A second ago she was at work in the temple of Erastil in Sothis, which was actually going pretty okay, all things considered. Now she's in a grassy field with a couple fruit trees and a table and chairs and some notebooks and pens.
This is unexpected and requires a ton of power and is therefore sort of inherently terrifying. And she's alone, and defenseless, and she doesn't know where Verita is.
She mills around in steadily increasing amounts of distress until Hagan appears, just as suddenly.
"Oh. Here I was thinking Osirion had religious reasons for being the way it is."
"Osirion was the way it was and Abadar didn't make us change it. Or didn't make us change those parts of it."
"Okay. I guess I am a little less unimpressed with Abadar and a little more unimpressed with - a bunch of dead Osirians who aren't around anymore.
" - you know who you should pick is someone who follows Iomedae, if Aroden stays off the table. Iomedae's powerful, and honorable, and Chelish, and happens to be a woman."
"That might work.
You could follow Iomedae. And get advice on - what to do from there."
"I guess this is not particularly any more traitorous than assisting people who are plotting to kill Asmodeus.
"I don't know if I - want to. Personally. I guess she at least - takes human afterlives seriously, that's something."
Flop.
"Who'd you pick, if you were gonna be a cleric of somebody," she asks her sister.
"Feels like kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy there but I don't really know Iomedae."
"I mean, clerics have to be one step away from their deities, right? I doubt very much that I'm one step away from lawful good."
"I have no idea what you are. But I think you probably could get there if you wanted to."
Queen Elizabeth comes back.
"Hey! I can bring anyone here now. And send them to any location I know. Did you guys have people you wanted who weren't related to versions of me or Connor?"
"I don't think it has to be urgent? I might even be able to do it quickly now."
"Okay. Their names are Fazil and Mahdi and I'll feel better if they're here because they have more magic than me."
"Okay. If you vouch for their willingness to not cause problems then they can be here. - I should maybe make everybody magic armor first, though, if only so they feel a little less worried about stuff."
She makes a pile of plus five armor sets with invulnerability. They're pretty, of course. This one has stars on it. This one has a tree. This one has dragons. She's gonna put on leather armor with stars.
"Hey. You. If you were gonna be a cleric, which deity would you pick."
"Me? Shelyn, obviously. Unless I had some kind of specific compelling reason to pick someone else. Sarenrae as a second choice, I guess."
"...well, she believes in love. And in art, and stories, and stuff. Those are pretty much the important things in life, right?"
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