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Ever since I read Mythic Realms I have been wondering about this. Considering she started as a PALADIN of Aroden it seems like it should be possible. Maybe if you destroyed her canopic jars AND killed Geb (who should be more powerful BTW is he is her boss) it would do it? I imagine Iomedae (who was also also a follower of Aroden) would be eager to help.
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Whether it is possible or not is beyond any rules, it is in the realm of storytelling and how/if it could be done is entirely up to a gamemaster or Paizo if they want to release a product with that as the story (unlikely).
One would suppose that either Iomedae can't or won't intervene, or she would have.
(Not to mention that it all happened when Aroden was still alive and kicking and obviously couldn't prevent or fix it for some reason.)
I'd involve Tar-Baphon and Herald's Fall. Settling old grudges, retaking her pride, washing away the humiliation. But that already means bringing her to the point where she cares enough again.
The obvious starting point would be Geb, as she's been thoroughly molded by him. Not necessarily destroying him, but weakening his hold over her somehow.
Beyond that, she was and is once more a demi-goddess. And an undead.
Not gonna be easy.
I'm pretty sure I read from one of the writers or developers that Arazni will be appearing as an NPC in "The Tyrant's Grasp." I'm guessing that she'll have a major part to play.
Whether that means she can be redeemed or not is another question.
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If a DM is going to allow a redeemed Arazni in the game, he or she will also have to figure out where a newly returned LG Arazni would fit in the Setting.
She's not going to replace Iomedae, is she?
There's also already a Ragathiel, so no becoming that kind of Paladin-god/Hero.
Maybe something like Ilmater from FR?!? I could see Arazni filling that void for Pathfinder.
....Anyway, once a DM has a place for a redeemed Arazni, a mantle for her to take in the Post-Aroden, contemporary setting, then one can build a campaign in which the PCs go to do it.
I'd start the campaign at low level, maybe first, and by the time they've built up to high levels fighting undead baddies of Geb and getting into the history of Nex & Geb (maybe a chapter two in Alkenstar), the PCs have a chance to confront Arazni.
Make it so that in order to "defeat" Geb they have to not destroy but rather turn Arazni, redeem her. ....In order to keep a BBEG fight at the end I would say that, once the PCs roleplay the pleas to Arazni to remember her 'true self' -- showing her images of the past and answering her wicked philosophical ripostes and barbs -- Arazni the 'redeeming' Lich goes unconscious or something while a ghost version of evil Arazni (maybe out of her Phylactery) comes out to fight the PCs. When the PCs kill the evil ghost (or other duplicate idea) and the Phylactery, Arazni can awake, ready to take up her LG mantle.
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Ever since I read Mythic Realms I have been wondering about this. Considering she started as a PALADIN of Aroden it seems like it should be possible.
I vaguely remember thinking that Arazni was a knight-crusader, only to be corrected by a developer stating that she'd been a wizard, in life. (Which makes her having an order of knights devoted to her super-interesting, and I'd love to read about some pre-death-of-their-god Knights of Ozem, if they were somehow connected to an order of wizards and / or wizard-priests of Arazni!)
The game kind of lacks a good god of magic, for that matter, and Arazni could fill that niche, in the way that evil gods with the Magic domain, like Asmodeus, do.
I would at first knee-jerk against the idea of forcibly redeeming someone, and assume that one would have to *want* to be redeemed, but since a character can be evil without ever choosing to be evil, or even made evil by various means without ever doing anything evil to justify that, I guess a good alignment should be similarly easy to drag someone into against their will...