There was a disease that just kept going around when he lived in the city of clams. He died before it got resolved - not from the disease, he had a sparring accident - but he heard eventually they got fed up and went through a lot of effort to get rid of it. Maybe the bigger settlements would want to know more.

Sure, the Amentans would be happy to bring them soap and help them figure out plumbing. - assuming plumbing is not also bad or dangerous in some way.

Mrr... The city of clams had soap and plumbing. Maybe not as much as Amenta does. Plumbing is kind of expensive, it's hard to get enough heavy grey soft metal for the pipes.

Oh, that kind of metal is actually poisonous to Amentans. It might or might not be poisonous to Dwellin, but Amentans wouldn't make their plumbing out of it, they like the orange kind for that.

Huh. He doesn't think it's poisonous to them. Anyway, he has to go get more souvenirs but he remembers how much copper they owe him after the haggling so far!

The trader leaves, but before long more of the locals are showing up again, including the old one who came out first yesterday and a couple of curious 2 and 3 year old-looking kids who try to go up and touch the shuttle.

Alien children! The Amentans are really charmed by the alien children and want to talk to them and give them presents (they don't have a ton of spare stuff along but somebody donates a necklace and somebody else offers a magnetic fidget toy.

The kids chatter very quickly without paying much attention to being understandable. An ALIEN necklace! The toy is cooool, one of the kids starts telling the others about magnets and compasses and sailing but the others just want to fidget with it. They briefly fight over the fidget toy until the old one yells that stealing is bad and they can share it. They heard the sky ship can FLY and that Amentans have weird clothes which is TRUE and that only grey hair people fight, are they just scared all the time because they can't fight? Also can they throw rocks for a game, are they better at throwing than Balori?

They are not scared all the time, and they will try throwing rocks, and they are interested in hearing about the locals' state of the art on sailing!

The 3-year-old-looking kid who was a sailor in a past life is happy to talk about sailing! Most of the rest of the kids scatter out into the field and race around trying to be the first one to pick up any thrown rocks!

Greys throw rocks, a grey with a sailor grandma talks sailing, they take a lot of pictures of cute alien children. A green wants to know if having a past life makes having new parents weird, or makes them more adult-ish than their new-soul peers.

"I'm sure I could do everything on my own, I'm very mature," the sailor-child insists.

"You cried about missing your mom when she went to help Fastpaw!"

"Did not!"

"Did so! Don't listen to them, I used to be a blacksmith and I'm gonna be again but not yet, being a kid is the same every time. I practice hammer swings so I'll get strong enough! I don't remember it all yet and I'm still little so I need my parents, though."

"...I like my now-parents better than my last parents, they were mean. I was mean too, I'm trying to get better."

Awwwwww they're so cute would they like to tell stories about their past lives??

Most of the kids will tell one or two stories. The former lives suggested by the kids' stories are sailor, blacksmith, farmer, hunter, soldier, singer, potter, mason, tailor, artist, trapper, hunter, farmer, merchant, sex worker (they say with a shrug that they'll probably remember what was so fun about it in a year or two). The smallest, who looks just over one, says she can't remember much except sitting in her past dad's lap with a ball of yarn, and one kid proclaims being new. Some of the adults contribute anecdotes too.

Do people often find their previous family members and friends? Does this affect how language evolves on their planet?

Not all the time, it's always a great moment when you find someone you knew ages ago! This adult goes drinking with someone she once killed in battle, sometimes, they're great friends. They don't think they understand what the Amentans are asking about languages? There's like three major ones and then dialects.

Are people usually born into a language group the same as the one they were previously in, or are a lot of people reincarnated such that they're multilingual?

That's kind of uncommon. Most people come back at least sort of close to where they died, or at least where they last touched a Well. Within three or four biomes' distance, most of the time. Sometimes right into the same village! Though the amount of time they spend dead also varies a lot.

A biome is a unit of distance?

Yep! The average diameter of one, four days' hiking at a fast pace with a light load in easy terrain like savannah. (They're about 160 miles across to satellite measurements). They're all more or less the same size as each other, so they make a good shorthand.

Why are they the same size as each other?

Nature just likes it that way, though old legends disagree on why (allowing people to live an easy life or a challenging one if they wish? something about a grand design for the world? separating it into different domains for different gods?), and puts them back if anything majorly changes them. Though it can take centuries to do that.

...huh. That definitely calls for some science experiments - is biome alteration a thing that also makes nature angry, or -

If you grow some foreign plants in your fields not really, but if you, like, set forest fires, yeah. It starts with the animals getting a lot more aggressive, so that's a warning sign to watch for.

Okay, and if the animals start getting aggressive what is the thing to do, just back off on whatever you were up to?

Yes. And maybe ask a nature-studier what they're doing wrong in case they can tell?