[ He barks out a laugh at that, a short, amused “ha!” Arenvald has been called a lot of things in his life, but “formal” has certainly never been one of them. ]

I’ll have to introduce you to my friend Alphinaud, then. When it comes to formality, you’ll find he blows me clear out of the water.

[ Being a scholar and a diplomat both will do that. ]

Ah. A pity, that. No one I could even get a few coins from at all?

[ Arenvald is beginning to wonder just how lucky he really is to have friends from home here. Connor is all by himself, and so too is Cayde, it seems. ]