One person does approach her. He has no magical signature, unless Tanya happens to be able to see through his Nondetection, in which case he is positively loaded with magic. He has Tongues, of course, but also Eagle's Splendor and Visualization of the Mind and Bestow Insight and Heroism and Moment of Greatness and Guidance.

He has an elaborate papyrus scroll, and after he makes eye contact with Tanya he begins to pull a spell directly out of the paper with his bare hands, already formed most of the way into the complex shape needed to cast it.

Are the... entities... lined up against the wall animals used in fighting by the losing side, like the lizard, that were captured? Or are they possibly prisoners, i.e. people? Tanya doesn't want to make any assumptions.

Also, what's a Nondetection? Tanya isn't using Divinations, she's just seeing magic, and there sure a lot of powerful spells on that man but she has no idea what any of them do, or that one of them is supposed to be hiding the rest! That's not how you shield magic emissions!

Whatever he's doing with the paper is... concerning... but she already knows they can land a spell on her remotely. Maybe this spell is also related to communications somehow? She'll have to risk it. Her instincts are screaming at her not to do it, but the mark of intelligence and rationality is the ability to adapt and tell your instincts to shut up.

Tanya lets him cast the spell. While powering her shield to the absolute maximum and speeding up her mind a little bit beyond safe limits.

Her shield isn't going to accomplish much, because the target of this spell is him.

(Nazir did briefly consider going hot with Detect Anxieties and Detect Desires, with the theory being that she had let the Scrying land and therefore might not have the Will to match her destructive potential, but ultimately decided against it. He is not the type of adventurer who can smooth over a social faux pas like a recent acquaintance noticing that you've been preemptively reading their mind; if he were he wouldn't have needed the buff stack.)

Cultural Adaptation is not especially likely to work under these circumstances. As the casting focus he's using a slip of paper with the two responses from the Sendings transliterated onto the page, which in principle might qualify as a document authored by a member of the culture he intends to emulate. On the one hand, this is an extraordinarily dubious proposition. On the other hand, he is a sixth-circle cleric with a practical magical education – casting a first-circle spell under less-than-ideal circumstances isn't an impossible ask. And on the mage hand, given how much he's spent on making this go well, it's only a small imposition.

So, does it work?

…you know what, sure. Nazir is now an honorary member of the culture that exists inside the mind of Tanya Degurechaff.

That worked???

— no, casting a spell that targets yourself and then making a face about it suggests that you've accidentally injured yourself and are in need of assistance, he needs to have a normal expression so everyone knows this was the expected outcome.

The spell did nothing visible. Did he contact someone else?

"Hello. Can you understand me?" She knows her speech sounds a little bit odd while her mind is sped up.

"Yes, and if you don't have the ability to make yourself understood regardless of the speaker's language then you are relying on mine."

The words coming out of his mouth are not Germanian. Tanya can make out the isolated sounds without difficulty, but the semantic meaning of his speech lands even while void of syntax.

"Again, your assistance is appreciated. If you claim sole responsibility for the death of the blue dragon Ymohrglas, you are entitled to the full sixteen thousand four hundred gold scarabs of his bounty."

A brief pause.

"Scarabs are one ounce coins made from twenty-two karat gold. We have other currencies in stock but by weight and by value they are mostly made of gold."

....she already knew they had telepathy magic, but this time she can't sense any magic being done to herself!

The alternative is, what, universal translation magic that doesn't even need to know anything about the target language? That's absurd. Besides, she isn't getting translated Germanian, she's getting some weird kind of nonverbal meaning that she didn't know her brain could do! What the fuck!

If everyone (or even anyone) here can affect her mind without her even detecting the spell, she is absolutely defenseless. Tanya will be very, very friendly and nonthreatening towards these people.

Next order of business: the enormous blue lizard was apparently a 'dragon', which the spell kindly informs her is 1) a sapient person 2) enormously powerful compared to humans. ...well, presumably that's compared to non-mage unarmed humans, which, fair enough, but: a person?! She managed to kill someone important in her first five seconds on another world?! 

