"Edmund, Talonius by blood."<br/><br/>With his very first words of address, the young man made it clear he distinguished between those through whom Gaius' blood ran and those orphans that might have been adopted by his father before his passing. In particular, he looked askance at the halfling girl - she hadn't even been adopted by his father, but by one of the adventurers he'd kept company with, what did she think she was doing here? Why would she have been sent a letter, the same as those Gaius had sired himself? - and at Largo - a man who put another name before that of Talonius when introducing himself.<br/><br/>He didn't seem particularly impressed by Tragon, either. "Mules," he said with a faint note of exasperation, "will slow us down. I suppose, though, unless anyone else besides me thought to bring a<em>bag of holding</em>, it can't be helped. Just what are you transporting with those beasts?"