"It's... not a very nice romance, really.  Not the nicest romance Keltham could possibly have had.  He did end up in Cheliax with, you know, everyone he's trying to romance, constantly lying to him about everything."

"It's not something you'd do to Keltham if you were just trying to be nice to him, make sure he found sexual and romantic fulfillment."

"It's something you'd do to Keltham if you were putting him somewhere that a romance novel would start up around him, a novel with a dramatic, conflict-riven plot."

"In particular, a dath ilani romance novel.  With common patterns, 'tropes', out of a dath ilani romance novel."

"Keltham doesn't know he's in Cheliax, at risk of his soul, with all of his love interests lying to him.  But he knows he's in a situation where he's around a number of different interesting girls with interesting different backgrounds and special powers.  That, he found suspicious, after he arrived.  He doesn't know how weird it is that Pilar Pineda was selected as Cayden Cailean's oracle and bestowed with cookie powers.  He doesn't know that Ione is the one oracle chosen of Nethys.  But he knows that he's around other girls with special powers, an improbable and surprising number of them, and that is to him an obvious signature of a dath ilani romance novel."

"Or as dath ilan calls it, an 'eroLARP'."

"Keltham has tried making predictions about how events would happen around him, if he had in fact been selected and placed somewhere that further events would develop, by unbroken prophecy, in the way of an 'eroLARP'."

"We are concealing from him how many of those predictions have, in fact, come true."

"It's... not a very nice romance, really.  Not the nicest romance Keltham could possibly have had.  He did end up in Cheliax with all of his romantic interests constantly lying to him about everything."

"It's not something you'd do to Keltham if you were just trying to be nice to him, make sure he found sexual and romantic fulfillment."

"It's something you'd do to Keltham if you were putting him somewhere that a romance novel would start up around him, a novel with a dramatic, conflict-riven plot."

"In particular, a dath ilani romance novel.  With common patterns, 'tropes', out of a dath ilani romance novel."

"Keltham doesn't know he's in Cheliax, at risk of his soul, with all of his love interests lying to him.  But he knows he's in a situation where he's around a number of different interesting girls with interesting different backgrounds and special powers.  That, he found suspicious, after he arrived.  He doesn't know how weird it is that Pilar Pineda was selected as Cayden Cailean's oracle and bestowed with cookie powers.  He doesn't know that Ione is the one oracle chosen of Nethys.  But he knows that he's around other girls with special powers, an improbable and surprising number of them, and that is to him an obvious signature of a dath ilani romance novel."

"Or as dath ilan calls it, an 'eroLARP'."

"Keltham has tried making predictions about how events would happen around him, if he had in fact been selected and placed somewhere that further events would develop, by unbroken prophecy, in the way of an 'eroLARP'."

"We are concealing from him how many of those predictions have, in fact, come true."

"It's... not a very nice romance, really.  Not the nicest romance Keltham could possibly have had.  He did end up in Cheliax with all of his romantic interests constantly lying to him about everything."

"It's not something you'd do to Keltham if you were just trying to be nice to him, make sure he found sexual and romantic fulfillment."

"It's something you'd do to Keltham if you were putting him somewhere that a romance novel would start up around him, a novel with a dramatic, conflict-riven plot."

"In particular, a dath ilani romance novel.  With common patterns, 'tropes', out of a dath ilani romance novel."

"Keltham doesn't know all his love interests are lying to him.  But he knows he landed in a situation where he's around a number of different interesting girls with interesting different backgrounds and special powers.  That, he found suspicious, after he arrived.  He doesn't know how weird it is that Pilar Pineda was selected as Cayden Cailean's oracle and bestowed with cookie powers.  He doesn't know that Ione is the one oracle chosen of Nethys.  But he knows that he's around other girls with special powers, an improbable and surprising number of them, and that is to him an obvious signature of a dath ilani romance novel."

"Or as dath ilan calls it, an 'eroLARP'."

"Keltham has tried making predictions about how events would happen around him, if he had in fact been selected and placed somewhere that further events would develop, by unbroken prophecy, in the way of an 'eroLARP'."

"We are concealing from Keltham how many of those predictions have, in fact, come true."