"Just locals, far as I am aware. To be clear I'm more aware than random people but I have not yet stalked Pharasma to her house and loomed over her with a deicidal sharp object and demanded a full explanation, so I could be missing something."

"We have lots to do but scrying the dead from other places is definitely on the list."

<Thank you.>

"Does she live in a house?"

"That's a good question, I'll have to consider expanding my stalking if I can't find any houses with her in them."

(He explains who Pharasma and the other deities are to Matirin.)

"Your mom?" Cam pulls up a family photo. "Adjusting for the ears and color -"

"That's my folks, yeah, is this really the time to have a sitdown about my mixed feelings about my folks? She outperformed her society a li'l bit, if that makes you feel better."

"I was actually expecting her to specifically be better about kids. My mom adopts dead kids in Limbo."

"Well, you know, infanticide isn't all that bad if there's someplace they go where somebody like that will adopt them. I'm mostly not upset on his behalf. He's probably fine."

<Do I always have the six younger siblings?>

"Yes. Even in societies where it's an unusual number, I think."

"It's deeply unusual in Anitam."

"Were yours sisters?" she asks Anaander.

"What a bizarre question. No, a mix."

"I don't think it's bizarre, the phenomenon at work could use any manner of weird parameter to decide how to manifest. It's also not very important that you're all tall, and yet."

"All yours are brothers?" he asks Aitim.

"Yes."

"My parents had girls on purpose because they could inherit."

"Mine did the same thing, except that boys could inherit."

"Would it be a very personal question to ask what sort of mix, Anaander?"

"Female, male, female, male, female, female, female."

"Huh. That feels - less than random, actually..."

"What do you mean?"

"I didn't register a guess beforehand, which would have been more responsible, but I think I expect intuitively that in cases where there's a mix, if we find more of those, Maitimos and Curufinwës will match Fëanáros, Tyelcormos won't - that one surprised me a little so obviously my intuition isn't very reliable - Macalaurës will be male either way, Carnistirs and Ambarussa could go either way."