mostly dead and past third circle help? What in the world would he have been supposed to do if he found one, let them punch him in the face? It turned out at the end there that he wasn't bad at not attacking people who were punching him in the face but it didn't really seem like a central example of the kind of thing an Iomedaean is supposed to do with their time if they can just not. Probably he is just too late to figure this out, they're not going to have Lastwall catechism class in Hell and he will never know what the right answer was.

"Thank you. Abyss?"

The demon has been so well-behaved so far. Hopefully they'll have an actual argument rather than just yelling "flesh."