"- oh. Uh, my culture doesn't... have... a that. No, I meant I could provide my resources in terms of things being materially not worse for the people in Cheliax? Like if they're by default going to starve or something. I also don't have specifications! I just want things to not suck, I'm very vague on what that means with these circumstances and these people."

"That's – comforting. For us, not telling people what you expect of them when you have them in your power is going to seem very, very hostile – maybe just formerly Chelish people, I don't know, I haven't met very many other kinds.

Could you make me some ink and paper? There are a lot of threads I want to follow up on here and I'm having trouble keeping all of them straight."  

Spiral notebook and a ballpoint.

Élie clicks the pen experimentally. Then another time. Then a lot more times. 

"How clever! The ink is kept inside the pen, and – oh, I see, it comes out through that little bearing in the nib, that's wonderful. I'm always spilling my ink over everything." 

"They write really smoothly too, in any direction. Enjoy."

Then in a few minutes Élie will have a list! Parts of it appear to be in code.  

1) Considerations relating to the scope and nature of the apsel's powers

     a) limitations on quantity of matter the apsel can conjure and distances at which they may conjure it

     b) use of matter conjured by apsels as spell reagents and components in -------

     c) ability of the apsel to conjure -----------

     d) can the apsel conjure living beings or reagents derived from living beings? 

     e) the same, as to outsiders 

     f) can the apsel only conjure books, papers, etc. which have been written, or may he create new works entire with adequate specification (i. e. "a list of spells prepared this morning by the              priestess Aspexia Rugatonn, etc etc") 

     g) can bodies conjured by the apsel be used to assist in the raising of the dead?

     h) devices and mechanisms known to the apsel. must these devices exist in physical form elsewhere in the universe to be conjurable? 

     i) may the means which afford the apsel his powers of conjuration be replicated through the conventional use of magic?

     j) the same, as to his invulnerability

     h) in what manner is the apsel constrained by the intent of the summoner?

2) Means by which those powers may be countered or enhanced with magic

     a) if the apsel's conjuration is blocked by --------- or ----------

     b) susceptibility of the apsel to enchantments and involuntary transmutations 

     c) spell resistance of the apsel

     d) if the apsel's native powers depend on one or more mental abilities. if enhancing this ability may render him more capable. 

     e) if means employed by wizards to heighten the potency, duration, and other qualities of their spells may be learned by the apsel

3) Effects of daeva on the society and economy of Earth; implications for Golarion of same

     a) how the end of material scarcity on Earth came about

     b) means by which the goods created by daeva are distributed

     c) means by which the planet is preserved from daeva or summoners with ill intent

     d) how the various peoples of Earth governed themselves, before and after the introduction of summoning. Whether humans are customarily governed by daeva. 

     e) how Golarion in the present day may be compared Earth shortly before the introduction of summoning, particularly with respect to the state of widespread tyranny and ignorance on our               unfortunate planet 

     f) if literacy is necessary to summon

     g) how many humans on Earth are summoners

     h) if only humans are capable of summoning daeva 

     j) likelihood of gods intervening to prevent or enable the summoning of daeva

4) Uses of daeva in warfare

      a) instances of warfare between armies with daeva from the history of Earth

      b) means by which daeva engage in conflict with each other

      c) how humans of Earth have managed to prevent the escalation of such conflict 

5) Interactions between summoning and the ordinary progress of souls to the outer planes 

     a) if daeva-summoners, native to Golarion, become daeva themselves upon their death

     b) if so, if they proceed to the ordinary plane of residence of such daeva or to their own appropriate outer plane

     c) if they may be summoned back to Golarion

     d) if outsiders can summon daeva. if an outsider summons a daeva, do they become a daeva in the event of their destruction? 

6) Additional considerations 

     a) if sapient species on Golarion are created or evolved

     b) what entities if any are responsible for the creation of daeva

     c) if the native planes of daeva may be accessed by ordinary means of inter-planar transport

     d) if daeva have ever before been summoned to Golarion. If not, why not. 

Cam peers over his shoulder. "I have a name. It's Cam. Do you have a name too?"

"Julien Camille Élie Cotonnet. ...Élie's fine." 

"Pleased to make your acquaintance. Do you need exact figures for 1a, or is 'I could make a planet in a few weeks' good enough for going on with?"

"I – that's – oh, that reminds me, I forgot one. Can you create extradimensional spaces?" 

"I have never tried but would bet heavily against."

"Huh. With our kind of magic, creating extradimensional spaces is roughly the same type of thing as creating matter, and making a pocket dimension would be much easier than making a planet. Can you also create small things at planetary distances? Actually – "

He adds to the list: 

1 l) what information is necessary to conjure items in particular locations (coordinates? "so and so's bedroom"? line of sight? do scries work?)

m) can apsels conjure items to other planes? 

"I need a distance and a heading, or, not exactly line of sight but somewhere between that and proprioception, I can land something in my hand behind my back no problem. If the distance and heading is wrong this can and will result in things appearing inside other things. I suspect scries don't work but this is based on the closest technological equivalent to what I am understanding from that word. Uh, live stuff is a yes but with the limit that nothing I make will be very smart - so my bugs are normal, my plants are normal, my dogs will not learn any tricks or even reliably eat on their own, etcetera, might work fine for raising the dead if you're importing the smart from their immaterial soul by magic. Outsiders not sure, might be too magical but I could maybe conjure their material forms as applicable with some materials swapped in. No new works modulo some technological this-and-that which would be a whole new can of worms to explain. I can make things that don't exist if I know what I'm doing and to that end I have some engineering background but I can only get so cute with that. A lot of devices are known to me, though, like a lot a lot. No guess on items i and j. In this particular situation not at all except that you could send me home. Followup on that or should I move to section 2?"

"You can't make magic things? Actually, how would you know if your world doesn't have non-daeva magic?" 

Magic items are 1c on the list, just in case Cam turns out to be evil. Élie doesn't think he can realistically hide that they exist, but at least he doesn't have to suggest it. 

"It might be that I can copy some magic things, but if I make, say, a copy of me, not only will it not be smart, it also won't be indestructible, and if I imagine a magic thing I can't make it show up magic."

"Hmm. Try conjuring an exact replica of my spellbook?"

Spellbook?

Élie looks through it. 

"It's empty! That's what I expected, the book itself is perfectly ordinary but the ink is magical." 

"Huh." Spellbook with the ink replaced by normal nonmagical ink?

Goes through. 

"It worked. ....that opens up a very large number of options."

Élie takes the duplicate book and starts cutting out every page with an inscription and lighting them on fire. It's not like there's anything worth copying, but the idea of someone else looking at his spellbook feels like as much of a violation as looking at his thoughts. 

"...is there a reason you're not just burning the book entire?"

"The spell I'm using only makes a very little flame – like so." He demonstrates. "Besides, if I made too much smoke the landlady would be after me for wasting fuel." 

"Ah." Cam takes the book back and disintegrates it into a pile of papery dust, which he catches in a paper bag and hands to Élie.

"...can you do that to anything?" 

"Pretty much, yeah."