I'm hardly surprised. Even in quite far-flung locales, mortals remain the same. Even if you're quite different in personality, the way you organize yourselves is— Ah, well.

[ He waves a hand, since he's getting off topic. His postulations about the nature of mortals is a broad topic, and it's one that's not entirely related to their current situation. Because when it comes to how he expects mortals to behave, well. The villagers were a bit too subtle for him... ]

...Were they? I just thought they were incredibly daft.