(The angel notices his discomfort and spins the illusions so as to show their backs, which don't look so tellingly similar.) 

"Yes; that's one of the perks you can choose.  Perks do need to be counterbalanced by flaws.  If you choose Elaborate hair, you can get it for free... except that you do need to wear a hairdo that takes a long while to maintain."

"So the default, even if I have the "Princess" background, is that I don't have any maids?" Maybe princesses are different in other universes and Lac is the one with weird assumptions.

"Oh - I'm sure you will, maybe a personal maid assigned to you as well as the maids at the school.  It is, after all, a school for the nobility.  But choosing a Maid here means that you'll get a maid who'll be almost unquestioningly loyal to you and have some useful skills to help with your story-relevant schemes."

"That sounds incredibly useful." And he's uncomfortable with a personality alteration if it's not Sarenrae offering it. "Put me down for the maid hairstyle for now. Elaborate."

"Yes, it is useful!"  Though Silk Hiding Steel and Ohohoho are, too.  Admittedly, she doesn't think Lac will be interested in using Ohohoho to even half its real potential.

"Next up is your hair color."

She makes the illusions look like herself this time, with a few touches to look more human.

"Blond, which... might be associated with fun, sometimes?  Red, which means you're more full of vibrancy, passion, and emotion; and also a little stronger as a warrior.  Silver, which means you're a little physically weaker and smarter, and a little more creativity and potential at magic... assuming you choose you'll have magic in your world, but I'm guessing you will.  Brunette, which means you're a little less assertive and proactive, but more down-to-earth; or rainbow, which means... hmm... the world will be influenced by a set of tropes I'm afraid you haven't heard of, but to give you an idea of the genre, it'll include that hair color and style will be more linked with personality for everyone in Villarosa."

He still doesn't like the personality alteration component, but being smarter and better at magic sounds wonderful. "Silver."

"And then... what species do you want to be?  And what about everyone else?

"The worldbuilding team calls the standard options 'Human' and 'Elf,' but what they really mean is 'normal like most other people in Villarosa,' or 'special in a good way'.  In case you're curious, that's because, in all the universes we've looked at, the most common species really is - for some reason - humans!  You're not a majority, but you're much more common than any one other species.

"You can say everyone's human, or everyone's orcs, or design your own species, or have whatever mix you want."

Humans being the most common is honestly bizarre. He used to think the realms outside Pharasma's Creation were full of entities that were somehow both formless and mostly made of tentacles! Although he did stop thinking about the Far Realms after his teacher screamed that he was an idiot who would have his dreams invaded by a soul-eating abomination. (He mostly stopped thinking about the Far Realms. Come to think of it, was his ill-advised childhood research somehow the reason he ended up in this situation?)

"I'd be interested in there being multiple species? Golarion has a lot and I think this is a Good thing, except for the existence of species that are almost always evil." Like orcs. Why would anyone want everyone to be an orc, that sounds insane. Maybe she means something else by "orc," the same way she means something else by "elf."

"For myself, I want to be an elf." Why turn down being "special in a good way?" Especially if he can decide what that means.

(There are surprisingly many different sorts of tentacle entities in the different worlds!  And non-tentacled entities!  Humans being the most common doesn't mean that picking a random person or world is particularly likely to get a human.  But they're still the modal species.)

"Certainly!  Which species do you want in the world?  And in the Kingdom of Villarosa?  I can't give you a full list, but if you tell me what sort of species you're looking for, I can give you some more inspiration...?  Or you can always leave details up to the Worldbuilding Team if you want, or go through the rest of the list and then fill this in?"

There's no way he's leaving details up to the worldbuilding team when they actually matter for people's quality of life. What species you are matters for your quality of life.

"Golarion had merfolk, metallic dragons, dwarves, gnomes... I'd want to think a lot about this, and aim for creating very different kinds of people that can still get along with each other. Maybe they could prefer different environments so there isn't a basis for conflict. But we can do the rest of the worldbuilding after we decide on the story, maybe? I want to get pretty in-depth with it. Does the Kingdom of Villarosa have to be a microcosm of the rest of the world, or can it be very different?"

"Yes, it can absolutely be different!  And people usually do make it different - sometimes better governed, less riven by dissent, more advanced in magic, or other ways...  Sometimes it's more like the place they come from, though do remember that you'll be growing up in Villarosa so you'll feel used to it even after you get your memories back!

"Putting different species in different environments is often a good idea... but sometimes one or two of them come to the Villarosa Royal Academy anyway.

"But yes, we can come back to this afterwards, if you want?"

Make Villarosa better governed than the rest of the world? He was thinking it could be a sacrificial country to appease the story-outsiders, so he could make the rest of the world/universe (how big is he allowed to make it?) a paradise with a free hand

"Works for me."

The Angel catches that he's thinking about doing something with Villarosa very different from what she mentioned... and she's curious what.  But she can wait a bit longer.

"The next questions are about Villarosa and the rest of the world, actually."

She runs her finger down the lines of her book.

"First, the level of nonmagical technology.  I'm afraid you might not have heard of all the options here, and definitely not the names the Worldbuilding Team likes to use, but to translate - there's Idealized Archaic, Muddy Archaic, Dawn of Progress, Industrial, Steampunk, Global Age, Cyberpunk, and Space Opera."

She makes tiny illusions of towns of the different eras as she names them.

"The world you're from, I'm told, is right on the cusp of getting from Idealized Archaic to Dawn of Progress.  I really don't recommend Muddy Archaic; it's got a lot more inconvenience and misery and less magic than you're used to.  Industrial is... founded around large nonmagical machines producing lots of material goods.  Steampunk is something like that too, but more varied and novel things?  I can go into more detail if you want?"

"Yes, please!"

"About which ones?"

"All of them. Though I think you're right that we can rule out Muddy Archaic.."

"I'll try to explain it, but..."  The angel purses her lips at the book for a minute, flipping through a few pages.  "Please do ask questions - the Will of the Multiverse gave me a description, but they wrote it for someone from the Global Age who's never actually seen magic, so I'm almost needing to translate.  I've translated before, but every world is different, so I might be leaving out some points that're important for you."

"To start with Idealized Archaic:  It's got a lot of parts like the world you're from:  kings, nobles, knights, adventurers convenient magic in every village to create water and cure diseases... and probably even more common magic.  I think it's more common for people to be literate, and more common for them to have more food, though I'm not sure there about the world you're from?  Basically, it's rather idealized; ugly things like illiteracy or harsh winters might be happening, but they're rarer and some of the harsh edges are sanded off.

"You can flavor it with aesthetics from any sort of culture, or the Worldbuilding Team can, but that won't really change the technology level.  And making magic more common is another question you can pick from."

"So it's mostly like my world, but but with some flexibility for making it more idealized? Could there just not be diseases or food scarcity? And if everyone were literate, that would be a good thing. Sorry, maybe go over the other options first and then I'll ask about how much things can be customized."

"... Maybe?  If you spun a compelling reason for why there just wouldn't be diseases, I think the Worldbuilding Team would accept it?  Though it might be easier with some of the other options."

"Next up is Muddy Archaic, which includes having little if any magic...  The Will of the Multiverse reminds you that it won't be as bad for you as you might think, especially since you'll be wealthy... but even they have to point out that without the abundant healing magic, there's still a reasonable chance you'll die in childbirth.  Even if you're a princess."