[Belatedly, he sighs at himself for bringing up war; all of this was being done with the hope that things would not escalate. But it seemed they were at least being realists about the issue.

While he knows the comment about knowing his capabilities shouldn't surprise him, it still gives him pause; his own existence seemed pretty insignificant when Romaeus was (at the very least) several centuries old, especially with the number of memories he had recently inherited.]

Exactly the case. If this can be resolved peacefully, all the better -- more time to figure out how to permanently send people back to their worlds.