"...Not relevantly, no. I barely had a family in my first life. Probably the closest I have to a vaguely familial relationship is...Urtho? He was my teacher and mentor. The pharaoh resurrected him and to my surprise he wanted to apologize about starting a war on me, so...I suppose we are on good terms now and I could invite him to the wedding. Anyway, what about you?" 

"I have a half-brother who's ten years older and runs a shipping business with my father in Corentyn. I have a sister who's four years younger, she's a wizard too, she teaches classes and does surveillance at the school we both went to. My mother works for the county on university enrollment arrangements. I have one living grandmother, she practiced law but I can't ask her about the marriage contract because she only did criminal and she's been retired for twenty years. I have four cousins. One of them is the one I borrowed my fake test scores from, she has a little cart where she sells drinks during the day and she uses Prestidigitation to keep them cold. One worked on the docks until he threw out his back and now he "borrows" money from the rest of us. The other two were clerics of Asmodeus and are in Hell now."

"I wonder if a Velgarth Healer would be able to fix your cousin's back; skilled ones are quite good with chronic injuries like that, even years later." Leareth shakes his head a little. "What do you figure they are going to think about your marriage to me?"  

"Probably scared? People are - always scared. I think they'll come. Maybe try to figure out how tariffs are going to be handled."

"How are tariffs usually handled?" Leareth is slightly unsure what that is. 

"Uh, so, everyone's setting them to maximize revenue, right, but if you make them really high then other countries retaliate by doing the same thing, so sometimes you have agreements to let each other's goods through, or else you really want something of theirs so you don't tax it much - probably Abadar has all kinds of opinions about this, it seems like the sort of thing where He definitely would -"

"Abadar dislikes tariffs, I think, but also has more nuanced opinions about how to handle them, and Osirion also has a number of researchers in economics who have opinions. I have quite a lot of notes on it which are in the backlog for 'decisions to discuss with Aroden.'" 

"That makes sense. It's just - the only thing they'd even think to ask the national government about. I guess maybe you'll be reforming the wizarding schools too but that's riskier to have an opinion about, right."

Nod. "That makes sense. ...What else do people normally know about each other before they get married?" 

"Uh.... sexual history I guess we have kind of covered? You spent thousands of years in a lonely war and then...met the pharaoh of Osirion?"

“That is probably all that really counts. I did sleep with more people a very very long time ago - after my, well, children-murdering immortality backup was the only one that survived, and the attempts I made to redo others met with extremely bad luck, I arranged to father large numbers of children, to guarantee I would always have surviving descendants. Mostly it was exactly the method you mentioned, before, many women were interested in having Gifted children, especially once the early Eastern Empire had enough resources that I could sponsor them for it. I do not remember any of it, though."  

He looks down. "- Also I...did some questionable things with mind-control and illusions in order to father some children who could not be traced down as mine. I was - being my usual ruthless self, not taking any chances, and it would be reasonable if you were disturbed by my - willingness to use people that way. I have no intention of ever doing it again, and I do not expect it to correlate with how I will treat you, now, but - it is part of my history." 

"That seems like a kind of vague way of saying whatever it is you're saying by it and I am not sure if we're thinking of the same things or not."

"I do not actually remember this at all, it was a very long time ago," Leareth says, as neutrally as possible. "According to my records," he thinks back, "there were about half a dozen instances where I used an illusion, similar to Alter Self here, to visit taverns and other places where women are sometimes interested in sleeping with men, while not appearing as myself, and I assume I would have read their minds to see who was interested. In another five cases I nudged it along with a compulsion-spell, roughly equivalent to Suggestion here, and in a subset of those also suggested that they not tell their husbands about the tryst. On two instances, for some reason, I impersonated a woman's husband - I did not record enough of the circumstances to know why that made sense, it seems like it would be much more risk and effort, but perhaps I knew the couples in question and thought it would not be suspicious. In all of the cases where a child resulted, about half - I had Healing in that life and could make it more likely - I arranged a non-suspicious way for them to receive unexpected extra money." 

She nods. "Does your immortality still require - you mentioned something having happened to it -"

"The Star-Eyed destroyed my access to that method and I am not going to set it up again. Aroden has ideas, and - in the worst case scenario, there are other Velgarth spells which would not be ideal, but which I would at least be able to set up here without being constantly plagued by suspicious coincidences, or fearing that the Velgarth gods were watching my every move and scheming to destroy them at the moment I needed them." 

She nods. 

"If you did that to me it would make it very hard to ever know what I was actually thinking and deciding. I think I would not be very good at this job under those conditions."

"...That makes sense. I - am capable of doing that, if it achieves my goals, but it would not achieve my goals at all here. Also Iomedae would be furious and that would actively impede my goals. I - am in fact trying not to be Evil, now, since I have better options, but I understand if that is not very reassuring, so - all I can say is that I am not stupid." 

Also the idea is really upsetting. Usually contemplating the various awful things he's done doesn't bother him that much, what would be the point now. His records didn't include whether he found it upsetting way back then at the beginning. 

"I know you're not stupid. 

Um. 

My history is less interesting than that."

Nod. "Hopefully it is more relevant to - trying to be a normal happy married couple, which I feel extremely unprepared for." 

"Dunno about that. I had a boyfriend in school. We didn't have penetrative sex because I knew a girl who got an abortion and then something went wrong and she couldn't have kids anymore, and it seemed like a stupid thing to be risking.  - had no idea how stupid, I guess. I had a - regular hookup, at the Worldwound. A girl because guys make it weird, afterwards."

"It sounds as though you were very careful and sensible. - Do girls make it less weird afterward?" 

"Well, they're less desperate, usually."

Nod. 

(This conversation is feeling painfully awkward.) 

"Do you want me to explain how normal peoples' sex lives work? It seems probably not important but I could try?"

"Sure."