Please do sit down on the cushions in the shades beneath the roses and make yourself comfortable. See, I've brought you plates with dates, nuts, and other honey-coated dainties you may not be familiar with. And here's a jug of sweet, cooled water, scented with rose petals to please your palate. Or maybe you prefer some date wine or kash instead? Or milk? Anything you want, it's all there for you.

And now that you've enjoyed a good drink and meal and are lazily reclining, please tell me what good winds have guided you to the door of my recently acquired home in Susa?

Oh, you want to know something about me? I am happy to oblige.
I am Alal-Sin, and this name means that from the very beginnings I was destined to be a man of more than just one world, for Sin is the name of the moon-god, also known and revered as En-zu, Lord of Wisdom. The Alal, on the other hand, are entities from the netherworld with the ability to change their appearance and with the purpose of inducing men to sin.* So where does this leave me, an inhabitant of yet another sphere, the world of humans?

I am Alal-Sin. I am a scholar of the High Arts of astrology and magic, and I have conversed with the wise from all over the world and beyond, for time and all that the mortal eyes behold are separated from what lies beyond by nothing but a thin veil that can be transcended by those skilled in the Arts.
I have crossed this invisible border many times. I have been a royal astrologer, a king's magician, I am the one who is invisible, yet always present.

I am Alal-Sin.

* Well, not too bad a purpose, I should say. Actually, it's fun!