Appendix B: Transcript of Interview with Person A (redacted in part)

Lastwall has a policy of writing an incident report whenever the Goddess directly intervenes in some way more unusual than empowering a cleric or paladin (and sometimes even then, depending on the circumstances), in case they could have, with better policies or better practices, spared her the expense. They can't always perfectly implement this policy; if the Goddess sends a vision to a knight of Lastwall, Lastwall will certainly hear about it if the knight survives the circumstances that precipitated the vision, but Mendev is... worse... at communicating with people about things like this.

Mendev could not hide the Miracle of Kenabres if they tried. Most of Lastwall's agents in Kenabres did not survive the aftermath of Deskari's attack, but one of them manages to report everything she knows about the incident over a Scry. She personally witnessed a blinding flash of light above the Grey Garrison; allegedly, Iomedae directly intervened in some fashion to save the Wardstone and/or defeat a powerful demon, though rumors disagree as to what, specifically, the intervention involved. The general consensus seems to agree that it involved a vision delivered directly to a Calistrian priestess. Somewhat more is known about the priestess and her companions at the time, who include a paladin of Iomedae, a tiefling thief, a... tiefling? technically-not-a-tiefling?... who was supposedly recently chosen as a priest of Iomedae, an elf child, and a wizard. No, this agent does not have a good explanation for why, if it was actually Iomedae who sent the vision, she sent it to the Calistrian priestess rather than either of the Iomedaeans.

(This is sufficiently surprising, and the surrounding circumstances in Kenabres sufficiently dangerous, that Lastwall determines it to be worth spending an emergency Commune to confirm it actually occurred.)

That is all useful information to know. He expects that his superiors have thought of the points he is about to raise, but is doing so for completeness:

It would be disastrous if the Knight-Commander's apparent political disagreements with Cheliax led her to violate the Worldwound treaty, and she seems unusually likely to do so. It is probably worth communicating with the Queen about possible such scenarios; he is less certain whether they should communicate with the Knight-Commander about this issue. He presumes his superiors are better-positioned to evaluate how much Lastwall can reasonably commit to a crusade run by a lawless Calistrian who may or may not have any interest in following the treaty.

It would also be problematic, though not to quite the same extent, if the Knight-Commander attempted to use her status to undermine the monarchy in Mendev. This is, unfortunately, more likely if the Crusade is unexpectedly successful. Mendev doesn't have a port on the Inner Sea, which could somewhat limit the damage in the worst-case scenarios; the more probable scenario is that the Knight-Commander will inadvertently destroy relations between herself or the Crusade and Mendev.

His impression is that the Queen has made several surprising decisions; he presumes that they have already ascertained that she was not under the influence of mind-altering magic.

Coordinating post-battle channels is generally considered a basic requirement for competence among any field officer in Lastwall. If Lastwall does send additional personnel, people qualified to do so could likely be extraordinarily useful compared to how much they would accomplish in Lastwall.