:...I prefer to know people much better than this when I give them significant information about myself. Also I am not sure that my alternate self who we suspect is in Rahadoum wishes to be noticed, much less noticed by Abadar:

Seems like a pretty good reason to tell him to knock off.

:Yes. ...I do like him, so far, as a person. I am not sure if he is capable of keeping anything secret from Abadar?: 

I'm not sure how that works. 

I don't think he'd lie to you about it.

:Then I think I will start by asking him that question, and hope he does not take offence: 

And Leareth returns his attention to the pharaoh. "I apologize for needing a moment. There is a complication here, where - some of what we know about Rahadoum is inferred from information that I am not sure is mine to share. In particular to share with Abadar. I hope this question is not offensive, but - are you able, in theory, to keep a secret from Abadar?" 

"I could avoid speaking with him but would be reluctant to do that for an extended period of time."

Leareth nods. "I understand. And - given that, I need more time to consider what is within my rights to share. I hope you understand. I can in the meantime give a partial explanation, although it will not necessarily make this situation seem any less bizarre and confusing." 

"I will take bizarre and confusing partial explanations. It is in my experience a bizarre and confusing world, anyway."

"It really is." Leareth takes a moment to collect his thoughts. "Some relevant context: when Vanyel wished to speak with me, Hagan and his party asked the cleric of Nethys in Sothis, Nefreti Clepati, for help, since Gate is a ninth-level spell. She offered it - apparently with unusual willingness - and made some strange and cryptic comments along the way, which I gather is normal for her. Those remarks, and separate context that I have from my world, are the source of our inferences about Rahadoum." He pauses for a moment to gauge the pharaoh's reaction. 

"I should have guessed it'd be something like that," he says thoughtfully. "Even Nethys isn't supposed to have true Foresight, though, not anymore."

"It was not obvious if it was Foresight," Leareth says. "What was clear, is that Nethys saw things in my world as well. And perhaps all of the worlds that do or could exist. She spoke of - a story that tells itself again and again across worlds - people who turn up in multiple different worlds. She, at one point, used a phrase which the others were confident meant she was speaking of Rahadoum, and - said some things that I recognized, later, she was clearly referring to a person whom I know in my own world. Someone whose skill and integrity I would trust, in this mission." 

" - huh." For a few seconds he doesn't seem to have anything to say.

"A person who dislikes gods, I take it."

"Yes. Even if I did not already know that from the person in my world, it is rather apparent given Rahadoum as a country. I do not currently feel comfortable sharing any specifics I can infer from this with Abadar." 

He nods, slowly. 

"Rahadoum is ruled by an elected council with an elected leader, the Keeper of the First Law. They serve five-year terms, and for most of the country's history have served only one or two of them. Malduoni, the current Keeper of the First Law, is standing for reelection to his fourth. I have not met him, but I have heard that he is an adept politician, and well-liked. His envoys have communicated that they're recruiting mercenaries out of concern for the situation in the deserts of Thuvia getting out of hand, which it indeed threatens to, and Rahadoum has deployed the forces they've recruited there - but you'd want to do that anyway, to level them.

The First Law which he is the Keeper of is 'let no mortal be beholden to a god'."

Leareth nods, his expression neutral. "I know relatively little about the overall geopolitical situation of your world, however, it would be - characteristic, of the person I know, to think that taking back Cheliax from the rule of Hell was of the highest priority." 

"I would not name Rahadoum as the best seat from which to do it. Take their side of the Arch of Aroden, sure - and that frees some people from Chelish rule, and might be worth it - 

- if I were trying to take the whole country I would also have plans at work in several other places. I'd be talking with Cyprian, with Lastwall, maybe with internal dissidents in Cheliax - the scope of the ambition itself would be a tightly held secret."

Nod. 

"And if that is his aim, I of course wish him the best of luck with it. 

Have you heard of Rovagug?"

"...Rovagug is the god who wants to maximize torture for some reason, no?" 

"No, that's Zon Kuthon. We have a lot of problematic gods. Rovagug wants to end all creation."

Sigh. "And this is yet a separate god from Asmodeus who runs Hell. Your gods, I have to say, are much...higher-variance...than ours." 

"It is inconvenient. Anyway, long ago Rovagug tried to destroy all creation. All of the other gods - including Asmodeus - came together to stop him and cage him and ensure that this could not be achieved. And now he is caged, but - they could let him out. Any of them could choose to let him out, if they wanted. And without all of them working together it is not clear they could put him back in. A major feature of the balance of power between the gods is that they all have a veto, on states the world might stably stay in."

Leareth goes still. Doesn't speak for a long time. 

"An unfortunate state of affairs," he says finally, his voice mild. "I appreciate the warning." 

"Abadar cannot intervene in your war - or, rather, Abadar is in a fashion that is wholly predictable to the other gods committed to intervening not more than Asmodeus does, and you'd rather neither of them did. But I hope you will not infer too much from that, about how the world would be shaped, were we to be shaping it."

"Noted." Leareth falls silent for a few beats, looking thoughtful. "I find myself rather curious about the balance of power between the gods; it seems to work differently here compared to in Velgarth."