Carissa Sevar first came to Irori's attention when she was learning from the anomaly of Otolmens's concern, who is Abadar's cleric also much to Otolmens's concern, and it seemed that Abadar's cleric was speaking of matters that had again concerned Otolmens.  Irori looked within Abadar's cleric at Otolmens's request and found that Abadar's cleric had no destructive intentions in that moment, but only to speak upon his own Way to others.  It became visible to Irori then, upon a second look about, that Carissa Sevar had set a first foot along her Way, an unusually determined and promising one for all that it is barely begun; Carissa Sevar has learned from the anomaly something of what it means to be a god, which is not simply about touching a Starstone or gaining power over the world or knowledge or some vague concept of 'perfection'.

Irori then bargained with Asmodeus that her soul not be bought by Him, and that she not be prevented in leaving Cheliax if her footsteps took her beyond it in time.  Asmodeus may have taken this as a challenge and decided to interpret it as a contest for Carissa Sevar's soul, which, if so, Irori had thought would probably be good for her.

By some strange course of events this led to Carissa Sevar's own eternal life standing in peril, at the hands of some powerful creature of Cheliax meaning to transform her into a statue, ward her petrified form, bury her never to be found.  And so Irori marked her, softly enough that neither she nor her tormentor would notice it, so that someday some caster willing to be quested by Him could retrieve her.

A few hours later Irori got an incredibly irate call from Otolmens asking why one of the mortals in Her interdicted zone standing quite close to the anomaly seemed to now be an unfinished cleric of Irori's.  Irori went very completely legible about how much He had absolutely not been planning to causally impact the interdicted zone in any way.  Otolmens is still upset about this and, frankly, Irori can't blame Her.  She has gone to nearly the greatest possible lengths available to Her to reduce the amount of divine interference around the anomaly, and the clerics and oracles around him are still accumulating.

Irori still has no idea what the heck happened with Carissa Sevar apparently being set to become petrified and be buried not-forever by some being of great innate power and great innate Evil, and then her apparently being fine a few hours later.  Even if it had somehow been a false threat, Carissa Sevar's soul does not appear scarred in the way that mortals would usually be scarred by such extreme threat and fear; it was as if the whole event had never happened to her; or been somehow undone and sliced out of causality; or as if it had happened to someone else who was also Carissa Sevar, and so also marked by Him as His cleric.  Maybe she has two personalities and only one of them is scarred now, and she's currently using the other one, and that one doesn't remember?  Irori does not have compelling theories here; nothing He has seen previously happen to observed mortals matches this.

He does not know why Abadar's cleric would pay thus for an option on Carissa Sevar's soul, except for the obvious point that it yet stands somehow in danger of being bought, despite Irori having bargained with Asmodeus for that not to happen.  There are standard clauses in the compact for which Irori paid Asmodeus whereby Irori Himself could revoke it, but this He may not be threatened into doing, nor would He do it even at Carissa Sevar's own request if she were being threatened or coerced into that.  Irori would of course revoke it if Carissa Sevar prayed to Him and seemed in full sincerity to believe that her Way required that of her to move forward, but then in a case like that there is also no reason why Abadar's cleric would thus seek to protect her.  Irori's best guess is that Carissa Sevar is being made to falsely believe that there is a prospect of her soul's sale being forced, and Abadar's cleric is seeking to protect her from that.

With all that said, Irori does not exactly have a merchant group of which Sevar is an employee that is monitoring Sevar and has notes to compare on her.  Nor, in fact, is it particularly evident that Carissa Sevar would need or want any more of Irori's aid, considering how past attempts at that have been working out for Him and her.

That also said, Irori is aware of Abadar's communications difficulties.  Irori can perhaps send forth some mortal willing to receive a vision from Him, to speak to those mortals that Abadar trades with, and say what Irori knows and can make clear.  But this Irori would not do of His own accord, nor does He much expect that His interests will benefit from the quested mortal hearing whatever they may hear in return.  It would come out of Abadar's own intervention budget.

(Which is, for those gods present in the beginning, who are not now too much in disaccord with the way that things are, much more generous than any intervention budget ever granted to any god that was once human.)

Carissa Sevar first came to Irori's attention when she was learning from the anomaly of Otolmens's concern, who is Abadar's cleric also much to Otolmens's concern, and it seemed that Abadar's cleric was speaking of matters that had again concerned Otolmens.  Irori looked within Abadar's cleric at Otolmens's request and found that Abadar's cleric had no destructive intentions in that moment, but only to speak upon his own Way to others.  It became visible to Irori then, upon a second look about, that Carissa Sevar had set a first foot along her Way, an unusually determined and promising one for all that it is barely begun; Carissa Sevar has learned from the anomaly something of what it means to be a god, which is not simply about touching a Starstone or gaining power over the world or knowledge or some vague concept of 'perfection'.

Irori then bargained with Asmodeus that Carissa Sevar's soul not be bought by Him, and that she not be prevented in leaving Cheliax if her footsteps took her beyond it in time.  Asmodeus may have taken this as a challenge and decided to interpret it as a contest for Carissa Sevar's soul, which, if so, Irori had thought would probably be good for her.

By some strange course of events this led to Carissa Sevar's own eternal life standing in peril, at the hands of some powerful creature of Cheliax meaning to transform her into a statue, ward her petrified form, bury her never to be found.  And so Irori marked her, softly enough that neither she nor her tormentor would notice it, so that someday some caster willing to be quested by Him could retrieve her.

A few hours later Irori got an incredibly irate call from Otolmens asking why one of the mortals in Her interdicted zone standing quite close to the anomaly seemed to now be an unfinished cleric of Irori's.  Irori went very completely legible about how much He had absolutely not been planning to causally impact the interdicted zone in any way.  Otolmens is still upset about this and, frankly, Irori can't blame Her.  Otolmens has gone to nearly the greatest possible lengths available to Her to reduce the amount of divine interference around the anomaly, and the clerics and oracles around him are still accumulating.

Irori still has no idea what the heck happened with Carissa Sevar apparently being set to become petrified and be buried not-forever by some being of great innate power and great innate Evil, and then her apparently being fine a few hours later.  Even if it had somehow been a false threat, Carissa Sevar's soul does not appear scarred in the way that mortals would usually be scarred by such extreme threat and fear; it was as if the whole event had never happened to her; or been somehow undone and sliced out of causality; or as if it had happened to someone else who was also Carissa Sevar, and so also marked by Him as His cleric.  Maybe she has two personalities and only one of them is scarred now, and she's currently using the other one, and that one doesn't remember?  Irori does not have compelling theories here; nothing He has seen previously happen to observed mortals matches this.

