"Where do you reckon the real story on that would be hiding?"

"...not sure but maybe if someone has the version as it is told by all major religions there'll be common threads, especially among allied gods' churches."

"There's an idea, then." Scribble scribble. His handwriting is not very good.

"Nice handwriting," she mentions, a bit apologetically.

"Hm? - oh, yes. Maybe patch that next time. I can read it, can you?"

"Yeah. Lots of wizards have terrible handwriting. But if it's free we should throw it in."

"Should be." He writes it down.

"Might also want to aim for practitioners of other kinds of magic. I think you can't get a witch without a patron, I expect clerics of other gods won't work either, but bards might work. Druids. Alchemists."

"Irori was a monk, they might be on to something important too."

"Irori's probably our best shot, assuming you can't directly make a god. Since there's not a Starstone here. - we should make someone who knows everything about how ascension works."

"To be clear, we can't directly make Irori, or aim very well at 'what Irori knows', same with Aroden. You should probably do those yourself because you can kind of put in the aggregate impression you have of who they were and what they did and I think you have more of that than me. But a person, living or dead, is not a thing you can treat as a repository of person-notes the way you can actual person-notes."

She nods. "I have a little more of it but not very much honestly. Might be worth as an intermediate step making someone with - what passes for common knowledge of Irori in Vudra, or what was common knowledge of Aroden in Cheliax a hundred years ago, if you can use that as a parameter. Most stuff about religion was - it was the kind of thing where we got told things that were the right attitude to have, rather than being true."

"I don't know if a hundred years ago works but we can give it a go. Common knowledge in Vudra should be fine."

"If it doesn't maybe the next thing to try is common knowledge in Lastwall. Or in Axis. Either way it'll be lies too, of course, but - different ones. And I assume in places where lots of gods are worshipped there's some pressure towards the truth as the easiest story to coordinate on, at least sometimes."

"Ooh, in Axis, and we can get all the others too. Might be able to combine them, I have some local some Golarion in here no problem." He taps his head.

" - common knowledge in all the afterlives might be really useful for figuring out - which of the existing gods has god goals that translate to cozy anthills for their mortals. If we're making one from scratch anyway I don't see why it shouldn't be the one that'll be nicest for us to have around."

"Well, Asmodia'll be miserable but maybe there's a good anthill-nook for her."

"Yeah. I don't know if she's specific enough no other god could possibly do. I'm not saying we should make - some chaotic god who thinks everybody should just do whatever they want. Just - if a god can use more pieces of us, that seems like a win for Them, too."

"We'll workshop it. It'll be awesome."

She doesn't know quite what to say to that. "I should go out, put more effort into the business angle. If that's our limiting factor right now."

"Yeah, we're going to want money even if we want to source a lot of our labor in house as it were."

"I wish other people'd make wizards, with more of an economy for it there'll be a more reliable supply of ink and such."

She puts on her coat, heads out. Works on the laundry business. 

They move to Lemondale, and drop Asmodia at the monastery a letter to this effect. They can see her through a window, when they swing by Universal Prayer to put the letter in the box. She's on the second story, in a room with an all-glass wall, with a bunch of other nuns, all kneeling, all praying.

In Lemondale they are able to move into a vacant house in a blighted lemon grove by demonstrating their plan to start a laundry business; the current owner, a speculator who harvested all the dead trees as firewood a while ago and had no other immediate plans for the place, is willing to take her payment in installments as soon as it's demonstrated that they will be taking in all the laundry Lemondale generates and cleaning it with magic. Daron remarks that on a proleround they'd have trouble because those don't often use money and would have lots of people really passionate about doing laundry, but on Ivory it's straightforward for people to toss them some change and save all that time.

The vacant house has eight bedrooms. All the previous occupants moved to a colony after the blight. They'll be able to expand when they need it.

They workshop their next person. Daron says that they're going to seem weird to the neighbors if they keep making them asexual. "Like, not necessarily in a threatening way, but we might not want to see how much nonthreatening weird adds up to the assumption that there must also be hidden, threatening weird."

"I guess that's fair enough. Uh, it can be a big waste of time and source of bad judgment, in my world, but you can probably give them something tailored better than that. I assume people are infertile by default?"

"I'm not sure it's possible to make fertile people at all. Although I suppose it could be something stupid like only the women are infertile and if for some reason you and I had sex I could get you pregnant, so let's not try that. We can specify it outright anyway, make sure that even if they're not guaranteed infertile locally they can be infertile by some manner known on Golarion."