Wait, you helped with conflict in other countries? And they just... let you?
[ Well, maybe not let them exactly since Claude can follow the logic of there being a lot of paperwork with that, even if it's not the kind he'd be familiar with. And the idea of being able to just show up in another country and assist, seemingly without it causing some kind of international event? That's something he can't comprehend from what he knows. ]
Gods. I couldn't even get the country I'm from to talk to the ones right next door through a polite letter. Showing up there anyway unannounced would've been an act of war, more or less. Which is really saying something considering there was already a war going on for years between three of those nations in the midst of everything else.
[ All details that probably don't actually explain his bafflement to Cassidy in any helpful way. But the knowledge that there's somewhere where countries assist each other because it's the right thing to do: it's so close to what he'd hoped to work towards in Fodlan in so many ways. (Never mind that he's massively oversimplifying this from not fully understanding.) ]
I led one of those nations for a while. We'd just started rebuilding after the war ended before I ended up here. [ A rueful smile gets paired with that. ] There's still so far to go. Any extra hands to keep peace would've- would be welcome.
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[ Well, maybe not let them exactly since Claude can follow the logic of there being a lot of paperwork with that, even if it's not the kind he'd be familiar with. And the idea of being able to just show up in another country and assist, seemingly without it causing some kind of international event? That's something he can't comprehend from what he knows. ]
Gods. I couldn't even get the country I'm from to talk to the ones right next door through a polite letter. Showing up there anyway unannounced would've been an act of war, more or less. Which is really saying something considering there was already a war going on for years between three of those nations in the midst of everything else.
[ All details that probably don't actually explain his bafflement to Cassidy in any helpful way. But the knowledge that there's somewhere where countries assist each other because it's the right thing to do: it's so close to what he'd hoped to work towards in Fodlan in so many ways. (Never mind that he's massively oversimplifying this from not fully understanding.) ]
I led one of those nations for a while. We'd just started rebuilding after the war ended before I ended up here. [ A rueful smile gets paired with that. ] There's still so far to go. Any extra hands to keep peace would've- would be welcome.