An adventuring party recruited from Osirion teleports into Azir on the 8th of Desnus. Rahadoum's recruiting contact in Osirion wrote ahead to note they were expected. Couple of guys he's known a long time - a wizard, a ranger - and a new guy, sorcerer, probably to replace the cleric they usually travel with. They spend two days in Azir getting oriented and head out to the front. The ranger wears an unusually high quality amulet of Nondetection; the sorcerer wears a headband for intelligence, which is a bit unusual as sorcerers usually don't need it to cast, but some variants do; they are otherwise unremarkable. Chaotic Good, Lawful Neutral, no reading, which could mean neutral or 'hiding it'. They work quickly and effectively, manage resources reasonably well, get recommended to higher-ups for a closer look on that account.
That is - a significant loss, in some ways more significant than the death, and Abadar is grieved for him. If there's anything He can do He'd want to know.
Leareth thought it was self-evident that was a lot worse than just his body dying, he's been murdered a lot, he's usually not nearly as upset about it as he was this time. Though it does seem like being murdered when he had stopped expecting it and felt safe is - a lot more upsetting than all the times in Velgarth.
He will definitely make sure Abadar knows if he thinks of anything Abadar can do to help. Aroden may know, he's the expert on Golarion's strategies for immortality.
Leareth doesn't call anyone to ask for Delay Pain this time - it wouldn't ruin his entire night's sleep again, since now like Khemet he's equipped with a Ring of Sustenance, but it's not like he has plans right now, realistically he was going to spend the next while in his room anyway. He lies under a blanket in the dark, and he cries a little and lets himself feel all the fear and loss that he was shoving out of the way before, maybe if he gets that out of the way it'll leave him alone afterward.
Khemet has someone convey to Savil that Leareth has been resurrected and confirmed that Starwind and Moondance used a weapon from Urtho's Tower and that as far as he knows they acted alone.
Savil finishes questioning everyone who was in the palace at the time, and then heads back to the Dome, mostly because it's closer to Gate to than Cheliax and she has a suspicion Vanyel might still be there.
She sits down with him. He seems calmer.
"So, Leareth confirmed Khemet's story about Starwind and Moondance?"
"- Yes?" Vanyel seems startled that she's asking. "Um, once he'd calmed down enough. He was so upset when he woke up, it was awful, and - he didn't even know about the Star-Eyed trying to grab his soul too, She didn't succeed because of Abadar, but he was clearly so scared."
"Huh. Thought he'd have been used to dying, given he's done it a lot. Did you Truth Spell him?"
"What? No, I did not Truth Spell him when he was curled up on the floor under a sheet crying because the Star-Eyed broke his immortality method."
"...Oh, gods, did you not get that part of the message. We didn't know until he told us. But he knew when he was dying - it happened really fast and when he died he wasn't sure he would come back."
"I see. That - makes sense, I guess, why he would've been upset even if it's not the first time he's been murdered."
"- That's fair."
Savil looks thoughtful for a while.
"Anyway. The pharaoh wants to convince the Star-Eyed to let us raise Starwind and Moondance. Aroden thinks that if someone other than him promises to get them back to Velgarth alive, She'll do it. She just doesn't want them going to an evil afterlife here."
"Honestly that's reasonable! They're horrible and it probably is Evil to assassinate someone even if your god told you to or something. I'm - on board with that, I think. As long as Leareth's nice and far away when they come back."
"I said I wanted to take them back into Valdemar's custody once Aroden questions them. I guess we'll find out soon what She thinks of that."
Leareth's headache subsides after five or six hours of lying in bed, and he seems to have gotten all of the shaking and panic out of his system and can look at the situation matter-of-factly. He's still very unhappy about it but, well, it's in fact terrible that he currently isn't immortal, even if probably he can count on another fifty years or more in this body no matter what because Golarion has resurrection and - he has, in fact, just gotten strong evidence that people, and at least one god, will go to great lengths to get him back.
He bathes and dresses and joins them for dinner. He's only radiating misery a tiny bit, it wouldn't be at all noticeable to most people but it probably is to Leareth's alt and his wife.
Parmida is sure thinking that he looks miserable. She doesn't have the slightest idea how to fix it, though. She could help Aroden a little bit by holding him close and being on his side but Leareth doesn't have a wife and it's not - totally clear that a Chelish wife will work the same way, right, even if not for the thing where everyone interesting in Cheliax is at least a little bit evil. Also if he's planning to possess his dependents because he has to set up the immortality system again then that's a pretty major downside, it was important to her that it was really really unlikely Aroden would ever take Zahra. And it might've had something to do with Zahra never marrying although she doesn't think it was most of it.
She makes pleasant conversation about things she likes in Egorian -- bookstores, lecture halls, theatres - instead of bringing up any of this but she figures Leareth is probably reading her mind and doesn't mind this at all.
Leareth is in fact reading her mind on and off, recently he had stopped having his Thoughtsensing open at all times but when he feels unsafe he always has his Othersenses watching even if he's not really trying to pick up thoughts, and - well, she doesn't mind, apparently.
He does have to bite down a bitter laugh at 'everyone interesting in Cheliax is at least a little bit evil' - has she forgotten he was Lawful Evil, the same alignment as Asmodeus, until very recently? Although it's true that a lot of flavours of interesting Lawful Evil people are ones he wouldn't get along with at all.
He tries to focus on her pleasant conversation, it helps a little in the short run, but his thoughts keep drifting back to the snippet of Khemet's thoughts that Abadar conveyed, and - it's stupid, but he finds himself desperately missing that brief precious period of arriving in a place and - not expecting bad things to happen there, because the nation's godking and its god were competent and on his side. He's not sure how much he should model that as having changed, even, just...
Eventually he casts a privacy-barrier, and asks Aroden to do the local version of one for redundancy, and then asks about immortality setups in Golarion.
Aroden would rather talk in detail in his demiplane, but he doesn't want to bring Leareth there right now because Leareth is obviously very badly shaken, and taking him someplace that blocks his magic seems very unfair to him. He can discuss generalities, though. Some options are only available to very high level wizards, but he thinks that given fifty years of work he can get Leareth something that won't need to resemble his previous method. Ideally it won't depend on any Velgarth-adjacent planes at all, since demonstrably the Velgarth gods will meddle if They can.
He is so unhappy and I am not sure what to do, he tells Parmida.
It is probably not impossible but it would be very difficult. I had to understand my own magic very very well in order to specify it for the spell, and I do not know his magic that well.