I wouldn't tell you that, lad. Ask as you like... though, admittedly, your other questions have been much easier to answer... [Ankari is compulsively truthful, but he knows better than anybody the comfort of a good lie. Would he want to be a parent? A father? It was never something possible to him, he hadn't wasted time fantasizing.

He really does chew on the idea before answering,]

... I truly don't know, I've never considered. My mother would tell me it was only a small part of my just punishment, as my birth ruined her womb. I was only her fourth child... [which is very few for an elven queen, though Ankari doesn't think to add that context in his haze of alcoholic contemplation. Surely humans have many, many more children than that on average, right?]