Visiting Elysium is lovely, if in a more chaotic way than visiting Heaven. Still, Griffie trusts any of the Upper Planes enough to conclude that if the door ey was heading towards suddenly develops an odd flicker and sense of strain with powerful wards around it, that isn't a reason for em to not go through, since the wards aren't locks. It's probably on purpose by someone with eir interests at heart. …even if the wards are a bit painful. It feels more like a side effect than a 'keep out', anyway. Healing is cheap in the Upper Planes.
"Given the context, I figured. I want mine to be like that, if it's manageable."
"That should definitely be doable! The only question is how complicated that's going to be to achieve."
"Well, my original plan was 'kill a god and then see how things are going', so if we can do better than that I'll be pretty pleased."
"In my experience dead gods aren't less trouble." She flicks through some more lenses, occasionally humming thoughtfully. After a few minutes, she crosses over to a cabinet, opens it, and pulls out a glowing white jar.
"To clarify, my original plan was to defeat the god of death, which as you may note is rather open-ended. He does have servants that just hijack the power of whoever kills them, and if I could, say, literally stab his form with a very powerful sword I would conclude it was a trap and not do it. I just don't really see how a victory here involves him continuing to exist with the sorts of things one typically requires for continuity of identity, so, 'kill a god'. …plausibly also true for Aszy and the Abyss, but there at least exist sincere devil and demon defectors, which is promising."
"I think you and I probably mean different things by devil and demon. Now, I'm assuming from your current patch job that you're alright assuming some risk of long-term structural alteration?"
"We can discuss devils and demons if you like at some point. And regarding structural alteration … I want to live. A lot. I would be curious about what the risks look like in more detail, though."
"You might become...a little bit more like me. If you can't see souls I have some lenses for you to look through to have the faintest idea of what that might entail--basically, this stuff," she gestures carefully with the jar, "is soul-superstrate extracted from me and stored in a substrate of honey. Eating it will apply that superstrate to your soul instead. And anything that used to be a part of me is infused with my light."
"More like you in the sense of having a soul blazing with concepts? I can see the concepts are a thing. But I don't have a good model of what it's like to experience or what the side effect profile is like."
"You...probably wouldn't get all the way to that. If that's what you're seeing, I have a different lens--" she rummages for a bit and then offers them a dark amber lens to look through.
Griffie will take eir current glasses off and have a look through the lens. (Magically useful lenses reminds em of eir wizard friend with the swappable-lens goggles, whom ey won't get to see in a while, which is too bad.)
Her soul has other characteristics, once the conceptually-heavy light is mostly filtered out. She's part thing-that-makes-Light and part thing-that-goes-very-fast and part human, and these things are all very different from each other but they blend together smoothly and organically, in the structure of her soul.
Griffie will take a look and hand the lens back.
"Thanks for lending me the lens! I don't see anything obviously wrong with being part light source and part fast thing, if I'm parsing those right, and I assume me ending up more whatever sort of typical-mortal is in there is implausible, but again, I don't have a good model of what it's like to experience or what the side effect profile is like."