Word of mouth doesn't travel quite that fast in Wildemount, yeah. [Or anywhere really. Twenty years gone, and do you think anyone even talks about the fact that a would-be god tried to properly ascend on the Material Plane in Vasselheim? Absolutely not. Vasselheim is on the other side of the world.]

You get the people who are properly educated and then you get the students of the open road like me, which is about the majority. And even then, most of the academics are going into history and magic and... tinkering. [He shakes his head, a little overwhelmed but amused at the same time.] I can't get used to how different everyone's worlds are and yet everyone is still exactly like I expect them to be.