"Is there an identifiable weirdest similarity?"

"I think the weirdest similarity is how many things, in aggregate, there are that I'm familiar with. Like, not only do we have specific plant species that I'm familiar with, 'Seshka' is a name both here and in Sarkoris where I'm from, and so is 'Alfirin,' and dishes I remember my original mother making are in common circulation here, and some of the magic stuff is really different but some of it is similar enough that it's a weird coincidence given the things that are different, and--" she breaks off and then waves a hand. "A bunch of other stuff that you probably don't have the context to have any idea what I'm talking about." 

"Sarkoris... is... gone," he says.

"What!" 

Oh, fuck, Mom made decisions and also choices, didn't she. 

"That's where the Abyssal portal opened."

"--The one that was caused by Aroden dying?" Honestly if Sarkoris being gone isn't Mom's fault that's a huge relief--and actually the planar barrier to the abyss tearing open in Sarkoris makes a certain amount of sense, it was always thinner there, that was the whole point of sticking around to do research on it. ...If Sarkoris is gone and it's not Mom's fault she really hopes Mom got clear of it when it happened.

"Yes."

"Oh. Well. ...I hope people managed to evacuate, but also I hope it nailed the practice of witchhunting into a coffin and then burned it so nobody could animate its corpse." 

"One hears about it coming up in Mendev but it could be garbled rumors of anti-demonic inquisitions, I haven't spent much time there."

"Well, I sure hope they're being reasonable to people, but, uh, demons are reasonable to inquisit against and wizards* are not."

*Villarosan word that encompasses both witches and wizards, as well as cunning-based sorcerers; denotes arcane casting but is also used derogatorily to refer to people with a higher cunning:wisdom ratio than is good for them.

"If you say so. I don't have a very good history education so I don't know what might have been going on at the time."

"...Well, historically speaking, it's how I personally died, so it looms a bit large."

What are normal condolent things to say. Things that don't rely on figuring out if he has any specific emotions in here. "That makes sense. I wish I could tell you more about how things have progressed since then."

"It would be nice, but--I don't want to be ungrateful. Even just the information you've provided is really valuable; just being from Golarion is really useful." 

"Are there more things I should be describing for you?"

"I think I would like to know which countries drowned?"

"Lirgen and Yamasa."

"...Those're in Garund, right?"

"Yes, northwestern Garund."

So, still a tragedy, but not anywhere she knows enough about that she can usefully update her model of the world. "What has prophecy being broken looked like?"

"...based on only very thin evidence I think - paladins and clerics might fall more often now? A couple more gods established theocracies around that time. Fewer omens and more visions, though still not a lot of visions."

"Ah, okay. I thought it might have more obvious consequences, for being one of the first things brought up. Who set up theocracies?" Probably someone picked up Cheliax and/or Taldor, with Aroden gone? That might be unrelated to prophecy specifically, actually.

"Asmodeus and Abadar."

"Asmodeus!" What the fuck???