omg i saw this and wanted to reply but lost track of it
i'm glad you appreciated them trying with each other! i keep wanting to write "they work stuff out but it's not free" and it's so hard to do that convincingly but i do think it worked out here
also i love eve thank you for mentioning eve. the whole way she talks is so funny to me i love writing her
idk, i think a "read all this lore first" thing would mostly be daunting? you even explained how it's mostly inferrable by context (and clover does refer to the characters as satyrs, so they're clearly what satyrs are). that said, i do have a dumb idea for addressing this a little, but i do also actively like that there are things that aren't just spelled out — i think it helps the world feel bigger when not everything is For The Story, when sometimes the story intersects things that you only catch a glimpse of in passing
i agree, good job clover, get that k (kobold)