"Fire-eaters lay eggs in volcano tiles once every millennium or so and they share traits of all fire-eaters who helped take care of the egg, of either gender. Two dryads spend a decade carefully crafting a child tree. Ophorians are some kind of fungus, spores are involved, we don't know the details. Pixies we know a lot about because they're much more talkative than average, they go into a breeding season and sometimes two adult pixies in the right situation, suddenly become three adult pixies."

"That is a bit weird, although I guess 'have vampire venom injected into your blood stream and spend seventy-two hours in terrible agony' is a fairly weird reproduction method, too."

"Oh, that reminds me, ramusals- They need to eat a human whole to reproduce. They don't get to do it much on civilized continents."

"Wow that is. Pretty awful, too."

"Yep. There are a few others like that, most more benign - more like a three day sex marathon than being eaten, I'd have to look them up, and I'm ready to be done talking about this." They're at the cargo bay.

"I'm not particularly curious about the specifics of the reproduction of all known species, just wanted to have a general idea of the range. Your world's magic is really different than mine's."

"Sure sounds like it! What are some other examples of your super individualized magic?"

"The Empress has a pretty fully general mental shield, the Emperor can read minds, the Princess can project thoughts and every true thing she says is immediately obviously true, there's a teleporter, a precog, the vampire who turned me could get a copy of another person's magic by touching them—that was involuntary and displaced the previous power..."

"Fair folk of one kind or another can do all that except the copying, the mindreading, and the shield."

"I think no two witches have the same power. Oh, how many people are there, that you know?"

He waves a hand. "Estimates vary quite a bit, decent guess is about one trillion."

He whistles. "My world's about six and a half billion, how long's this one been around?"

"At least 40,000 years, as that's about when the Cataclysm was."

"Hey, time for you to get to work making my new stuff 'cause in a about half an hour I'll be within Windvale jurisdiction and the bureaucrats say having a scry-window to the front viewport isn't safe enough. I'll need to go up front and properly pilot." He starts listing things.

He starts making the things, apparently not paying attention at all.

"You got up to a trillion in forty thousand years? I guess the appearing species help but wow."

"It's more the massive sprawl of available land and resources I think? And magic. Magic really boomed in the last ten thousand years, makes things easy."

"Oh? What happened?"

(He continues to make things without paying attention.)

"No one thing- Maybe crystals, maybe reliable flight. But suddenly more and more humans were becoming Fates and the number of things magic can do started increasing a lot faster. Still going - A Fate calling herself Mountain invented a new way for magic to reference locations about forty years ago. Or maybe it was a hundred. Makes certain things a lot easier to implement, anyway."

"Now I really want to become a Fate. I wonder if people from my world can even do it."

"I suspect you'll only find out if you spend a decade or two, or a century or two, working on it."

"Vampires are also immortal, unaging, and have very cool brain architecture even in addition to the eidetic memory."

"Sure. I'm still skeptical. A lot of fair folk are immortal and smart and they don't have that much a higher rate of Fates, given the population distribution."

"Well, maybe the brain architecture isn't that much of an advantage, but the 'immortal' part means I don't really mind taking a couple of centuries to do it."

"Almost makes me want to get in on this whole vampire thing."

"The horrible pain that lasts three days is very horrible. Plus humans smell and taste delicious enough that before the Empress took over and made killing people illegal most vampires, who are all formerly-human, became serial killers. On the other hand, eidetic memory, think much faster, all senses are ridiculously improved, super speed, strength, and durability, only way to kill you is by dismembering you and then setting you on fire, you get prettier, if you weren't a witch before you can sometimes become one, you sparkle in the sun—I should remind myself to ask you about the suns here actually—and there's this arguably bad part where if you see someone you'd be romantically compatible with you know it instantly and monogamously mate on them for life and it's reciprocal if they're a vampire and the bond is strong enough mind magic can't touch it."