On a later iteration, Pilar Pineda will have in hand two artifact headbands, and they won't be delivered to Keltham until Keltham has demonstrated the ability to acquire a headband from Carissa without outside help.  After Keltham has that headband, it can be replaced with another, so Carissa can get hers back; but Keltham and Carissa can't know that's the plan, so that it can be seen, later, that Keltham would have obtained a headband, that Carissa would have given it to him, even if Cayden Cayden had done nothing.

This is true even though Carissa would've ended up with two headbands, if not for Snack Service's interference.  It also matters to maintain similarity to the zeroth-timeline vision shown to Gruhastha, where Carissa gave her only +6/+6 artifact headband to Keltham, not expecting that it would or could be replaced.  It both provides evidence that the original timeline could've happened, and shows that the Nethysian alliance is not making the risk worse than that original timeline.

On a later iteration, Pilar Pineda will have in hand two artifact headbands, and they won't be delivered to Keltham until Keltham has demonstrated the ability to acquire a headband from Carissa without outside help.  After Keltham has that headband, it can be replaced with another, so Carissa can get hers back; but Keltham and Carissa can't know that's the plan, so that it can be seen, later, that Keltham would have obtained a headband, that Carissa would have given it to him, even if Cayden Cailean had done nothing.

This is true even though Carissa would've ended up with two headbands, if not for Snack Service's interference.  It also matters to maintain similarity to the zeroth-timeline vision shown to Gruhastha, where Carissa gave her only +6/+6 artifact headband to Keltham, not expecting that it would or could be replaced.  It both provides evidence that the original timeline could've happened, and shows that the Nethysian alliance is not making the risk worse than that original timeline.

On a later iteration, Pilar Pineda will have in hand two artifact headbands, and they won't be delivered to Keltham until Keltham has demonstrated the ability to acquire a headband from Carissa without outside help.  After Keltham has that headband, it can be replaced with another, so Carissa can get hers back.  But Keltham and Carissa can't know that's the plan; so that it can be seen, later, that Keltham would have obtained a headband, that Carissa would have given it to him, even if Cayden Cailean had done nothing.

This is true even though Carissa would've ended up with two headbands, if not for Snack Service's interference.  It also matters to maintain similarity to the zeroth-timeline vision shown to Gruhastha, where Carissa gave her only +6/+6 artifact headband to Keltham, not expecting that it would or could be replaced.  It both provides evidence that the original timeline could've happened, and shows that the Nethysian alliance is not making the risk worse than that original timeline.

On a later iteration, Pilar Pineda will have in hand two artifact headbands, and they won't be delivered to Keltham until Keltham has demonstrated the ability to acquire a headband from Carissa without outside help.  After Keltham has that headband, it can be replaced with another, so Carissa can get hers back.  But Keltham and Carissa can't know that's the plan; so that it can be seen, later, that Keltham would have obtained a headband, that Carissa would have given it to him, even if Cayden Cailean had done nothing.

This is true even though Carissa would've ended up with two headbands, if not for Snack Service's interference.  It also matters to maintain similarity to the zeroth-timeline vision shown to that Lawful god, where Carissa gave her only +6/+6 artifact headband to Keltham, not expecting that it would or could be replaced.  It both provides evidence that the original timeline could've happened, and shows that the Nethysian alliance is not making the risk worse than that original timeline.