He does not know why Abadar's cleric would pay thus for an option on Carissa Sevar's soul, except for the obvious point that it yet stands somehow in danger of being bought, despite Irori having bargained with Asmodeus for that not to happen.  There are standard clauses in the compact for which Irori paid Asmodeus whereby Irori Himself could revoke it, but this He may not be threatened into doing, nor would He do it even at Carissa Sevar's own request if she were being threatened or coerced into that.  Irori would of course revoke it if Carissa Sevar prayed to Him and seemed in full sincerity to believe that her Way required that of her to move forward, but then in a case like that there is also no reason why Abadar's cleric would thus seek to protect her.  Irori's best guess is that Carissa Sevar is being made to falsely believe that there is a prospect of her soul's sale being forced, and Abadar's cleric is seeking to protect her from that.

With all that said, Irori does not exactly have a merchant group of which Carissa Sevar is an employee that is monitoring Carissa Sevar and has notes to compare on her.  Nor, in fact, is it particularly evident that Carissa Sevar would need or want any more of Irori's aid, considering how past attempts at that have been working out for Him and her.

That also said, Irori is aware of Abadar's communications difficulties.  Irori can perhaps send forth some mortal willing to receive a vision from Him, to speak to those mortals that Abadar trades with, and say what Irori knows and can make clear.  But this Irori would not do of His own accord, nor does He much expect that His interests will benefit from the quested mortal hearing whatever they may hear in return.  It would come out of Abadar's own intervention budget.

(Which is, for those gods present in the beginning, who are not now too much in disaccord with the way that things are, much more generous than any intervention budget ever granted to any god that was once human.)

Carissa Sevar first came to Irori's attention when she was learning from the anomaly of Otolmens's concern, who is Abadar's cleric also much to Otolmens's concern, and it seemed that Abadar's cleric was speaking of matters that had again concerned Otolmens.  Irori looked within Abadar's cleric at Otolmens's request and found that Abadar's cleric had no destructive intentions in that moment, but only to speak upon his own Way to others.  It became visible to Irori then, upon a second look about, that Carissa Sevar had set a first foot along her Way, an unusually determined and promising one for all that it is barely begun; Carissa Sevar has learned from the anomaly something of what it means to be a god, which is not simply about touching a Starstone or gaining power over the world or knowledge or some vague concept of 'perfection'.

Irori then bargained with Asmodeus that Carissa Sevar's soul not be bought by Him, and that she not be prevented in leaving Cheliax if her footsteps took her beyond it in time.  Asmodeus may have taken this as a challenge and decided to interpret it as a contest for Carissa Sevar's soul, which, if so, Irori had thought would probably be good for her.

By some strange course of events this led to Carissa Sevar's own eternal life standing in peril, at the hands of some powerful creature of Cheliax meaning to transform her into a statue, ward her petrified form, bury her never to be found.  And so Irori marked her, softly enough that neither she nor her tormentor would notice it, so that someday some caster willing to be quested by Him could retrieve her.

A few hours later Irori got an incredibly irate call from Otolmens asking why one of the mortals in Her interdicted zone standing quite close to the anomaly seemed to now be an unfinished cleric of Irori's.  Irori went very completely legible about how much He had absolutely not been planning to causally impact the interdicted zone in any way.  Otolmens is still upset about this and, frankly, Irori can't blame Her.  Otolmens has gone to nearly the greatest possible lengths available to Her to reduce the amount of divine interference around the anomaly, and the clerics and oracles around him are still accumulating.

Irori still has no idea what the heck happened with Carissa Sevar apparently being set to become petrified and be buried not-forever by some being of great innate power and great innate Evil, and then her apparently being fine a few hours later.  Even if it had somehow been a false threat, Carissa Sevar's soul does not appear scarred in the way that mortals would usually be scarred by such extreme threat and fear; it was as if the whole event had never happened to her; or been somehow undone and sliced out of causality; or as if it had happened to someone else who was also Carissa Sevar, and so also marked by Him as His cleric.  Maybe she has two personalities and only one of them is scarred now, and she's currently using the other one, and that one doesn't remember?  Irori does not have compelling theories here; nothing He has seen previously happen to observed mortals matches this.

He does not know why Abadar's cleric would pay thus for an option on Carissa Sevar's soul, except for the obvious point that it yet stands somehow in danger of being bought, despite Irori having bargained with Asmodeus for that not to happen.  There are standard clauses in the compact for which Irori paid Asmodeus whereby Irori Himself could revoke it, but this He may not be threatened into doing, nor would He do it even at Carissa Sevar's own request if she were being threatened or coerced into that.  Irori would of course revoke it if Carissa Sevar prayed to Him and seemed in full sincerity to believe that her Way required that of her to move forward, but then in a case like that there is also no reason why Abadar's cleric would thus seek to protect her.  Irori's best guess is that Carissa Sevar is being made to falsely believe that there is a prospect of her soul's sale being forced, and Abadar's cleric is seeking to protect her from that.

With all that said, Irori does not exactly have a merchant group of which Carissa Sevar is an employee that is monitoring Carissa Sevar and has notes to compare on her.  Nor, in fact, is it particularly evident that Carissa Sevar would need or want any more of Irori's aid, considering how past attempts at that have been working out for Him and her.

That also said, Irori is aware of Abadar's communications difficulties.  Irori can perhaps send forth some mortal willing to receive a vision from Him, to speak to those mortals that Abadar trades with, and say what Irori knows and can make clear.  But this Irori would not do of His own accord, nor does He much expect that His interests will benefit from the quested mortal hearing whatever they may hear in return.  It would come out of Abadar's own intervention budget.

(Which is, for those gods present in the beginning, who are not now too much in disaccord with the way that things are, more generous than any intervention budget ever granted by them to any god that was once human.)

Carissa Sevar first came to Irori's attention when she was learning from the anomaly of Otolmens's concern, who is Abadar's cleric also much to Otolmens's concern, and it seemed that Abadar's cleric was speaking of matters that had again concerned Otolmens.  Irori looked within Abadar's cleric at Otolmens's request and found that Abadar's cleric had no destructive intentions in that moment, but only to speak upon his own Way to others.  It became visible to Irori then, upon a second look about, that Carissa Sevar had set a first foot along her Way, an unusually determined and promising one for all that it is barely begun; Carissa Sevar has learned from the anomaly something of what it means to be a god, which is not simply about touching a Starstone or gaining power over the world or knowledge or some vague concept of 'perfection'.

Irori then bargained with Asmodeus that Carissa Sevar's soul not be bought by Him, and that she not be prevented in leaving Cheliax if her footsteps took her beyond it in time.  Asmodeus may have taken this as a challenge and decided to interpret it as a contest for Carissa Sevar's soul, which, if so, Irori had thought would probably be good for her.

By some strange course of events this led to Carissa Sevar's own eternal life standing in peril, at the hands of some powerful creature of Cheliax meaning to transform her into a statue, ward her petrified form, bury her never to be found.  And so Irori marked her, softly enough that neither she nor her tormentor would notice it, so that someday some caster willing to be quested by Him could retrieve her.

