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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
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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[Well at least now they were settling into a subject that Mal felt comfortable with.]

Think of it this way - when you are creating magic, you're creating something from yourself. It's your will, put together with your skills and your creativity. No mage casts a spell the same way. We all put in our own flourishes, our own style and sense of creativity. That makes it an art form - where we are expressing our passion and craft through the magical art. I use the same sort of platform for painting.

❰ rather a pretentious way of seeing the idiosyncratic nature of magic, but... yes, adalia sees the point. she wouldn't put it quite the same way, but it makes sense, at least. ❱

Mmm, I'm aware of the idiosyncrasies of magic, of course, every mage casts in their own particular way, but I'd never thought to see that as an art form before. I suppose that must be because I'm not a very artistic person! Magic is rather impermanent to be an art form, though, how do you get around that?

Oh, well, you know. Just my perspective, you know. Everyone sees the magic within them differently.

[Awesome, now she feels sort of like an idiot. UGH.]

... I suppose by creating real art. Using my magic to make something that will last, something that will go down through the years. Maybe not forever, but, awhile. I'm a ... I guess you could say I'm a painter.

Yes, and like I said, I've never been much of an artist. Thinking of magic as art would never have occurred to me before now, but it's an interesting perspective.

❰ and, like. it's not as though adalia's never had a pretentious thought in her life, alright, at least this girl is just being an artiste. whatever floats one's boat. ❱

You... use magic in painting? I'm afraid I don't follow.

❰ how tho ❱

Oh. Ah. Thanks.

[She pauses for a moment.]

Mostly with paint-brush work? Sometimes with mixing different shades of paint. I don't have a ladder so I move my brushes around to create my murals. It gives them a more cohesive look.