"Was the Tarrasque needing swordfighting also a result of Aroden dying?" And/or Seshka's mom's fault but maybe she had better not say that part out loud. 

"No, it was more recent than that."

"Oh, I wasn't assuming that anything that was a result of Aroden dying necessarily had to happen right away after he did, but fair enough."

"I suppose it could have been but not in a way known to me."

"Reasonable. Any idea what happened to the Tarrasque after she swordfought it?"

"...well, she won, or so I'm told."

"--Well, I rather assumed, from context, but I mean, like, what does winning a swordfight with the Tarrasque look like--did it disappear, is its corpse moldering around in public, was it bound somewhere, does Cheliax have a nifty new palace like Osirion's Dome--"

"I don't know, the teleportation monster attacked before I reached Westcrown to receive fresher evidence."

"--Oh, okay, it was that recent."

"Worldwound rumor is none of timely, reliable, or complete."

"Well, that's fair. Do you know anything else about the archmage-team?"

"It's a married couple, the archmages Cottonet - the husband Elie Cottonet is a Galtan wizard and his wife Naima an Osirian arcane healer of some kind. They have children. There's the Inquisitor Shawil, also Osirian. - Osirion is Abadar's theocracy, if I didn't specify. There's the Queen, I don't remember her original name though I'd probably recognize it since it's related to her claim to the throne, but her regnal name is Aspexia III, she's also Galtan. There's another archmage, but some kind of sorcerer whose spells stop at what's topologically sixth circle, with an exceptionally powerful familiar, and I can't remember that one's name. They sometimes adventure with the most powerful paladin since Iomedae, Her man Alexeara Cansellarion, but I don't think he's a routine party member."

"--Oh, huh, I figured if Abadar and Asmodeus both set up theocracies in the immediate aftermath of Aroden's death, and Asmodeus got Cheliax, then Abadar would end up with Taldor."

"Taldor persists in a smaller but as far as I know otherwise recognizable form."

"I would say good for them but I'm not sure 'recognizably Taldor' is a great thing to aim at. ...I guess 'Taldor, but smaller' is less likely to have Taldor's, you know, expansionist, tendencies."

"I don't know a lot about it, they don't have a major presence at the Worldwound."

The amount of specifically Worldwound-focused he is does not make the fact that her mother went extremely evil less awkward. Oh well. 

"D'you know specifically what kind of arcane healer Naima is? Witch, song-sorceress, some other sorcerer varietal?"

"I haven't been to see her in person, she does some kind of circuit between major cities and I don't spend a lot of time in major cities. I haven't heard anyone saying she sings. I don't know if she prepares or not. She has a dog familiar, I think the dog sometimes... also does a circuit of major cities..."

"Might be a witch, we do familiars. Might also be a weird sorcerer I haven't heard of. It's really hard to rule out weird sorcerers."

"It is. I can't rule out her being a witch but have not heard her specifically identified as one."

Nod nod. "My fiance is a sorcerer with a bloodline that gives cures, but he doesn't have a familiar and his ancestor is one of the local idiosyncratic Outsiders."

What is the normal thing to say about that. "Congratulations."

"Hm? --Oh, I was using that as an example, not," she waves a hand, "trying to bring up the engagement."

"Ah. I think the party member whose name I forget is some kind of weird sorcerer, which, I suppose, might make it more likely that the Arch-healer is a witch, since apparently assertions that members of the group are weird sorcerers can and do escape at times."

Nod. "My party has multiple weird sorcerers but it's also bigger than that."