"Marshal, I believe the Pact may need you. I will leave you to it and welcome our unexpected guest."

"Thank you, Commander." He turns to Evanathe. "And thank you, too." He nods politely then saunters off.

The robot walks over to Evanathe. "Sooo... you look human but you have wings... What gives?"

"I'm not human. That's what gives."

"What are you?"

"Taimi, that's not very polite," says a very tall and muscular dude, with long red hair and wearing what look like actual skins.

Wow, another tall buff person. Wonder if they have a club.

"I'm a fairy!"

"Huh. Never heard that word before. Guess you must really be from another world."

"Evanathe," says the Commander, before removing his mask and revealing a rather handsome if also rather pale face. "Let me introduce everyone. I am James Orland, Commander of the Pact. This is Taimi, asura progeny¹—"

¹ Progeny: term used to refer to younger asura and has different cultural connotations than the standard English meaning. In particular, an asura progeny typically has never been part of a krewe² and has not finished their first degree in the university. It is not an insulting term.
² Krewe: the basic unit of organisation in asura society, consists of a (typically but not always) temporary group of (usually) asura working on a single project or meta-project over an extended span of time.

"That's 'incredibly brilliant genius progeny' for you!"

He laughs and shakes his head. "And this is Braham Eirsson," he continues, gesturing at tall muscular guy.

"It's nice to meet you all!"

"I'm afraid you caught us all in a rather tense moment. You may have noticed. And you must be very confused."

"A little."

"How can we help?"

"Murdervines attacking an airship convoy seems like, the middle-to-end of a story? So if you could go back to the beginning and catch me up with why airships and plant people and so forth, that would be nice."

"You're from another world, right? So you won't know about the dragons, either. Or asura or norn or charr or any other races?"

"I know humans and fairies and demons and angels."

"What are 'demons' and 'angels'?"

"Magic people. We all have different kinds. If my magic is 'moving stuff', demon magic is 'making stuff' and angel magic is 'changing stuff'."

"Do they all look like humans and norn?"

"Yeah. Well. We have wings." Flutter flutter. "Demons have bat wings and angels have feather wings."

"Okay, it's decided. All the multiverse's racist."

"Now, come on, Taimi, don't be like that."

"I'll be like that! Well, let's show our fairy friend some variety." The glass panel of the robot opens to reveal...

...a very tiny gremlin. "Hi! This is what asura look like."