They really do have some concerning things locked up in the Vaults. On the basis of some of those manuscripts, she would not have expected this divine realm to be supposedly safe, but there are limits past which paranoia stops being useful. 

She steps out of a yawning golden void in midair and lands in a Far Realm and looks about her. 

It's completely safe! A few month ago, now, that's a different story.

There's a cat-eared winged woman on a golden throne, like so:

That is... slightly concerning symbology. But-

"Greetings. I am Her Deliverance Beryllia the Most High Priestess of Sirenna."

It talks! In ways that don't drive all who hear them mad, even!

"Oh, you came here on purpose? I didn't, but I think it went well anyway. Welcome to Creation! I'm Asmodeus, this is my divine realm. Sorry, it's a bit run-down at the moment, we're not done remodeling yet."

What's her Pharasmin Social Score? Pharasma is pretty bad for a cat, but Her judgements are usually at least informative.

Pharasma, You say?

[NO-] oof [NO READING].

Sirenna we have a problem.

Really, really not His style, and it shouldn't be easy for Him to have Seen she'd think that. 

Translation error? Please please let it be that, she can handle some local demon lord. 

Remodelling? Someone... killed Him and took His place? Shouldn't be possible, but, Far Realms, terrifying pataphysical implications. ...'Asmodeus' means something different here? She really should have studied Thaumogrammatology but that's not one of the merely deadly lost disciplines.

All right, well. 

"Thank You. May I ask how You came to be here? I... did come here deliberately, yes, it seemed a valuable opportunity."

Fine, fine, she can have some privacy.

"Oh. So there's this other world, not this one and probably not the one you came from, and every once in a while there'd be a problem no one who was there could solve, and every time someone from yet a different world would show up, get way more powerful than anyone else, fix the problem, usually cause some new ones, and disappear. I don't know what happened to them. I was a god there, I wasn't very nice back then, and one of those heroes turned Me into a catgirl, and then a different one killed Me. Then I bumped into this thing that made Me Good, it turns people who are already Good Evil so if you're one of those you should probably avoid it. You should probably avoid it anyway, actually. Then I came here and it turned out that there was a version of me here that was still Evil. He's dead now. The agathions are done evacuating the people the old version was torturing but there hasn't been enough time to replace all the devil-themed imagery with cats yet. What's it like where you're from?"

Blink blink. 

"...We have lots of horrifying problems nobody can solve and the Church is trying to take the edge off. One of them is that we do have a god Whose name translates as Asmodeus but we're pretending very hard that we don't. I don't suppose you have any way to contact whoever made You like this? I might have a job for them."

She is not believing that someone made an actually allied god out of an aspect of the Prince of Darkness but she could possibly be persuaded to hope they made something less bad, really the bar is, ha, in Hell there.

"If I had a way to do that I would have done it already. I'm the second god this happened to and I'm told that the first one used to be about things much more pleasant than pain and darkness. The Church of Whom, exactly?"

...

Probably Asmodeus could in fact predict and fake this but it's not at all His style and there are far deeper reasons not to expect it. 

Is there seriously an allied ex-Evil cat-god.

She's not complaining, obviously, just, see this is why theology is so fucking useless.

She does not - quite have the same sort of sense as the gods of the Covenant. But still. 

"The Five Gods. Sirenna, goddess of liberty and battle; Pelor, sun-god of justice; Mystra, moon-goddess of compassion and knowledge; Aphrodite, goddess of love and sex and beauty and storms; Moradin, god of wealth and fair trade. We were not expecting to find Anyone like You and I am profoundly grateful that we did. ...May I ask what Your domain is."

"Freedom! And cats!"

"I should probably, like, do something the old me couldn't do or something, because security mindset. I do hereby swear on My Law, not that I have any Law or something, that the moon is made of cheese, dogs are better than cats, and squares are round. What are their respective alignments?"

Not Asmodeus, then. 

Ah. One of those theories. ...Is that actually true around here. 

"The Good. God, the summum bonum, Heaven. That's the actual answer. ...Under the discredited Palenian model, They would all be Lawful. Under the even less sensible double-axis model, Chaotic Good, Lawful Good, Neutral Good, Chaotic Good, Lawful Good or controversially Lawful Neutral."

"This place runs on the double-axis model. It's stupid, I know, I have informed Pharasma of My opinion of it and She doesn't care. You are welcome to try, I doubt you'll get any further than I did. Do you have a Pharasma-like authority I can attempt to convince that I'm the real Asmodeus and He's sitting on My stuff? It worked last time!"

...All right, congratulations on asking a question that might literally be too eldritch for her, that takes effort even for a god. 

She is going to hold off on talking to Pharasma until she knows more, but noted. 

"Can Pharasma overthrow gods so easily? If we did I would happily introduce You. ...I am not sure what Your presence in my world would do to Him but hopefully nothing pleasant. So You would be... Chaotic Good?"

