Well, if she doesn’t have a passport they have a little bit more of a problem, in that it means she has not already been screened somewhere else in Lastwall. What does she claim her name is, what does she claim her alignment is, what is her reason for coming to them with questions and does she have any other business here?

They can call her Allandra. She’s Lawful Good. She has Mind Blank up but they can check with Dictum or Holy Word or whatever else, if they would like. This is important enough to spend some seventh circle spells on; she can pay them, if they’d like, not an amount that she claims accurately represents the importance of the situation but an amount sufficient to justify them spending some expensive spells on it while she hasn’t yet explained. 

She is the commander of a religious order from a long way away, she was recently presented with an opportunity to help Iomedae with something potentially very very important, and she doesn’t know enough about Iomedae to know if she wants to do it.  She has not been screened somewhere else in Lastwall; she Teleported to Vigil’s outskirts and has never been to the country before. 

That sounds important but not urgent on the scale of hours. Is this correct?

She will need to return home in a day or two but not sooner, and will take no offense at needing to wait here for most of today. 

They would like her to wait outside the walls and under supervision for an hour. Then, she will ask her to temporarily surrender most of her magic items, if she’s willing to do that.

(Most of her magic items are not here with her. They might be recorded in the history books.)

 She is willing to surrender everything she’s wearing but the Ring of Sustenance, for the obvious reason.

She may keep one ring, for that reason. (They are not taking her word that it’s a Ring of Sustenance and can’t check while she’s mind blanked) She gets a receipt. Then they escort her through the gate and into a nearby building. Actually, they are very sorry, but they’d like her to leave that building and re-enter it. One hundred times.

A Forbiddance, presumably. She’s so proud of them. This is a ridiculous emotion.

Iomedae is Lawful Good and no number of occasions of crossing the doorway will suggest otherwise. 

Then after a hundred repetitions she can be led to a room and asked to swear to a number of things - she is free to adjust or decline to make any of these oaths though of course that will affect their evaluation of her.  They would like her to swear that her intentions are good, that they are lawful, that they are as she has represented them thus far, that her identity is likewise as she has represented thus far, that she is not in service to Asmodeus, nor any other evil god, nor any archfiend, nor in fact any fiend at all, nor any entity from outside Creation, that she will do her best to abide by the laws of Lastwall and of Vigil while she is within their borders, and that she will not commit any act of violence nor cast any spells unless given uncoerced permission to do so by an officer of Lastwall.

She is willing to swear that her intentions are good, and that they are lawful, and that they are as she has represented them thus far. Allandra is not the name she was born with or is called by, or the name she will be known by here, if word of her deeds has made it here. It is as yet the only name she is willing to give them. She is willing to swear that she is not in service of Asmodeus, nor any other evil god, nor any archfiend or fiend or entity from outside Creation. She is willing to swear to do her best to abide by the laws of Lastwall and of Vigil as she currently understands them while she is within their borders, though if she is prevented from leaving then after some time some people will come to get her and they do not have orders to categorically obey all local laws in so doing, and she does not commit to obstructing them even if Lastwall's laws would so oblige her. Of course among their obligations are to minimize loss of innocent life and losses to the forces of Good. 

She is willing to promise not to defend herself from Lastwall's government. She is reluctant to promise not to defend herself from enemies of hers which might conceivably assault Lastwall in order to get to her. She can promise not to commit any act of violence nor cast any spells that she expects they would not want her to. If they're just going to press this point by chaining her up in an antimagic field, which they now have her commitment not to resist, she'll make the stronger oath, but she doesn't think it serves Good.

Well they are not at the moment going to chain her up about it. They will ask her to step out of the antimagic field, permit an abadar's truthtelling from a scroll, and repeat those oaths.

Won't work. Enchantments categorically don't. 

...OK then. They are still not going to chain her up about it but they are sure she understands that this is somewhat suspicious. Is she willing to tell them how she came by trait. And also they would like her to swear that she is not, herself, an Evil god - scratch that, any god - archfiend, entity from outside creation, et cetera.

She will swear that she is not a god, or an archfiend, or an entity from outside Pharasma's Creation, etcetera. She does understand that it's somewhat suspicious. She is a paladin and had possessed fourth circle spells for ten years - ten years with a lot of combat in them - when she came by this quality. She does not know all that much about it because there are not very many paladins so powerful.

