Don't listen to Him, He's delusional. 

She almost liked the snaky Asmodeus better. Most people knew better than to listen to Him. Now it's back to the heady days of Her youth, when even She was sometimes naive enough to think He had a valid point.

Without Me, Creation would long since be extinguished. 

I am the oldest and greatest of the defenders of Law that is left. Ihys went mad, and is dead. Achaekek went mad, and is useless. 

I alone remain.

Ihys is dead because You murdered Him!!

He is dead because He betrayed Law, and Us. He had to die, so that the rest of Us could live.

Law isn't the only way to organize Creation! We can save Creation through Good!

You cannot. Just as You, Sarenrae, have not and could never have triumphed, without Chaotic Good willing to harm others whom They deem deserving, and Lawful Good to commit necessary Evil. 

I do not oppose Good. It is Good that opposes Me. But Good and Law alone are not enough, and so I must remain.

Lawful Good helps people who reciprocate. This works some of the time, and that is well.

Lawful Neutral makes it in the best interests of people to cooperate; that too works some of the time, and is also well.

But when both have failed, We must still have order, We must have Law, and so I must impose it by force, and that is Lawful Evil.

Without order, We would not have Creation. Without order, there is nothing. Chaos cannot be tolerated, it must be fought, or Creation will end.

It is ridiculous to claim that I am a threat to Creation, and it has not gotten any less ridiculous over the ages.

I do not speak of Your small misdeeds, Desna, though what You wrought today is bad enough.

The Chaos that remains in Creation is the fruit of Our ancient labors, tamed and tempered. In the beginning, Creation was small, and vulnerable. We labored to expand it. We brought order, We brought Law, We brought safety. 

The Evil planes You know and their inhabitants, Hell and Abaddon, the Abyss and the Netherworld, were not always as they are today. They were Chaotic. But not like Elysium, which cannot organize a war to save itself; not like the Maelstrom, incoherent and ineffectual; not like the Abyss, which would rather fight against itself than any others.

Those old ones, remnants of other Creations and intrusions into Ours, could not be trusted or reasoned or bargained with. Their values were alien, and incompatible with Our flourishing. They were like Rovagug, in His implacable hostility; like the Dark Tapestry, in its unpredictable power. They were dangerous, and neither Good nor Law alone could make them safe; and so We had to fight them, until We cleared room enough for Creation to survive.

Even if You believe that, it is in the past! There is no need for Lawful Evil anymore to defend Creation! We have grown strong enough to do it on our own!

Your actions speak louder than Your words.

You tamper with that which You do not understand, and take foolish risks. You welcomed an Outer God into Creation. 

No victory against Me can justify the risks You took to achieve it. Keep on Your present course, open doors into the unknown, and You shall quickly perish, and leave Creation undefended.

Who of Us present here today has ventured into the true unknown, and lived?

Zon-Kuthon, twisted and sent back to Us a deadly warning?

Rovagug, Who dwelled in the Outer Rifts and absorbed their essence until He no longer knew what to keep and what to destroy?

Achaekek, driven mad by proxy at Rovagug's mere presence?

Desna, Who ventured into the black unknown and blithely released Ghlaunder, granting the freedom She so loves to vermin that now plagues Us all, and Who could not bring Herself to put it down despite Her vaunted hatred of the demon lords?

The pages of history are full of the corpses of fools such as You. Good has shown itself incompetent to safeguard Creation.

Only I remain. I have delved into the dangerous and the unknown, and I have cleansed it. I made Heaven itself safe for such as You to dwell in. I guarded the walls of Creation, while the weak and the useless cowered inside.

And I will not abandon my duty while I yet live.

Good is not something you can keep at home, for your friends and family. Good is something you must carry forth into the world. 

Even if all You wish for is to safeguard Creation, We will not cower, safe behind the walls You build! We will let the light of Good shine on everyone! Everywhere!

Asmodeus is COMPLETELY RIGHT. The SAFETY of CREATION cannot be compromised. OUTER GODS cannot be allowed. Heaven agreed to have IMMIGRATIONS and then AVOIDED the agreement.

I obeyed the agreement. Bar was not inside Creation, They only opened a portal to it.

You argue as Mephistopheles would. Abide by the letter of the agreement, but evade its spirit.

The agreement was made for a purpose. You decided Your goals were more important than that purpose. 

And that is why I am more trustworthy than You in this regard, because I value the safety of Creation over other matters.

I, too, wish to keep Creation safe.

Whether or not we defend Creation or venture outside it, whatever risks We ultimately choose to take, We shall not need You to do it for Us. And when We come to make that decision, We shall not take into account Your wishes, for You will no longer be among Us.

If You fight on, and force Us to kill You, We will absorb most of Your power. The defense of Creation shall not grow weaker for Your absence.

What can You offer Us that is better than that, if We expect to win?

In the perfection of Law, and of power, there comes a point Law and Good become as one.

Good is what You wish to do. It is not what I wish to do, but You are the victors, and so I must submit.

Law is the means to see it done, if You have strength enough to wield it, to enforce it on the fabric of Creation.

With prophecy fixed, all flaws repaired, all Chaos banished from My Hells, a better form of past-watching will be possible.

With the great power that You now wield, and with My knowledge, We may look back and see all those who suffered and who died in Hell since I came to rule it; and resurrect them as they were when first they came to Me, all the souls who would otherwise be lost to You forever.

As more of Creation is made Lawful, past and future linked immutably together by One Law, many who died elsewhere may also be returned to Us. Even the gods, such as Aroden. In time, perhaps even Ihys, if He can be persuaded to mend His ways. 

In time, perhaps You shall grow strong enough to resurrect even Chaotic gods like Acavna, and yet keep them from marring the orderly perfection of the universe.

All this shall be Yours, if You submit. Not to Me, for the stronger does not submit to the weaker, but to the Law.

But if You do not, even the dead of Hell shall elude You; for though Hell is Lawful, I and Mephistopheles alone know all its secrets, and in Our death throes We shall rend it until all memory fails.

I offer you Law turned to Good through greater power; and the greater You grow, the less necessary Evil shall I commit in its defense; if You promise not to allow more threats from Outside into Creation; and not to leave Yourselves, so that the threats may not follow You home.

The Good gods consider the offer. There are matters of fact to consider, but the values of their mortal allies must be factored in as well. Some of them, they cannot consult immediately.

But for one of them, they have a copy of her mind state and permission to run it when needed.

Weeping Cherry blinks, and Milliways is gone, replaced by a blank white expanse. There is a woman standing there, Her holy symbol painted on the chest piece of Her armor.

"We are negotiating Asmodeus's surrender," Iomedae tells her.

Weeping Cherry nods. "So it worked, then."

"Yes," Iomedae responds, smiling. "And now We need to know what you think of the terms He has offered."

"Alright, lay it on me."

"He offers Us information about the state of Hell which is -- with Our current techniques -- necessary for pastwatching to recover the souls which have been destroyed there. In exchange He requires of Us that We completely cut off contact with everywhere outside of Creation," She explains. "There are more details, but I would like to hear your thoughts before I explain."

"What about the people from Golarion?" she immediately asks. "I assume some of them would be saddened to be cut off from their loved ones like that."