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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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I mean... I suppose there's cross-discipline training, or that someone who has an innate gift for magic would turn to studying different areas in order to expand their repertoire... I think at that point, though, it'd all get a bit muddled. No one would introduce themselves as a sorcerer-warlock.

I don't think. I don't really know, though.

❰ multi-classing in d&d is weird, okay, who knows. ❱

Yes! And... maybe yes? But they're still sorcerers as well? Honestly, your magic doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

This is why I pointed out the specializations. Based on training and what we want to do, a number of us could do a lot more then what you consider a 'sorcerer'. Like spirit healing and shapeshifting, which are uncommon on their own even among us.

The most important thing is to know that if you have magic, you're considered a mage here and not everyone likes mages. So be careful.

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