Leareth isn't a Farseer, and Velgarth scrying is trickier to get when you don't even know what direction something is in, but he tries to hold onto some as-clear-as-possible mental images of landmarks in forests, so Vanyel or someone else can try Farseeing them when he gets back.

He'll need to make a report back immediately, and return later to see if he can find any of the travellers at their destination. Also he may need to make some other stops, given the final observation. 

Vanyel actually has the best Farsight range of anyone there, because he can boost with node-energy, so since they don't have much idea where the forests are, he gets assigned to slip into mind-rapport with Leareth and try to Farsee from his memory of a particular distinctive lightning-struck tree. 

Here's the tree! It looks like there's no one around.

Well, there wouldn't be, Leareth was looking at it a few minutes ago and the people must have moved on. 

Farsight perspective, though, is moveable, and Vanyel is fresh from four years of experience scanning an entire border war zone constantly with his Farsight. He moves his mental 'eye' higher, above the trees - much higher so he can get a sense of the local land contours, try to find this place on a map, though he also watches for any movement through the forest in either direction from the original landmark. 

They're keeping their movement very thoroughly cloaked but he can recognize the overall shape of the forest eventually, pick it out on the map. It's the forest immediately west and north of Egorian.

Vanyel passes this on. At least they know sort of slightly kind of where to look, and Leareth can try getting through their scrying again later once they've stopped moving. 

After updating Aroden, Leareth finds Fazil's mind. :Do you have Commune prepared today. I wish to relay a message to Abadar and I should really not speak to him directly right now: 

:Nope, sorry, prepared spells for fighting today. I can do it in the morning.:

:I think it should not wait until then, though I may well have additional messages or questions tomorrow. I think I will Gate back to Osirion and ask the pharaoh if he or one of the other clerics can do it, and update him on our progress today as well: 

He bites his lip but nods. It seems risky to have much evidence of Osirian involvement in all this but probably the pharaoh has calculated all that out.

Leareth is not planning for almost anyone except the pharaoh himself to know he's there, and he's also not asking for help with anything in Cheliax itself, though Fazil's objection is fair. 

Leareth checks in on various things, makes sure that all of his people who can be spared are getting rest right now in case they end up having to fight the rest of the Chelish army in the middle of the night or something, and then covers himself with an illusion and Gates to his bedroom in the winter palace, which should still have magic shielding on it so his Gate won't show up even to nearby Detect Magic. 

Instead of physically leaving the room, he Mindspeaks that particularly trustworthy servant he remembers, the one who was really good taking care of Vanyel. :This is Leareth. I need to speak with the pharaoh and I would prefer it not be known to anyone else that I am back here: 

- okay. He doesn't plan to leave the Dome until things have settled down. Do you want to get a Teleport there?

:Is it possible to teleport directly inside?: 

No, we'd have to ask somebody at the door to Teleport us over to a place connected to the palace. You could go disguised, if you don't want them knowing you're here.

:I will do that: He casts an illusion on himself, one that leaks minimally enough that it won't be noticeable to Detect Magic unless someone is staring very directly at him - which presumably someone at the palace will be, but hopefully with someone bringing him, they won't ask questions. He makes sure no one else is in range to notice him leave the room where the mage from Velgarth known as Leareth was previously sleeping. 

She will meet him at the place where they can get a Teleport back to the Dome, holding a stack of books and sending him directions in case he doesn't know the way there. She is thinking that hopefully he is not actually an impersonator or actually being puppetted by Hell or something but she can't think how to check that and he doesn't need her cooperation anyway and probably the pharaoh has a plan, here, of which not leaving the Dome is an element.

Leareth would prefer not to make her anxious, but in fact he's not an imposter and the pharaoh will probably be glad he's come by, so nothing bad is going to happen, and it's hardly going to make her more comfortable if he says anything to indicate he's reading her mind. 

He follows her directions, joins her there, waits for the Teleport and follows the next steps after that. 

She doesn't actually seem very anxious, just regarding it as somewhat likely that he's an assassin imposter in a way that wouldn't really be her fault and therefore isn't really worth worrying about once she's considered whether to do anything about it.

They're in the Dome, after that, and she can lead them up a servant's staircase and then tell him to wait in a study while she gets the pharaoh.

Leareth thanks her politely and waits. 

The pharaoh comes in a few minutes later. Raises his eyebrows slightly at the illusion.

Leareth drops it. "I thought it might be better if fewer rather than more people were aware of obvious links between Osirion and current events in Cheliax. Anyway. I have some updates on our progress today, and also an urgent question and request for Abadar, unless it turns out that you are already aware of it in which case excellent." 

He doesn't ask him to prostrate himself. "Go on."

(Leareth is not currently in a headspace where he's tracking protocol much at all; it matters less, surely, if he's meeting the pharaoh mostly in secret like this.) 

He gives a quick summary of their work, Egorian and Ostenso and Corentyn and Kintargo currently occupied and mostly under control, the concealed army and the hopefully-disrupted evacuations to Hell and the local resistance and the civilian response observed so far. There've been deaths but not massive bloodshed. Wounded Chelish soldiers are being healed alongside Aroden and Leareth's casualties. The Heralds have been very helpful so far, and the Groveborn vastly more so, Taver is likely a key part of how they took Egorian so smoothly at all and could still move on to other cities the same day. According to Vanyel and Aroden, the trumpet archon has also been trying very hard to help and likely rescued a large number of people from ending up stuck in Hell. Leareth owes thanks to the pharaoh for both Taver and the archon. 

Moving on to the request. He describes what he saw in Velgarth, asks if the pharaoh knows whether Abadar is aware of this. 

Brisk nod. "Yes. I don't understand how he decides what things are - matched escalations - but Cheliax sent some people to Velgarth to try to offer them a lot of pay for some Gates, and Abadar communicated to the Velgarth gods that he thinks this ought to go badly. I don't know whether to expect any of them will succeed anyway, I don't know how much effort the Velgarth gods can or would throw at that. 

I don't think they're positioned to interfere in Velgarth further than that. Abadar's prepared to step up involvement considerably if they go for Urtho's Tower but He doesn't think Asmodeus is the type, He doesn't want to reign over ashes any more than anyone. Probably relatedly He hasn't directly involved himself beyond levelling some clerics."

"That is very good to have confirmation of. We suspected it but were unsure if He were up to something outside of our view. I think the Velgarth gods can throw quite a lot at it, if they wish, and - I do not in general approve of Them, exactly, but I think They will not like Hell much more than I do. We will plan to keep an eye on it. Incidentally, do you have a crystal ball that includes True Seeing? It is obviously better if we are not visibly using your things, but I think I wore out the one in the buried palace, and Aroden has one but we may need to try this again more than once tonight."