"He likes tragedies.

We'd been told he was going to take up reading books like a normal person."

"We could describe Osirion and our world, and you could help us determine if it sounds right?"

"I can."

"This is the Material Plane. It's very big; it encompasses all the stars and all their worlds, in theory, though we don't know if they have the same gods and we know that they don't go to the same afterlives. Most of the planets around this sun have life on them; Golarion, this one, has the most individuals, the most races, and the most civilizations, as far as we know. We have humans and elves and dwarves and halflings and orcs and drow and kobolds and goblins and ratfolk and catfolk and gnolls and various hybrids of most of these races. Osirion is a very old country, with nearly eight thousand years of history, dating all the way back to shortly after Earthfall, when asteroids destroyed the earliest intelligent civilizations on this planet and gave way to new ones."

"...hm. If it's an Eru project it's a very different one but I can't guarantee unshared authorship based on that. Afterlives sound important, your father mentioned you just wear out and die for no good reason -?"

"Various reasons are given. We could imagine you might not find any of them good. When people die, they go to Pharasma for judgment, and then to an afterlife that suits the traits they displayed in life. Cruel people get cruel afterlives. Good people get pleasant afterlives. Most people get distinctly mediocre afterlives, though if they're law-abiding they get Axis which is a safe, pleasant and meaningful place. 

In some of the afterlives there's no particular risk of further harm; in some you near-inevitably die. If you die in an afterlife you are, as far as we know, gone."

"This could absolutely be Eru and I am very put out with him if it is."

"It has some drawbacks, as an arrangement."

"There are fifteen Valar with various specializations one of whom, Melkor, is evil but individually stronger than any other single Vala. He terrorized Quendi on Endorë until the Valar noticed that Eru had put us there without warning them about the timing - they were expecting us eventually, just not then - and took Quendi who agreed to settle on Valinor there, and also imprisoned Melkor. Eru would have had everyone believe that Melkor just sort of did all the things that he did on his own unexpectedly but Eru was omniscient, not that this means it would be safe to later parole Melkor as had been the original plan."

"Around a third of our gods are evil. They and the good ones worked together to prevent the destruction of the universe, and we think the state of the afterlife is something of a compromise between them."

"...if this is an Eru project I would expect the detente to be unstable, although I wouldn't actually bet heavily against the side of good in the instability, I'd just expect getting to the end to be really rough. However, it's possible that my having appeared here is a good sign for heading off any plot you were due for."

"It doesn't look unstable on short time scales? I wouldn't bet on another eight thousand years but I'd be pretty surprised if anything changed in my lifetime."

"I certainly couldn't place the destabilization very precisely in time. I don't know how long it takes your people to die for no good reason?"

"Around a hundred years."

"How long are your years?"

"The translation spell should be mapping to a close concept, for you, though if you've got several planets I don't know which planet's year it'd map to. A year has 380 days. It takes about twenty years for a child to reach maturity. It takes less than a year for a pregnancy to gestate."

"...about like an Endorë year and you mature about like orcs, then. Oh no."

"Hmm?"

"You're just all so young, and dying, and this is an emergency, is there any local way you could potentially contact the Valar so they can help - I was trying to orient myself a bit more but -"

"There are ways to contact gods, we could check if they work on your gods. You're sure they'd take it well?"

"Yes, they'll want to help, they'll need to know more but all of them together can be more efficient about it than just me."

"We will consult Abadar for advice on this."

"Thank you."

"That should take about ten minutes."

And he leaves.

"What exactly are you imagining that your gods can do?"