"Perhaps... Tell me more?"

"It should be a fun surprise! I'll say it could add some particular difficulties to my preferred approach, but if I could make it work, then things could turn out really good in the end."

"She'll be all the more determined to defeat you.  But if you want to try it...  I'll be watching you with bated breath!"

He grins. "Rooting for me, I hope?"

"Oh, absolutely!"

That really does help, even if he doesn't think she means it the way he would. Smile.

After a minute's silence, the angel continues.

"A path to becoming a god, and Fate strong enough to pull you toward it regardless of how the story ends... whether in that life or in a reincarnation afterwards.  I'm excited to see this!  And also to see what changes you make to the afterlife situation once you're a god!"

"The world, too! I don't know how much I'd actually change if the worldbuilding team makes a utopia, but even small improvements mean a lot when multiplied over billions or trillions of people. Also, just to make sure, would my divinity be like Golarion gods in that it is empowered by those souls aligned with it, or have some other method of gaining power so that I can still help everyone even as the population grows arbitrarily large?"

"Oh yes, there're many ways for gods to keep being able to help everyone.  They can get power from the universe itself, or their power can build upon itself while the universe expands, or - like you mention - from mortals.  Or other ways; those're just some of the Worldbuilding Team's favorites.

"But, do you really want a utopia?"

??

"What do you mean?"

He's going to be the sole God of a vast and growing paradise, with no intervention budget to worry about. Can things possibly get better than this? He's delaying his reaction because celebration would be unproductive, but this is almost maximally good.

(She's starting to get a few suggestions for the Worldbuilding Team about what other gods to put in Lac's universe.)

"A utopia would be already seemingly perfect, wouldn't it?  And hence, it would be static, unchanging - when you were talking earlier about something much more dynamic."

"We might have different definitions of the word. I just meant 'a really amazing world for the people who live in it.'"

"Oh!  Just, 'amazing'?  Or, amazing in a particular way...?"

"I can think of a lot of different ways! But I don't think I could define the ideal world perfectly on a first pass, which is why I want to become a God so I can fix it later. But a great world should have lots of love, beauty, fun, wisdom, creativity, fulfillment, amazing nature but without immense animal suffering, cultural and ecological variety, many kinds of beings living in peaceful separation or harmony... It should get larger and more populous over time, and stay good over time, and everyone should get a great afterlife."

"Ah yes!  Amazing in all those good ways, like you were talking about before!"

(As opposed to a world amazing in ways that're unpleasant to the people in it.)

"I wouldn't call that a utopia, but - I suppose I can see how you might?  Especially coming from the sort of world you're from..."

"By 'utopia,' do you mean something more static or uniform? Something closer to a single ideal life, repeating itself over and over across space and time without too much variation?"

She nods, her wings fluffing behind her.

"Something like that.  A single pattern, repeated across space and time with everyone's lives fitted to it as an ideal."

"It compares favorably to Hell, but I think we can do better. My intuition is that if people are too similar, then it's more like the same person in multiple bodies than different people, so it's as if the population enjoying paradise were much smaller."

She nods thoughtfully.  "With enough magic to mold people's minds, it could be very much like that...  I remember one Villarosa that ended up something sort of like that, after she picked Off The Rails and then lost at Saving The World."

What insane asshole... What set of goals could that possibly serve?

"Some of your past clients sound like they didn't think things through at all. Or had totally alien preferences, or something."

"Oh, I think more of them were just overly optimistic.  That particular woman certainly was.  And then she realized her mistake after the Swarm captured her Noble Prodigy."

"And killed her? Dominated her?"

"She died in the end, rather than let herself fall into their hands.  Fighting by the Heroine's side, for all they hadn't reconciled a single one of their differences."

That sounds like a good story, he is absolutely not going to say. He will nod and look vaguely impressed. 

"Do you think I'm making any large blunders, given my goals?"

Oh yes, it was a great story.

She's been petitioning the Will of the Multiverse to send someone else into that world before too many generations have passed, or open a gate to another world, for a sequel.