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[thunderproof]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Adalia (thunderproof
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.

Comments

[overharrowed]

I think if you treat them well, you can believe whatever you feel you have sufficient evidence for on the matter.

[His tone is kind enough; it's a tough topic even for those without cross-world culture shock.]

It is a question on which people I respect disagree with me, and often with one another. The magnitude of the loss, though, is something no native mage is likely to miss, even if we disagree on exactly how to characterize it. A major part of the rebellion had to do with Tranquility's indiscriminate and over-wide imposition in some of the Circles.

And I think your initial question is, truly, an interesting one. I would to the Maker we lived in a world where we could discuss it without running into the ugly history you inadvertently prodded.