"I killed.... him, in self-defense. He attacked me first. But if there was a bounty on his head" (who puts out individual bounties in this day and age?) "then I will claim it." That is how much gold? Is gold just cheaper here? "Obviously I can't carry that much in coins; if you don't use higher-denomination banknotes, can I have most of it in a bank draft or equivalent? I'm not familiar with your banking system and I don't have a local bank account yet." Does he in fact realize she's from another world? It's an objectively ridiculous idea, but she doesn't know what his other hypotheses might be for a clearly non-local mage appearing out of nowhere. Maybe he'll clue her in before she has to decide how much to reveal; once she has money she can approach other people (if she can identify someone else telepathic), or at least talk to him in private. But that means she can't introduce herself by her rank yet, so -

She eases back on her mental acceleration (it's not good to keep it up for too long). "Ah, apologies. I am Tanya von Degurechaff."

With his Sense Motive boosted into the stratosphere, Nazir can tell that Tanya von Degurechaff is being completely sincere… unless she's bluffing him over the top, you can never rule that out, but no use dwelling on it unless she trips up and gives the game away. There's something subtly wrong in the way she talks, but it goes away as soon as she introduces herself. Maybe she used a diplomacy spell of her own? He'll have to ask one of his wizards later. Nazir doesn't have Detect Magic going on himself, he didn't prepare it today and he doesn't need to be distracted by looking at auras right now.

Up close she looks like a normal young woman. The clothing is unusual, but that's about it. Disguised? Do azatas and fey have different preferences in methods or form? He wishes he'd thought to ask.

He can also see that she's nervous and trying to hide it. There's a straightforward explanation for this: unlike summoned monsters, called monsters die if they are killed. The fact that she's choosing to compensate by being friendly and nonthreatening is the second-luckiest thing that's happened all day. It shouldn't surprise him that someone so familiar with the banking system would be civilized by default, but you can never be too cautious with these things.

"I am Hej Nazir. Proportionate self-defense is perfectly legal in Osirion. Ymohrglas' heirs and estate may seek damages in court, but the case would be facially ridiculous unless they asserted you tried to kill him in his sleep, and there are tens of witnesses to the fight who will testify otherwise if necessary. You are in no danger here."

Hopefully that will put her at ease.

"The bounty was not on him specifically, it will be paid out of a fund that covers dragons engaging in unlawful behavior. We have several types of financial instrument that are more easily portable than gold, but if your bank cannot be reached you may need to open a local account or accept payment in kind. Banking services are typically free for customers with more than a certain amount of funds deposited; I don't remember the exact threshold but you would qualify. We do also have higher denominations of coinage, but nothing that would reduce the mass of the currency by more than a factor of nine."

Oh, good. ...there's such a general concern of (powerful!) dragons breaking the law that the politicians were moved to pay out private actors who can stop them before the police arrives? Well, it's none of her concern, and neither is whatever the fight was originally about, not really.

Tanya needs advice on banking. How easy is it to open an account while being a literal undocumented alien, even if she shows up with half a ton of gold in hand? How easy or cheap is it to transfer to another country or institution? Who accepts these bank's cheques? What is her legal status (separately from killing a dragon in self-defense), her legal obligations if any (does she pay taxes? ...on the bounty?) and where can she buy information and tutoring?

"May I ask what your role here is? And I would appreciate speaking to you more privately."

"I coordinated and lead the rapid response force you see around you. It's not my primary line of work, but there's a premium on defending high density areas against severe monster attacks and it's a prosocial use of our time. And the pharaoh would lose his job if he didn't pay on time, so the pay is consistent." This last part is not a joke, but he is smiling nonetheless. "If we must speak privately, there is a secured room nearby we can use."