They are going to ask a paladin of who and she is at this time going to decline to answer.

...Does she mind if someone stabs her a little. To confirm that she is as tough as a fourth-circle paladin should be. (This rules out very few alternative explanations.)

(Elsewhere it is decided that, yes, verifying this is obviously worth putting in the next commune though not yet worth escalating to an emergency commune. And also that this person is... probably from another planet? If she's really a fourth-circle paladin? Because a fourth-circle paladin in Tian Xia would most likely have gotten a 'yes' on either "Are there potential allies on other continents which we should be trying to contact" or "Are there serious problems on other continents that we should be investing resources in identifying and combating?")

They are welcome to stab her a little. She can also demonstrate that her Lay On Hands can regrow someone's amputated limbs if they have anyone around who could benefit from that, or if they want to cut off her finger and then watch.

Well. They'll do both of those (Stabbing inside the antimagic field. Regeneration outside, obviously.)

OK. She said she had questions, and - presumably, given the mind blank and the circumstances is not inclined to volunteer any more information about where exactly she's from, so - they can get to her questions now. Lieutenant Tivath here is a priest of Iomedae and should be able to answer many questions regarding the faith.

She is as tough as a fourth-circle paladin. She can regrow her finger while using what looks like Lay On Hands.

She would like a summary of what Iomedae's deal is, in more depth than you get from the holy book, which she has read, or from paladins at the Worldwound, who an associate has talked to. 

A... summary? That is in more depth than the holy book? She can try but she's a Lieutenant, not a theologian. They can get a theologian if needed? But that might not be necessary if Allandra can elaborate on where she found the explanations in the Iomedae's texts lacking? Some questions might be more advanced theological questions, but it could also just be a cultural gap, since she's from so far away.

She is specifically interested in how Her church could possibly know if Iomedae, in fact, is the god She represents Herself as being, if the concerns She claims to have had as a human are in fact Hers as a goddess. If other gods claimed, at the time, that She grew into the god She'd intended to. 

Well, Aroden did but if Allandra is from very far away and has only recently heard of Iomedae she might not have heard of Aroden. Whether or not Her interests from when She was human were well-represented by Her divine self isn't something that Lt. Tivath thinks would be particularly legible to most of the bigger, older gods that Allandra would be more likely to have heard of, not, of course, because Iomedae wouldn't be legible to them as a god but because "what Her mortal concerns were" isn't the sort of thing that most gods see easily. If she is looking for a non-Iomedan source to confirm this then the church of Abadar would be able to confirm that Aroden thought so.

She has heard of Aroden, actually. 

She - wonders if Iomedae was damaged, when He died. That's known, where she's from, to be a thing that sometimes happens, if gods have too closely integrated Their planning and Their work, if They refer to each other in the ways Their fragmented attention resolves. And Iomedae's Church seems to have not been doing all that great in the century since Aroden died.

Tivath has not been taught that Iomedae was damaged the way Shizuru was, and would expect to have been if it were true, though she's never specifically been told that Iomedae was definitely not so damaged. She has been impaired this past century, but Tivath does not think She's been more impaired than any other god.

...Actually, Tivath has just had a message from someone who does specifically know the answer, and Iomedae was not damaged like that. She intended to be Aroden's complement, when She ascended, but She had the example of Shizuru and did not want to risk the forces of Lawful Good having their leader incapacitated like that again and specifically avoided those kinds of dangerous entanglements.

Well. At least she managed that. Aroden is dead, her world is shattered, but at least she was so the-paladin-version-of-terrified of failing Good the way Shizuru did that she refused to become the kind of god who cared about anyone specifically.

It's the most painful sort of validation to get imaginable.

....she hadn't expected to feel that way, either. Note to self, a lot more feelings about Lastwall than anticipated, take a close look at that sometime after you've won all three of the extremely important wars to which you are now committing yourself.

She nods. 

"I am ready to tell you more about where I'm from and what I'm here for. I expect that Lastwall will strongly prefer that very few people know this, and that they all be people who are well able to defend their minds even if our enemies start to suspect there is something of great importance here. I don't know if that changes who should be in this room, or watching this from elsewhere, but if it does - you should go ahead and change that now."

A pause for deliberations elsewhere. A wizard enters the room to cast a private sanctum, then leaves again.

"OK. You can tell me. Speak slowly, please, I'm ordered to transcribe it and I'm not that fast."