"Mm. A man with a cause." An oddly-phrased one. People who look like you. Was 'elves' too hard to say?

And he couldn't think of anywhere that would require that sort of thing, besides the Underdark. Or Netheril, maybe? That would explain the magic. Still, this might be another realm thing.

"I'm Astarion. I just arrived from Baldur's Gate." Via a kidnapping, a quick jaunt through the Hells, a crash landing, and a quest to control his psychic brain parasite. ...And then getting kidnapped again, capture by bandits, and a disastrous fox wedding.

"You've been here longer, then? Are they always like this? Because that would get so tiring."