Jesper is full of questions. He finds people and the world generally interesting, and that's in his world, let alone in this new one with the multiverse concept happening. Although in Ketterdam you learn when to not ask questions, except Jesper usually does anyway. He listens attentively to Goro's response. "Eh, it seems more the distinction is between usefulness as opposed to bloodline."

And that is a different version of power. It's the type Ketterdam exists on, which is why the merchants run the city, and no noble ranks would really matter outside of cold hard cash. A pauper king would get nothing out of his city. A rich nobody could. "Oh so you joined the military here? I know a few people leaned that way." Sephiroth, for example, who is somewhere in here. "Thorne has their own kind of military, from what I hear. A mageocrity."