A few hours later Irori got an incredibly irate call from Otolmens asking why one of the mortals in Her interdicted zone standing quite close to the anomaly seemed to now be an unfinished cleric of Irori's.  Irori went very completely legible about how much He had absolutely not been planning to causally impact the interdicted zone in any way.  Otolmens is still upset about this and, frankly, Irori can't blame Her.  Otolmens has gone to nearly the greatest possible lengths available to Her to reduce the amount of divine interference around the anomaly, and the clerics and oracles around him are still accumulating.

Irori still has no idea what the heck happened with Carissa Sevar apparently being set to become petrified and be buried not-forever by some being of great innate power and great innate Evil, and then her apparently being fine a few hours later.  Even if it had somehow been a false threat, Carissa Sevar's soul does not appear scarred in the way that mortals would usually be scarred by such extreme threat and fear; it was as if the whole event had never happened to her; or been somehow undone and sliced out of causality; or as if it had happened to someone else who was also Carissa Sevar, and so also marked by Him as His cleric.  Maybe she has two personalities and only one of them is scarred now, and she's currently using the other one, and that one doesn't remember?  Irori does not have compelling theories here; nothing He has seen previously happen to observed mortals matches this.

He does not know why Abadar's cleric would pay thus for an option on Carissa Sevar's soul, except for the obvious point that it yet stands somehow in danger of being bought, despite Irori having bargained with Asmodeus for that not to happen.  There are standard clauses in the compact for which Irori paid Asmodeus whereby Irori Himself could revoke it, but this He may not be threatened into doing, nor would He do it even at Carissa Sevar's own request if she were being threatened or coerced into that.  Irori would of course revoke it if Carissa Sevar prayed to Him and seemed in full sincerity to believe that her Way required that of her to move forward, but then in a case like that there is also no reason why Abadar's cleric would thus seek to protect her.  Irori's best guess is that Carissa Sevar is being made to falsely believe that there is a prospect of her soul's sale being forced, and Abadar's cleric is seeking to protect her from that.

With all that said, Irori does not exactly have a merchant group of which Carissa Sevar is an employee, that is monitoring Carissa Sevar and has notes to compare on her.  Nor, in fact, is it particularly evident that Carissa Sevar would need or want any more of Irori's aid, considering how past attempts at that have been working out for Him and her.

That also said, Irori is aware of Abadar's communications difficulties.  Irori can perhaps send forth some mortal willing to receive a vision from Him, to speak to those mortals that Abadar trades with, and say what Irori knows and can make clear.  But this Irori would not do of His own accord, nor does He much expect that His interests will benefit from the quested mortal hearing whatever they may hear in return.  It would come out of Abadar's own intervention budget.

(Which is, for those gods present in the beginning, who are not now too much in disaccord with the way that things are, more generous than any intervention budget ever granted by them to any god that was once human.)

Carissa Sevar first came to Irori's attention when she was learning from the anomaly of Otolmens's concern, who is Abadar's cleric also much to Otolmens's concern, and it seemed that Abadar's cleric was speaking of matters that had again concerned Otolmens.  Irori looked within Abadar's cleric at Otolmens's request and found that Abadar's cleric had no destructive intentions in that moment, but only to speak upon his own Way to others.  It became visible to Irori then, upon a second look about, that Carissa Sevar had set a first foot along her Way, an unusually determined and promising one for all that it is barely begun; Carissa Sevar has learned from the anomaly something of what it means to be a god, which is not simply about touching a Starstone or gaining power over the world or knowledge or some vague concept of 'perfection'.

Irori then bargained with Asmodeus that Carissa Sevar's soul not be bought by Him, and that she not be prevented in leaving Cheliax if her footsteps took her beyond it in time.  Asmodeus may have taken this as a challenge and decided to interpret it as a contest for Carissa Sevar's soul, which, if so, Irori had thought would probably be good for her.

By some strange course of events this led to Carissa Sevar's own eternal life standing in peril, at the hands of some powerful creature of Cheliax meaning to transform her into a statue, ward her petrified form, bury her never to be found.  And so Irori marked her, softly enough that neither she nor her tormentor would notice it, so that someday some caster willing to be quested by Him could retrieve her.

A few hours later Irori got an incredibly irate call from Otolmens asking why one of the mortals in Her interdicted zone standing quite close to the anomaly seemed to now be an unfinished cleric of Irori's.  Irori went very completely legible about how much He had absolutely not been planning to causally impact the interdicted zone in any way.  Otolmens is still upset about this and, frankly, Irori can't blame Her.  Otolmens has gone to nearly the greatest possible lengths available to Her to reduce the amount of divine interference around the anomaly, and the clerics and oracles around him are still accumulating.

Irori still has no idea what the heck happened with Carissa Sevar apparently being set to become petrified and be buried not-forever by some being of great innate power and great innate Evil, and then her apparently being fine a few hours later.  Even if it had somehow been a false threat, Carissa Sevar's soul does not appear scarred in the way that mortals would usually be scarred by such extreme threat and fear; it was as if the whole event had never happened to her; or as if it had happened to someone else who was also Carissa Sevar, and so also marked by Him as His cleric.  Memory erasure of the episode?  Maybe she has two personalities and only one of them is scarred now, and she's currently using the other one, and that one doesn't remember?  Irori does not have compelling theories here; nothing He has seen previously happen to observed mortals matches this.

He does not know why Abadar's cleric would pay thus for an option on Carissa Sevar's soul, except for the obvious point that it yet stands somehow in danger of being bought, despite Irori having bargained with Asmodeus for that not to happen.  There are standard clauses in the compact for which Irori paid Asmodeus whereby Irori Himself could revoke it, but this He may not be threatened into doing, nor would He do it even at Carissa Sevar's own request if she were being threatened or coerced into that.  Irori would of course revoke it if Carissa Sevar prayed to Him and seemed in full sincerity to believe that her Way required that of her to move forward, but then in a case like that there is also no reason why Abadar's cleric would thus seek to protect her.  Irori's best guess is that Carissa Sevar is being made to falsely believe that there is a prospect of her soul's sale being forced, and Abadar's cleric is seeking to protect her from that.

With all that said, Irori does not exactly have a merchant group of which Carissa Sevar is an employee, that is monitoring Carissa Sevar and has notes to compare on her.  Nor, in fact, is it particularly evident that Carissa Sevar would need or want any more of Irori's aid, considering how past attempts at that have been working out for Him and her.

That also said, Irori is aware of Abadar's communications difficulties.  Irori can perhaps send forth some mortal willing to receive a vision from Him, to speak to those mortals that Abadar trades with, and say what Irori knows and can make clear.  But this Irori would not do of His own accord, nor does He much expect that His interests will benefit from the quested mortal hearing whatever they may hear in return.  It would come out of Abadar's own intervention budget.

