"Just so. And hence my inevitable and unregrettable correctness."

"We're going to need a larger sample size, for true surety."

"Hopefully the next you is of better temperament."

She nods. "I kind of want to apologize for being even vaguely associated with her, honestly... Not backing off when she identified alts is - very odd, for an us, I think."

"There was... something more going on there. That creature feeding on the souls..."

"It was growing. It felt - I'd have called it a god of the void, in my world."

"The lure of such power can corrupt."

"I'm - not sure that's what was happening. But I'm also clearly a non-central us in many ways..."

Shrug.

"I don't know for sure. I'd say something like that would have been the reason if it were one of me, in that position."

"I think if you give us a lot of power we get more people we can be assholes to, but - it feels like Acererak was... The opposite of the difference between Hisame and I, very extremely. Not just no one to anchor her, but - no desire for an anchor, including herself."

"I wonder if her history is recorded anywhere."

She nods. "I suspect Elatra would be the most likely to know, and it might be somewhere in those books we got."

"A topic of conversation for tonight. Assuming she's done with... whatever it is she's doing."

"Yeah. Unless we want to hit the library here, we won't find much just speculating, and it'd be better to start in on books after getting what she already knows."

"I would, separately, like to hit the library here."

"Seems like there'll be some quite interesting ones."

"I hope so."

Some more wandering around takes them past the denser centers of town, past more run down areas, to temples and smaller buildings built into the cliff walls.

"Anywhere other than the libraries you'd like to explore?"

"Not pressingly."

"Well, we can head back to one of the larger ones, then. Find somewhere to start, at least."

"Sounds like a plan."

She nods.

The biggest library near their inn is geared more towards arcane references. It has mythological scenes painted on the walls, depicting heroes and monsters and battles and natural disasters mixed among detailed paintings of the surrounding rainforest. They're only allowed at the non-fragile collection, though Mora's able to bluff her way in as a scholar and they have less supervision than some others. 

Handy little girl, isn't she?

Heee. She is a girl of many talents.

And: books! There's some introductory texts on magic and history and politics and religion, though they mostly so far assume you're actually from this plane. There's one planeswalker's guide to the local plane but it still assumes your home world works the same in terms of gods and magic systems, while explaining the concept of gravity being a consistent direction and the planet being finite.

...Odd set of things to vary.