@Boney How about quiet approval/support/understanding from the Colleges for the spread of Ranald among their members? Or at least, an end to any ongoing suppression of His faith? Something like:
[]"Every time we reach for magic, when we go to battle or try to create a new spell, we are gambling. With our lives, souls, and the fates of those around us. The Elves say that not claiming ground for a God of a Pantheon is ceding that same space to malevolent forces. This, everything in that book? Its beginning comes and is only possible from a series of events I cannot repeat and would not like to try. I am mostly sure was a lucky accident." you tell them, intertwining your fingers before you to create a bunch of innocuous Xs.
-[]"Thus, my request: Remember us. For all that most of my fellows prefer to work unseen, our work mostly unappreciated by its very hidden nature, unknown... it is not because we want to avoid
positive attention. It's only that we've long since grown used to avoiding negative ones. So rarely does one us get to freely stand in the open, in sight. By chance or fortune, from my first posting, I was granted the onus and priviledge of serving in the open. So I have served, so I will serve. Till fell circumstance, or Ulgu itself makes you forget me. So if we cannot be remembered as individuals, remember us as a whole: the Gamblers, the Hidden Blades, Protectors and Secret Keepers. We lived, we died, clad in grey and other colors. Even if you never knew all our works, we changed your lives. Hopefully, for the better."
It's ambigous enough that for someone unfamiliar with Ranald, Mat could just be talking about the Grey Order, hinting at all the things their Magisters Vigilant have done quietly in the background. And throwing some of the credit for her works on Ranald should help them wrap their brains about the bricks she is dropping on them.
"Oh, she's not just a crazy impossible in-need of demon checking, unnaturally lucky Lady Magister. She's a Divinely Inspired Lucky Lady Magister."
I don't know how to best frame it. An introduction between Ranald and the Colledges? "Hey, this is my annoying friend. But as annoying as he is, he's a good friend, and I think he'd be a good friend for you too, if you were good friends to him too. Look at this cool thing I found/have/figured out, with what I suppect is his help. Because he is annoying that way, and won't admit helping. Want to be friends?" is the playground, gradeschool level of message I'd like to convey, as an offer/bragging, but I'm not sure how to put that into "high level intercolledge/inter-Empire institutions Collegiate/Informal Cult" speak.
Which, presumably, Mathilde actually speaks.
