"...Oh, come on now, that's boring more speciation-alike or bust - but.  If we can make the 'Elves' dragons...I'd be for it; dragons are traditional.  Erm.  They can shapeshift, too.  Can't forget to have that."

"Not dragons, please.

"Maybe something like... unicorns?  Birds?"

"...y'know, Valdemaran unicorns of a sort would be interesting...Does Elf-ness have to be heritable?"

“Yes, maybe it’s magically contagious somehow to people who’re young enough!”

Pff.  "I was thinking it's more - Elf-status is, hm, alignment with a powerful Spirit or something, such that you become - More Powerful but also - Having A Specific Duty before your other obligations?"

Lila nods thoughtfully, trying to imagine what that might look like.

"Good idea - and I think I could get that through without its counting as a 'race', so you could have both if you wanted?  And more than one of those alignments."

She nods.  "Sounds good to me!  What do we want Elves to be like, if we still want Elves, Lila?"

"Ooh...  Wings and... something visibly weird about the face, but not unpleasant?  And something with the hair..."  She twirls her own hair a moment.  "Maybe they can move it by itself?  And it's a weird color, maybe."

"You'll all have strange colors of hair," the angel says with a smile, "but Elven hair can definitely be weirder than that even."

"...maybe we should have the blue alien space goats just directly pasted in as our Elves; they've certainly got fancy hair...well it's not exactly hair very much, but, like, filling the hairlike space even though it's a lot more like - tendrils...hmm...I'm not sure I want wings to be a Specifically Elf thing, really?"

"You want... wings to be a more magic thing than an elf thing?"

"A - like, I see no reason the way this world works doesn't support - bird-people and cat-people and all sorts of other people that have kind of not-really-human-but-still-humanoid bodies -"

"Yes!  Let's have that instead of just one sort of Elves!"

"If anything I'm tempted to have 'Elves' qua the CYOA - as distinct from elves qua pointy-eared humans - be this sort of...Nether-touched Destined For Great And Terrible Things type, maybe with a little bit of ability to have their own rules they carry around.  Sort of.  Not a thing they're really in charge of, but like...in really fateful moments they can argue with the universe and win, y'know?  And they have cool glowy eyes."

She's distracted from the strange reference to a "CYOA" by the idea.

"Ooh, a sort of alignment that's meta-aligned, and able to argue with the universe on your own cause with all the force of magic behind you...

"And of course as the protagonists, we'll be Elves - would we even know that necessarily?  Well, yeah, the eyes."

"I suppose we could be Elves, yeah.  Seems fair."

The angel (who does recognize what a "CYOA" is, and thinks it's a fair description of what the Will has set up here) nods and flips back one more page.

"All right then, next up is your hair color."

Half-transparent images of hime-cut hair in the respective colors start floating in the air.

"By the magic that we'll place in Villarosa, hair color will actually be associated with personality here - and, Alicia, I think you'll find the associations familiar.

"Blonde hair is associated with being rich and pretty.

"Red hair means you're vibrant, fiery, passionate, and filled with powerful emotions - and also a little physically stronger and more potential as a warrior.

"Silver hair means you're a bit weaker and smarter, and more creativity or magical potential.

"Brunette hair means you're... more common.  More down-to-earth, less assertive, less proactive.

"And then other more unusual colors - or rainbows of colors - will..."  She purses her lips.  "Drag more of what you might know as 'anime tropes' into Villarosa.  I assume that's because the other universe design teams don't like working with rainbow hair."

"Silver," she instantly says.

"Twinsies!  Silver as well please."

"Two silver-haired hime cuts, coming right up."  She snaps her fingers, and the other images disappear.

"Last up, tech level.  That's separate from magic level, even though some people would call technology and magic the same thing...  Anyway...  Actual Pre-Modern is ruled out for a high-magic world, so the choices are Faux-Medieval - that's what your world is, Lila -, Early Modern, Industrial, Steampunk, Contemporary - that's contemporary for you, Alicia - Cyberpunk, and Space Opera."

More pictures appear around the walls:  a knight outside a tavern, a group of travelers trekking alongside a wagon, a steam engine with something that looks like a Difference Engine, a skyscraper, some sort of cyborg, and a spaceship.

"I don't mind where my world was... Alicia?  You know this better than me?"

"I do, yeah...Hmm..."

"I have to admit that I'm half-tempted to ask if we could - sort of schmear out a bunch of genres?  And then paint most of them magic.  But it seems like that might be a pain to worldbuild, let alone how it'd be a lot for the world builders.  On the other hand if they want to go full Spelljammer or Pathfinder-Starfinder-crossover...I probably have some ideas for that!"

"Huh?"