I'm not sure I really follow what you're talking about?  You mean the history of the planet you came from?  Your Good gods worked to betray the Evil Gods?  Does this mean your planet doesn't have any Evil gods active on it?

She really isn't sure what to feel about that... the Asmodeans help to contain the Worldwound, but she's pretty sure Asmodeus conquering the world wouldn't be much better than demons doing so...

Sorry. I'm being confusing. I'm stressed. There are no Evil gods active on Tirra... I don't know exactly how it went down. But it's said that the Light Gods could have stopped the cataclysm, or ensured there were no Evil gods, and they picked the latter. But it was an incredibly awful cost, even just seeing the implications millenia later.

That must be nice... should I try to give you a basic set of warnings and advice on the Evil Gods of this planet?

I think it is nice, yes. Yeah that would be good... Thanks.

She's only just now realizing that she has Sudden Background Knowledge, which is worrying as all fuck because it implies the pod person memory thing is working.

So at the Worldwound, lots of Demon Lords are active.  The two main demon lords are Deskari, who has a fixation on swarms and insects and Baphomet, who has a theme of mazes and enjoys complex elaborate plots.  Can I send mental images through this connection?  These are their holy symbols.

She tries to send an images of two sets of icons.

It's sort of - weird, sound only. I could fiddle with it, but at this distance... Is Baphomet from Hell?

No, Baphomet is from the Abyss.  There are 3 evil afterlives, the Abyss, Abaddon and Hell.  According to legend, Baphomet was imprisoned in Hell for a time before he escaped back to the Abyss.  He also stole Asmodeus's unholy symbol at the same time, they both have a symbol of a pentagram.

I suppose evil fighting evil is slightly better than evil fighting good. But it's still bad. I think I can't shoulder the entire universe's worth of bad. Just sometimes bits that are in front of me.

She sounds tired.

On Tirra, the gods operate the Great Wheel of Reincarnation. None die forever, or so rarely that it is an exception rather than a rule. I am getting the impression that it's... Either an exception our gods are arranging, or very different somehow. Because I have memories of three planets - Old Earth, Tirra, and now Golarion. And on Old Earth they believed in Heaven and Hell, if not the same things as are believed here...

I think I've heard of some Gods or magic rituals that can let a creature be reborn.  But most creatures on this planet get sorted to one of 9 afterlives when they die.  3 of them are horrible and Evil.  A mortal's soul either perishes a second final time, gets transformed into some form that suffer nearly indefinitely, or after centuries of suffering, gets turned into a devil, daemon, or demon.  I... I don't really remember anything about who I was before I transformed in a succubus.

Everyone changes over time, but forgetting so totally like that is a kind of death too.

Ahhhhh. Ahhhhhh. She'd be crying in humanoid form. Again. A hug would be nice right now, but instead she's alone in a snowy wasteland, and her Tamamo-approved - friend? - is pretending to be evil in order to undermine that selfsame evil.

........She makes a (fake, not real, stupid) illusion of Megi, and has it hug her. It feels nice. But it's not the same at all. She ends it quickly.

I can't - I can't contemplate DOING anything about the moral arc of the universe. I tried doing that and it was really bad for me. Everything seemed so desperate and urgent, and everyone else seemed so shortsighted and foolish... I can try to help people one at a time, instead.

Sorry, I'll try to focus on the relevant details you can meaningful act on.  Will you be able to reactivate this effect when you get back in range, or does it fade and then require closer range to establish or reestablish?  It would be really helpful to have a way to get information out if you could get back in range every few months or even just once a year.  But that probably conflicts with the running away from Areelu beyond the Worldwound plan, which makes sense as your priority.

Arueshalae hadn't realized how much she wanted someone she could talk to as her real self until now.  But she definitely can't ask for that as a priority, compared to escaping Areelu or communicating critical information.

If you don't get anti-magicked I'll be able to look for you until it wears off, and contact you again... For maybe six months, if I don't top it up? We - being all business is exhausting- I'm sad you don't remember- I'm not sure what my priority should be. Running away, probably. I'm scared.

I... I haven't really figured out what I even do when I'm not all business.  I was sort of aimless right after Desna helped me and then I took up this mission and I haven't done much else.

She's taking the comment about not being all business as an excuse to talk about herself some.

