"Oh, that's encouraging."

"Yeah. We're at peace with these people and our prince is friends with one of them, but they're... actually at peace with everyone for now, I think. - The land we passed through on the way up here isn't."

"What's the nature of the - unpeace -?"

"Couple places keep raiding each other. Their lands border each other in the north but a little further south the Nurezi live in between them and it's not great."

"Do gods here not involve themselves in diplomacy on behalf of their mortals at all?"

"What makes you think the gods mind the war."

"War is a highly wasteful enterprise for most possible aims. I guess you could have two gods who actively like war in particular or its correlates, right next to each other."

"I'm not very charitable about this but I think they want to cause problems."

Nod.

Walk walk walk. Up ahead there's a fire in the distance and people singing.

When they get closer Valna calls out a cheerful greeting in between songs, which serves to get people's attention.

Is this the part where he stands in a circle for Share Language: Ritual Edition?

Actually, there’s no circle this time. Someone simply walks up to Blai and says a few words and now Blai understands the next thing this person says, which is "Care to join us for the evening?"

"I believe that's the plan presuming I'm welcome. I am - from very far away and likely to be strange to you."

"Oh? - Come sit and eat while you tell us about that."

(Valna is also going to join them.)

He sits. "I am from a different planet with different gods who behave very differently and I am a cleric of one of them, which means that I have spells She empowers me to cast and a couple of other abilities that aren't technically spells. My goddess's name is Iomedae and She is concerned with victory over evil and, in service of that end, triage, but She is Lawful Good and so for the moment I'm mostly concerned with finding a place I'm licitly allowed to reside at all."

"...Well, you don't have to be Forth's to live in Acarthen," says the person who just taught Blai this language. "What counts as evil?"

"It's an ontologically basic distinction where I'm from, can be detected magically in a powerfully aligned source, but the things you guess by are - cruelty, destructive selfishness, torture and murder and slavery and things like that. Domains of well known Evil gods on my planet include tyranny, pain, disease, monstrosity, crime, and destruction."

"Huh. ...Please don't go killing priests of all the other gods and then hide in Acarthen."

"Understood."

And meanwhile there is food. They seem to have access to bivalves and seaweed here.

Seaweed is unfamiliar but he's had freshwater clams growing up.

"Forth doesn't ask anything so interesting of us," the person who gave Blai the language says. "Just the usual."

"And what is the usual?"