"Everything I can get my hands on. Science and magic particularly, since they're the most exciting, but I was a history major in my home universe so I'm picking up a little of that too."

"I see. I suspect several of our historians would be fascinated to hear about your world."

"I only have one semester of history to offer them, but I'll do my best!"

"It's more than literally nothing!"

"True."

"And I'm assuming you learned nonzero things about history before college."

"Yeah but it was mostly Laefarrin history and Laefair is just not globally important."

"And you expect this to deter nerds who aren't planning to ever go to your world anyway?"

"Okay, maybe not."

"And you have an immortal king, that hasn't happened here in over two and a half millenia. I mean. Unless you count Atennesi, which..."

"Technically what we have is a dead king, but I take your point."

"So far your descriptions do not imply that this has a functional difference!"

"Most kinds of undead don't grow, metabolize, age, or heal naturally, and healing energy has a reversed effect on them. Liches in particular are pretty much walking talking corpses."

"I meant like politically."

"Oh, being ruled by a lich-king has lots of political effects."

"Like what?"

"No one trusts him because liches have a horrible reputation. Sometimes that extends to people not trusting his subjects either; sometimes they just assume he's oppressing us in some horrible way."

"That sounds annoying."

"You're very right about that."

"So what's your country actually like besides 'not horribly oppressive'?"

"It's nice! I like it! Admittedly I might have an unusual experience in that King Eisar is a friend of the family and I've known him since before I could walk or talk, but I think it's also reasonably nice for people without that kind of connection."

"What do you like about it? You get to see all the things I love about Genosha."

He looks away.

"Sorry."

"The underlying problem is not at all your fault."