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Keltham reads through it all slowly; there's a lot of unfamiliar terms here, and he is more than usually on the lookout for things that don't make sense.  Which is, like, Golarion, does not make much sense, is the central problem there; but still, Keltham is looking, and noticing the many small confusions.

Kofusachi:  Has the trading and truth spells.  Doing coordination correctly could look Chaotic to the locals if there's a norm, a single uniform way of doing things, that isn't correct coordination.  The god of coordination could look like Good if, like, good general levels of social coordination are a public-good, and public-goods are what everyone unselfishly wants everyone else to have?  The god of coordination could be mistaken for a god of prosperity and abundance, if people didn't understand what was producing the prosperity and abundance.

Yaezhing:  If there's gaslighting going on, then Yaezhing is obviously the god they want him to believe in.  Yaezhing hasn't had much impact on his people, for being the god of coordination; but then, coordination isn't quite the same concept as industry, and no god anywhere has granted Golarion real technology and science.

...he knows too little of gods to know which parts are supposed to be confusing because they're fiction, and which parts are truth that confuses the alien with the wrong priors.

Keltham will keep this document, obviously, and later check it against other archival-type writings to see if there's a noticeable difference of style between other archived writings, and these supposedly variously sourced writings, suggestive of a LARP writing team having frantically produce them overnight.

Also the words 'Good', 'Evil', 'Lawful', and 'Chaotic' are repeated often enough for Keltham to notice that the person who granted him Share Language (Taldane) last night probably had a slightly different concept of those terms than Carissa?  'Good' seems innocent, naive, contemptuous in a way that has little currency in dath ilan; 'Evil' feels like it has undertones of power and sadism in a way that seems reminiscent of some things Carissa said in the cuddleroom, but in a sort of creepy icky gloating status-laden way; 'Lawful' has undertones a lot like 'Evil'; 'Chaotic' sounds like dangerous insanity and wild predators.  The connotations are subtle and hard to describe; the connotations already hammered into Keltham's brain yesterday are competing with them.  He already knows those words of Taldane, or his brain thinks it does.

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Keltham reads through it all slowly; there's a lot of unfamiliar terms here, and he is more than usually on the lookout for things that don't make sense.  That Golarion itself, does not make much sense, is the central problem there; but still, Keltham is looking, and noticing the many small confusions.

Kofusachi:  Has the trading and truth spells.  Doing coordination correctly could look Chaotic to the locals if there's a norm, a single uniform way of doing things, that isn't correct coordination.  The god of coordination could look like Good, if, say, good general levels of social coordination are a public-good, and public-goods are what everyone unselfishly wants everyone else to have?  The god of coordination could be mistaken for a god of prosperity and abundance, if people didn't understand what was producing the prosperity and abundance.

Yaezhing:  If there's gaslighting going on, then Yaezhing is obviously the god they want him to believe in.  Yaezhing hasn't had much impact on his people, for being the god of coordination; but then, coordination isn't quite the same concept as industry, and no god anywhere has granted Golarion real technology and science.

...he knows too little of gods to know which parts are confusing because they're fiction, and which parts are truth that confuses the alien with the wrong priors.

Keltham will keep this document, obviously, and later check it against other archival-type writings to see if a noticeable difference of style between other archived writings, and these supposedly variously sourced writings, suggests a LARP writing team having frantically produced them overnight.

Also the words 'Good', 'Evil', 'Lawful', and 'Chaotic' are repeated often enough for Keltham to notice that the person who granted him Share Language (Taldane) last night probably had a slightly different concept of those terms than Carissa?  'Good' seems innocent, naive, contemptuous in a way that has little currency in dath ilan; 'Evil' feels like it has undertones of power and sadism in a way that seems reminiscent of some things Carissa said in the cuddleroom, but in a sort of creepy icky gloating status-laden way; 'Lawful' has undertones a lot like 'Evil'; 'Chaotic' sounds like dangerous insanity and wild predators.  The connotations are subtle and hard to describe; the connotations already hammered into Keltham's brain yesterday are competing with them.  He already knows those words of Taldane, or his brain thinks it does.

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Keltham reads through it all slowly; there's a lot of unfamiliar terms here, and he is more than usually on the lookout for things that don't make sense.  That Golarion itself, does not make much sense, is the central problem there; but still, Keltham is looking, and noticing the many small confusions.

Kofusachi:  Has the trading and truth spells.  Doing coordination correctly could look Chaotic to the locals if there's a norm, a single uniform way of doing things, that isn't correct coordination.  The god of coordination could look like Good, if, say, good general levels of social coordination are a public-good, and public-goods are what everyone unselfishly wants everyone else to have?  The god of coordination could be mistaken for a god of prosperity and abundance, if people didn't understand what was producing the prosperity and abundance.

Yaezhing:  If there's gaslighting going on, then Yaezhing is obviously the god they want him to believe in.  Yaezhing hasn't had much impact on his people, for being the god of coordination; but then, coordination isn't quite the same concept as industry, and no god anywhere has granted Golarion real technology and science.

...he knows too little of gods to know which parts are confusing because they're fiction, and which parts are truth that confuses the alien with the wrong priors.

Keltham will keep this document, obviously, and later check it against other archival-type writings to see if a noticeable difference of style between other archived writings, and these supposedly variously sourced writings, suggests a LARP writing team having frantically produced them overnight.

Also the words 'Good', 'Evil', 'Lawful', and 'Chaotic' are repeated often enough for Keltham to notice that the person who granted him Share Language (Taldane) last night probably had a slightly different concept of those terms than Carissa?  'Good' seems innocent, naive, an object of a kind of contempt that has little currency in dath ilan; Carissa’s ‘Good’ sounded more like dangerous fanatics out to optimize you even if you tell them not to.  'Evil' feels like it has undertones of power and sadism in a way that seems reminiscent of some things Carissa said in the cuddleroom, but in a sort of creepy icky gloating status-laden way; 'Lawful' has undertones a lot like 'Evil'; 'Chaotic' sounds like dangerous insanity and wild predators.  The connotations are subtle and hard to describe; the connotations already hammered into Keltham's brain yesterday are competing with them.  He already knows those words of Taldane, or his brain thinks it does.