No blood. [just a sly hint of a smirk.] There is no magic in our original timeline. Well, nothing I have seen that doesn't amount to coincidence and parlor tricks. True sorcery, even of the kind of the Taoists claim to wield, was never real until we came here.

There are many loose ends at the moment, many uncertainties. Your arrival... [with a nod toward the Inquisitor to suggest he means everyone, not just one elf] ...is but one of the newest mysteries. It will take time to look into all of them, but time is one thing we have in abundance.