Now a very confused gardener! "I, um, Healer...Shavri, right? Is the King's Own here? It's important! There's a magic light that says it has a message." 

She gives him a tired look. "I'll sort it out. It's fine. Thank you." 

:Savil? I need you here right this second: 

"Hello. I am a lantern archon. We are messengers of the forces of Law and Good. I was called this morning to a world called Golarion, where people work with lantern archons often, and asked to deliver a message here for Vanyel Ashkeveron. He said you did not know about Golarion or about the forces of Law and Good and would not believe me but that's okay! I can do magic to prove it if it will help, though I am not very powerful and I do not have a lot of magic."

"Thank you," Shavri's mouth says for her. "Can you hold on for a couple of minutes." 

:What is it? I'm still trying to figure out that Web-alarm–:

:Think I know what it was. It's outside the King's Own's office talking to me. At me. Says it's got a message from Vanyel: 

:......Oh, gods. I'll be right there: 

Shavri keeps her eyes fixed on the glowing sphere while she systematically goes down the list of relevant people to summon via Mindspeech. She alerts Randi but tells him not to come. It might be a threat. 

Savil arrives at a run, out of breath, and immediately studies the light with all of her Othersenses. 

The glowing sphere has faded while it waits to a soft yellow glow and is resisting the urge to dart around looking at everything. It does bob slowly in the air rather than hold perfectly still.

It is very definitely magic. It is also a mind. A mind of maybe slightly below human intelligence, hard to say when it's so different. 

"Hello?" Savil says, clasping her arms behind her back. "I'm told you have a message for us." 

Can she read its thoughts?

"Hello. I am a lantern archon. We are messengers of the forces of Law and Good. I was called this morning to a world called Golarion, where people work with lantern archons often, and asked to deliver a message here for Vanyel Ashkeveron. He said you did not know about Golarion or about the forces of Law and Good and would not believe me but that's okay! I can do magic to prove it if it will help, though I am not very powerful and I do not have a lot of magic."

It is thinking that this place is really cool and it would be fun to go zip around but its summoner and his tired friend said that these people would be very nervous, and it was very important that the archon be reliable and kind and trustworthy and very very patient, and so that is what it will do. 

Savil nods politely and thanks it. She shields herself and shields Shavri and waits for the rest of (what's left of) the Senior Circle to catch up. Sandra and Kilchas are both still not fully recovered from their war injuries and probably won't make it over to the meeting wing in a hurry. 

Once a few more people have arrived, the tired woman in green robes points them all toward a bigger meeting-room. "All right. I think we can hear the rest of the message now." 

:Savil. Is it dangerous: 

:I haven't got the faintest idea what it is! It's...a bit like an elemental? Reminds me of the vrondi, except smarter. I don't think it wants to hurt us. We should hear it out: 

"Vanyel wanted to send you more proof that he is in another world. He said he got a hold of a powerful magic artifact called a crystal ball to contact you but he thinks you did not believe him. I am supposed to be proof about the other world existing, because I am a thing you do not have in your world. I can also do a little bit of magic, which you can watch, and see how it is different from the magic of your world. Also, I am a messenger of the forces of Law and Good, and if Valdemar is threatened then the forces of Law and Good can come to your aid, because you are a country of Law and Good. - he said you would not know what I mean by that. I can explain what I mean by that! But I should finish the message first. And I can take replies to him, in Golarion, and his friends who include my summoner.

And I do not have the ability to magically sense if anyone is under a compulsion but my summoner does, and swore to me that he had checked and that Vanyel was not, and that Vanyel was not to his knowledge a prisoner nor in danger, though it will be complicated for him to come back! Until very recently they did not have any way at all to travel between worlds, but they told their god about Velgarth and now their god is negotiating with the gods of Velgarth for people from their world to come to this world in safety. Their god also gave them a way to come to this world, so they can now do it, though it would be more costly than sending me. They do not have a way to send Vanyel without coming themselves, and if they die here they will be lost forever to our afterlives, so they would prefer not to come here until the negotiations among the gods are done. Their god prefers this also. However my summoner says that they can come anyway if your country is under attack by the forces of Evil. 

