"How does guessing and checking work?" Leareth is already on his feet, scanning the index-notes on sealed boxes; he grabs one and moves it to the floor, with a touch of magic to cheat, and then opens it. "How does your language-reading work, actually - can you decide to read a book in Kaled'a'in phonetically rather than the concepts directly, that would give you many syllables to guess at while I try to do a more targeted search for records on Her." 

"I guess I can try!"

Well, finding her a book in archaic Shin'a'in - more recent than the Kaled'a'in records he's hunting for, but a closely related language that evolved from it - won't take long at all. Leareth passes it to her and then moves on to look for older boxes. 

She squints at it, thinking about how each word would be pronounced if she were trying to repeat it exactly, and decomposes them into syllables and tries each one on the Star-Eyed for size.

That syllable is not the Star-Eyed's name. Neither is that one. Neither is that one. 

Leareth is digging through another crate. 

"- Her spirit avatars are called leshya'e Kal'enedral," he says suddenly. "Does that...?" 

Le, lesh, shy, shya, ya, e, Kal - "Yes got it."

"- all right now what." 

"Well, now I need something to tell them. Is there a way for them to talk to me, getting feedback out of them would help -"

"I am thinking. Previously I had no way to get answers from gods without Their cooperation, but I could not give Them orders either. Vkandis speaks through his Suncats sometimes, I think... And the Star-Eyed has leshya'e Kal'enedral, in the spirit world, I could take you there and maybe it would work if you order Her to send one..." 

"The leshya'e Kal'enedral could still attack me unless I had my orders well specified first."

"That does seem like a concern here. ...Are there best practices or something for making orders well-specified enough to prevent sabotage by hostile vassals?" 

"I learned from the best. But it's hard and them being a weird sort of entity can only make it harder and the process wants feedback."

Sigh. "I am not sure what to do. I - know a substantial amount about the gods, in general, but - this is not a problem I anticipated having!" 

"I didn't either! Is there a way to - catch one person from one of the armies, and ask them -"

"Let me think." Leareth narrows his eyes. "I could scry the area outside the compound, and - attempt to aim a Gate that way, and capture a human soldier, they will probably be less dangerous and if I grab a mage by accident I can probably contain them... What do you wish to ask them, though, I am unsure a random soldier would know very much about what is happening." 

"How was I supposed to know what they'd know??"

"I could try to go for a priest of Vkandis, maybe, they have distinctive uniforms - they would be much more dangerous, though. At least until you could obtain their name. I...could read their mind to get it?" 

"Maybe. Or cram a leaf off my dress down their throat. Would anything bad happen if I - they see by foresight, right, if I just plan to issue them both a general stop order unless their armies both surrender immediately -"

"Hmm. What would the effect be of a general stop order, would that stop the armies as well or would they keep going -?" 

"They would presumably keep going, but I can't die, so they'd be stopped indefinitely till I found something else to do with them, and might not prefer that even if their armies could continue to act. Hopefully they'd see it coming and have them surrender."

"I am not sure how it would show up to Them but I suppose it is worth trying." 

"Can they communicate a surrender to you?"

"I very much hope They have no idea where I am, but I would notice a surrender, if I am scrying the area under attack– I should do that now, to find out if the armies are still there or coming after us here." 

"Okay."

And she makes up her mind that if there isn't a clearly communicated and legitimate surrender in the next hour she will issue stop orders to both gods and go from there.