
Ventnor |

So, see if you can follow my chain of logic.
When souls die, they go to the Boneyard. Pharasma decides, based on the actions a particular soul performed in life, which afterlife they go to. So good souls go to Celestia, evils souls go to the Abyss, and so on. In these afterlives, the souls eventually transform into outsiders aligned with the plane they've been sent to. Good souls become angels/azatas/archons, evil souls become devils/demons/daemons, and so on.
So, in a sense, most outsiders are mortal souls who the natural cycle say must live on their aligned plane now. Would mortal magic that forcibly moves those mortal souls back to the material plane be considered blasphemy? Would a Pharasmin cleric who binds outsiders fall because they are meddling in the flow of souls?

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Once a soul has become an outsider, I'd say her part of the deal is over and she doesn't much care about short-term visits by outsiders to the material plane (save perhaps daemons or other soul-devourers, I get the impression she doesn't like them at all).
Some sort of long-term incursion onto the mortal plane, that specifically interferes with the 'incubation' of souls (such as by preventing mortals from being born, by taking over territory and consuming resources that the outsiders already have an infinite supply of on their home planes) would probably annoy her 'though.
She's neutral, on paper, at least, so, in theory, she wouldn't care one bit about demon or devil or angel or protean or whatever summoning.
But, in practice, she hates some evil sorts, ranging from undead to daemons to sakhil, and goes insane about anyone breaking rules (despite not being even a little bit lawful, on paper), so she's kind of 'soft neutral' at best.

Mavrickindigo |
life and death really isn't about lawful or chaos, really. It's like "oh hey, I take care of these souls, don't mess with my stuff." You can see this in the Salim Ghadafar novels where the titular inquisitor has to question or go after creatures of all alignments to make sure they're not messing on Pharasma's turf. Law and balance often go hand in hand, so they tend to work together with inevitables to make sure things go smoothly, but Pharasma and her agents don't seem to care when they discover Aeons are siphoning chaos out of one reality and injecting it into their own. Not only that, but Pharasma's agents aren't above lying to lawful people to make sure that the soul flow moves smoothly, since Salim omits the fact he's looking for the soul of someone who tried to live forever through Sun Orchid to a Marut when looking for whoever stole it.

Luthorne |
Yeah, stuff like planar binding or planar ally is temporary, so, even if she did care about that kind of thing, I doubt it would be an issue. But I rather suspect she primarily only cares about things interfering with her role in things in judging them. Undead and those who prey on souls before they reach her interfere, but after she's done with them, well...probably not so much.