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[Hello Savrou, did you miss vague ~~shit~~posting about random questions? No? Here, have another! Only this one is with audio, and no odd name other than "Saber." Sadly, the man on the other side is somewhat unused to talking for deep or thought-provoking conversations. Someone help him.]

I have a question.

[...wait, he's supposed to ask everything at once on this thing. Right. This is... definitely not something he's used to. He starts again, trying not to sound too stiff.]

Do you have stories? [Uh. Hm. That still doesn't quite explain what he's looking for. Hang on, let him clarify.] By that I mean your worlds. Your homes. They could be recent, or from the past. Histories, legends. Fairytales. Any of those.

Do you remember any of them? What were they like? [Clearly, this isn't weird to ask anyone, right? It's normal? Siegfried has no idea what "normal" means. He's really bad at this.]

There were many, back in my home. Some faded over time, and others remained. It depended on where you lived or where you were from. [A beat, as if an afterthought:] And if you wanted to believe it or not, I suppose.

[IS THIS HOW YOU HOLD A CONVERSATION he hopes he's doing this right.]

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Maybe it was the same thousands of years ago in my world. A thousand years ago we had...corporations, and countries. Back when the Old Ones existed. But no one knows the Old Ones' history - maybe that's how they started as well, first as tribes, then countries.

The Matriarchs are the leaders of the Nora. They're mothers with two generations to their name - then you have the High Matriarchs, who have three generations after them. [That's 'grandmothers' and 'great-grandmothers' to literally anyone else.] They uphold the laws of the tribe.

[She pauses for a second, wondering if she wants to say her next words... Then she says them anyway.] I don't know as much about them as other Nora do, though. I was raised an outcast.

It would make sense that way, it seems. [A thousand years ago in her time- the thought isn't as boggling to him as a Servant as it may be to other people, but it's intriguing nonetheless.] I don't know much about how things started, but I'd think it was similar.

But I haven't really heard of something like your Matriarchs. It depends on where you are for how things are ruled and held, at least for my world. [He pauses.] But mothers with two or three generations to their name- that... is familiar, somewhat.

[When she mentions being an outcast, he doesn't scorn her, or ask why. Instead, he lets out a huff, intrigued by her world but not really condoning anything he's heard.] Many things have changed over the years for me, but there are some things that stay the same, regardless of what happens.

Matriarchs seem pretty unique to the Nora. I've met some of the other tribes and they all do things differently. Another tribe has something called Ealdormen, one of them has a Sun King... [She knows and even likes the man himself, but the title will never stop sounding a little ridiculous to her.]... There are even more tribes further away, and probably a lot I've never even heard of.

What about you? What kind of country did you come from? [She's been talking about herself this whole time, and his last comment has successfully caught her interest.]

A Sun King? [He doubts it's anything similar to any legends he knows, seeing as they're clearly from different worlds.] That would make sense. There's many places around the world- it'd be impossible to visit every one of them.

[For a human, at least. Not that he mentions it.]

Ah, well... [Siegfried thinks for a moment on how to answer her. While it's an honest question and one that's just asking out of curiosity, already he's calculating on how exactly to answer her. Reveal too little, and that won't be a satisfying answer. Reveal too much, and he risks exposing who he is to her, or someone else. While he can't sense any Servants here now, he has to be careful.] It's one ruled by kings and queens through many generations. The roads that were once traveled by horse are now traveled by cars, though I'd imagine horses are still around on farms nowadays. The people's views have shifted from more of a constant sense of survival and into comfort.

It's... something like this place, I'd say.

[Even if she'd had her entire life there and dedicated it to exploring, she'd never have seen her whole world. And there could be thousands of tribes out there, but the ones she knew were wrapped up completely in their own affairs and their own territory they might never strike out and find any more.

He's describing a world nothing like hers, anyway. She suddenly laughs, remembering something.] The first time I talked to one of the Carja - the tribe with the Sun King - he told me there had never been a Sun Queen because of course the sun was male. I'm glad to hear that's not universal.

[Of course, then there's her tribe, where there's no such thing as a Patriarch.]

So, what's a horse? And a car.

[Siegfried lets out something that sounds like an amused huff, finding the idea about the Sun King never being a Sun Queen a little hilarious.]

It isn't universal for me, at least. There's several Sun Queens or Sun Goddesses that vary due to the culture or the country that the story comes from.

[He has to pause and really think of how to describe the both of them to Aloy, however. How do you describe something so common back home to someone who's never even heard of it before?]

A horse is an animal- it runs on four legs, has a mane, and usually runs across meadows in groups. Horses graze in fields most of the day, and you can ride on their back as a method of transportation- provided the horse knows you and is comfortable with being ridden. [Yeesh, this is more difficult than he thought.] A car is... another form of transportation, but it's a machine. It has four wheels and can move much faster than a horse.

[That sounds absolutely terrible in describing it, why is this so hard.]

We have carts where I'm from, but they move about as fast as the person pulling it. [Machine-powered carts sound like something the world could make a lot of use of - if her tribe ever stopped being afraid of technology for long enough to see.]

Actually, we have something a little like horses, too, but they're machines. You can override them if you have a special device, but usually they attack on sight. I think I was the first one to ever ride one.

[She laughs as something occurs to her.] Sounds like the opposite of your world. We have machine horses and you have machine carts.

People pull carts in your world? [That's not an answer he's expecting, but based on everything else she's said, he doesn't doubt that it's definitely true.]

That's... actually not that hard to imagine. [He's heard of legends that would have something like that- and if a Rider ever had one, he wouldn't be surprised.] Why would they attack? Most horses are rather calm, so long as you don't startle them.

[He lets out an amused huff.] It sounds like it. I'd imagine a lot of people have differences like ours between worlds.

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