That's very brave of him. Does he have a designation they can use to refer to him to each other? Something the crows say is fine.

His pen name is traveler, if they want to use that. He's curious how they usually do names now, that's not something one crafter would generally ask another.

Usually one's parents give someone a given name - Sun's is "Inua" - which tends to have once meant something in an older version of the language but be chosen mostly for sound. If there are several people in a given context with the same name, they pick adjectives - Sun's never needed hers but had "Dazzling" in reserve if she needed it. And when someone chooses a career, they pick a name that is suited to that career. A lot of careers have a few standard ones, but you can always do a metaphor or foreign word or something instead if you want. Sun means 'person', because she studies people.

Neat! He should write that down - he does, adding some tiny glyphs to one of the curls on top of his walking stick.

He writes; not, like, literature or anything, but he goes lots of places and sees lots of things and it's useful to have that information in libraries for other people to find - he assumes they won't mind if he writes about them?

That's fine! They'd be curious to see what he writes.

Sure, once he has something.

So, hm - oh, what's their world like? Any obvious differences from this one?

Amenta has less land area, longer years, more but smaller moons, and of course different wildlife, would he like to see pictures?

Yes!

Amenta from space! Amenta from space when it's night on the continent! Amentan moons! Amentan cities! Amentan animals!

Wooooah it's so lit up at night! The animals are so colorful!

Yeah, animals here are a lot drabber, they're not sure why! Though the biologists are finding some neat ones near the equator (very carefully).

Have they found the parrots yet, some places have parrots instead of crows and they're much brighter.

They have found some of those, yeah!

Cute, aren't they? And there's a bunch of different species that talk and every so often one of them figures out some really simple crafting, it's very neat.

Does anyone have any idea why this planet's species can do magic?

If they do he doesn't know about it. Among species on this planet it has to do mostly with intelligence, they think - that doesn't really explain prairie dogs very well but maybe they're smarter than they seem and they don't talk much - and he would have expected any species as smart as crafters to be able to craft, no matter where they were from.

Prairie dogs can do it? Wow.

Maybe there is some kind of magical substance on this planet and Amentans who grow up here will be able to craft.

Maybe! If so it's everywhere; it's obviously ubiquitous on land, and seasteading isn't all that common but he knows there've been children raised out there with no problems.

Could be in the air! Or the sunshine, who knows. They'll try to figure it out.

Here's his helicopter!

He blinks at it when it gets close enough to be uncomfortably loud and takes a portion of the top of his walking stick to turn into earmuffs; lone sassafras does the same with her backrest. He goes to get more crafting-material from his vehicle, turns back to the helicopter, and - yeah, he can't approach it. Does someone want to guide him?

Sure, how can they do that?

...one sec...

That's very disorienting to try to answer when he doesn't feel sure who the machine or the territory belong to. But, uh, some suitable person, they can figure that part out, can ask him to follow them and then walk him over there. They'll probably need to explicitly tell him he can get in if he wants, too.

They summon the pilot out, and she introduces herself and says, "Will you follow me? You're welcome aboard!" into the speech to text program they have for talking to crafters.

Sure, thanks!

It goes without a hitch from there, and then he's on the helicopter!

They have earmuffs for people inside the helicopter, but he seems to already have his own. Up up and away! They land on the roof of a skyscraper.