𝒂𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂, 𝒏𝒐. (
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FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Adalia (
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RECIPIENT: Errybody with a sending crystal
WHAT: What's up with your mages, guys?
WHEN: Drakonis 12
WHERE: Kirkwall
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SENDER: Adalia (
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RECIPIENT: Errybody with a sending crystal
WHAT: What's up with your mages, guys?
WHEN: Drakonis 12
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: N/A
I have a question for the native mages among us, if you all don't mind!
❰ adalia sounds inquisitive, curious, sort of sing-songy — she's been pondering this for a while, both in general and today specifically. ❱
Would you consider magic something you are, something you have, or something you do? A combination of those? All three? Something I haven't yet considered?
❰ a sound of shifting fabric as she sits up on her bed. ❱
See, I would consider myself magic, innately. I'm a sorcerer where I'm from — we have magic in our blood. I would be considered a mage by Thedosian standards, but to me "mage" is a very broad word. Anyone who does magic could be considered a mage where I'm from, and then there are breakdowns within the broader "mage" classification — there are sorcerers, who are magic innately; wizards, who learn magic through study; warlocks, who are granted power by others — not to mention bards, and those who are given access to divine magics for worshiping their deities.
All of these different classes of mage approach magic in a different way. What is your relationship to magic? Is it part of you, or is it merely a tool? I'm curious.
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That sounds dangerous. I suppose it is lucky it unlocked the ability to heal, instead of to destroy without control. Was the book written by a wizard?
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I... had never thought of it like that, but thank you for that terrifying hindsight. Yes, very lucky.
❰ and it also says something nice about what her strongest desires are, so... there's that? ❱
I have no idea who it was written by, I can't actually read it. The text is... amorphous. I know there's writing in it, but I can never focus enough to see it. It's more having the book which unlocked the spell, rather than reading it.
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[ A born worrier, this one. She's always cautioning people because they do such dangerous things! ]
That does sound concerning. Or it would have been, had it given you something different. But enough of that. I am curious as to how mages are treated in your land. It seems they are granted powers or encouraged to study. It all sounds so different to here.
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it's a familiar sentiment, is all, though christine seems not to take it to the extremes adalia is more familiar with. ❱
It is different, yes — in some areas, of course, it's not entirely dissimilar. There are many stories, fictional and otherwise, of young sorcerers being cast out of their homes when it comes to light they have magic. This is usually in more rural areas, where people are more likely to blame a bad crop or a rabid animal on a sorcerer.
❰ might that have been what happened to adalia? there's no way of knowing, but she hopes not. she hopes she was loved. ❱
In more urban areas, placers of higher learning, magic is highly prized. There are entire universities for teaching magic — not Circles, but schools, which you can leave at your leisure. No one treats you like a bomb about to go off, no one decides how your life must be lived for your own good —
❰ chill, adalia. a deep breath, and then, more coolly — ❱
It's different, yes.
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[ She has a lot of Feelings™ that tend to come out unbidden. ]
It sounds like a dream.
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❰ because that would be about the saddest thing in the world, for adalia — for the mages here to make so much progress, to get to the point where they could almost begin to try to live real lives...
and then squander the opportunity, through poor leadership or bad choices or whatever else may stand in their way. ❱
Never stop fighting for it. You all deserve to be treated as people.
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Thank you. That is very kind of you to say. It is my hope that one day, this world will be a little more like yours.