(Which is, for those gods present in the beginning, who are not now too much in disaccord with the way that things are, more generous than any intervention budget ever granted by them to any god that was once human.)

Carissa Sevar first came to Irori's attention when she was learning from the anomaly of Otolmens's concern, who is Abadar's cleric also much to Otolmens's concern, and it seemed that Abadar's cleric was speaking of matters that had again concerned Otolmens.  Irori looked within Abadar's cleric at Otolmens's request and found that Abadar's cleric had no destructive intentions in that moment, but only to speak upon his own Way to others.  It became visible to Irori then, upon a second look about, that Carissa Sevar had set a first foot along her Way, an unusually determined and promising one for all that it is barely begun; Carissa Sevar has learned from the anomaly something of what it means to be a god, which is not simply about touching a Starstone or gaining power over the world or knowledge or some vague concept of 'perfection'.

Irori then bargained with Asmodeus that Carissa Sevar's soul not be bought by Him, and that she not be prevented in leaving Cheliax if her footsteps took her beyond it in time.  Asmodeus may have taken this as a challenge and decided to interpret it as a contest for Carissa Sevar's soul, which, if so, Irori had thought would probably be good for her.

By some strange course of events this led to Carissa Sevar's own eternal life standing in peril, at the hands of some powerful creature of Cheliax meaning to transform her into a statue, ward her petrified form, bury her never to be found.  And so Irori marked her, softly enough that neither she nor her tormentor would notice it, so that someday some caster willing to be quested by Him could retrieve her.

A few hours later Irori got an incredibly irate call from Otolmens asking why one of the mortals in Her interdicted zone standing quite close to the anomaly seemed to now be an unfinished cleric of Irori's.  Irori went very completely legible about how much He had absolutely not been planning to causally impact the interdicted zone in any way.  Otolmens is still upset about this and, frankly, Irori can't blame Her.  Otolmens has gone to nearly the greatest possible lengths available to Her to reduce the amount of divine interference around the anomaly, and the clerics and oracles around him are still accumulating.

Irori still has no idea what the heck happened with Carissa Sevar apparently being set to be petrified and buried by some being of great power and Evil, and then her apparently being fine a few hours later.  Even if it had somehow been a false threat, Carissa Sevar's soul does not appear scarred in the way that mortals would usually be scarred by such extreme threat and fear; it was as if the whole event had never happened to her; or as if it had happened to someone else who was also Carissa Sevar, and so also marked by Him as His cleric.  Memory erasure of the episode?  Maybe she has two personalities and only one of them is scarred now, and she's currently using the other one, and that one doesn't remember?  Irori does not have compelling theories here; nothing He has seen previously happen to observed mortals matches this.

He does not know why Abadar's cleric would pay thus for an option on Carissa Sevar's soul, except for the obvious point that it yet stands somehow in danger of being bought, despite Irori having bargained with Asmodeus for that not to happen.  There are standard clauses in the compact for which Irori paid Asmodeus whereby Irori Himself could revoke it, but this He may not be threatened into doing, nor would He do it even at Carissa Sevar's own request if she were being threatened or coerced into that.  Irori would of course revoke it if Carissa Sevar prayed to Him and seemed in full sincerity to believe that her Way required that of her to move forward, but then in a case like that there is also no reason why Abadar's cleric would thus seek to protect her.  Irori's best guess is that Carissa Sevar is being made to falsely believe that there is a prospect of her soul's sale being forced, and Abadar's cleric is seeking to protect her from that.

With all that said, Irori does not exactly have a merchant group of which Carissa Sevar is an employee, that is monitoring Carissa Sevar and has notes to compare on her.  Nor, in fact, is it particularly evident that Carissa Sevar would need or want any more of Irori's aid, considering how past attempts at that have been working out for Him and her.

That also said, Irori is aware of Abadar's communications difficulties.  Irori can perhaps send forth some mortal willing to receive a vision from Him, to speak to those mortals that Abadar trades with, and say what Irori knows and can make clear.  But this Irori would not do of His own accord, nor does He much expect that His interests will benefit from the quested mortal hearing whatever they may hear in return.  It would come out of Abadar's own intervention budget.

(Which is, for those gods present in the beginning, who are not now too much in disaccord with the way that things are, more generous than any intervention budget ever granted by them to any god that was once human.)

Carissa Sevar first came to Irori's attention when she was learning from the anomaly of Otolmens's concern, who is Abadar's cleric also much to Otolmens's concern, and it seemed that Abadar's cleric was speaking of matters that had again concerned Otolmens.  Irori looked within Abadar's cleric at Otolmens's request and found that Abadar's cleric had no destructive intentions in that moment, but only to speak upon his own Way to others.  It became visible to Irori then, upon a second look about, that Carissa Sevar had set a first foot along her Way, an unusually determined and promising one for all that it is barely begun; Carissa Sevar has learned from the anomaly something of what it means to be a god, which is not simply about touching a Starstone or gaining power over the world or knowledge or some vague concept of 'perfection'.

Irori then bargained with Asmodeus that Carissa Sevar's soul not be bought by Him, and that she not be prevented in leaving Cheliax if her footsteps took her beyond it in time.  Asmodeus may have taken this as a challenge and decided to interpret it as a contest for Carissa Sevar's soul, which, if so, Irori had thought would probably be good for her.

By some strange course of events this led to Carissa Sevar's own eternal life standing in peril, at the hands of some powerful creature of Cheliax meaning to transform her into a statue, ward her petrified form, bury her never to be found.  And so Irori marked her, softly enough that neither she nor her tormentor would notice it, so that someday some caster willing to be quested by Him could retrieve her.

A few hours later Irori got an incredibly irate call from Otolmens asking why one of the mortals in Her interdicted zone standing quite close to the anomaly seemed to now be an unfinished cleric of Irori's.  Irori went very completely legible about how much He had absolutely not been planning to causally impact the interdicted zone in any way.  Otolmens is still upset about this and, frankly, Irori can't blame Her.  Otolmens has gone to nearly the greatest possible lengths available to Her to reduce the amount of divine interference around the anomaly, and the clerics and oracles around him are still accumulating.

Irori still has no idea what the heck happened with Carissa Sevar apparently being set to be petrified and buried by some being of great power and Evil, and then her apparently being fine a few hours later.  Even if it had somehow been a false threat, Carissa Sevar's soul does not appear scarred in the way that mortals would usually be scarred by such extreme threat and fear; it was as if the whole event had never happened to her; or as if it had happened to someone else who was also Carissa Sevar, and so also marked by Him as His cleric.  Memory erasure of the episode?  Maybe she has two personalities and only one of them is scarred now, and she's currently using the other one, and that one doesn't remember?  Irori does not have compelling theories here; nothing He has seen previously happen to observed mortals matches this.