Under ordinary circumstances isolating oneself with a powerful outsider is the height of folly, but the most recent Augury was less than half an hour ago. He'll chance it. Nazir leads Tanya to a building one block over, through the lobby into the back, down the stairs to the basement, and finally to a door that has nothing behind it but an undulating wall of black fog. He walks through without hesitating and disappears.

That sounds much more organized and state-sanctioned than 'bounty on law-breaking dragons'! He might be the equivalent of police special forces?

And that sure is a magical privacy effect. Tanya pokes it experimentally and, if nothing happens, shrugs and floats through after him. She didn't actually mean he couldn't invite a few trusted associates along but she'll take it.

Nothing happens; if she looks back once inside she will notice that the blackness is one-way and the hallway outside is still visible. The interior is a featureless cube apart from a circle of stools nailed to the floor, lit by a campfire in the center that emits no smoke or heat.

"This room will block magical espionage from remote locations and eavesdropping from outside, but not tailgating. I don't believe we were followed by stealth, but if you have reason to think otherwise…?"

"I have no specific reason to think so, and I'm not detecting any other magical signatures besides us and the black-fog effect. I don't know what non-magically-stealthy espionage exists here and might be available on short notice." Electronic surveillance, for one. Bugs planted ahead of time, since this is a permanent secure meeting area. "It's still much better than speaking in public."

"I believe I've arrived here from another world. I don't know much about this one, so I don't know if that's an unbelievable or alarming statement to you. And I don't know what that fight was about, and whether my appearance made any sense to you at the time. I don't know how it happened, although I have theories, and I don't know how to return home either. I expect to use my... unexpected new wealth to hire consultants or tutors to help me adjust, if I am to live here, but I don't even have a basis for choosing a country other than being here at present, whereever 'here' is. Does this raise any immediate legal or other issues?"

"I would be very surprised if you did not arrive here from another world. There are spells for moving creatures across the gulf between worlds, one of which may have been built into the tower as a defensive measure. When you left, we assumed you had been assigned some other mission and acted quickly to ensure you got paid." That's not even a lie. "However, if you don't know how you got here or how to return home then my explanation is flawed. Any spell it could've plausibly been would've tied your presence here to the duration of a bargain between the caster and the subject. Even involuntary subjects have the option to refuse service if they feel slighted," unless they're coerced but that doesn't seem relevant right now,"so if you can't remember making an agreement with a mage I find myself more confused than before."

There is one spell for calling monsters that works instantly, lasts indefinitely, and does not require a bargain, but the idea that the tower cast Gate blind and nabbed an unsuspecting target that happened to be capable of killing a dragon is such a bizarre hypothetical it's only barely worth consideration.

"This country is called Osirion. I am not a lawyer, but I strongly doubt there are any legal ramifications to your being here. The pharaoh is aware that incidents like this happen on occasion and I've never heard of anyone being arrested for immigration fraud after a summoning accident. There are some species that are very powerful and universally hostile, such that it is both legal and encouraged to kill them immediately whenever possible, but it is unlikely that you are one of them."

...by other worlds he presumably means other planets, not other versions of the planet Earth! Well, that's the really bizarre part of her story and she doesn't have to go into it yet. The really important part is that they have an interplanetary transportation spell (a magic starship?) and also multiple other inhabited planets to travel to!! Tanya mentally downgrades her expectation of this Earth being like the other two another few notches.

"That's good to hear. I definitely don't remember anyone talking to me about it; I was just - suddenly here, and surrounded by unfamiliar magic. Does that mean your civilization can send me or others back? My world doesn't have such a spell, or contact with any other planets." Earth and/or Germania might not thank her for introducing a planetful of new, powerful states with unknown intentions, but in the long run contact tends to make people richer. In any case, it's not as if she can stop him from thinking the same thing. Can they even locate Earth? She can show them a star map, but it's the sky as seen from Earth, not a set of galactic coordinates or anything like that.

