"The rules are designed to make everyone Lawful, Evil, vain, feudal, paternalistic, obedient, awesome, and unique. Not to minimize 'harm'." Which is how you end up with Nirvana, ick.

"Rules can be bent; we do not bend them. To be precise, we follow the spirit of rules and agreements as they would have been designed and negotiated given unlimited time. My superiors are Evil because they cannot be guilt-tripped into doing things they didn't agree to, and Lawful because they will do the things they did agree to. I trust the system, the hierarchy, and Marra Herself, not the personalities of my other superiors."

"What do you know about the Lichocracy?"

That's an bizarre set of priorities but honestly he's seen worse. 

"And you've found yourself somewhere far from your superiors or the system in general, so now you're shopping for a new system to embed yourself in. I don't think you'll be likely to find one, with those goals. Few people establish laws with them being evil as an explicit priority. You either get people aiming for good things explicitly, or aiming for bad things by accident of their personal priorities. The Lichocracy is a good example, actually. They're a nearby regional power to our east, a city-state run by a senate consisting of any and every lich who chooses to attend senatorial meetings. Their government policies tend to be a mix of the helpful - those policies which maximise wellbeing and economic flourishing and so forth, and the foolhardy, which are motivated largely by the fact that the median senator is an adventurer and a Name-level mage, and thus cares more about taking risks and studying magic than good governance and is thus willing to divert funds to that. The powers of a country capable of aiming dozens of 6th and 7th circle casters at a problem if it really matters cannot be understated, though. ... also they are when they care to be, an extractive empire, though the things they want to extract are often tangential to the survival needs of the occupied people, which can lessen the suffering this causes somewhat."  

"I'm trying to find a place where I'll be safe, yes, but I'm not looking for a superior. I'm already a perfected outsider and I permanently belong to Marra. ... If She doesn't actually exist, or if there's no way to contract Her, I'll have to think about what I want to do, but I will not betray my duties to Her whatever I experience, whatever seems to happen in this apparent world.

My duties, and my personal goals, are more ambitious than personal safety. I want followers. I want to build my ideal society. I want divine influence, whether that means ascending or merely nudging an existing god towards my values. So I'm looking for a god who's already close."

Instead of perfecting the best, she might act more efficiently in the most boring Chaotic Good area she can find. This is not Marra's way, usually, because Marra tends only to Her chosen vassals and ignores the abjectly broken, and because it would hurt Kireh's own vanity to send her on a mission to a horrible place to improve it to a degree perceptible only with statistics and supposition. But the Lichocracy is Chaotic, Neutral or Evil, and awesome. If they have plenty of wizards who can read Kireh's mind, she can make actual Lawful deals with them. And the power of coordination might sweep through all the elites, which Kireh would certainly be vainly satisfied with...

"Does the Lichocracy post a local diplomat? Is the journey to it dangerous enough to require guards, such as I could be employed?"

"A local diplomat would require a local government, so they do not. When the Dread Wizard Zaxxor and the Grey Legion were in the city, they each had diplomats of all sorts following them, but you missed them by about two months. The Lord of Light did not, but historically the Lichocracy has sent diplomatic messages to the Lord of Light by undead bird or reanimated paladin, depending on how diplomatic they were actually feeling. Caravans almost everywhere require guards, if you're up for defending caravans as they travel places and letting someone else make the real profits." 

Reanimated paladin - she'd smirk if she had the muscles.

"To be clear, a paladin is a warrior with a blessing from a god aimed at identifying and fighting the god's enemies? They are honorable and self-sacrificing?

What dangers do caravans often face? I can prevent mutiny and detect ambushes, in addition to dealing simple violence."

"A common misunderstanding - a paladin is a warrior who has used spiritual arts to alter themselves such that they are irrevocably bound to the terms of one or more lynchpin oaths, with other powers flowing from that. Sometimes those oaths are a generic declaration of honour, heroism, obedience, etc, but not always. The gods who are skilled at shaping the souls of thier followers like to create them as reliable agents. The paladins of the god Civilisation swear to obey the laws and ethical principles of the Empire-That-Was."

"Ambush by bandits, monsters, or elementals are the most common risks by far. Those travelling by major roads are unlikely to encounter anything particularly esoteric." 

Ooh! "Where can I get information on creating paladins? Do their powers vary depending on their oaths?" Sounds like Civilization made a commitment to the laws of the Empire-That-Was when it still Was and is stuck now, which is evidence of Lawfulness. Or maybe Civilization shaped the Empire-That-Was to have Their ideal laws.

"What areas are near the Lichocracy and frequently send caravans there?" If she can't get a caravan there directly.

"I don't know of any specialists in writing paladin oaths and we don't have a local order, but I'm sure there are some paladins of some sort in the city somewhere. Powers do vary by oath, but there's a common core of supernatural resilience." 

"The regions south of the Lichocracy, such that you could reasonably travel there by land as an intermediate step, are the March of Teeth - gnolls, proud but poorly organised, the Free Realm of Kingfishers, holding out against the Lord of Light for now, and the Principate of Violets, who are largely occupied by the same, but who when free had a very good line in alchemy and leadership effects." 

"Is there a way to recognize paladins if I see them?"

Leadership effects! "Do they still teach leadership in the Principate of Violets?"

"Specific orders of paladins will have specific heraldry but there are no universal signs."

"I assume they do, occupations take decades to finish beseiging holdouts if they ever do, and the Lord of Light isn't engaging in conquest to wipe out regional specialities. Mostly, at least." 

"Okay, anything else you want to talk about?"

"I would like you to remember that, no matter how it feels from the inside, you always have options other than continued loyalty to an evil power. And I would like a detailed description of the signs and omens of your god for the records. But other than that, no."

"I'm not sure exactly what you mean by signs and omens. Her holy symbol is a blue knife crossing a red piece of wood, half whittled into a shape chosen by the bearer. She uses a fox Herself, which is Her sacred animal, but that's just symbolism - She can't control foxes or spy through their ears or anything. She is the only god in my world who gives my spell to read thoughts at a touch, but that would be easy to fake. She gives a small blessing to dedicated followers, which would also be easy to fake: each morning, if you think of three things you like about yourself, three ambitions, and three duties to focus on, and contemplate them while doing something painful, arduous, or otherwise requiring willpower (often involving your sacred dagger but that's not required), for the rest of the day you're slightly better at resisting fear, charm, and compulsion effects, except when legally inflicted by other followers of Her."

Back to the city to look for a caravan! "Seeking employment as a caravan guard to the March of Teeth, Principate of Violets, Free Realm of Kingfishers, or Lichocracy. Also available as a bodyguard, mind-reader, tailor, teacher, and other legal occupations." She keeps an eye out for brothels with staff resembling herself, martial art schools, and lawyers or scribes who might want mind-reading to verify agreements.