He does not know why Abadar's cleric would pay thus for an option on Carissa Sevar's soul, except for the obvious point that it yet stands somehow in danger of being bought, despite Irori having bargained with Asmodeus for that not to happen.  There are standard clauses in the compact for which Irori paid Asmodeus whereby Irori Himself could revoke it, but this He may not be threatened into doing, nor would He do it even at Carissa Sevar's own request if she were being threatened or coerced into that.  Irori would of course revoke it if Carissa Sevar prayed to Him and seemed in full sincerity to believe that her Way required that of her to move forward, but then in a case like that there is also no reason why Abadar's cleric would thus seek to protect her.  Irori's best guess is that Carissa Sevar is being made to falsely - though perhaps honestly by her tormentors - believe that there is a prospect of her soul's sale being forced, and Abadar's cleric is seeking to protect her from that.  The Asmodeans may not know her soul is unbuyable.

With all that said, Irori does not exactly have a merchant group of which Carissa Sevar is an employee, that is monitoring Carissa Sevar and has notes to compare on her.  Nor, in fact, is it particularly evident that Carissa Sevar would need or want any more of Irori's aid, considering how past attempts at that have been working out for Him and her.

That also said, Irori is aware of Abadar's communications difficulties.  Irori can perhaps send forth some mortal willing to receive a vision from Him, to speak to those mortals that Abadar trades with, and say what Irori knows and can make clear.  But this Irori would not do of His own accord, nor does He much expect that His interests will benefit from the quested mortal hearing whatever they may hear in return.  It would come out of Abadar's own intervention budget.

(Which is, for those gods present in the beginning, who are not now too much in disaccord with the way that things are, more generous than any intervention budget ever granted by them to any god that was once human.)

Carissa Sevar first came to Irori's attention when she was learning from the anomaly of Otolmens's concern, who is Abadar's cleric also much to Otolmens's concern, and it seemed that Abadar's cleric was speaking of matters that had again concerned Otolmens.  Irori looked within Abadar's cleric at Otolmens's request and found that Abadar's cleric had no destructive intentions in that moment, but only to speak upon his own Way to others.  It became visible to Irori then, upon a second look about, that Carissa Sevar had set a first foot along her Way, an unusually determined and promising one for all that it is barely begun; Carissa Sevar has learned from the anomaly something of what it means to be a god, which is not simply about touching a Starstone or gaining power over the world or knowledge or some vague concept of 'perfection'.

Irori then bargained with Asmodeus that Carissa Sevar's soul not be bought by Him, and that she not be prevented in leaving Cheliax if her footsteps took her beyond it in time.  Asmodeus may have taken this as a challenge and decided to interpret it as a contest for Carissa Sevar's soul, which, if so, Irori had thought would probably be good for her.

By some strange course of events this led to Carissa Sevar's own eternal life standing in peril, at the hands of some powerful creature of Cheliax meaning to transform her into a statue, ward her petrified form, bury her never to be found.  And so Irori marked her, softly enough that neither she nor her tormentor would notice it, so that someday some caster willing to be quested by Him could retrieve her.

A few hours later Irori got an incredibly irate call from Otolmens asking why one of the mortals in Her interdicted zone standing quite close to the anomaly seemed to now be an unfinished cleric of Irori's.  Irori went very completely legible about how much He had absolutely not been planning to causally impact the interdicted zone in any way.  Otolmens is still upset about this and, frankly, Irori can't blame Her.  Otolmens has gone to nearly the greatest possible lengths available to Her to reduce the amount of divine interference around the anomaly, and the clerics and oracles around him are still accumulating.

Irori still has no idea what the heck happened with Carissa Sevar apparently being set to be petrified and buried by some being of great power and Evil, and then her apparently being fine a few hours later.  Even if it had somehow been a false threat, Carissa Sevar's soul does not appear scarred in the way that mortals would usually be scarred by such extreme threat and fear; it was as if the whole event had happened to someone else who was also Carissa Sevar, and so also marked by Him as His cleric.  Memory erasure of the episode?  Maybe she has two personalities and only one of them is scarred now, and she's currently using the other one, and that one doesn't remember?  Irori does not have compelling theories here; nothing He has seen previously happen to observed mortals matches this.

He does not know why Abadar's cleric would pay thus for an option on Carissa Sevar's soul, except for the obvious point that it yet stands somehow in danger of being bought, despite Irori having bargained with Asmodeus for that not to happen.  There are standard clauses in the compact for which Irori paid Asmodeus whereby Irori Himself could revoke it, but this He may not be threatened into doing, nor would He do it even at Carissa Sevar's own request if she were being threatened or coerced into that.  Irori would of course revoke it if Carissa Sevar prayed to Him and seemed in full sincerity to believe that her Way required that of her to move forward, but then in a case like that there is also no reason why Abadar's cleric would thus seek to protect her.  Irori's best guess is that Carissa Sevar is being made to falsely - though perhaps honestly by her tormentors - believe that there is a prospect of her soul's sale being forced, and Abadar's cleric is seeking to protect her from that.  The Asmodeans may not know her soul is unbuyable.

With all that said, Irori does not exactly have a merchant group of which Carissa Sevar is an employee, that is monitoring Carissa Sevar and has notes to compare on her.  Nor, in fact, is it particularly evident that Carissa Sevar would need or want any more of Irori's aid, considering how past attempts at that have been working out for Him and her.

That also said, Irori is aware of Abadar's communications difficulties.  Irori can perhaps send forth some mortal willing to receive a vision from Him, to speak to those mortals that Abadar trades with, and say what Irori knows and can make clear.  But this Irori would not do of His own accord, nor does He much expect that His interests will benefit from the quested mortal hearing whatever they may hear in return.  It would come out of Abadar's own intervention budget.

(Which is, for those gods present in the beginning, who are not now too much in disaccord with the way that things are, more generous than any intervention budget ever granted by them to any god that was once human.)

Carissa Sevar first came to Irori's attention when she was learning from the anomaly of Otolmens's concern, who is Abadar's cleric also much to Otolmens's concern, and it seemed that Abadar's cleric was speaking of matters that had again concerned Otolmens.  Irori looked within Abadar's cleric at Otolmens's request and found that Abadar's cleric intended no destruction in that moment, but only to speak upon his own Way to others.

It became visible to Irori then, upon a second look about, that Carissa Sevar had set a first foot along her Way, an unusually determined and promising Way for all that it is barely begun; Carissa Sevar has learned from the anomaly something of what it means to be a god, which is not simply about touching a Starstone or gaining power over the world or encyclopedic knowledge or some vague concept of 'perfection'.

