"After I got the news about Asmodia, which was shortly after I verified that artificial diamond dust worked with Permanencies, I decided I hadn't been taking things seriously enough and was repeating the mistake I'd made earlier in Cheliax when I hadn't asked for serious resources early. Given the diamond synthesis trick seemed to be working, and how far I'd come in establishing Lawful Evil purchasing lines and my own lair, I was definitely going to be able to do something, was going to try to do it before the probable deadline on Cheliax attacking Osirion, and that my having more time to think things through would constitute harm reduction from the extrapolated fully-informed perspective of people who disagreed with me."
"So I took out high-interest loans from Isfahel backed by the prospective income from Cheliax, started saving time by buying from the Kelesh Empire, and paid the Grand High Priestess of Sarenrae to put up the temporary time-accelerated demiplane."
"Golarion is not so primitive that nobody in it with serious money can send probable future money backwards in time."