Well, it's a bad sketched map... so maybe?

(He doesn't think so.  If you knew the shape of the Dark Lands' coast at all, you wouldn't be missing the horn.  And there're so many other things like that missing too.)

Wanda has no idea Tian Xia exists, let alone what gods are worshipped there! The only thing she's sure about is that Pharasma the Creator is universal.

So: spiral, nodnod; everyone else, apologetic shrug?

... No, Ulmo is the one who's everywhere there's sea.  And the others are the ones who're definitely in Valinor.  She shakes her head.

"The map doesn't look right anyway.  I have a hard time believing anyone who can draw the coasts would draw them like this..."  He shakes his head.  "And then there's that magic we saw in the distance hiding things... Did you hear of those philosophers who were guessing there might be people other places that aren't Arda?  I don't think we're on Arda anymore."

Miriel freezes in shock.

She'd heard of them too - she'd scoffed at them.  Till now.

Wanda is sympathetic, but she has no idea what was Zimraphel found so shocking! Did the poor woman just realize she's on the wrong continent?

They're halfway through her spell, and she doesn't feel like she has really helped these people. She starts listing every country-name she knows, presumably these people haven't come hear from over the ocean.

East is Taldor. North are Galt and Isger. West is Cheliax (grimace, and a sign to ward off evil). South across the sea is Osirion. Also there's Lastwall somewhere - another name that's probably translated, since it just means 'last wall' in Taldane - and, uh... Mendev?

She tries to mime that soon her spell will stop working, the same way she mimed earlier that it would start working after she spent a similar amount of time praying.

She hasn't heard of any of those either.

Which she wouldn't have, if this's a totally different world.

"At least the Valar are known here too..." she murmurs.  "Unlike those philosophers were saying."  And that's a comforting thought.

"Well, that's a grim thought."  He can't get away from them even now!

... and she'll only be helping them for a little while?  "And what happens with us after that?"  He points to himself and Miriel, and spreads his arms questioningly.

Why is he asking her what to do? If he told her what he wanted to do she'd tell him how!

Wanda tries to mime the simplest options. Food, drink, sleep, go in that building (the local inn), pay with coin. After the Sun goes down and up again, Wanda can understand them again. (Briefly.)

That way is Almas, which is a big city - um, if this village has this many houses (she quickly counts them on her fingers), then Almas has many many more bigger buildings (she spreads all her fingers quickly several times over, and tries to gesture 'large house').

...no wait, she'll sketch this too. Almas is a big walled city with tall buildings! In Almas there are many stick-figure people! Some of them have conical wizard hats! If they give the conical-hat people many many coins, they will understand them and speak to them, all day long.

Actually, not just conical hat people! In Almas there are people (drawn twice as big as the other stick figures) with most of these other symbols (scales, bird, sun, sword) and if they give them coins they can also talk to them better than Wanda can.

Hopefully some of that came across?

Well, Miriel supposes it's good they have multiple options!

"I'd like to get to the city... but I want to know more about this world first.  And the countries here... if there might be a war between here and Cheliax, I don't want to be surprised..."

Pharazon nods.  "I don't want to come to the city as an ignorant supplicant.  Ideally I'd like to learn this language first..."

Everyone thinks there might be (another) war with Cheliax, but everyone has been thinking that her whole life, so: probably not this year? Wanda tries to mime this, but has no idea how much she can get across.

If he wants to learn the local language, going to the city is really his best bet! Well, she supposes he could stay here and pay some local child to speak to him all day, but that seems like a surprising choice. There are many more children without pay or food in the city! This town's children are well cared for!

...she's not going to tell these people what to do, though. They're rich and independent and can pay their way. Do they have any more questions for her before her spell runs out?

Miriel's confusion finally boils over.  "Why can you only mime with us once a day?  And can you understand us or not?"

She can mime with them all day! Well, not really, she has other things to do, but she can.

And she can understand them, but only for a few more minutes. Because it's a spell, granted by the spiral-goddess Pharasma, and it's running out.

understand, she tries to repeat in Adunaic, and nods emphatically.

Do these people not know that spells only last so long and can only be cast a few times per day Wanda assumes everyone knows that, in the same way that everyone knows that water flows downhill and the sun goes around the sky, even rich foreign people.

Is she asking why the spell doesn't last longer? Wanda, spiral, small (two fingers a little bit apart). Almas, spiral, much bigger! Bigger, sun go farther in the sky!

"Do you mean... Ulmo..." (he's not sure that's who it is, and he really hopes it isn't) "... pays more attention to larger cities here?  But what does that have to do with understanding us?"

"And you can understand us but not really speak to us?  How does that even work?"

No, no, Pharasma is the same everywhere. She (Wanda) is small. This stick-figure with a spiral pendant is BIG. And is in Almas. As are all these other big stick figures with other symbols or with conical hats.

Yes! She can understand but not speak! Well, she can identify words they say and repeat them, she could learn their language eventually that way. Like this:

That work! How that work? Pharasma understand. Wanda not understand.

Actually. Why can't Wanda cast a spell to make them understand her? She only made 2nd circle two months ago (there was a really difficult childbirth one village over) and she doesn't know all the new spells by heart yet, but she could pray for it tomorrow and see if she gets something.

Tomorrow (she mimes), Wanda - pray (folded hands) - Pharasma. Then they understand Wanda. Maybe? Yes, no? Equivocal shrug.

"'Pharasma' is... giving you magic to understand us?  That's not how the Valar usually do things where we're from!"

Emphatic nod, to the first half.

The gods... don't usually give people spells where they're from? That's extremely confusing and Wanda is very much not understand about it. Pharasma can't just... not give spells to anyone in a country! How would babies be born safely without healing?

Unless... Are these people possibly from Geb, land of the horrible Lich-King? They don't look undead!

Wanda resolves to make sure these two are included in her midday channel, and that someone watches them until then, if they don't decide to leave the town after all.

Also, her comprehend languages has just expired. She can at least get that much across, because she now has their words for understand and gods and that works (she wasn't bothering to track all the rest).

"I hope we can talk with you tomorrow!" Miriel says, probably uselessly.

So.  He's in someplace where the Valar regularly give out power to people.  Not just more strength and wisdom to a country-full of people like they did to his ancestors, but noticeable power to individual people.

He doesn't like this.

He doesn't think they'll like him once they see what sort of person he is.

... Though he is feeling good about how Miriel was the person to shock and pain that Valar-empowered lady!

"Thank you," he says politely, with a nod.

She mimes that she can't understand him anymore, but the polite nod is appreciated!

Do they look like she can help them with anything else or can she leave now?

"I'm going to see what the inn is like," Miriel says with a sigh.  She didn't want to found her self-identity on the comforts of royalty, but the thought of suddenly losing all of them does hurt.  "At least it should be vaguely civilized... I think."