How?

They got his partially digested head-pieces back out of the pit fiends stomach and cast Make Whole a few times, followed by Raise Dead (5th).

They think he did it on purpose.

Did what on purpose?

Minor memory loss around the moment of death is common, especially until something is done about the negative levels.

He was extremely helpful in killing a pit fiend, at the cost of his own life.

Robaldo flatly does not believe this.

How exactly did he do that?

He somehow tricked the pit fiend into eating his head, which he'd trapped with a giant steel object coated in silver, reduced by shrink item, which he somehow triggered post-death inside the pit fiends stomach.

That should have been impossible for several reasons, but a lot of other soldiers reported Robaldo doing comparably ridiculous things so they've all concluded he's just like that.

Oh. Ooooohh.
Yeah, sure. That was on purpose.

This is going to get him an even worse reputation, isn't it?

They have really quite a lot of evidence it was planned.

He's used Shrink Item to fight before. They remember the vampire incident.
He was muttering "not yet" under his breath a lot. People heard him doing it.
At a point in the fighting where he should have retreated, he suddenly darted off down an alley to the side.
He ran directly to the room the Pit Fiend was about to dimdoor into, despite many other options.
It's well known that devils like devouring the flesh of Good clerics. Probably being a cleric was part of his plan too.
The smith he got to manufacture it was really confused what it was for, Robaldo never explained anything.

Most other divination wizards are saying that's not how divination magic works. Some of them insist that it's just a skill difference and those other ones suck at it.

Some clerics think maybe his god told him what to do. Other clerics say prophecy is broken and gods can't do that kind of thing anymore.

There aren't any other theories here. It was obviously planned.
They just have no idea how.

If these people had actually read all of the majority-approved chapters of the assorted holy texts of Tet by now, they'd know that Tet endorses not telling people what you're doing or offering evidence even when you have it, so that they get into the habit of just guessing.

Once they're in that habit, you get a free choice between letting them believe their own guesses, or any of the possible theories you could convince them of with any given subset of the evidence you in fact have and could provide.

Robaldo declines to comment.

He'll drink a glass of water and try to stand up and go outside.

Many buildings are collapsed.
Parts of the city are still smoldering.
The university is damaged too, though less than anything else.

About a fifth the commoners and half the combatants are dead.

Most of the survivors fled for the hills as soon as the fighting started, and many of those haven't worked up the courage to come back yet.

The people still around look miserable.

Why did he think trying to ruin Cheliax was a good idea?

Oh, right, he remembers why.
He thought it because his god told him he could, the should being implied.

Is this what his god wanted?

To make Asmodeus waste resources on losing fights? Yes, absolutely. It's even better than I'd hoped.

I want people to have Fun and Play Together, and I'll treat everyone you've ever cared about as a chess-piece on a giant gameboard to achieve it. It was the first thing I ever told you. I couldn't have clericed you if you didn't on some level know that, you wouldn't have been praying in the right direction.

It's not that bad. Most of them are bound for good afterlives. A few will be in Disboard soon. A few are also Maledicted to Hell, but the trade is worth it probably. It's costing Him more than it's costing Me.

Why does god keep doing this to him?

... the only reason I do anything? To increase My score?

You're getting utility out of it too, and spellslots you can sell, if you want to.
And My preferences aren't that different from yours, or I again couldn't cleric you.

If you keep getting stronger, soon you can do a Commune about it, if you want.

Bit of a waste of incense though, in My opinion. The answers could be deduced just from My nature as a god, even at your intelligence.

And if I fall because of this?

It seems like I've hurt a lot more people than I was expecting to.

If the most effective way to win the game involves clerics falling sometimes, then that's the game that's in front of Me and that's the game I'll play. If you'd be likely to abandon Chaos, or Good, or just Me, as a result of what you've seen today I would've already predicted that and priced it in.

This is, traditionally, the point where the cleric has to have some faith in his god.

I realise ours isn't exactly a religion of having faith in anything you didn't make yourself, but the rules don't let Me give you mathematical proofs of My legible trustability and even if they did you wouldn't comprehend them and even if you could I don't actually have that much trustworthiness to prove in the first place because I don't particularly think never breaking ones promises is the behavioural strategy that leads to the highest score.

The only thing I have worth proving to You is that I am in fact Good, and the world where I've already won is a world you'd like and appreciate. The rules to a very limited extent let Me show this to you but it's not provably anything more than an enormous expensive deception on My part and maybe what you saw of Disboard really was just a non-representative Potemkin village.

It's not, admittedly, an easy call to make.

Hey Iomedae

... and you get a paladin level and you get a paladin level and you get a paladin level ...

Hey Iomedae

Hey Iomedae

Oh, hi Tet. What's up?

One of My clerics is at risk of a change in alignment that I'm worried could be very bad for his character growth, and you implied last time I should come to You first for these sorts of things.

Oh, that is bad.

Chaotic Evil, or just Chaotic Neutral?

Worse, Neutral Good.

... I walked into that one, didn't I?