the badger, the witch, and the wardrobe
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"Efficiency is a blessing when conducting meetings. As you might imagine, a man in my position wears many metaphorical hats."

"I'm the reigning prince of Osirion. I'm the only ninth level caster in a thousand miles. I am the chief executive of nineteen local and transplanar banks. And I am, of course, the high priest of Abadar on Golarion."

"It is in that capacity you have come to my attention, as Abadar used some of his very limited intervention budget to notify me of your existence."

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"That's an interesting choice, since I was probably going to meet with his church anyway. I was told that they'd potentially be interested in providing banking services in my plane of origin."

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"Prophecy has regrettably ceased functioning, so he might not have known, and either way, pointing out trading opportunities is fortunately one of Abadar's discounted interventions. I should not worry about His budget."

"It is true that we do frequently provide true banking services as part of a religious trade to Lawfully trading countries.

I would be quite interested in hearing about your home plane or planet, and what you think we might have to offer one another"

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"I originate from Earth. My region is stabilized by the false belief held by most humans on Earth that magic mostly does not exist. Because of this, I advise acting with discretion on Earth. I mostly live in a demiplane."

"Like Golarion, our region is threatened by entities which I suspect would locally be called Dark Tapestry entities. Interacting with them is bad and they should be avoided or killed on sight. We don't have a Pharasma and incursions aren't rare. I personally have defense obligations, and am obligated to pass on these warnings under some circumstances."

"Onto nicer things: We have different magic, and also nonmagical technology you don't have. People on Earth don't travel by horse, much. Moderately wealthy humans tend to have carriages powered by petroleum derivatives or stored lightning. Less expensive than that are two-wheeled vehicles, powered by the rider, which are more energy-efficient than walking on a smooth enough road. A lot of people have small machines that run on stored lightning with a range of capabilities – emitting some light and sound, sending messages to other humans with the machines, storing representations of books and songs, performing calculations, sometimes recording images of their surroundings. I have one which I brought, but I altered it to not function without my personal magic, so I can't demonstrate it to you at this time. We've automated the spinning and weaving of cloth. I have access to instructions for many of these things and can telekinetically manipulate metal to produce the ones which are made of metal. There's a lot of other things in this genre."

"I don't know what your highest value exports will be. I do suspect that truth magic would be popular. The best we can manage is faerie contracts. A lot of people don't want to sign faerie contracts and most witches and faeries with the capability to produce them don't want to work as notaries."

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"I should warn you that there is a desired technological growth curve that the Divine Consensus is aiming at for this planet in particular, due to its unfortunate inhabitant- most other planets are not as dangerous as this. Abadar used to be paid by the god Aroden- who represented technological development- to attempt to bend this curve upward, but this is not presently the case."

The Ruby Prince flutters their fingers. . 

"Despite this, If you have arrived from a world with higher technology- through some mechanism of your own that the gods were not aware of- the gods will likely not stop you introducing technology that you are able to introduce personally, using your own resources."

"However, if we could find sufficiently valuable nontechnological goods-" the Ruby Prince twinkles. "raw materials, for instance- it would be worth it for me to cast Gate, at least for the initial market price equalization. [Gate] provides a a twenty-foot diameter window into your world, that would last for only a minute and a bit. It is not clear to me how much goods could be transported by your vehicles during such a time. I would then sell those resources on the open market, and pay you a percentage as a finder's fee, making those your resources."

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"Inhabitant? And I think we could set something up, I have ongoing communications. What goods would you say are the highest value per unit volume? Would you be interested in an exchange of visitors? Would it be possible for me to commission one for returning home in a few months?"

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"There is a Tapestry God imprisoned inside the planet. The gods are not keen to have massive petards (or wishsplosions) going off on the surface.

For goods with high value per unit volume- djezet, horacalcum, spellsilver, diamonds, inubrix, mithril, powdered diamonds, gold, black onyx, siccatite, souls (buying and selling them counts as evil, human blood (doesn't). Probably most demand for spellsilver and powdered diamonds. 

Exchange of visitors- for what purpose? 

Commissioning a gate to return home would be absolutely possible. It would be expensive."

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