I don't know if you noticed, but I added a few things that cost XP to my character sheet, like permanent effects. I figured since I could have technically started as 14th level, that I could use the excess for that instead. I'm not exactly saying that I want to start with the XP of a 14th level character minus what I've spent. I'd just like to add another permanent effect or two before we get going. Then we can just say he has just enough for 13th, or whatever.
Specifically I was thinking of putting Permanent Arcane Sight on Gabriel. A spell with a metamagic effect should fall under the "any other effect whose power level is in line with the above effects" clause, right? So emulating an Invisible Arcane Sight should be possible with Limited Wish? I just don't want to have permanently glowing eyes...