"Yes."

"How good are the relics?"

"Roughly as strong as a five quintessence power. Sword of wrath, living encyclopedia, lantern of truth, robes of anonymity, bard's lyre, boots of travel, anti-demon pearl, holy shield, gift sack, healing chalice, world tree seed, scepter of command."

"Is the scepter mind-controlly, what the heck does a world tree do, what is a gift sack, tell me about the lantern and the encyclopedia?"

"The scepter is coordination-y. Mental orders and intuitive synchronization with people who consider whoever wields it a leader or ruler, completely voluntary, if they don't want it- The link ends. The gift sack is formed from the legend of Saint Nicholas and contains infinite gifts, one per person per year. The lantern's light washes away all disguise, makes text of any language readable and highlights lies, though not mistakes, in writing, forces any within it to speak the truth or remain silent, hidden passages are revealed, and possibly similar effects. The world tree starts as a seed and grows immense over time. It can be prodded into shapes, produce excellent quality wood, plenty of fresh fruit daily, will eventually grow large enough to build upon, and when mature does produce once per decade a fruit which grants, if not eternal, then near-eternal youth if eaten. The living encyclopedia is a history book with infinite pages and no index. As you turn the pages and focus on one subject or another, you find that the next passages focus on what you wish to know. It does take some getting used to, to peruse it for specific information. There is no index, you must read page by page and guide it where you want."

"How good of gifts are we talking? How long does the world tree take to grow? Can I borrow an infinite encyclopedia here to try out?"

"Whatever would most help make them happy, be it not money or magical, even precious stones and the like. You can even have someone borrow it and gift you something. You may, but it will attune to Earth."

"Does it do magic items? Live plants? Books from other universes? And yes please."

"No, yes, yes, though it is futile to try to steer it overmuch or parley it into great power. shall I retrieve it now? It'll be about as long as it was last time."

"Futile how exactly - and yeah."

"'Tis the lack of magic, in truth. Even in Virata items from the Gift Sack will never be more than moderately magical- No legendary artifacts, merely competent enchanting work. It's something that could have been acquired the mundane way, in every case. And the gifts optimize for joy and satisfaction the near term- If what one really, truly needs right at that moment is an enchanted shield to protect them in their adventures, they might receive it, but equally, perhaps, a delicious cake, or a makeup kit, or a copy of a fondly missed stuffed animal, or a replacement wheel for a cart. I shall depart now, and return with the book."

He's gone for maybe an hour. The stone wall to block the light is still there. She sees someone walking towards the gates relatively close to her- Perhaps half a mile off, at the far end of the orchard- but is otherwise uninterrupted.

Wave wave?

Wave wave!

This person - a scrawny guy with dark skin, looks like - ambles into the far end of the orchard and picks a few things, then sits and looks towards the Gate.

She wonders if he's from her planet at all. Actually there must be some kind of effect preventing literally every dying person to wind up in this general area. It looks big but not that big and people die a lot.

The guy sings in an unfamiliar language for a bit before wandering off.

Eventually, Daniel returns with a doorstopper of a book. Cereal box sized.

Whoa. Is it as heavy as it looks?

It is! It's not completely impractical, but it's certainly a Hefty Tome.

The first page contains a beautifully illustrated timeline showing early human evolution and evidence of hunter-gatherers, and then another one detailing the first ancient civilizations all the way up to the modern day.

And can she guide it to, like, Ancient Egypt and from there to... their religious practices, with a view toward how much of it was secretly angels?

If she reads through the timeline bits about ancient Egypt, the next few pages are an overview of the Old Kingdom. If she skims those and pays attention to bits about their religion, it steadily goes into more detail. The style is that of a fascinated and kindly history professor, laying out connections between events and cultural context as it goes. Focusing on bird-like entities or holy light will eventually get her descriptions of beings with powers that sound a lot like what the angel is offering her, coming and going as they please, healing the sick, shining with youthful light, etc etc. The book almost casually notes, in a footnote, that this story was an actual angel, but that one was made up after the fact in the style of angel stories.

But it took quite a while of reading to get to this point. It meanders.

"Huh. I like this thing a lot but I don't think I'll bring it, it's - inefficient. Lantern might be good... Can you tell me in advance about ally candidates so I can just go find them the long way, or nothing doing on the allies if I take a relic?"

"You get an ally and a relic. I can tell you about all allies, but you'll only be near one. They're far apart."

"...why are they far apart?"

"Because the world is big and there's no reason for them to be close together."

"I mean, sure, but if they're all generally read in and... aligned? Then why haven't they talked to each other, or formed groups with local sympathetic people...?"

"I don't know. I don't truly understand mortals, I'm just doing my best to recognize patterns and help you. You might be overestimating how coordinated Heaven's influence upon the surface of Virata is."