"Then don't apologize, you're being very helpful and I really do appreciate it." 

"Thanks. Anyway, Roses of Villarosa takes place with in the Kingdom of Villarosa--has to be a Kingdom, has to be named Villarosa; you have a non-zero amount of wiggle room for things like giving the monarch titles other than 'king' and translating 'Villarosa' into other languages but that wiggle room trades off against other exploits you could try in terms of the patience of relevant other parties in the bureaucracy and the wiggle room here is particularly expensive so I would advise skipping it. 

Yeah that sounds sort of Taldane but she wouldn't rather something that sounded more Hallit at the expense of things that actually matter.

"The choices that have strictly to do with your world, as opposed to your character or the other 'characters' in the story, are your world's magic level and technology level. To be clear, these are factors that vary greatly within Pharasma's creation; the parts of Golarion you're most familiar with stand right on the precipice between 'Idealized Antiquity'* and 'Dawn of Reason',** and its magic level stands right on the cusp between Medium and High. ...Technology levels have a much greater level of gradation than magic levels; magic levels only have None, Low, Medium and High."

*Faux Medieval
**Early Modern

"None? That seems...dire. Deeply, deeply dire."

"Yes, I generally recommend people not choose that; it gets you an extra 'perk' option later on but it is not, not worth it. Some worlds really do just not have any magic, though."

"I'm not sure I understand how that would even work but I'm also...not sure it matters." 

"It's not tremendously important, no. If you were trying to design one, then yes, but," she shrugs. 

"I mean, leaving aside what a bad idea it would be for other reasons, I suspect it would make it a lot harder for me to go home."

"It sure would." You can actually get dimensional travel in a no-magic world with one of the higher technology settings, but based on the notes available to her that would be much less likely for Pharasma to allow anywhere near Golarion. 

"The other tech levels, besides the ones I already mentioned, are 'Awfully Archaic,'* 'Industrial,' 'Marvelous,' 'Steampunk,' 'Space Age,'** 'Cyberpunk,' and 'Space Opera.' Do you want me to go into detail about all of those, or only the ones most likely to not piss off Pharasma."

*Actual Pre-Modern
**Contemporary

"Mmmmight want a brief description of some of the more confusing ones even if they do piss off Pharasma, but by all means start with the ones she's less likely to object to."

"'Awfully Archaic' requires a magic level of Low or None, and I don't recommend it even though Low is a lot better than None, but it's very unlikely to provoke Pharasma so it bears mentioning. It's...well, this isn't a perfect comparison, but it's about where a lot of places on Golarion were at during the late Age of Anguish or early Age of Destiny." 

Yeah that doesn't sound great no.

"'Industrial' is something that's still a few centuries out, at least, from where your planet currently is, but not totally beyond what I expect to be able to explain--Industry is, in essence, the practice of developing tools to perform tasks--such as making other tools--automatically, at scale. Giant looms that are to the looms you know as a spinning wheel is to a distaff, lines of unskilled workers each performing a single step of a craftsman's art over and over again on a thousand different pieces of raw material, furnaces burning tons of coal and filling the skies with smoke..."

"...Is that really centuries away? It sounds pretty Arodenite, and the Age of Glory is scheduled to happen really soon." 

The angel consults her notes. "That's a good point, actually, I'm not sure. It would be centuries away based on normal projected development, but I don't actually have access to the information 'what is Aroden going to do in the Age of Glory.' Not along the specifics of cultural uplift, I mean; obviously he's going to rescue Arazni and kick out Irrisen and Nidal and so forth." 

"Fair enough. I hope whatever he does is good enough for my mom that she'll be okay-ish by the time I get back."

"I wish her luck," the angel says honestly. "Now, 'Marvelous' and 'Steampunk' are both sort of edge cases; I think they can be handled in a way that Pharasma won't particularly object to, but there are also things you could do with them that definitely, definitely would. They're both divergences from the traditional technological progression, insofar as such a thing exists, at about where Golarion is, developmentally speaking, although not exactly. They...hm, they diverge earlier in prerequisite scientific understanding than they do in large-scale social consequences, does that make sense?" 

"I think so." 

"There aren't any really good reference points in your experience to use to explain them, but the best analogy I can find on short notice would be that Marvelous is what happens if people like your mother drive technological progress for an extended period of time, and Steampunk is what happens if gnomes do." 

"...Exciting!"

"Yes, rather. You can see why there are extrapolations of those ideas that Pharasma wouldn't be thrilled about giving access to Rovagug's Cage." 

"...Mm. So it's not just about what Pharasma likes in general, huh?"

"I won't lie, it would probably be easier to convince Pharasma to let us hook this new universe up to Her creation if it weren't for the fact that you're predictably going to go around doing things on your home planet in particular."

Seshka chews on this for a bit. 

"Is there any way to, like, try to make up for that? Like, Pharasma likes...there not being undead, and babies not dying, right? If the Villarosa world has those traits, will that improve anything?"