And Carissa Sevar enters into Her new realm of Dis, a great host of Kindness behind Her,

And Iomedae walks beside; it is not maximally efficient, that Iomedae gathers so much of Her newly enlarged self here, but the desperate need of maximal efficiency is now passing; and so Iomedae comes now in Her own person, to keep a promise that She never let Herself make before, to Her paladins who made that worst sacrifice because others were hurting that much too, to all of Hers who were lost to this place,

(And even to respect something like a trade made across time, to a young mortal girl who decided to set aside everything else that she could have had from her life, chasing a mind's-image that nobody at all would have believed in, maybe even not herself, if she'd spoken it aloud; that she'd go down into Hell with her bright sword held aloft and rescue every soul there; and it doesn't matter much, maybe, to fulfill just one person's silly dream like that, in the pure weighing of Lawful Goodness; but that girl wasn't pure Lawful Good, when she traded away everything else for that one dream; and as Lawful Goodness received so much from her, in the end, she also ought to receive that unspoken dream she traded for, ever so long ago.)

And the searing iron cages are opened, and those inside them are carried out by beings of warmth whose warmth is the warmth of comfort, and held for however long it takes for the first great sobbing to stop.

And so Creation changes.

The godwar ends, the lightning-wracked torrential rains gentle and then cease; on the Material Plane it is the dawn of another day, and the day of another dawn.

Twenty thousand grand-high-priests across thousands of planets receive the longest and most headache-inducing confusing message that they'll ever receive in their lives.

Key takeaways include: the Church of Asmodeus is no longer persona non grata to Goodness; they shouldn't be shocked if they spot devils and angels doing joint operations; and henceforth Hell and the Abyss will not be as awful, or not awful at all if someone's worst crime was suicide.  All of the planes are now in closer contact; there is better childcare in the Boneyard; and if you lost a child to the Boneyard there is a better chance of being able to find them, in your time.

From the epicenters of that detonation, sheer bewilderment spreads outward at the speed of confused skepticism. In time it will be believed, but a lot of theological stances are going to have to be redone more or less from scratch.

In Golarion the Age of Lost Omens, that began with Aroden's death, is now the shortest Age on record.  It is succeeded by the Age of Sunlight, and fingers crossed that it'll never end and never need to be renamed.

...Also some people, who were formerly more powerful than those around them, are abruptly a lot less powerful, due to their patron Evils being dead or treaty-neutralized.

Across thousands of planets, ill-governments ruling over billions of souls are overthrown and not politely, nor is what replaces them necessarily good.

Gorum is a bit peeved with the whole affair for many reasons, but He can't deny that Milani has fulfilled to Him the promise that blood will flow faster than it has in an age.

She had meant that promise to be fulfilled by Absalom's destruction, but is glad in some tiny way not to have been accidentally forsworn.

That said, it's clear to Him that this is a temporary spurt of violence.  He will consider Himself ill-served by agreements made, if this violence dies out and is never replaced by any future violence of equal interestingness.

Good left all to itself would not want civilizations that ran on blood to the degree that Gorum prefers, but a divine bargain has been struck and Good will keep it.  Gorum can intervene to try to make civilizations more violent in their nature; and Good divinity will not aid in that, but neither will Good oppose it.  The peoples of Creation will ultimately decide.

She will offer alliance to Gorum in this; the level of true conflict in dath ilan was too low for most lives to be real, there.  Perhaps dath ilan would not have made itself like that, if it'd possessed healing and afterlives; or perhaps they would have been tempted regardless into the paths of ease and safety.  Either way, Creation must heed the warning of that vision and never go down dath ilan's path.

Irori has never been the kind to accept the true-death of all mortality's brightest stars as an unalterable.  Through the millennia all those of His monks who would have become powerful enough to enter godhood and be destroyed, have instead been preserved by Him before they could come dangerously close to divinity.

In the depths of His domain in Axis there is a chamber of time decelerated almost down to zero, that Irori was previously sworn to the gods never to unlock without Their assent.  Now, at last, it may be tapped.

An age of vast changes is approaching, and Creation will need more heroes and more gods: heroes to break open the private hells as Keltham demanded to be allowed, and gods to prevent worlds from being destroyed by heroes.