Irori then bargained with Asmodeus that Carissa Sevar's soul not be bought by Him, and that she not be prevented in leaving Cheliax if her footsteps took her beyond it in time.  Asmodeus may have taken this as a challenge and decided to interpret it as a contest for Carissa Sevar's soul, which, if so, Irori had thought would probably be good for her.

By some strange course of events this led to Carissa Sevar's eternity standing in peril, at the hands of some powerful creature of Cheliax apparently meaning to transform her into a statue, ward her petrified form, bury her never to be found.  And so Irori marked her, softly enough that neither she nor her tormentor would notice it, so that someday some caster willing to be quested by Him could retrieve her.

A few hours later Irori got an incredibly irate call from Otolmens asking why one of the mortals in Her interdicted zone standing quite close to the anomaly seemed to now be an unfinished cleric of Irori's.  Irori went very completely legible about how much He had absolutely not been planning to causally impact the interdicted zone in any way.  Otolmens is still upset about this and, frankly, Irori can't blame Her.  Otolmens has gone to nearly the greatest possible lengths available to Her to reduce the amount of divine interference around the anomaly, and the clerics and oracles around him are still accumulating.

Irori still has no idea what the heck happened with Carissa Sevar apparently being set to be petrified and buried by some being of great power and Evil, and then her apparently being fine a few hours later.  Even if it had somehow been a false threat, Carissa Sevar's soul does not appear scarred in the way that mortals would usually be scarred by such extreme threat and fear; it was as if the whole event had happened to someone else who was also Carissa Sevar, and so also marked by Him as His cleric.  Memory erasure of the episode?  Maybe she has two personalities and only one of them is scarred now, and she's currently using the other one, and that one doesn't remember?  Irori does not have compelling theories here; nothing He has seen previously happen to observed mortals matches this.  It is like the end of one time's thread was sliced out and spliced with the start of another.

He does not know why Abadar's cleric would pay thus for an option on Carissa Sevar's soul, except for the obvious point that it yet stands somehow in danger of being bought, despite Irori having bargained with Asmodeus for that not to happen.  There are standard clauses in the compact for which Irori paid Asmodeus whereby Irori Himself could revoke it, but this He cannot be threatened into doing, nor would He do it even at Carissa Sevar's own request if she were being forced into making it.  Irori would of course revoke it if Carissa Sevar prayed to Him and seemed in full sincerity to believe that her Way made that her next step forward, but then in a case like that there is also no reason why Abadar's cleric would need to protect her.  Irori's best guess is that Carissa Sevar falsely believes that there is a prospect of her soul's sale being forced, and Abadar's cleric is seeking to protect her from that.  Even the Asmodeans may not yet know her soul is unbuyable.

With all that said, Irori does not exactly have a merchant group of which Carissa Sevar is an employee, that is monitoring Carissa Sevar and has notes to compare on her.  Nor, in fact, is it particularly evident that Carissa Sevar would need or want any more of Irori's aid, considering how past attempts at that have been working out for Him and her.

That also said, Irori is aware of Abadar's communications difficulties.  Irori can perhaps send forth some mortal willing to receive a vision from Him, to speak to those mortals that Abadar trades with, and say what Irori knows and can make clear.  But this Irori would not do of His own accord, nor does He much expect that His interests will benefit from the quested mortal hearing whatever they may hear in return.  It would come out of Abadar's own intervention budget.

(Which is, for those gods present in the beginning, who are not now too much in disaccord with the way that things are, more generous than any intervention budget ever granted by them to any god that was once human.)

Carissa Sevar first came to Irori's attention when she was learning from the anomaly of Otolmens's concern, who is Abadar's cleric also much to Otolmens's concern, and it seemed that Abadar's cleric was speaking of matters that had again concerned Otolmens.  Irori looked within Abadar's cleric at Otolmens's request and found that Abadar's cleric intended no destruction in that moment, but only to speak upon his own Way to others.

It became visible to Irori then, upon a second look about, that Carissa Sevar had set a first foot along her Way, an unusually determined and promising Way for all that it is barely begun; Carissa Sevar has learned from the anomaly something of what it means to be a god, which is not simply about touching a Starstone or gaining power over the world or encyclopedic knowledge or some vague concept of 'perfection'.

Irori then bargained with Asmodeus that Carissa Sevar's soul not be bought by Him, and that she not be prevented in leaving Cheliax if her footsteps took her beyond it in time.  Asmodeus may have taken this as a challenge and decided to interpret it as a contest for Carissa Sevar's soul, which, if so, Irori had thought would probably be good for her.

By some strange course of events this led to Carissa Sevar's eternity standing in peril, at the hands of some powerful creature of Cheliax apparently meaning to transform her into a statue, ward her petrified form, bury her never to be found.  And so Irori marked her, softly enough that neither she nor her tormentor would notice it, so that someday some caster willing to be quested by Him could retrieve her.

A few hours later Irori got an incredibly irate call from Otolmens asking why one of the mortals in Her interdicted zone standing quite close to the anomaly seemed to now be an unfinished cleric of Irori's.  Irori went very completely legible about how much He had absolutely not been planning to causally impact the interdicted zone in any way.  Otolmens is still upset about this and, frankly, Irori can't blame Her.  Otolmens has gone to nearly the greatest possible lengths available to Her to reduce the amount of divine interference around the anomaly, and the clerics and oracles around him are still accumulating.

Irori still has no idea what the heck happened with Carissa Sevar apparently being set to be petrified and buried by some being of great power and Evil, and then her apparently being fine a few hours later.  Even if it had somehow been a false threat, Carissa Sevar's soul does not appear scarred in the way that mortals would usually be scarred by such extreme threat and fear; it was as if the whole event had happened to someone else who was also Carissa Sevar, and so also marked by Him as His cleric.  Memory erasure of the episode?  Maybe she has two personalities and only one of them is scarred now, and she's currently using the other one, and that one doesn't remember?  Irori does not have compelling theories here; nothing He has seen previously happen to observed mortals matches this.  It is like the end of one time's thread was sliced out and spliced with the start of another; one where her soul's health is if anything improved.

He does not know why Abadar's cleric would pay thus for an option on Carissa Sevar's soul, except for the obvious point that it yet stands somehow in danger of being bought, despite Irori having bargained with Asmodeus for that not to happen.  There are standard clauses in the compact for which Irori paid Asmodeus whereby Irori Himself could revoke it, but this He cannot be threatened into doing, nor would He do it even at Carissa Sevar's own request if she were being forced into making it.  Irori would of course revoke it if Carissa Sevar prayed to Him and seemed in full sincerity to believe that her Way made that her next step forward, but then in a case like that there is also no reason why Abadar's cleric would need to protect her.  Irori's best guess is that Carissa Sevar falsely believes that there is a prospect of her soul's sale being forced, and Abadar's cleric is seeking to protect her from that.  Even the Asmodeans may not yet know her soul is unbuyable.

