"What's the - category of the sort of thing, here?"

"What's going on in people's heads, what things they're affected by and how, which things they're good at and bad at and under what circumstances. Like how I noticed the difference in how our chess skills are or aren't impaired by distraction in the first place. Or how I asked what the right mindset is to have when executing someone, because I expected there was a good chance I could figure out how to have it."

"That seems like a personnel management skill but you do not obviously manage a lot of personnel."

"Yeah. I would love to have more personnel to manage but I've been pretty reluctant to ask the civilians I've met so far to join me in my life of being frequently under attack by vampires. I did successfully lead my graduating class at school in a delaying action against Giant Snake Mayor long enough to take him out using large amounts of concealed explosives, but, relatedly, most of those people are planning on leaving town pretty soon - it's customary to go do more schooling elsewhere after graduating from the kind of school that's for teenagers."

"- what age of teenager are we talking about here?"

"I'm eighteen, and that's the normal age to graduate at. Some will be a bit older or younger, depending on what time of year they were born and the particulars of their journey through the educational system."

"Huh. That's more school than Cheliax manages for most people."

"I think my society might overall tend to put people through a little too much school. But the ensuing literacy rates are very nice."

"It's useful. I commanded a lot of men who wouldn't read if they didn't have to but vanishingly few who couldn't, and my understanding is that foreigners on Golarion mostly can't. But I hope your school system is managing this less... evilly."

"I would overall not call our school system evil even though it does certainly cause some harm, or at least fail to prevent some. I'd venture to guess that a school system run by Hell probably tries to encourage rather than discourage children from being cruel to each other?"

"Yes."

"Yeah. Our school system tries to discourage children from being cruel to each other and is not as good at it as I'd like."

"...I suppose I don't know how much they do it if no one is artificially increasing the amount."

"Definitely some. I might not be the best source on how much because I've generally tried to make peace when I saw that sort of thing get started and I have, tautologically, never been in a class that didn't have me in it."

"Most people finish school in Cheliax by sixteen, sometimes twelve in some places. Twelve's also when potential wizards are diverted into preparatory academies."

"Ah, yeah, because of wizards needing to learn their spells?"

"I think they start on actual spells a bit later on but they're smarter, so the academics can be pushed harder including the prerequisite math."

"Makes sense."

"The idea behind teaching me Prestidigitation was that if I wound up being a village cleric the laundry wizard would not have leverage in the form of refusing to do my laundry."

"...huh. Yeah, I guess I can see the logic there. But then instead of becoming a village cleric you went to the Worldwound - on purpose, or pawn-fashion?"

"My mentor needed to send some junior clerics into the army and I don't actually remember for sure if she told me to go or if I suggested it or whether it would have mattered either way. I do remember that once we were through with basic army training I offered to trade someone who did not want her Worldwound assignment."

"Do you remember your reasons?"

"...not clearly. I think she would have had some pretext to be angry with me for hearing that she was dissatisfied with it, something like that."

"Huh." She thinks about that one for a few seconds, absently making another bad move while she's at it.

"It may have helped me not be too deep into Evil to climb out again later, it's probably the least evil posting available to Chelish military because of all the containing demons to protect the world involved."