"In any event, I asked to speak to you privately not because of any specific fears but because of unknown unknowns. I don't know if there's a reason for me to keep my off-world origin a secret, but it seemed possible there might be one."

"Your best chance at going home is for the spell that brought you here to run down its duration and send you back. There is a different, more common spell for opening a static portal between worlds, but it requires a focus unique to the destination."

He takes a (nonmagical) implement out of his pocket and offers it to Tanya for inspection. It looks like a tuning fork made of an unidentifiable bluish metal, both prongs etched with an intricate pattern that makes her eyes swim if she stares at it for too long.

"If you do not know the specification for your homeworld's tuning fork, the spell cannot send you there."

And that's if she's from another plane! If she's from another planet, it might just be impossible without a Miracle. But how would she have gotten here from another planet?

"As for your origins, many aliens are well-integrated in polite society, but it's strongly correlated with a long tradition of trade and transit between worlds. Interactions with visitors from more distant worlds have gone… poorly, in the past. If you can pass yourself off as a human for the time being, that would be best."

Well, that's discouraging. "I would have liked to say I am human, but your words imply I don't pass for one... You appear human to me, for what it's worth." Do they just not have blond, light-skinned people in this Earth's Europe? Tanya remembers reading once that all humans were dark-skinned ancestrally. "And I have no idea how the - fork - works, because as I said we don't have an interworld transit spell. If you think I'm being actively kept here by a spell with a limited duration can you estimate the duration, or disrupt the spell somehow?" Did she not die after all?

Nazir considers this. The only outsiders with strong ties to their identity in life are petitioners, and no petitioner is as dangerous as this woman. He does have good reason to believe she's not a succubus (Hurayra would've ordered the men to fire if Glimpse of Truth showed him in danger), but there are other outsiders with the means and motive to carry on a charade.

Could she be a real human? It's not impossible. There are cities in the outer planes inhabited by mortals— she's not from Awaiting-Consumption, he hopes, but perhaps from another plane? And humans are interfertile with some outsiders, so who's to say what civilizations and martial traditions might exist in wider Creation?

(This, if anything, is even more evidence that she can't be from another planet. Humans are from Golarion, and the farther away you get from Golarion the less human the aliens look. This is true of every species from the material plane he knows of, unless you believe the things people say about Baba Yaga.)

Better to be humble and conciliatory. "You also appear to be human to me, I just didn't want to assume. The cost and complexity of such a spell goes up exponentially if it's open-ended, such that lasting for longer than a few days is improbable. At that point it's more likely to be stuck waiting for you to complete a particular action. If we could examine the device that called you we might be able to say more, but trying right now would be unsafe. I would also prefer not to hurl magic-cancellation at it, since the tower may have some functional response to that."

He didn't want to assume that, what, she was a human and not a dragon or one of those winged people? ...maybe he can't analyze her spells any more than she can his and thinks she might be under an illusion.

She should be polite and conciliatory to secure his cooperation. "Allow me to fully introduce myself. Lt. Colonel Tanya von Degurechaff, of the 203rd aerial mage battalion of the Germanian Imperial Army. Although I don't expect that to mean anything to you, and I'm certainly not here representing my country. We call ourselves humans, but that might not be any more informative than calling our world 'Earth'; I don't know how your telepathic communication translates names. Can you tell me more about that tower, and the... device you think may have brought me here?"

The way Tongues works is complicated, but one limit of its usefulness as a translation spell is that their conversation can be no more informative than it would have been if Tanya shared Nazir's fluency in Osiriani. This is why proper nouns come through unaltered, and why Nazir can tell that 'Erde' is the name of a place rather than a synonym for 'soil', but no more than that. Even with Cultural Adaptation aggressively steering him away from conversational minefields, he has no personal experience with Tanya's homeworld, and thus the word is delivered without further intension.

