Of course not. My own existence must be nonlinear, I do not walk a direct line between past and present as a human might. In Kenos, I must follow the same path — but, I know in my heart that I do not. Time is a cycle, after all. What lives, will die.

[ Even gods!

Anyway, he does perk up — curiously, when Claude brings up two names. One, he vaguely recognizes ( maybe ) and the other is one he had heard more recently. ]

Byleth mentioned Sothis. She is the goddess that resides within him, as I recall. Sopdet... as I know her, is a minor goddess of no renown, [ in his era of knowledge, that is how he recalls her! ] She spent the last several centuries cowering with the rest of them while I ruled. Tsk.

[ now that claude has mentioned it, though — instinctually, he knows that sopdet-sothis is a connection. it's that funky divine syncretism at work! ]