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She is authorized as of this morning, and more importantly can prove it.

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Great, then she's free to enter.

 Despite what other comparisons between worlds might suggest, the comparison here is rather less negative towards Golarion than you might expect. Oh, certainly, Garenhuld has mass printing, a far larger literate population, and significantly more state capacity and income to throw around than anyone on Golarion could manage in their wildest dreams, but like the rest of Garenhuld society they are averse to rapid changes. Many of them - particularly public libraries - do serve as community gathering points and organizational structures, but in terms of media their primary content is books and they shelve them just the same as Golarion does. Their more adventurous fellow, meanwhile, has the benefit of thousands of years of extra literary tradition to draw upon, and if they lack mass adoption of movable type and electric lighting they make up for it with scrivener's chant and continual flames. The Vigil library is not what it once was in the days leading up to the Age of Glory when it was run by Aroden's church, but it's still an old, well respected institution that has had plenty of time to build up its collection and a firm understanding of the value and power of the written word. They have aisles and aisles stacked with books, and only the raising of practical complaints like 'people without fly speeds getting access to them' prevented this from extending straight up to the ceilings.

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Huh, somehow despite all the ways in which Lastwall seems to have a surprising amount of its shit together for its level of technology, she still hadn't expected that. Maybe due to the sheer military and religious focus of most of their other particularly impressive achievements? Still, she's not going to complain about her task being more feasible than she thought. What have they got in terms of omnibus histories, timelines of magical development, recorded kinds of divine intervention, that kind of deal? She's also blindingly curious about what passes for mass media here and the afterlives, but she has to do some prioritization here, especially since it's not as easy to just go read four of them at once without getting particular notice as it was at home.

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Golarion doesn't really have the kind of history that you can fit in the pages of a single work, no matter how ponderous; even if one ignores everything prior to the Age of Destiny due to inadequate records, there's still over eight thousand years to get through. That approach would also involve completely ignoring the fact that Golarion actually had an advanced ancient civilization of the sort that the saiyans only pretend was real on Garenhuld, and that what happened there turned out to be extremely consequential. Still, she's not the only person in history who has wanted a way to get a sense of everything known about the past, and there are some works she can lean on for an extremely broad strokes sketch of everything.

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That's fine, she's a fast reader.

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In retrospect, perhaps her expectations about the ways in which Golarion's libraries were lacking was misaimed. For all that their buildings are fine and their contents surprisingly full, the state of their research leaves a lot to be desired. Kakara isn't exactly an academic - despite her mother and Gemina's efforts, she never put more effort into her schoolwork than was necessary to maintain her grades - but even so she still finds the local offerings to come up remarkably short in comparison. Between the omnipresent and visible signs of authorial bias and the seeming allergy many of these authors have to the concept of showing their evidence, she's fairly confident that if she were to use her pastsight on the subject of many of these books she'd find no shortage of evidence that contradicted their claims. They don't even seem to do it in service of some artistic goal like making their work easy to read, or at least not so Kakara can tell through the translation provided by her new magic spells. A quick look at the other sections reveals similar problems with their contents, which is good news when it comes to showing this isn't the result of someone trying to selectively tell her history but very bad news about their ability to do research. The worst part is, between their own lack of records from Earth and how frightened most people back home are of anything new she has no idea if this is normal or not - it feels like the kind of thing that a more normal planet would be better at by this level of technology, but maybe the cause goes the other way around and you need to get better at research methods before you can figure out an industrial revolution?

 

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Whatever, that's not the important bit here. What is important as a takeaway is that several of the things that Lastwall has pointed to as the biggest problems in the world are very new, like infernal Cheliax. which is also a really good sign for how feasible it's going to be to take them apart - a century isn't nothing, but with that little time it'll probably be a lot easier than Nidal as long as she can supply them the necessary force, and nothing in their books on the history of wizards are suggesting she can't. Iomedae mentioned she should try to hold back to about the level of an ordinary ninth circle to not give the game away to Asmodeus early, but from the looks of things even that kind of power is enough to do a lot of shaking up the political landscape as long as they aren't too afraid of being killed. It also suggests that she really ought to see about getting some local guides on the other continents and in the underdark too, since their view seems pretty locally centric - it might be that the biggest problems in Golarion are all in Avistan or on the inner sea, but she ought to check before assuming it. There's also a couple other candidates for high impact interventions on a local scale, like dealing with Treerazer; the elves are apparently doing a pretty admirable job keeping him down, which makes it much less of an impending disaster than the worldwound, but it seems like it's something she can go a long way towards solving just by sending everyone involved back to the Abyss.

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