The carriage trundles on.

Haroun tries to explain Haroun's Guide to Staying Inconspicuous in Elhom IV, as composed by somebody who's never been off Elhom IV and has an extremely loose idea of what might be different between whole worlds as opposed to just countries.

Bella has to ask explicitly about 'gender roles' since Haroun isn't used to thinking of that as something that varies much within a species, as opposed to between them; he gets it once he starts thinking of how to explain elves to humans or vice versa.  In a world where magic forms a large part of combat prowess and lots of professions need to make escorted dungeon runs, there isn't much of a concept of women not being fighters.  Househusbands are not strictly as common as housewives, but they're by no means rare.

Bella asks how many people study 'magic' (that word again) and use it professionally.  Haroun tries to explain that just about every job in existence uses some spellcasting, but much fewer people than that try to climb up past tier-1 spells or learn enough to compose new spells.  Haroun doesn't know exact numbers; his kingdom doesn't have a census.  Haroun's guess for the global ratio of human farmers to human non-farmers is about 2 to 1.  Haroun is amazed at the notion that Bella's world has it down to 1-to-30; this seems to hit him harder than other things Bella has said.

Bella wants to know if she'll run into any elves.  Haroun says that if he's recalling right, the High Elves have professed neutrality in Demon Lord versus Summoned Hero affairs.  He's not sure why, maybe the High Elves used to support the Summoned Hero and then the Demon Lord started killing them over that?  The oldest Elves are much older than the last time the Summoned Hero lost a battle, but they won't tell Bella anything and they say very little to humans in general.  Drow Elves side with the Demon Lord.  Wood Elves stick to a few particular forests.  There's a Machine Elf in Haroun's academy who keeps all the Machine Elf Things in repair, and you have to drink a weird potion before you can see her or talk to her (not recommended).

Haroun describes his family a bit, since Bella has described hers.  He doesn't know his original father and some unknown person blew up his single mother when Haroun was three years old; Haroun used to think of that as a potential plot hook, but after nothing happened for a while he realized it was just one of those random life things rather than a bard's tale.  His adopting maternal relative and new father are great people, in Haroun's humble opinion, specializing in Plant Magic (alchemical florist) and Life Magic (research healer) respectively.

The carriage trundles on.

Haroun tries to explain Haroun's Guide to Staying Inconspicuous in Elhom IV, as composed by somebody who's never been off Elhom IV and has an extremely loose idea of what might be different between whole worlds as opposed to just countries.

Bella has to ask explicitly about gender roles since Haroun isn't used to thinking of that as something that varies much within a species, as opposed to between them; he gets it once he starts thinking of how to explain elves to humans or vice versa.  In a world where magic forms a large part of combat prowess and lots of professions need to make escorted dungeon runs, there isn't much of a concept of women not being fighters.  Househusbands are not strictly as common as housewives, but they're by no means rare.

Bella asks how many people study 'magic' (that word again) and use it professionally.  Haroun tries to explain that just about every job in existence uses some spellcasting, but much fewer people than that try to climb up past tier-1 spells or learn enough to compose new spells.  Haroun doesn't know exact numbers; his kingdom doesn't have a census.  Haroun's guess for the global ratio of human farmers to human non-farmers is about 2 to 1.  Haroun is amazed at the notion that Bella's world has it down to 1-to-30; this seems to hit him harder than other things Bella has said.

Bella wants to know if she'll run into any elves.  Haroun says that if he's recalling right, the High Elves have professed neutrality in Demon Lord versus Summoned Hero affairs.  He's not sure why, maybe the High Elves used to support the Summoned Hero and then the Demon Lord started killing them over that?  The oldest Elves are much older than the last time the Summoned Hero lost a battle, but they won't tell Bella anything and they say very little to humans in general.  Drow Elves side with the Demon Lord.  Wood Elves stick to a few particular forests.  There's a Machine Elf in Haroun's academy who keeps all the Machine Elf Things in repair, and you have to drink a weird potion before you can see her or talk to her (not recommended).

Haroun describes his family a bit, since Bella has described hers.  He doesn't know his original father and some unknown person blew up his single mother when Haroun was three years old; Haroun used to think of that as a potential plot hook, but after nothing happened for a while he realized it was just one of those random life things rather than a bard's tale.  His adopting maternal relative and new father are great people, in Haroun's humble opinion, specializing in Plant Magic (alchemical florist) and Life Magic (research healer) respectively.

