"Oh! Half-mage!" He sounds pleased by this. "My girl's a half mage!" He declares. "Back home."

A mage father though instead of a mother. He tries to imagine a world where he and Imelda's roles are reversed but... can't.

"It is a lot bigger than it seems at first isn't it?" He says, a little wry and a little amused. "I think I learned about when I was... seventeen? Sixteen? Some time around then. But even then I wasn't really in all this mess until I ended up in the Outlands ten years ago. Crazy just how crazy things can get."