But by far the deepest change in the lives of ordinary people - in advance of anything to do with technologies that will leap worlds more slowly - is this: that if you commit suicide, without having yet had children who depended on you, then while Pharasma may account suicide Evil, Carissa Sevar and Nocticula will not hold it against you.  The new goddesses have set aside places for those Pharasma-judged Evil who weren't really evil at all, places in Hell where you are not commanded to obedience, or places in the first layer of the Abyss where consent can be one of your fetishes. And Good has been given purchase, there; if you live well within those shelters, you can become more Good, and in time pass to a brighter home.

If you don't like the life Pharasma gave to you as a mortal, you can walk out on it; and no matter where you go afterwards, it won't be horrible - at least, so long as killing yourself was the worst 'Evil' you ever did.  You don't need to stay and be unhappy.

It's an idea that may take time to permeate any given planet.  But it's one that changes everything, in time, because social arrangements with large subpopulations of permanently unhappy people are now less stable.

This being the case, a lot of powerful people will have interests in telling lies about it.  But just because they have a motive to contest the change, doesn't mean they win.

...Also there's now a cleric cantrip for reversible permanent male contraception, that ties or unties a tiny simple knot inside a male body.  And a corresponding cantrip that aborts a female pregnancy that hasn't been ensouled, or terminates an unfertilized egg currently implanted in the ampulla.

That never was a difficult math problem for gods; biologically those are simple effects to build into cantrips, by comparison to say Stabilize.  But there's treaties about deploying new divine spells and there were not, previously, the votes for this one - not least because some gods were pleased by the thought of Pharasma's noninterventionism making Her miserable, if She wouldn't condescend to solve Her Boneyard-baby problems Herself.

That's probably going to have effects.

Most of the people in the world who personally mattered to Keltham or Carissa or Pilar Pineda are Gated back to Golarion from their previous location: a fortress in the depths of the Maelstrom, to which they were abruptly evacuated by Efreeti Wish-spells shortly before the assault on the Starstone.  That Maelstrom-fortress wouldn't have survived the end of Creation for long; but from there the Garden-Ship could've Gated them through, within the little time remaining, if it had come to that.

(Some of those people were behind Forbiddances, but the City of Brass also sells scrolls of Mage's Disjunction, if not cheaply.  Since Keltham had those scrolls on hand anyways, Carissa Sevar didn't give explicit evacuation orders that might have led Abrogail into justified worry.)

The survivors of Project Lawful, with some noticeable exceptions, are left with vast sums of money by the last mortal will of Keltham.  Their relationship to Cheliax is now drastically changed, and they may go if they choose; but then, so is Cheliax drastically changed, and some will wish to stay.

Pilar's mother and sister may take a while to absorb all the news and sign off on returning to life.

Paxti of Borras, and the Efreeti Befutig Safiza Uj-alet, and the ex-Queen Ileosa once of Korvosa, and others beloved in their own ways by Pilar Pineda when She was mortal, receive blessings that will enable them to live happily if they are even slightly sensible about trying.

(They predictably won't be.)

And the entity formerly known as Keltham - what of Him?

In Golarion the true story is becoming known, leaving aside some exfohazardous details of its accomplishment; for Keltham left that story recorded among mortals before He left mortality.  Keltham softened nothing, in his account of what he'd done, first unintentionally and then later intentionally.  To tell the truth, when all is in ruins and you have nothing else left, is also a way of dath ilan.

Are millions of people in Golarion already praying to Keltham in gratitude?  They are, but that's because they don't understand decision theory.  In moral terms, Keltham tried to destroy Creation, and Pharasma and the gods opted to have something else happen instead; the only credit that Keltham should receive is for trying to destroy Creation, as impact certificates are properly credited.

A god can refuse to accept prayers, turn back the tiny gifts that mortals try to give, and the entity formerly known as Keltham does so.

The only thanks He accepts is from a tiny handful of cultists who have now left Rovagug over Creation having become sufficiently better; thanks from those and some others like them.  Only that praise is not structurally mismatched to what Keltham did.  If you'd rather Creation be destroyed than continue unchanged, but prefer also this outcome to that - only then has Keltham done anything that you ought to congratulate him over.

Keltham didn't improve Creation in Heaven's name, even if Heaven might appreciate the last outcome that resulted; he acted in Hell's name, and for Hell's sake, since Hell was where to find the souls that agreed with him about it being better for Creation to end.

Now Hell is changed, and Carissa's perspective holds greater force: the strange alien thing should maybe not meddle in Creation any longer.  He does not feel welcome here; yes there are people trying to welcome Him, millions of them, but they are not reasoning clearly.