So whatever that is human. ...probably human. Most likely human.

That's not that comforting.

And who are you?

Their appearance shifts, becoming more fluid. "I am Tyrant. Who are you? Why are your bodies so simple?"

...Her assessment of zem is human is looking less likely. Especially if Lianne counts as simple. (She'll agree that 'magic metal with a handle' is not the most complex kind of body around.)

My name is Louie Manfredi. 'Why' questions like that are not... necessarily answerable.

"You didn't make your bodies, then?"

...people normally don't, no.

"All the people I know did, unless some Lord gets it into their heads to make sapient servitors, which never ends well."

How to put this politely...

I think the people you know may be fairly unusual.

"How do you know that your people are not unusual?"

I can say that I have never met anyone who made their own body, so at least one of us has to be unusual.

"It might be a question of numbers, then, or of locality. This is the realm of a Lord, and the Lord make their own bodies, and craft the bodies of servitors, so you are in localization unusual."

People generally don't craft the bodies of others either-- unless you are using an unusual definition of 'craft.'

"I don't think I am. The Lords walk the realms. When we feel like it, we make new ones, and fill those with servitors. This is an abandoned realm, its Lord departed. Still, the majority of people who have ever stepped foot here made their own bodies, and the majority of beings were made by a single person."

...I'm reasonably sure that's not how it works here.

Though only 'reasonably'. If there's a missing 'Lord' that's meant to be running around, she's not sure how she would know that that was the case.

Most people are made by-- oh god, she's going to to have to explain the birds and the bees to an alien --two people, and a whole lot of biology.

"In your Realm, or in this one? This does not appear to be your native Realm. You do not fit, aesthetically."

Assuming this dunj counts a realm, it's the case in my realm, not the one we are currently both in.

"What is a dunj?"

...the place we are currently in? With a portal stone and, formerly, monsters?

"I would call this a Realm, or perhaps a demesne if I was being formal and speaking of one actively occupied by a Lord. They are supposed to have servitor creatures, but are not supposed to have portal stones."

The servitors may be no more in this place. ...most likely because of us.

"If this realm was designed correctly, they would be easy to replace."

If we stayed here long enough, they might come back.

"You mean the servitors? They're of little consequence to me. I had detected some irregularities in this Realm, and had been intended to investigate."

I'm not sure we can help you.

...they're the irregularities, aren't they? That's the best explanation so far. Damnit.

"Do you know what that stone is? It doesn't belong here," ze says, gesturing to the portal stone.

...In our experience, they are fairly definitional to these places.