"We've tracked that station down; it was Saratopia Station, abandoned in 2023 along with many others of the era since they were put up hastily in the post-Revelation chaos without all the design care we use today. Luckily, it wasn't flung out of the solar system since it's not in a contested orbital, and it kept all its air. And then what happened?"

"I spent a couple of days looking through it and trying to figure out where I was, and found the emergency summoning circles and figured out how to summon a fairy to get me down. Luckily I'm in the habit of keeping some trade goods with me - my world has magic items of various sorts, and I have a couple that let me keep more things with me than I can carry. The fairy dropped me off in London, which is very impressive, good architecture."

"You got very lucky, not all abandoned stations still have their emergency circles. What sorts of things did you bring with you?"

"Oh, a variety of things, you never know what's going to be valuable in a new place - pottery and jewelry and some fancy clothing and spices and so on. I gave him a few bolts of rare fabric and some seeds I'd been collecting for a friend."

"Do you think the seeds are of plants we don't have here?"

"I can't be sure, but we do seem to have some things you don't; it wouldn't surprise me."

"Like the dwarves and goliaths you mentioned."

"Mmhmm. We have dozens of mundane kinds of people. And I hear you don't have any magical beings at all, aside from daeva; they're not especially common, where I'm from, but there's lots of types, and plenty of them live on the material plane with everyone else, and some of those are people too."

"When you say material plane, what does that mean?"

"The kind of place you'd consider normal - where the humans live and things are basically like Earth. We also have realms that we call Heaven and Hell - I'm not sure how similar they are to yours, my translation magic is behaving a little strangely with your daeva terminology - and things like the elemental planes of earth and air and fire and water, and the ethereal plane that overlaps with the material plane and is where ghosts get stuck. Most of those have people living on them, too, but they're mostly not safe for humanoids without magical protection."

"Ghosts! What can you tell us about ghosts?"

"I don't know much of the technical details, I generally call in a specialist when I find a ghost that needs more than a bit of conversation and favor. But they're people who've died and not moved on to their afterlife for whatever reason, and gained some magic in the process - they can be dangerous, especially if you try to take their grave goods, but more often they just need some help with whatever's keeping them there."

"So typically people from the material plane have afterlives?"

"Universally, as far as I know."

"What's known about that?"

"The afterlives are particular planes - heaven and hell are two of them; there are nine in total. It's possible to physically go there, though as I mentioned before it's dangerous for mortals. Sufficiently powerful clerics can resurrect people, though they usually don't remember their time in the afterlife, and we can't resurrect people from other planes who don't get afterlives - our demons and angels don't, though they also don't usually die in the first place. Certain powerful magic can also interfere with the process."

"Huh! If people don't remember their time in the afterlife, and travel is dangerous, do you know much about what it's like there?"

"I haven't made a study of it, but I know a little. I can introduce you to someone knows more once we have more contact between the worlds, if you'd like."

"That sounds absolutely fascinating. As far as we know, people here don't have an afterlife at all."

He nods. "I might see if there's anything I can do about that. I imagine the goddess of the dead will have some interest in the subject."

"Mythologically in our world, 'Hell' as an afterlife rather than a place demons live is a pretty unpleasant prospect."

"As I understand it it's not very pleasant in ours, either. I'm not sure there's a better way of handing people who think that being unpleasant to each other is the right way to live than to give them a place to do it, though."

"I can see the online debate now. Are there other godly interferences we should keep an eye out for?"

"Well, we already know Fharlanghn is on his way," he grins at the camera and touches his pendant, "that's my god, the god of travel. And I won't be surprised if Pelor puts in an appearance; he's the god of light, strength, healing, and community, and the most popular god among humans in my world - humans are unique among mundane species for not having a patron god, but he takes some of the same role. He may want to set up a church, or assign some clerics here to talk to anyone who's interested in him. I don't expect the other species' patrons to come, at least not right away - they'll take an interest if you have much immigration, but not before, I suspect. The rest I'm less sure of - there are maybe a dozen major gods aside from the species' patrons, but well over a hundred overall, and they vary nearly as much as humans do in terms of personality and habits."

"Would you expect a lot of interest in immigration?"