The carriage trundles on.

Haroun tries to explain Haroun's Guide to Staying Inconspicuous in Elhom IV, as composed by somebody who's never been off Elhom IV and has an extremely loose idea of what might be different between whole worlds as opposed to just countries.

Bella has to ask explicitly about gender roles since Haroun isn't used to thinking of that as something that varies much within a species, as opposed to between them; he gets it once he starts thinking of how to explain elves to humans or vice versa.  In a world where spellcasting forms a large part of combat prowess and lots of professions need to make escorted dungeon runs, there isn't much of a concept of women not being fighters.  Househusbands are not strictly as common as housewives, but they're by no means rare.

Bella asks how many people study 'magic' (that word again) and use it professionally.  Haroun tries to explain that just about every job in existence uses some spellcasting, but much fewer people than that try to climb up past tier-1 spells or learn enough to compose new spells.  Haroun doesn't know exact numbers; his kingdom doesn't have a census.  Haroun's guess for the global ratio of human farmers to human non-farmers is about 2 to 1.  Haroun is amazed at the notion that Bella's world has it down to 1-to-30; this seems to hit him harder than other things Bella has said.

Bella wants to know if she'll run into any elves.  Haroun says that if he's recalling right, the High Elves have professed neutrality in Demon Lord versus Summoned Hero affairs.  He's not sure why, maybe the High Elves used to support the Summoned Hero and then the Demon Lord started killing them over that?  The oldest Elves are much older than the last time the Summoned Hero lost a battle, but they won't tell Bella anything and they say very little to humans in general.  Drow Elves side with the Demon Lord.  Wood Elves stick to a few particular forests.  There's a Machine Elf in Haroun's academy who keeps all the Machine Elf Things in repair, and you have to drink a weird potion before you can see her or talk to her (not recommended).

Haroun describes his family a bit, since Bella has described hers.  He doesn't know his original father and some unknown person blew up his single mother when Haroun was three years old; Haroun used to think of that as a potential plot hook, but after nothing happened for a while he realized it was just one of those random life things rather than a bard's tale.  His adopting maternal relative and new father are great people, in Haroun's humble opinion, specializing in Plant Magic (alchemical florist) and Life Magic (research healer) respectively.

The carriage trundles on.

Haroun tries to explain Haroun's Guide to Staying Inconspicuous in Elhom IV, as composed by somebody who's never been off Elhom IV and has an extremely loose idea of what might be different between whole worlds as opposed to just countries.

Bella has to ask explicitly about gender roles since Haroun isn't used to thinking of that as something that varies much within a species, as opposed to between them; he gets it once he starts thinking of how to explain elves to humans or vice versa.  In a world where spellcasting forms a large part of combat prowess and lots of professions need to make escorted dungeon runs, there isn't much of a concept of women not being fighters.  Househusbands are not strictly as common as housewives, but they're by no means rare.

Bella asks how many people study 'magic' (that word again) and use it professionally.  Haroun tries to explain that just about every job in existence uses some spellcasting, but much fewer people than that try to climb up past tier-1 spells or learn enough to compose new spells.  Haroun doesn't know exact numbers; his kingdom doesn't have a census.  Haroun's guess for the global ratio of human farmers to human non-farmers is about 2 to 1.  Haroun is amazed at the notion that Bella's world has it down to 1-to-30; this seems to hit him harder than other things Bella has said.

Bella wants to know if she'll run into any elves.  Haroun says that if he's recalling right, the High Elves have professed neutrality in Demon Lord versus Summoned Hero affairs.  He's not sure why, maybe the High Elves used to support the Summoned Hero and then the Demon Lord started killing them over that?  The oldest Elves are much older than the last time the Summoned Hero lost a battle, but they won't tell Bella anything and they say very little to humans in general.  Drow Elves side with the Demon Lord.  Wood Elves stick to a few particular forests.  There's a Machine Elf in Haroun's academy who keeps all the Machine Elf Things in repair, and you have to drink a weird potion before you can see her or talk to her (not recommended).

Haroun describes his family a bit, since Bella has described hers.  He doesn't know his original father and some unknown person blew up his single mother when Haroun was three years old; Haroun used to think of that as a potential plot hook, but after nothing happened for a while he realized it was just one of those random life things rather than a bard's tale.  His adopting maternal cousin and new father are great people, in Haroun's humble opinion, specializing in Plant Magic (alchemical florist) and Life Magic (research healer) respectively.