I can explain things and take questions. I am not going to be very good at explaining things but more powerful archons are scary and they did not want to send anybody scary."

There is a lot of stunned silence. 

:It's certainly magic that we don't have: Savil confirms to everyone. 

When it seems like no one else is going to talk to the poor thing, Shavri sighs. "We initially thought that Vanyel had been taken by a mage from our world, called Leareth. We were expecting an invasion. If there really are other worlds with other magic, Leareth might have found them too. Do you know the name, or anything about him?" 

"I do not but I can pass on the question to my summoner and to Vanyel!"

More strained silence. 

"Which gods here is the god in the other world talking to?" Savil says finally. "What is the god in the other world called, and what are They like?"

"There are lots of gods in Golarion. My summoner is a priest of Abadar. Abadar is Lawful but not Good. He's not Evil either, He's just not either. He is a god of commerce and cities and trade. His afterlife is nice for people, they like it a lot I think. I do not know which gods He is talking to, it sounded kind of like he needed agreements with all of them for it to be safe for our mortals to visit here, but you could ask yours if He's talking to them?"

“Ours don’t normally answer questions like that.” Glance at Savil. “We should have Karis petition Vkandis.”

Pause. Notes are scribbled.

Another sigh. “Do you want to explain the bit about Law and Good some more.”

"Yes. Golarion is a neighbor to the Outer Planes. Velgarth is not, my summoner doesn't think. The Outer Planes have a metaphysical nature along two different axes, called Law and Good.  Actions taken in Golarion or here can strengthen or weaken the forces of Good and Law in all the worlds. Law is - honor, duty, honesty, discipline. Its opposite is chaos. Chaos is - doing things on impulse, freedom, unpredictability. Good is - love, mercy, protecting the innocent, fighting evil. Evil is - torture, slavery, fighting good.

We have nine Outer Planes, for every possible combination of them - Lawful Good, Neutral Good, Chaotic Good, Lawful Neutral, Neutral, Chaotic Neutral, Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil, Chaotic Evil. When mortals die, they go to the afterlife associated with the choices they made in life. When they are alive, if they are powerful, you can read off of them, by looking, which ones they are. This is useful for coordinating the war against Evil, and in Golarion it is widely used to know who is trustworthy. I only answer summons from Lawful Good summoners so I know my summoner was not secretly a bad person. Vanyel is Good but not Lawful or Chaotic. None of you are Evil but I don't have the magic to check all by myself what exactly you are, aside from that you are not Evil.

I am a creature of the Lawful Good afterlife plane. That means I am by my nature Lawful and Good. I cannot betray my word or forsake my duty or permit or participate in Evil. It is impossible for the kind of creature that I am. So we are good emissaries among peoples who care about Good and Law. My summoner said that in Valdemar they do, though they do not know the concept."

Everyone in the room is listening very intently with controlled expressions. Notes are being taken. All of them look, maybe not quite as tired as Vanyel, but pretty tired and also stressed. 

Savil, the strongest Thoughtsenser present, is still paying a lot of attention to the creature's surface thoughts. 

The creature is hoping it explained these right! It's not usually very good at explaining things and this seems like a hard thing to explain and imagine if you explained it badly so someone thought Evil or Chaos were fun and awesome, then it would be sort of your fault, and that would be terrible. It asked its summoner why not send an actually missionary archon but its summoner said that the people in Valdemar were scared and it was very important not to make that worse, first thing, and also that people who love Good and Law even before it is named to them will still love it afterwards. 

Vanyel had looked kind of worried at one point and its summoner had said, quietly, 'Heaven uses them as scouts and envoys even when the stakes are very high, they aren't actually stupid', which was true and felt kind of good and bad at the same time for some reason. Mostly good, though.