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[acreage]

WHO: Holden, you!
WHAT: A catch-all for the month(?)
WHEN: After Satinalia and onwards
WHERE: Kirkwall, Gallows
NOTES: There'll be post-murderhaus stuff in here, so there may be references to some of the horror movie occurrences!

Starters will be in the comments! I'm sorry, I'll write a real log one day.

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[highborn]

Oh boy, it sure was. But his polite smile maintains like a pro, and the idea gets waved off.

"Oh, certainly, all sorts, to the point that humans being the most populous around here feels a bit strange," he says, and adds, just in case, "No offense intended. And what about your world?"

[acreage]

"None taken," he says easily, briefly raises his hands to make the point.

It kind of seems like fair play, that there should be worlds with fewer, or even no, humans.

"All humans, more or less." He's only explicitly mentioned extinct alien races to one person, and he's not looking to change that now, apparently. "I'm sorry to say I'd never met an elf before a rift spit me out here."

[highborn]

This is the first he's learning of a world with only humans, and it sits strangely with him. What if it wasn't always human-only? He could see elves of this world dwindling down to nothing, given the right circumstances.

Not really a topic for today, though. Instead, "A human is really just an elf with tiny little ears and poor night vision, so I can't imagine it's been much of a shock. Now, qunari — have you seen any of them?"

[acreage]

He can't help a smile at that assessment of humans, lifts an eyebrow at the question.

"I've heard the name, but I haven't seen one. Why? What do they look like?"

[highborn]

"Tall, broad--" He gestures as he speaks, miming a large frame. It ends in a splay of hands over his head, maybe a bit incomprehensible until he adds, "Quite the racks, all of them that I've seen about." Or maybe that wasn't a terrible useful way to describe 'horns'. Nor does he have a very large sample size, and most of his experience is secondhand. Oh, well.

"There's at least one with Riftwatch. Though, interestingly enough, I hear he's a Rifter."

[acreage]

"On their head?"

Which is obviously what Vanadi's suggesting with those hand gestures, but also. He has some context for deer, not horned humanoids.

"I've heard about him," he says, and has to think on it for a second. "Loxley, right?"

[highborn]

"That's the one," he says with a nod. "I've not met him directly, but he's rather a handsome fellow. He's -- hmm, from a world similar to my last, I believe."

That's just a theory, and ... probably doesn't mean much, in the long run. He waves the thought away.

"And then there's dwarves, of course. Have you met any yet?"