"Thought not." 

"Of course, you could start with Golarion's magic and then...tweak things a bit; perhaps not the underlying spell structures, if you want your current understanding of theory to go on being applicable, but the ways people actually practice your magic are deeply diverse and there's nothing to say that things can't be expressed here in ways that are different still." 

"Ooh. An excellent point--actually, you know what, it is bullshit that witches can't cast Prestidigitation and I would like to fix that." 

The angel makes a note of that. "Can do." 

"And...can I design my own patron?"

"I don't see why not. Although, fair warning, if at any point you decide to dump 'Magical Prodigy' I'm going to have to scale back your own personal magical goodies substantially, if you assign yourself anywhere near as many of them as you could."

"Not that I expected to do that anyway but fair enough." 

She drums her fingers some more. 

"...So...gaining circles by doing your spellcasting under pressure, in high-stakes scenarios...that's based on perceived stakes, not actual stakes, right? --Is that the kind of information you have?"

"I have...a lot of information that, if I gave it to you, it would be harder for you to go back to Golarion with it." Because it would come out of Pharasma's intervention budget if she ok'ed hooking up the new world to her Creation while a mortal with that information was super going to come over." 

"If you tell me or if I know it later, because I'm looking at the Unprepared flaw and I'm wondering if I could set things up so things happen to me that are, like, objectively dangerous, but for 'story' reasons, or for reasons I set up ahead of time to go through by normal causal means, I'm definitely not going to actually die of them, and if I don't know that they're secretly safe, or at least safer, could I still get the full benefit of doing reckless shit."

The angel cocks her head thoughtfully. "If you can set things up like that, will you definitely take Unprepared?"

"Yeah. Sorry, it's not that I want to forget you or anything, but--"

The angel waves a hand. "It's fine. I help a lot of people this way; you're far from the only one to take Unprepared, even if most of them just do it because they want another perk. And, you know, it's not like we're going to meet up again later for asymmetrical remembering to matter."

"I mean, I'm sorry about that too! It seems lonely!" 

"Oh, I'm not...actually the same as humans, psychologically. Or elves, or orcs--I don't get bored, and I don't get lonely, and I don't miss people the way humans do--I remember past clients fondly, but it doesn't hurt that I won't see them again, and it doesn't hurt that some of them forget me, and I won't get sick of someone even if they stick me here in this time-dilated demiplane with them for thousands of years." 

"--This place is time dilated? By how much?"

"A lot. Like, a lot a lot. I never bother memorizing the number because nothing has ever meaningfully happened when I leave. ...Nothing that isn't also deeply time dilated, sometimes I've been surprised by things that had also happened in time dilation."

"Huh." The demon that killed her probably hasn't even finished swallowing her remains yet. Morbid to think about. But-- "So, however much time I spend here doing design work, it isn't going to meaningfully funge against how much time Mom has to spend until I get back?"

"Not in any meaningful way!"

"Good to know. Anyway, yes, I am one hundred percent prepared to commit to taking Unprepared if this will help me get stronger." 

"Okay." She nods. "It will work, then; you're right about how circling up works. Although it doesn't just work that way for casters; martials, burglars, archers; everybody from Golarion works that way." 

"--Only from Golarion?"

"It's a relatively normal way for things to work in Pharasma's Creation, but even there there are planets where godagreements have things working differently; outside of Pharasma's Creation it's actually relatively niche." 

"Huh. Okay. ...Expand on godagreements?"

"Gods have the ability to communicate much more credibly and densely than mortals do, and direct godconflicts are insanely destructive, so most parts of Creation are under the jurisdiction of one or another set of treaties between various gods dictating what kinds of intervention are acceptable. That's why you don't get Good gods intervening to fix things directly more often than you do. The church of Iomedae in Lastwall knows more about divine budget constraints than most humans on Golarion, actually, Iomedaeans are all about doing things efficiently."

"...Huh. And the Age of Glory is allowed by these treaties?"