This is so choice. I am terrified for this sister who seems like she's not a terrible person but is going to draw aggro.
Her whole fucking life is about to be ruined. Hats off to the author.
I will never understand this particular idea and set-up. Adventuring parties keep climbing by surviving, being conservative, and minimizing risk. Yet here you have a guy who can turn nearly any encounter into a talking encounter. Can you imagine the number of random 'oops, stumbled across this...
Y'all caught up on the vagaries of the aesthetic sense of one nation. Their world is not a monolith, which is great.
Didn't really hook me till the Willendorf negotiations, I debated dropping it upon learning the identity of the Big Bad.
However, I am very very glad I stuck in for the...