“Of course not!!! I do think it was predictably a bad idea, and means people trust my judgment with respect to her less than they otherwise would.

...Jan was politely appalled.”

Something is missing from his picture here, because the church he knows wouldn't have gone to all the effort to redact its holy texts over that. His best guess is that to unravel it he should talk to someone who knows the situation - so someone from the Shining Crusade - who is not Iomedae herself. Nor Alfirin who's probably the next Shining Crusader he's going to meet. Hm.

...This is also not a good use of his time while a Thrune sits on the Chelish throne. He can come back to it later. He nods.

Felandriel Morgethai's expression is best summarized as "Lawful people are sure something." She eats a biscuit. "Is all of this secret within your own world? Would it be possible for me to come by and do some tourism?"

"We'd sooner Tar-Baphon not know anything is up, but we're happy to bring you through to do some low-profile exploring, and we're also developing a strategy to hit Gallowspire faster if we have the aid of a second archmage, though I suspect Lastwall's going to have a lot of proposed improvements to our plans there which are in any event in their infancy."

"I would enjoy the opportunity to do some low-profile exploring. I'm not unwilling to spellcast for you, but if making my presence visible at all commits you and me to an escalation of the war I'd rather not."

"That makes perfect sense. We have a few powerful spellcasters who are going to be absent doing work in this world, and you could if you wished backfill them for the Shining Crusade without attracting any suspicion, but I'm willing to bring you through on the understanding you're just going to look around and look into spell development on the interworld transit."

"Backfill them with Mind Blank and mansions and some Teleports, or with adventuring? I'm rather retired from adventuring."

"I'd be a very foolish Knight-Commander to turn down Mind Blank and mansions and Teleports. Our own high level wizards are mostly not retired from adventuring and do tend to expend most of their spells for the day in combat contexts."

"Well, I can't come through with you today, I try to arrange for any absences where I can't instantly be called back not to involve cancelling anything my nosy neighbors might learn was cancelled. Gallipsiwhoop can come through with you today, and then perhaps I'll join in a week or so. Gallipsiwhoop can do mansions and Teleports and so on for you on his own."

" - you expect that'll work interworld?" It wouldn't work interplanar and she'd expect that to be the closest analogy.

"Gallipsiwhoop is a seventh circle spellcaster in his own right," says Felandriel quite seriously. "He does not cast my spells for me, when he casts spells, but his own, and this is how I can appear to match Nefreti in how quickly I cast them. We do not share this widely, of course, for as long as the nosy neighbors remain a problem."

Iomedae had no idea it was possible for familiars to become spellcasters in their own right but actually it does seem like the kind of thing a Chaotic Good archmage would 1) want and 2) figure out how to do. And 'impossible' is notoriously not for archmages that much of an impediment. "How foolishly limited my imagination. We'd love to have Gallipsiwhoop."

Then Gallipsiwhoop will be the one to Teleport them back to the Cansellarion estate. 

Commander Marit's operating in this world, she tells Lord Cansellarion before she leaves for Lastwall. If you think of more questions about the Shining Crusade or if any emergencies arrive we should be apprised of, you can do a Sending.

Acknowledged. Answering his idle curiosities isn't a good use of his time or Marit's but it's good to know there's someone here if something more important should come up.

And to Lastwall. Have they decided who wants to come back to the Shining Crusade with her?

Lastwall has a few people they want to send, but the list is not very long because they don't know what transportation limits Iomedae has and don't want to read anyone in unnecessarily. Mirdeliendë, because if Aroden can empower her again she'll be a significantly greater asset to the Crusade than she is to Lastwall (And it will be good for her, though that's a distant third priority). Zaruls Rumblebrand and Isidoro Pedrotti, the intelligence officers who were present when Iomedae revealed herself and are now thoroughly unsuited for their previous duties which involved a nontrivial risk of having their minds read. Alexandre Riguez de Luna, one of Iomedae's paladins who was un-regenerably maimed ten years ago and has been doing scholarly work ever since. (The Shining Crusade is reasonably well studied and documented, but it could always be more well-documented!) And Lambert Falkner, whose second retirement (the first being from active service to a professorial career at the war college) is expected any day now, and can advise Iomedae on military matters.

She's very glad to meet them all.  The transportation situation's going to be a Bag of Holding with a Bottle of Air, because their method of interworld transit is secret. It can fit five, and contains a scroll of Plane Shift should they somehow get stuck, which she doesn't expect. 

And then she'll take them to Drezen with her own boots of Teleport rather than tell Gallipsiwhoop the destination.

Is Korva available to take them over to the Shining Crusade?

She sure is.

She appreciates it. (Is it okay for Gallipsiwhoop to watch? Nefreti Clepati says that Morgethai, Alfirin, and Aivu will be able to design a way to replicate Korva's interworld transportation spell at ninth circle, and that will make it easier to keep Korva's role secret (while of course Korva's allies will remain bound to their commitments to her, as it's not as if they would have been able to do it without her even if they are able to do it by studying her.)

...well, all right, as long as the agreement holds and they think it'll be helpful. She's a little mystified about Aivu's inclusion, but - Aivu did show up here from Elysium as soon as Korva started being a butterfly magnet, it's not impossible that Aivu is somehow connected enough to the powers that she'll be helpful for replicating them -

- anyway, sure, Gallipsiwhoop can watch, and she can take them across.

"I assume you want to go back before I let Lastwall's people out?"

"Probably should. Any idea when you want me back next, since if I'm not mistaken we can't otherwise communicate across worlds?"

"We'd like to send Alfirin across in a couple of days along with everything I've offered Lastwall, if that works for you. You can come get us sooner if there's an emergency on your end. How's the Crusade? I've - had some opportunities to direct resources your way but I think they'd make it straightforward for people to guess you're helping us, so I haven't done anything like that yet. I can change how I navigate that tradeoff if you're in dire straits."

"I don't think we're in dire straits on a scale of days. I'll put some more thought into what we most need that will tip our hands the least, and get back to you when I come again in a couple days, how about that."