"She's the first one, at least here, She made this universe and can beat basically anything in it. She also almost never does things. I don't think She'll care about Someone who isn't even in Her Creation. Yup, I'm Chaotic Good, we have gods from all nine boxes here. Have all five of yours always been gods or did any of them ascend? The main ascended one here, a human archmage who became the Lawful Neutral god of civilizational progress, got killed about a hundred years ago, but there's still a bunch of them left. I'm happy to attempt to kill Him but godwars tend to cause extreme weather and the fight where that one was killed caused the deaths of like a third of the population of the planet where it happened."

That also explains some things. 

"...Where the gods came from is a complicated question. I don't know any of them to have been mortals, but there was... we call it the Theomachy, long ago, and it was extremely destructive but not only on a physical level. Anyway, that's where the Covenant came from, how we came to know the gods. It's not clear if that was an agreement or a change in Their nature or just a revelation or what. Lots of things about the gods aren't clear, it's frustrating, and the only thing worse is finding out, You wouldn't believe the rate we get through theologians. And I don't know that the Powers Below can be killed, at least not before the eschaton, the reunion of God. I don't know what killing Them would even mean. But we can make Their lives a lot harder. ...Should I try raising this... god Who managed to get killed somehow."

"The spells we have for raising people from the dead only work if they're in an afterlife. Gods, like outsiders, don't go to afterlives when they die. If your method works on gods that would be great, that one's name was Aroden. What....happens to your theologicians? There's a lot of things we're forbidden by treaty to tell mortals but there's nothing bad that happens if they try to find out, we're just not allowed to tell them."

"I don't know many details just in case I'd be in danger. Sometimes I wonder if the gods can't help us with the answers because They have in Their vast wisdom decided They'd rather not know. But as an example, recently there was one who came up with some sort of novel proof about the nature of reason during the new moon, flayed her own skull under mysterious circumstances. Another one, some kind of theory on divine pacts and the nature of oaths, killed himself so he wouldn't break holy law or something. Another one, working on the logical necessity of God, somehow ended up summoning devils. We do try to warn people."

"...An afterlife, what? Already? That... sounds important, but no, that's... that's not necessary." She's taken most of this with a straight face, but she does look stunned now. "Resurrection just - enacts a little of divinity, the same way they came to be in the first place, a promise of Heaven to come - all right, well. True Resurrection."

He remembers dying. He doesn't feel dead. What?

"Hi! Welcome back to being alive! It's great, I know. Asmodeus is dead, the old one, I'm also named Asmodeus, and apparently there's a third one, it's hard to keep track. You're divine realm in Axis is kinda deserted now, except for Milani, you should maybe go there and talk to and/or forgive Her for killing You. In Her defense breaking prophecy on the Cage might have been enough to eventually fix Hell even if I hadn't showed up. I can turn you into a catboy if you want to be one, Nethys says you 'already are one a lot of the time' whatever that means."

"I think I'll be fine without that." She what. Okay, He can orient fine there and being in Nessus is weird.

"Anyway, there's a bunch of more Good or Neutral-but-fine gods that are dead. Like Acavna, and Amaznen, and Tsukiyo, and Shizuru, who went catatonic when He died and Him being resurrected might be enough to get Her back?" They can make a no-longer-dead-gods assembly line!

"And yes, we have afterlives. Nine of them, one per alignment, except some special cases, people who die go to whichever one Pharasma think they were. We're in Nessus, the ninth layer of Hell, the Lawful Evil afterlife, although most people who come here now decide to move to Nirvana, the Neutral Good one, pretty fast. People who are Neutral Evil can choose to go here. Iomedae is working on a plan for the Abyss, the Chaotic Evil one, I think She's working with one of the demon lords."

Well, He's very welcome. Go with God, Aroden.

Right. Another True Resurrection on Tsukiyo, if that maybe gets them two for the price of one, and then she'll hold off and wait for the assembly line, whatever that is. 

"Thank You for explaining, I do truly appreciate it." Wondering about how in God's Name all this can possibly work can wait a moment even though she is baffled and intensely curious. There are dead gods and active afterlives in which she might just possibly be able to make an actual difference, not the ineffable spiritual condition of privation of God and the depredations of the Powers Below which are the domain of the kingdom to come to repair, not some monstrous pit, places she can potentially help right now. If there was ever a time to orient and act at once, it's now.

 "The Abyss - anything to do with that god of pain and darkness?"

Iomedae - sounds ever so slightly eerily familiar. Working with demon lords... There was supposedly that one time ever they successfully converted a demon. Supposedly. 

Well, it's worth a try, anyway. Possibly prayer works the same way. 

Iomedae? Status of Abyss plan? 

Asmodeus, this mortal isn't going to do things on Golarion or other planets that cost budget to affect, right? At least not without it counting as Someone's agent?

Yeah, being in Nessus means I could have told her anything and unlike you Lawful types I can't make legible that I didn't.