And then he turns back to the old woman, who, if you look at her carefully enough, and try to see possibilities through your own faceblindness to Chelish faces, does not look definitely not like somebody he's met before.  If that person wore a wig and applied colored makeup, disdaining magical disguises, for fear of his Glimpse of Beyond spell that he still holds.

Gate is 9th-circle, and if anything they told him in Cheliax was true at all, there indeed aren't many people in the Inner Sea who can cast that.

To the old woman, then, he speaks.

"Do you really think that this doesn't happen in dath ilani stories?"

"There's a thing that the protagonist says, sometimes, at the end of a genre-aware eroLARP.  And I say it now."

And then Keltham turns back to the old woman, who, if you look at her carefully enough, and try to see possibilities through your own faceblindness to Chelish faces, does not look definitely not like somebody he's met before.  If that person wore a wig and applied colored makeup, disdaining magical disguises, for fear of his Glimpse of Beyond spell that he still holds.

Gate is 9th-circle, and if anything they told him in Cheliax was true at all, there indeed aren't many people in the Inner Sea who can cast that.

To the old woman, then, he speaks.

"Do you really think that this doesn't happen in dath ilani stories?"

"There's a thing that the protagonist says, sometimes, at the end of a genre-aware eroLARP.  And I say it now."