...wow. If you were from Thedas, I'd say you were full of shit, but different worlds, different rules, right? Including for magic and dragons. Of course, now I gotta know what you were doing around a dragon and what got her to consider all that. Giving you magic, charging you with taking care of her egg? That's some serious trust.

[There's a small smile in her voice, impressed.]

From what I've been, the anchor doesn't interfere with magic but take that with a grain of salt since I'm not in the Rifts and the Veil project. Since it connects you to the Fade, you've probably had lucid dreams like us native mages. Most people don't remember their time in the Fade or are aware while within it, but we're special like that. Of course, it comes with a catch as demons might take more of an interest in you. Anything that wants you to let it in, ignore. We haven't had a rifter abomination here yet and I'd like to keep it that way.

As for my people, we stay on the fringes and find work where we can. Some Tal-Vashoth don't know how to live outside the Qun and they resort to banditry, which causes shit for the rest. But plenty of others just want to get by, often living on the fringes and taking mercenary work.