"Uh, order of magnitude for each."

"In Galt – hmm, maybe a half-dozen I'd expect to run into regularly, many more I wouldn't be suprised by. Golarion could be tens or hundreds. Most of the planets in our star system are inhabited, I think? If you count the whole prime material all the inner and outer planes, my best guess is many millions."  

"...golly. Who're the half-dozen? You look like a human, are you?"

"I'm human, and humans are by far the most common species around here. We've also got halflings and half-elves – there are full elves, but they don't leave their forest much – and tieflings.  Sometimes dwarves and half-orcs and gnomes. At the moment we've got a bit of a hill giant problem but that's not normal, they're migratory. How many sapient species are there where you come from?" 

"Uh. Four. If we even count as separate, which we are in some practical respects but not like, psychologically."

"Huh. Just, what, humans and the three kinds of daeva? That's bizarre. If someone's going to go to all the trouble of creating a sapient species I don't see why they'd do it just once, or once per plane or however that works." 

"Nobody has claimed credit for creating any of us."

"Maybe they're shy." 

"I can't rule it out, though humans in particular do appear to have evolved."

"I'm not sure I'm getting the right sense of that. In my language, evolution means unrolling, or opening out – " 

"Oh, my bad. It means sort of the same thing as what people do when they breed dogs or wheat or whatever, except the environment, broadly construed, is doing the breeding, for whatever traits happen to work well in it, again broadly construed. Over millions of years."

"Why would the environment be breeding for anything in particular? Is that how all species where you're from came to be, or just humans? Do you know why life exists at all? I'd naively expect that a process like that would get lots of different sapients, like we have – dwarves are better suited for living underground, and merfolk are better suited for living underwater, and orcs are better suited for living in cold harsh places, why do you think it isn't like that?" 

"The environment isn't doing it on purpose, but if the squirrels in a certain valley benefit a lot from being able to jump and the squirrels in a different area benefit from being able to dig then after a long time you have two different sorts of squirrels. All the species. Yes but it's more complicated than I can trivially put into metaphor for you. Humans are actually very able to live in most places - not, admittedly, underwater, but they haven't existed as a species long enough for huge changes like that to achieve fixation in any subpopulations. There are human ethnicities but nothing that rises to the level of species. Some other species on Earth are pretty smart but don't happen to have cottoned on to a strategy of runaway selection for intelligence."

This doesn't make a whole lot of sense and one day twenty or thirty thousand years from now Hell will be destroyed and Élie will have time to think about it. 

"I have many many more questions but I don't think figuring this out is a high priority right now. Unless you know how to do evolution very quickly so we can make all our children clever enough to be wizards – though maybe we don't need wizards as much, with daeva – "

"Uh, no, I don't know how to do that very quickly."

"I wonder if Golarion humans can evolve, if we didn't come to be through evolution in the first place. It'd be awfully sad if we can't, it would be good for so many things if everyone could learn how to use magic. Do you think there's a way to test it? It's possible we did evolve and one or more gods are just lying about it – 

Sorry. Priorities." 

"I could investigate local human ancestry by conjuration, but, yes, priorities. What's important about this memoir you recommended, may I ask?"

"Oh, the de Montserrat? It's actually really extraordinarily boring. He was a courtier towards the end of Abrogail's reign and you'd think it'd be full of salacious details about orgies with devils, but it's all grown adults trying to have each other executed over what titles they're allowed to use. I'd only recommend bothering it if you're still on the fence about Asmodeanism, really, but if you are it's a terribly strong argument against. It's just the most petty, stupid, pointless people in the world devoting all the effort of their lives to making each other miserable, and that's what you get if you win. That's the best a good Asmodean can hope for, a few decades of that, and then you go to Hell. I had to read it in school when I was ten and I'm not sure it isn't why I'm a revolutionary." 

"...I haven't seen anything appealing in the philosophy at all, so maybe I'll save the time." Imperial Betrayal?

Imperial Betrayal is a series of fiery essays about the evils of the Thrune Empire! And the institution of monarchy! And the worship of non-ascended gods! Organized religion in general, really! All hierarchical relationships, in fact! Parenting may be ethically permissible but it's on thin ice. 

"I hope it does not come as a disappointment to you that I am not quite this radical in most practical situations."

"I hope it's clear I didn't give you this list with the expectation you'd agree with everything on it." 

Élie should probably figure out what the apsel does consider unacceptably radical. Maybe he'll vanish in disgust when he learns that Galt also has the death penalty. 

"Most Galtans are fine with religion and childbearing and monarchs, even. What sort of government does your home have?"

"Oh, I grew up in a representative democracy when I was alive but apsels by and large live in an anarchy."

"I want to go the Maelstrom when I die." 

"I regret to inform you that there is some chance you are now hooked into my afterlife system instead. Normally it catches everyone who was born on Earth but summoners are the ones who turn into daeva and you're now a summoner."