So now Carissa Sevar is marked by Him, though she knows it not.

The thought does not occur to Irori at all, to message Asmodeus claiming victory in a contest that Asmodeus might conceive to Himself to have begun.  The Way is to succeed at what you have set your hand to, to win, not to have others acknowledge that you have won.

Carissa Sevar's progress along her Way is all that is meaningful.  Whether she calls Asmodeus Lord for a time is not relevant, except insofar as how that changes her Way, or speeds her progress on it.  If there were any victory to be won here, it would belong to the mortal and not to Irori; for her Way is not the Way of Irori but the Way of Carissa Sevar.  And also if there were any such contest, it would not yet be over, for Carissa Sevar's existence will not end this day.

So now Carissa Sevar is marked by Him, though she knows it not.

The thought does not occur to Irori at all, to message Asmodeus claiming victory in a contest that Asmodeus might conceive to Himself to have begun.  The Way is to succeed at what you have set your hand to, to win, not to have others acknowledge that you have won.

Carissa Sevar's progress along her Way is all that is meaningful.  Whether she calls Asmodeus Lord for a time is not relevant, except insofar as how that changes her Way, or speeds her progress on it.  If there were any victory to be won here, it would belong to the mortal and not to Irori; for her Way is not the Way of Irori but the Way of Carissa Sevar.

And also if there were any such contest, it would not yet be over, for Carissa Sevar's existence will not end this day.

So now Carissa Sevar is, as most other gods would see it, something of Irori's, though she knows it not.

The thought does not occur to Irori at all, to message Asmodeus claiming victory in a contest that Asmodeus might conceive to Himself to have begun.  The Way is to succeed at what you set your hand to, to win, not to have others acknowledge that you have won.

Carissa Sevar's progress along her Way is all that is meaningful.  Whether she calls Asmodeus Lord for a time is not relevant, except insofar as how that changes her Way, or speeds her progress on it.  If there were any victory to be won here, it would belong to the mortal and not to Irori; for her Way is not the Way of Irori but the Way of Carissa Sevar.

And also if there were any such contest, it would not yet be over, for Carissa Sevar's existence will not end this day.