A mage is summoned who knows how to do this, and she checks. 

She is not Gifted at all.

This...does not actually case Leareth to relax very much at all. 

:See if she can understand any of the languages we speak here: he instructs. Guessing the answer is no, because he's never heard of any of the people or places she was thinking about. 

The Healer, who's the widest-traveled of Leareth's staff currently dealing with this situation, sits and - pauses and asks permission to remove the woman's blindfold, it won't make her much less helpless but she would hate to be blindfolded on top of everything else while strangers talk at her. She gets Leareth's go-ahead after a moment of thought, does so, makes eye contact with the woman and tries variants on 'do you understand me?' in six different languages (three of which she is really not fluent in at all, but it'd be better than nothing). 

Where could Nefreti possibly have dumped her. Maybe this is Outer Sohaibek and if she dies here she won't go to Hell and she doesn't have scrying or Sending so that's adequate. Though in that case why tie her up.

She shakes her head at all the languages. 

Sigh. Establishing the ability to ask her questions seems pretty important even if it reveals more of their capabilities and interests. 

:Try Mindspeech: 

:Do you understand me?: the Mindspeaker attempts. 

Oh, great, they have telepathy. She hasn't interacted with it before but she has seen it cast; the woman didn't cast it, of course, but maybe she has it permanent, or is a weird kind of sorcerer born with it. :Yes, I understand you.: 

It doesn't actually seem like starting this on a hostile note will help in any way. :My name is Lacie. We're not going to harm you. What's your name?: 

It's a promising sort of lie to bother to start out with. :Sevar. Did Nefreti not tell you she was sending me.:

:No. In fact, one of the many questions we have for you is who this Nefreti Clepati person is, and where 'Sothis' is. We also don't recognize 'Outer Sohaibek', so I'm pretty sure you aren't there unless it's a foreign word for our region: Which, for now, she's going to leave entirely unspecified. 

:It's a planet. Not the one I'm from. The one I'm from is Golarion. I don't know if we're still there or not but I'd guess not.:

There is a pause while this is relayed to Leareth. 

:I - would also guess not: Lacie says slowly. :The world you are in now is called Velgarth. Some countries in it are, hmm - Rethwellan, Seejay, Velvar, the Eastern Empire, Acabarrin, Ruvan, Hardorn...: (She is semi-deliberately leaving out Valdemar and other regions of particular interest to Leareth's plans.) :You don't recognize any of those, I'm guessing: 

:You'd have to be from Arcadia or Tian Xia which are separate continents, but you don't look Arcadian or Tian and a wizard with Telepathy would probably have at least heard of Nefreti Clepati.:

:...I am not sure if 'wizard' refers to what we mean by mage-gift, and - also I am not a mage at all, just a Mindspeaker. Can you explain what wizards do?: 

(Lacie is continuing to carefully read Sevar's mind.) 

She translates this to herself as 'a psion', and is suddenly more interested, she has never met one and was not entirely sure the adventurers who told her about them weren't making things up. :If you're not a wizard I'm less sure you'd have definitely heard of Nefreti Clepati. Wizards have to be very powerful to do a telepathy-spell, powerful enough they'd also have Sending and Teleport and they'd want to learn from other powerful wizards and they'd have books from the Inner Sea - where I'm from - even if they hadn't travelled there. Ps-mindspeakers might not. 

Wizards ...learn how to use arcane magic to do things they want to do. It takes years of study. I am a wizard.:

...Well, that could be a foreign term for Mindspeakers - odd that an entire continent might have never heard of Mindspeakers, maybe Leareth would know more about the plausibility of that...

:What is arcane magic, and how does studying it work?:

:That's what we call all magic that doesn't come directly from the gods. I think other places use different classifications, I know Azlant did. You learn how spells stabilize and how to design and construct them efficiently and you get a spellbook with guides to the spellforms you can cast. The standard curriculum in my country is six years, starting when you're fourteen, and you're supposed to pick up simple spells right away and have second-circle ones, which are more complicated, by the time you graduate.:

That sounds nothing like how mage-gift is trained, except that fourteen is about the right starting age. 

:Leareth, should we explain...?:

Sigh. :I - do not love it, but I think we are unlikely to clarify the confusion here unless we reveal somewhat more about ourselves: 

:The mages we have here: Lacie says seriously to Sevar, :have an innate Gift that awakens around adolescence, usually between twelve and fourteen, and mages can train in a wide variety of schools and techniques, but - none that especially resemble what you just described. I am not sure any Gift we know of resembles this 'arcane magic' actually, unless it is a very odd foreign way of training mages. ...What is Azlant?:

:Ancient kingdom destroyed more than eight thousand years ago. If your thing is inborn then it's not wizardry and we'd classify it as sorcery. Anyone who's smart enough can be a wizard. My country screens every child and gives free wizard schooling to all the ones who are smart enough to pick it up.: Pride, and homesickness, and a whole bundle of complicated feelings on top of that -

:Eight - thousand years...: 

A long pause. Some back and forth with Leareth. 

:Have you ever heard of a catastrophic magical event that happened about eighteen hundred years ago. It affected our continent most but everywhere in the world would have noticed it, I am fairly sure, so if you have never heard any mention then you are almsot certainly from elsewhere: 

:Eighteen hundred years ago?: 47 minus 18 is 29, in 2900 A.R....what happened in 2900 A.R...she thinks nothing at all of note. It's about when the god of drunks ascended. :I have never heard any mention.:

:Huh: