"I could be wrong, but among my basic models here is that when it comes to tech and magitech on the level of spellsilver refining, Axis already knows how to do it, Azlant knew how to do it, Abadar's First Vault still has all of Azlant's books."
"It is possible that nobody around except Pharasma and Otolmens are allowed to know how to rig up planes for destruction. You plausibly need to run particular high-energy experiments to figure that out even at INT 40, and if Pharasma can prohibit those experiments She can prohibit anybody from figuring out how to make a plane erase itself."
"My being here did not make advanced spellsilver refining be possible for the first time, because the knowledge existed for the first time. It made it be a default outcome rather than an outcome that required any gods to intervene. If the gods wanted things to be like that, collectively, they could have done it much earlier."
"That's part of why I strongly expect the Scientific Revolution to otherwise get shut down before it proceeds too far, and why I expect that the ancient gods favoring it would not have a supermajority as more and more other ancient gods' interests are threatened. Urgathoa. Gorum. It maybe goes differently if Project Lawful remains on par with the Scientific Revolution and Cheliax conquers half of Golarion and remains in a constant state of battle with the Scientific Revolution, such that Gorum and Asmodeus favor the new state of affairs, but now we are once again getting into the space of possible outcomes where I am no longer very happy about it and want to fall back on the Nope Plan."
