Fervent nod. "I actually feel kind of strange on a bunch of levels about actually sleeping with you as a man and wouldn't really feel ready to even if we were to marry. My secret schemes were all using the fact that other people will know you could get me pregnant, not any actual doing so.

And yes, I don't want to pick the fight about whether it's a real marriage either, that sounds miserable, it's the kind of fight it's so much easier to get people to roll their eyes and go along about than to actually win, and it would - involve feeling like aliens and strangers again. The reason I liked my scheme was because it's - them being obliged to fit us into their worldview, instead of us trying to tug on it. …I'm very sorry, this was in fact a profoundly silly thing to just assume we would be on the same page about while never saying a word about it."

"Profoundly. Thank you for explaining, I'm much less alarmed now." She hugs Iomedae. "Starting tomorrow I can occasionally turn into a man to reach tall objects, and you can kiss me about it when the war is over."

Cheliax is capable of learning from its mistakes. They break up their remaining forces so there’s nowhere Cansellarion can Teleport and be on top of a large share of them, and focus instead on high-magic raids to torch the Glorious Reclamation’s munition stores. They lose a lot of devils. They do not appear to care. There are more devils in Hell than paladins on Golarion and it increasingly seems like that might be the relevant comparison. They conduct more maledictions and executions of the Wishnapped generals and dissidents, trying to lure someone into a rescue attempt again. They do another Wishnapping with Lastwall’s leadership on the target list; It lands on Endel who is only saved by Alfirin promptly wishing him back. They call a Miracle to un-soul-trap Razmir. 

The Reclamation knows about the permanent gate to Hell underneath Egorian. It was one of the many secrets Lilia gave up. Closing it might cut off the endless devil reinforcements The problem is, Hell knows that too, and probably knows that they know, or can at least guess they might have gotten the information from the captive pit fiends. It’s a well-guarded location, underground and covered by a forbiddance - Getting in will be difficult, retreating if the operation goes badly will be difficult, and the operation seems like a risky one with Razmir and at least five pit fiends available to the enemy. Nonetheless, it seems like if successful it could be the decisive operation of the war.

Nefreti proposes that they cause an earthquake that levels the city of Egorian and closes the Gate. “By accident.”

"I am not sure how we would…plan to do that by accident… nor for that matter how we would do that intentionally. An earthquake spell won’t cover that area."

Nefreti looks exasperated. “That’s why you’d have to do it by accident.”

Feladriel Morgethai really does not like risky operations. Gallipsiwhoop is muttering something to her that no one else can hear. "Time Stop, Wish in, Disjunction?" she proposes. "You'll observe that it amounts to matching them for diamonds, and it does, but I'm not thinking of anything that doesn't which doesn't risk changing the fact we presently outmatch them for archmages."

"The gate is covered by antimagic fields presumably to prevent this exact thing. We'd need a way to remove them." Alfirin is not delighted about being here in a strategy meeting with everyone, but she's mind blanked and disguised as a Garundi man (She flipped a coin and rolled a die) and it's unlikely Morgethai will be able to learn anything more about her.

Morgethai looks consideringly at Cansellarion. "Your sword can dispel a Gate even in an antimagic field. …this probably doesn't help us, can't count on it doing it quickly and I doubt you can read a Time Stop from a scroll."

"And even if he could, the antimagic fields would keep him from getting close. You can't enter one while time stopped."

"I flatly don't see an approach likely to work." She looks at Nefreti. "Unless you want to explain how to accidentally cause an earthquake on purpose."

"I don't know how to explain the causes of things."

"One could conceivably, in a Time Stop, land some Disintegrates to get line of sight to the Gate, and then dispel it even though it's in an antimagic field, except that this requires one to be both a paladin and an archmage -  and a powerful paladin, Gallipsiwhoop says he'd otherwise see if he can become one temporarily - and I think you're still looking at six, seven moments of spellcasting which it's a gamble if you'll get."

"I have heard it said," and seen it with her own eyes, but no need to tell Morgethai, "that Arazni could bring other people into a time stop with her. Some gods' miracles could briefly allow a spellcaster access to powerful spells like Arazni's that few have ever managed to replicate. Is Nethys one of those gods?"

"Sometimes," Nefreti says. "But only if one intends to do something interesting with it."

"And this is not interesting enough, I take it? What does Nethys think is interesting?"

"Moving the Eye of Abendego! Putting the Worldwound in Elysium! Using a magical superweapon to threaten to melt all of Dis! Releasing Rovagug!"

"Please do not release Rovagug."

"I release Rovagug much less often than you do!"

Concerning.

"What about an earthquake that levels a city and accidentally closes the portal to Hell? Interesting enough?"

"Kind of unoriginal, don't you think?"

"I don't see what's unoriginal about that besides you mentioning it earlier in this conversation."

Nefreti frowns consideringly. "...two diamonds. One for the Miracle to make me do things I cannot ordinarily do, and then one for a Wish wording that is not really allowed."