"The church runs a banking system; you can deposit money anywhere and pick it up from anywhere, though if you're faster than our courier network for bank balances you have to testify under truth spell to possessing as much as you withdraw."

Leareth starts to ask more questions, then stops himself. Probably finding out more about their trade and banking isn't the top priority, right now. "What else do you think we are likely to disagree on, other than the safety of petitioning gods? I imagine you do not approve of my plan, however, I also do not approve of it and hope to spend the next century or so exploring your world's magic–" He stops. "And...perhaps that is something your gods could help with. If they are not dead set against the entire concept, which mine are." 

"I will oppose you on invading any countries, Abadar prohibits that and I could imagine deciding I disagreed with Him if someone declares war on Cheliax tomorrow but Valdemar sounds like the kind of country that should not actually be invaded, unless Vanyel elided a great deal."

"Again, I think I am not actually in disagreement that invading countries is generally bad! Valdemar is not perfect, and at this point it seems unlikely to improve much from its current state, but I cannot claim my main goals are immediate humanitarian ones. Where is Cheliax, and why might you change your mind there?" 

"Cheliax is north of here. It is ruled by Asmodeus, one of our evil gods, with the goal of damning every person there and also having lots and lots of people there. When they die, they overwhelmingly - I've heard estimates of more than ninety-five percent - go to Hell, where they are tortured for centuries as part of the process that turns them into the armies of Evil."

"What." 

"If you want to conquer Cheliax I will petition for permission to help you out any way I can. Though keep in mind that there are lots of powerful people here and plenty of them have looked into it and obviously they might be keeping things close to their chest but it's been that way for half a century now and no one's toppled them. Some of their provinces declared independence successfully with foreign help."

"...I am not, of course, certain that I can do better. I do not have anyone as powerful as Vanyel. That being said, I have hundreds of mages who have his skill if not his raw power. And an army of tens of thousands. What kind of magic does Cheliax have." 

"That depends on how directly Hell can intervene on their behalf, which I don't even have good guesses about - if Asmodeus is willing to outright directly intervene in Cheliax I don't think there are any mortals that could survive coming to his attention let alone trying to fight him - probably he isn't, the only time a god tried anything that bold it went very badly, but that still leaves a very large range of options. Certainly they have hundreds of combat wizards, plausibly thousands."

"You know who you want to talk to is Rahadoum, they've been quietly recruiting and everyone thinks it's probably for a war with Cheliax and you'll get along with their general - national attitude - anyway."

“Well, that answers my question of whether I could fight Hell itself without far greater resources than I currently possess.” Sigh. “What is Rahadoum’s national attitude?”

"They ban all gods, all worship, and all priests or other operatives of theirs. They have a contract with some powerful outsiders for enforcement via murdering any clerics who show up. The saying that Nefreti used for you was 'turned his back on all the gods and all their servants' and that's the phrase Rahadoum uses in their recruiting."

"I see. That does sound as though we would get along. However, I would like to wait until I know Vanyel is all right before starting on any new missions here." 

Nod. 

Do you have the telepathy thing, he tries thinking at Leareth as loudly as possible. 

Leareth is a bit startled, but hides it almost perfectly. He mostly hasn't been even trying to read the thoughts of his captors, but he notices that.

:Yes. Why: 

Because he said not to talk in front of him about whether to try to rush a resurrection for Tylendel but we should probably be talking about whether to do that! 

:Do you even have reason to think it would work. He is presumably in our afterlife, not yours: 

It might not work and it is a large resource expenditure but as long as you have an afterlife, it does work for all nine of ours...

:Reincarnation is known to happen in our world, so presumably souls go somewhere retrievable, though I am not sure whether it is much of an afterlife. What is the resource expediture? That may be something I can help with: 

A really large diamond, consumed whether the spell works or not, retails in our world for around 25,000 gold. Uh, one gold is what a laborer makes in a week, approximately. Also there's a donation to the cleric for the spell which is about a thousand gold I'd think. It was a thousand for the spell to fetch you.

:Velgarth has diamond mines. What size or weight of gem?: 

The opportunity cost is the same though I guess it solves our liquidity problem - he will try to send his vague impression of diamond sizes but he hasn't actually seen a diamond for a True Resurrection or a Wish since he was a kid so he isn't sure - (man it's going to be impossible to keep this secret around mindreaders isn't it) - if you can do the thing Vanyel can do to fill up Mahdi's spells we could go look at one in Absalom - probably without Leareth since he gets much harder to contain once he's seen lots of Golarion and that decision should wait until Van's sensible to make it assuming that ever happens -

:I can do that. A memory would be enough to go on, to tell my organization back home what they need to source. I am almost certain I can do it within days, though, unless it is literally a bigger diamond than is naturally occurring in my world: Pause. :I can stay behind with Vanyel: 

He isn't even going to argue that point; at this point, being on good terms with these locals is more relevant than seeing a city, especially since he can probably get a direction off reading surface thoughts and then blind-Gate if he decides he's better off fleeing. Which he hasn't decided, yet, because Vanyel probably won't be better off. 

Then you should refill Mahdi's teleports for him and he can go look.

Leareth does so.