"I like the unexpected, the interesting. This world seems to hold plenty, at least until I get to know it better." It won't be hard for her to repay him if she can provide those, and if not- well, perhaps the introduction of firearms will be interesting enough to consider the debt gone.

"The current main religion of the Empire of the Isles, at least. Pandyssia, the Far Continent, has its own -- and other faiths have risen and fallen with their cities." Some do, at least; there are those dedicated to it in Pandyssia, and those who consider worship of the Outsider essentially the same thing. Yet the Abbey reaches out and strangles such thought, leaving them as lifeless as driftwood.

The plight of the classes would be consistent between worlds. Humans, at least, always desire power, and the good rarely receive it. "The angry, the terrified, they make mistakes."