He drops the coins into the glass bowl as directed, and listens intently. History has always been a particular interest of his.

"I see... and that's where the masks come into it? They represent the people being paid tribute?"

The masks that look like humans seem to be in the minority, but that means little. Given the presence of Khajiit and Argonians in his own world, it hardly seems impossible that other breeds of beast-folk could inhabit other worlds.