With all that said, Irori does not exactly have a merchant group of which Carissa Sevar is an employee, that is monitoring Carissa Sevar and has notes to compare on her.  Nor, in fact, is it particularly evident that Carissa Sevar would need or want any more of Irori's aid, considering how past attempts at that have been working out for Him and her.

That also said, Irori is aware of Abadar's communications difficulties.  Irori can perhaps send forth some mortal willing to receive a vision from Him, to speak to those mortals that Abadar trades with, and say what Irori knows and can make clear.  But this Irori would not do of His own accord, nor does He much expect that His interests will benefit from the quested mortal hearing whatever they may hear in return.  It would come out of Abadar's own intervention budget.

(Which is, for those gods present in the beginning, who are not now too much in disaccord with the way that things are, more generous than any intervention budget ever granted by them to any god that was once human.)

Carissa Sevar first came to Irori's attention when she was learning from the anomaly of Otolmens's concern, who is Abadar's cleric also much to Otolmens's concern, and it seemed that Abadar's cleric was speaking of matters that had again concerned Otolmens.  Irori looked within Abadar's cleric at Otolmens's request and found that Abadar's cleric intended no destruction in that moment, but only to speak upon his own Way to others.

It became visible to Irori then, upon a second look about, that Carissa Sevar had set a first foot along her Way, an unusually determined and promising Way for all that it is barely begun; Carissa Sevar has learned from the anomaly something of what it means to be a god, which is not simply about touching a Starstone or gaining power over the world or encyclopedic knowledge or some vague concept of 'perfection'.

Irori then bargained with Asmodeus that Carissa Sevar's soul not be bought by Him, and that she not be prevented in leaving Cheliax if her footsteps took her beyond it in time.  Asmodeus may have taken this as a challenge and decided to interpret it as a contest for Carissa Sevar's soul, which, if so, Irori had thought would probably be good for her pathway to godhood and beyond.

By some strange course of events this led to Carissa Sevar's eternity standing in peril, at the hands of some powerful creature of Cheliax apparently meaning to transform her into a statue, ward her petrified form, bury her never to be found.  And so Irori marked her, softly enough that neither she nor her tormentor would notice it, so that someday some caster willing to be quested by Him could retrieve her.

A few hours later Irori got an incredibly irate call from Otolmens asking why one of the mortals in Her interdicted zone standing quite close to the anomaly seemed to now be an unfinished cleric of Irori's.  Irori went very completely legible about how much He had absolutely not been planning to causally impact the interdicted zone in any way.  Otolmens is still upset about this and, frankly, Irori can't blame Her.  Otolmens has gone to nearly the greatest possible lengths available to Her to reduce the amount of divine interference around the anomaly, and the clerics and oracles around him are still accumulating.

Irori still has no idea what the heck happened with Carissa Sevar apparently being set to be petrified and buried by some being of great power and Evil, and then her apparently being fine a few hours later.  Even if it had somehow been a false threat, Carissa Sevar's soul does not appear scarred in the way that mortals would usually be scarred by such extreme threat and fear; it was as if the whole event had happened to someone else who was also Carissa Sevar, and so also marked by Him as His cleric.  Memory erasure of the episode?  Maybe she has two personalities and only one of them is scarred now, and she's currently using the other one, and that one doesn't remember?  Irori does not have compelling theories here; nothing He has seen previously happen to observed mortals matches this.  It is like the end of one time's thread was sliced out and spliced with the start of another; one where her soul's health is if anything improved.

He does not know why Abadar's cleric would pay thus for an option on Carissa Sevar's soul, except for the obvious point that it yet stands somehow in danger of being bought, despite Irori having bargained with Asmodeus for that not to happen.  There are standard clauses in the compact for which Irori paid Asmodeus whereby Irori Himself could revoke it, but this He cannot be threatened into doing, nor would He do it even at Carissa Sevar's own request if she were being forced into making it.  Irori would of course revoke it if Carissa Sevar prayed to Him and seemed in full sincerity to believe that her Way made that her next step forward, but then in a case like that there is also no reason why Abadar's cleric would need to protect her.  Irori's best guess is that Carissa Sevar falsely believes that there is a prospect of her soul's sale being forced, and Abadar's cleric is seeking to protect her from that.  Even the Asmodeans may not yet know her soul is unbuyable.

With all that said, Irori does not exactly have a merchant group of which Carissa Sevar is an employee, that is monitoring Carissa Sevar and has notes to compare on her.  Nor, in fact, is it particularly evident that Carissa Sevar would need or want any more of Irori's aid, considering how past attempts at that have been working out for Him and her.

That also said, Irori is aware of Abadar's communications difficulties.  Irori can perhaps send forth some mortal willing to receive a vision from Him, to speak to those mortals that Abadar trades with, and say what Irori knows and can make clear.  But this Irori would not do of His own accord, nor does He much expect that His interests will benefit from the quested mortal hearing whatever they may hear in return.  It would come out of Abadar's own intervention budget.

(Which is, for those gods present in the beginning, who are not now too much in disaccord with the way that things are, more generous than any intervention budget ever granted by them to any god that was once human.)

Carissa Sevar first came to Irori's attention when she was learning from the anomaly of Otolmens's concern, who is Abadar's cleric also much to Otolmens's concern, and it seemed that Abadar's cleric was speaking of matters that had again concerned Otolmens.  Irori looked within Abadar's cleric at Otolmens's request and found that Abadar's cleric intended no destruction in that moment, but only to speak upon his own Way to others.

It became visible to Irori then, upon a second look about, that Carissa Sevar had set a first foot along her Way, an unusually determined and promising Way for all that it is barely begun; Carissa Sevar has learned from the anomaly something of what it means to be a god, which is not simply about touching a Starstone or gaining power over the world or encyclopedic knowledge or some vague concept of 'perfection'.

Irori then bargained with Asmodeus that Carissa Sevar's soul not be bought by Him, and that she not be prevented in leaving Cheliax if her footsteps took her beyond it in time.  Asmodeus may have taken this as a challenge and decided to interpret it as a contest for Carissa Sevar's soul, which, if so, Irori had thought would probably be good for her pathway to godhood and hopefully beyond.

By some strange course of events this led to Carissa Sevar's eternity standing in peril, at the hands of some powerful creature of Cheliax apparently meaning to transform her into a statue, ward her petrified form, bury her never to be found.  And so Irori marked her, softly enough that neither she nor her tormentor would notice it, so that someday some caster willing to be quested by Him could retrieve her.

A few hours later Irori got an incredibly irate call from Otolmens asking why one of the mortals in Her interdicted zone standing quite close to the anomaly seemed to now be an unfinished cleric of Irori's.  Irori went very completely legible about how much He had absolutely not been planning to causally impact the interdicted zone in any way.  Otolmens is still upset about this and, frankly, Irori can't blame Her.  Otolmens has gone to nearly the greatest possible lengths available to Her to reduce the amount of divine interference around the anomaly, and the clerics and oracles around him are still accumulating.

