She feels like - the same sort of thing - that was his god talking to him.  That makes everything worse, so that Keltham has to exert an additional effort and dissociate further from his emotions to continue emergency functioning.  She's now tied the credibility of gods to the credibility of Osirion, and if that breaks when he exits this layer of reality, Keltham isn't sure where to go from there.

Well.  She doesn't have to be an allied god.  But if this style of communication can be faked, why suppose he ever talked to his own god of Coordination at all?

"And the supposed message from Abadar?"

She feels like - the same sort of thing - that was his god talking to him.  That makes everything worse, so that Keltham has to exert an additional effort and dissociate further from his emotions to continue emergency functioning.  She's now tied the credibility of gods to the credibility of Osirion, and if that breaks when he exits this layer of reality, Keltham isn't sure where to go from there.

Well.  She doesn't have to be an allied god.  But if this style of communication can be initiated by non-allied deities, why suppose he ever talked to his own god of Coordination at all?

"And the supposed message from Abadar?"