"Perhaps."

"...I admit that when you said Sarkoris was gone my first thought was 'oh no, Mom must have reacted really badly to my being extremely dead,' but, like, I was the one talking to demons and not her." 

"...is there any chance I would have heard the name?"

"Areelu Vorlesh?"

"--You said it was Aroden dying that did it!"

"- I don't know her to have had anything to do with the Wound opening, though if, like Hell taking over Cheliax, the process had multiple steps only one of which was Aroden's death, I wouldn't know. She's... effectively Deskari's herald."

She throws up her hands. "Oh for fuck's sake, Mom." 

That is certainly one of the possible reactions one can have to learning that one's mother, Areelu Vorlesh, is Areelu Vorlesh.

She buries her face in her hands and takes deep breaths. 

"When I see her again I am going to yell at her so much." 

That is also technically a thing one can choose to do if for some reason one is in a room with Areelu Vorlesh!!

Most people in a room with Areelu Vorlesh have no reason to be confident she won't hurt them! Seshka is really quite unique in that regard. 

At least it means Mom is still alive. Not--okay, she wouldn't call being Deskari's herald okay, but--recoverable. 

She's not stupid enough to say that out loud in front of a guy who has every reason to classify Mom alongside demons in terms of people who shouldn't be allowed to do things. 

"I am guessing but not assuming that she has graduated past seventh circle." 

"I'm not certain she's ninth but I would bet that way."

There is a part of Seshka's soul whose immediate reaction is to cheer and congratulate her mother on the achievement. Seshka very firmly isolates that part of her from problem-solving. Mom being ninth circle doesn't become something to cheer about until this stops involving catastrophic amounts of evil. 

"Well. I'm very sorry this all happened. And I promise I'm not going to go join her in being extremely evil." 

"I am glad to hear it."

"...Man, this is context that makes the thing I said about Baphomet earlier much worse. So I am also specifically sorry about that part." 

"Baphomet was not empowered by your remark so far as I am aware. It's fine."

"I think under the circumstances I have an obligation to not scare people with the extremely pertinent possibility that I am about to go off the deep end, demonically speaking. Like, given the context that we each had at that point, it wasn't egregious at the time, but I want to signal that I am taking these things into account going forward." 

"Understood."

"So...I think you implied that the Asmodean theocracy also got fixed?"

"The same archmages conquered it."

"Good archmages."

"That is my understanding, yes. Though they also have the grand inquisitor of Abadar who is probably neutral."

"--Oh, sorry, I didn't mean that in the sense of speculating on their alignments, I meant it in the sense of commending their accomplishments."

"Ah. Yes. One of their party took the throne of Cheliax. She's the one rumored to have swordfought the Tarrasque."