-Yeah, that's the kind of thing I mean. Or... I mean, when I had a mission in mind and was ignoring everything to do it... I don't know, I'm tired, sorry.

Desna helped you?

My last victim, from when I still acted like a demon, was a priestess of Desna.  I was something of a daredevil as a demon, always trying the riskiest stunts I could, and I tried to invade the dreams of one of Desna's priestess.  Desna is a God of dreams, I thought it would be kind of a funny mockery to see the dreams of one of her priestesses as they lay dying.  But Desna could see back into me, and she awoke in me the dreams of the mortal souls that went into me.  Powerful demons like succubi... we aren't exactly one soul, but rather an amalgamation of all the worse bits of souls that accumulate together around one of the most Evil souls of them.  I'm not sure exactly what fragments of memories of dreams are my own and which come from other abyssal larvae I ate and consumed, or was forcibly fused with, or was joined together with by some other means.  But one way or another, I could remember these mortal dreams, trampled and consumed and filtered down to their worst remnants by the Abyss.

Her explanation is interrupted.  It isn't exactly coming through the connection, but it seems she is crying.

The most important thing I understand now... every mortal is like their own little world of hopes and dreams and I still had some fragment of that within myself, and I have to act on it.

I wish I could be physically there and give you a hug. Maybe later.

I wonder how much of the same person you are, if all your memories are different but the - decision making process, the wants and tendencies - are the same. Or the opposite. Same memories, new motivations...

I haven't really thought about it philosophically like that?  I mean, I still have all the memories of my time as a succubus, probably in better detail than most humans can remember things.  It is just that they disgust me now.  I don't know if I've lost absolutely all my old motivations, I still want to avoid pain?  I still, I don't know, maybe the same drive that made me kept trying risky stunts as a demon is also the same drive that means I have to act, I can't just stand aside and let the demons invade the world.  I never thought of it that way before.  I'm not sure if its good or bad that I have a similar motive, just aimed differently...

I'm thinking about this stuff a lot because of what Areelu Vorlesh is doing. And how I've changed since my time on my original planet. I used to be - technical, mathy, interested in book learning. I'm kind of not anymore, more... Creative intuitive and action oriented. I don't think I can really say it's good or bad either. I heard it said once that changing is called 'living', and if you never changed or learned anything you might as well be a rock...

I hope I keep changing for the better. 

Maybe you can take a break to read more books once you get away from the Worldwound?  You definitely have a lot about this planet to learn.

Yeah...

It's nice talking to someone. But... I'm spending enough energy that I should think about going sooner rather than later. I've spent down a tenth of my reserves in just a few minutes, it's the distance and the distortion here... If I lose my tracking tag on you and we want to confirm identity again someday, uhh... You can tell me 'There is no war in Ba Sing Se'. A reference like that is unlikely to be guessed.

Right, so to recap on critical details, watch out for out-of-place intrusive thoughts that fit under 25 words, remember Areelu will likely come up with a better method to locate you or force you to come back to her within a few months, try to get beyond the Worldwound barrier, remember people will be suspicious because of all the demon activity, and be cautious of Asmodean Worldwound forts but remember they have a treaty.  And you should probably try to find someone to explain more about this planet and its Gods, sorry I didn't have time to fit that all in.

Good luck.

Good luck to you too.

She drops the link.

She wants to S C R E A M but that would be kind of attention-getting.

...Eventually, she shakes herself and starts loping east again. Fox form. It's more - defensive. Rawer, in a way, more feelings, but her feelings are more manageable.

And still invisible'd and all that.

The Worldwound continues to be depressing and ruined, but rich in magical energy.  There is the fort she saw earlier she could head to?  Or she could bypass it, but keeping an eye on it will make a useful landmark for when she crosses the barrier.

Either way, it is still some ways on foot to the fort.  She could easily make it past it with another fly.

She's not going to burn fly charges unless absolutely necessary. She can't exactly get them back.

She lopes lonely along the ruined ground... When she gets close to the fort, she enters the Woods Between. What terrain and buildings look like here is usually a potent metaphor for their purpose and history, and it might tell her something new. Other than 'a wall standing against horrible evil cursed lands'.

She's at the start of the slope of one of the mountains enclosing the valley.  This mountain, especially compared to the mountains south of it, looks dark and foreboding, with a blood-like crimson hue staining it slopes, and the rocks seeming to take on the shape of cruel spikes.