He thinks frantically of whether he knows this place. There is no plane or demiplane or divine domain going by that name. Is there a planet deep in the Dark Tapestry called Earth? Not that he's heard of (because he has only heard of it by the Russy name Земля, and then only in passing). Oh well, unfortunate but unsurprising. It's probably the name of a subplanar region far, far away from this part of the material.

"No, those names mean nothing to me. Welcome to Golarion, earthling." Like his own name, 'Golarion' comes with no translation.

"The tower is a… the spell would…" Wow, apparently this requires more context. Backing up a bit: "Not all powerful mages^† are affiliated with the state. The requisite knowledge and devices to operate at one's full potential can also come from professional associations, secret societies, criminal organizations, fraternities, inheritances, and self-cultivation in extreme cases. Every society I am familiar with therefore makes some practical concessions to their own mages. In this case, the tower was the domicile and laboratory of a local wizard who hasn't been seen in fifteen years, and it was presumably rigged to kill invaders. Such towers are proverbially unassailable while inhabited, but fifteen years was evidently enough time for Ymohrglas to decide the owner was either dead or not coming back. The device is most likely a magic item that casts some variant of Planar Ally or Planar Binding when triggered. I don't know if a more academic description would be useful to you, one of my men might have more details."

^†The most expansive possible term for anyone who can use magic.

That's not surprising, since Earth hasn't in fact been contacted by Golarion, but she had to ask.

The local (civilian) mages can become rich and powerful individuals. They buy or build expensive casting implements (and presumably other required material inputs) that enable them to grow their wealth. Being (deservedly) paranoid about theft, they rig their home / factory / lab with deadly counter-intrusion measures. Nazir pointed out this is legal, presumably because other people aren't allowed to set lethal traps against trespassers. 

Mages being individually powerful, rather than working for powerful industrial concerns who own the expensive capital of casting implements, is a balance that's probably worse for the economy. It might be better for individual and workers' rights, but more likely mages form a small elite that concentrates wealth without benefiting others as much. Well, so it goes. Tanya doesn't know if she's relevantly a mage here, since she comes from a completely different magical tradition and definitely can't build her own casting implements, but maybe she can learn to use the local ones? She is talented with magic, and she's still very young, so a career as a local-style mage might be in the cards for her.

"So your response force was defending the tower from the dragon? Do you work for the government of Osirion or was it a private security contract?"

"I work for Abadar – the pharaoh also works for Abadar, to be clear, but this was a private security contract with the municipality. Osirion maintains a standing army for territorial defense, but most internal law enforcement tasks more dangerous than arresting mundane criminals are farmed out."

Tanya is happy to take up Nazir's time with general information questions for as long as he'll let her!

She thought a 'pharaoh' was a head of state but evidently she was mistaken; he seems to be an executive of the private security firm, since Nazir mentioned him being responsible for payroll. It's probably like the Unified States having a 'czar of industry'. The rest isn't so clear, though. "Who is Abadar?"

Leaving dangerous security assignments to the free market can work in theory, but PMCs tend to end badly for the countries that allow them. Ownership of weapons and combat experience are best left with the army; if you have to pay them more for internal policing, that's just gaining valuable combat experience! But it sounds like the state is involved here, since he's contracted to the municipality and not the individual mage whose tower this was, so she'll reserve judgement for now. Maybe these are police special forces in all but name, with the government not being the actual employer but the role being heavily regulated.

How does she not know… Cultural Adaptation informs him that this is a question about Abadar's role in the situation rather than His person, which, fair enough. Theocracies probably aren't a very common arrangement.

"Abadar is a senior advisor to the government of Osirion and has been for over a century. He maintains a presence in most countries, usually through employees of the banks and the postal services, but Pharaoh Khemet III is the only head of state to have a direct partnership. His interests include government policy, economic development, and trade expansion – the present dynasty began when Abadar backed Khemet I's ascension to the throne. Other Abadarans are not necessarily affiliated with the state, most of us are private citizens with our own professional interests, but it does mean that Osirion will reliably pay its debts and honor its contracts."