He does that.

"Your healing aura does the personality thing," he observes. "Faidre, fetch your descendants, they're going to want answers."

He laughs. He goes off to do that.

"The wildlife here is really something," Taliar remarks, examining the interior of the planet with his sensory power.

"You sound just like Kyralaine."

"Can't wait to meet her."

"I'm sure it won't be long. In the meantime, I would like to be better informed."

So he sets to explaining the multiverse.

He's really starting to see what the peal gets out of their working-with-alts strategy. An alt of Esarkan or his grandfather is just... so familiar, so comfortable to interact with. It could easily get to be a habit.

Faidre comes back.

"I found descendants," he says.

"So this is the guy who's radiating my personality all over the planet."

"It's fascinating."

"It's weird."

"Okay, which ones of you are which - I assume you're Ashras - "

"Inlaith."

"Elarron."

"Nice to meet you! I'm Taliar. I'm probably going to save the world."

Inlaith gestures to Taliar's wings. "What did you do?"

"...Saved a different world."

"Are there any of those going spare?"

"I actively welcome your help with the saving of this one, it's going to be a bit of a project. We might want to have you all become soulbearers first, though."

"In case one of them starts off with a useful power?"

"Yeah."

Faidre leaves, perhaps in search of more relatives.

"Useful magic powers? Count me in," says Ashras.

"There's drawbacks - you know what, I'll just - " and he sends Ashras a summary of how soulbearers work. He includes the part where you can fuck yourself up a little if you try to manifest your soul before you're twenty, but, for fairness's sake, also the part where he totally did it at seventeen and was fine.