Adaptability is absolutely the key to thriving in the Nexus, but it’s not a quality that everyone possesses, so Kinner may be doing better than he realizes. Horvath thrived here once, then walked away for a while, and ultimately that hasn’t done him any favors.

“Aglaophotis seems to be found on many worlds, it’s distilled from a rare herb and it’s very effective against eldritch beings, historically. Now there are different kinds of shapeshifters. It only turned into living beings, as far as you saw? So it couldn’t become, for instance, a table or a chair?” That’s an important distinction.