Some. I wouldn't worry too much-- they're different enough from you that you can treat them like... family.
[He leads him down to a warm-looking door, and it opens to a workshop very different from the one in the castle. For one thing, it's larger and more packed with stuff... and it's full of bright sunlight, with a counter in the front so that it works as a store as well. Drawers full of plants, minerals, and other harvestable ingredients line the walls, with books on alchemy that look practically new. There are shelves upon shelves of intermediary items-- metals and refined gems, bottles of already made medicine...]
[Like a living, breathing alchemist lives and works here.]