Irori still has no idea what the heck happened with Carissa Sevar apparently being set to be petrified and buried by some being of great power and Evil, and then her apparently being fine a few hours later.  Even if it had somehow been a false threat, Carissa Sevar's soul does not appear scarred in the way that mortals would usually be scarred by such extreme threat and fear; it was as if the whole event had happened to someone else who was also Carissa Sevar, and so also marked by Him as His cleric.  Memory erasure of the episode?  Maybe she has two personalities and only one of them is scarred now, and she's currently using the other one, and that one doesn't remember?  Irori does not have compelling theories here; nothing He has seen previously happen to observed mortals matches this.  It is like the end of one time's thread was sliced out and spliced with the start of another; one where her soul's health is if anything improved.

He does not know why Abadar's cleric would pay thus for an option on Carissa Sevar's soul, except for the obvious fear that it stands somehow in danger of being bought, despite Irori having bargained with Asmodeus for that not to happen.  There are standard clauses in the compact for which Irori paid Asmodeus whereby Irori Himself could revoke it, but this He cannot be threatened into doing, nor would He do it even at Carissa Sevar's own request if she were being forced into making it.  Irori would of course revoke it if Carissa Sevar prayed to Him and seemed in full sincerity to believe that her Way made that her next step forward, but then in a case like that there is also no reason why Abadar's cleric would need to protect her.  Irori's best guess is that Carissa Sevar falsely believes that there is a prospect of her soul's sale being forced, and Abadar's cleric is seeking to protect her from that.  Even the Asmodeans may not yet know her soul is unbuyable.

With all that said, Irori does not exactly have a merchant group of which Carissa Sevar is an employee, that is monitoring Carissa Sevar and has notes to compare on her.  Nor, in fact, is it particularly evident that Carissa Sevar would need or want any more of Irori's aid, considering how past attempts at that have been working out for Him and her.

That also said, Irori is aware of Abadar's communications difficulties.  Irori can perhaps send forth some mortal willing to receive a vision from Him, to speak to those mortals that Abadar trades with, and say what Irori knows and can make clear.  But this Irori would not do of His own accord, nor does He much expect that His interests will benefit from the quested mortal hearing whatever they may hear in return.  It would come out of Abadar's own intervention budget.

(Which is, for those gods present in the beginning, who are not now too much in disaccord with the way that things are, more generous than any intervention budget ever granted by them to any god that was once human.)

Carissa Sevar first came to Irori's attention when she was learning from the anomaly of Otolmens's concern, who is Abadar's cleric also much to Otolmens's concern, and it seemed that Abadar's cleric was speaking of matters that had again concerned Otolmens.  Irori looked within Abadar's cleric at Otolmens's request and found that Abadar's cleric intended no destruction in that moment, but only to speak upon his own Way to others.

It became visible to Irori then, upon a second look about, that Carissa Sevar had set a first foot along her Way, an unusually determined and promising Way for all that it is barely begun; Carissa Sevar has learned from the anomaly something of what it means to be a god, which is not simply about touching a Starstone or gaining power over the world or encyclopedic knowledge or some vague concept of 'perfection'.

Irori then bargained with Asmodeus that Carissa Sevar's soul not be bought by Him, and that she not be prevented in leaving Cheliax if her footsteps took her beyond it in time.  Asmodeus may have taken this as a challenge and decided to interpret it as a contest for Carissa Sevar's soul, which, if so, Irori had thought would probably be good for her pathway to epicness and godhood and hopefully beyond.

By some strange course of events this led to Carissa Sevar's eternity standing in peril, at the hands of some powerful creature of Cheliax apparently meaning to transform her into a statue, ward her petrified form, bury her never to be found.  And so Irori marked her, softly enough that neither she nor her tormentor would notice it, so that someday some caster willing to be quested by Him could retrieve her.

A few hours later Irori got an incredibly irate call from Otolmens asking why one of the mortals in Her interdicted zone standing quite close to the anomaly seemed to now be an unfinished cleric of Irori's.  Irori went very completely legible about how much He had absolutely not been planning to causally impact the interdicted zone in any way.  Otolmens is still upset about this and, frankly, Irori can't blame Her.  Otolmens has gone to nearly the greatest possible lengths available to Her to reduce the amount of divine interference around the anomaly, and the clerics and oracles around him are still accumulating.

Irori still has no idea what the heck happened with Carissa Sevar apparently being set to be petrified and buried by some being of great power and Evil, and then her apparently being fine a few hours later.  Even if it had somehow been a false threat, Carissa Sevar's soul does not appear scarred in the way that mortals would usually be scarred by such extreme threat and fear; it was as if the whole event had happened to someone else who was also Carissa Sevar, and so also marked by Him as His cleric.  Memory erasure of the episode?  Maybe she has two personalities and only one of them is scarred now, and she's currently using the other one, and that one doesn't remember?  Irori does not have compelling theories here; nothing He has seen previously happen to observed mortals matches this.  It is like the end of one time's thread was sliced out and spliced with the start of another; one where her soul's health is if anything improved.

He does not know why Abadar's cleric would pay thus for an option on Carissa Sevar's soul, except for the obvious fear that it stands somehow in danger of being bought, despite Irori having bargained with Asmodeus for that not to happen.  There are standard clauses in the compact for which Irori paid Asmodeus whereby Irori Himself could revoke it, but this He cannot be threatened into doing, nor would He do it even at Carissa Sevar's own request if she were being forced into making it.  Irori would of course revoke it if Carissa Sevar prayed to Him and seemed in full sincerity to believe that her Way made that her next step forward, but then in a case like that there is also no reason why Abadar's cleric would need to protect her.  Irori's best guess is that Carissa Sevar falsely believes that there is a prospect of her soul's sale being forced, and Abadar's cleric is seeking to protect her from that.  Even the Asmodeans may not yet know her soul is unbuyable.

With all that said, Irori does not exactly have a merchant group of which Carissa Sevar is an employee, that is monitoring Carissa Sevar and has notes to compare on her.  Nor, in fact, is it particularly evident that Carissa Sevar would need or want any more of Irori's aid, considering how past attempts at that have been working out for Him and her.

That also said, Irori is aware of Abadar's communications difficulties.  Irori can perhaps send forth some mortal willing to receive a vision from Him, to speak to those mortals that Abadar trades with, and say what Irori knows and can make clear.  But this Irori would not do of His own accord, nor does He much expect that His interests will benefit from the quested mortal hearing whatever they may hear in return.  It would come out of Abadar's own intervention budget.

(Which is, for those gods present in the beginning, who are not now too much in disaccord with the way that things are, more generous than any intervention budget ever granted by them to any god that was once human.)