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[aestivation]

FORM: Crystals
SENDER: Casimir Lyov
RECIPIENT: OTA
NOTES: n/a

[ without preamble, ]

When did you first come to know magic?

Comments

[voidtransport]

No, Iiiiiii... am a wizard. [Please do not think less of him for this.]

I don't know Fireball though, if it's any comfort. [hides his other fire spells behind his back.]

[charmoffensive]

[ This gets an easy sounding laugh. ]

You can have as many Fireballs as you like, so long as you use them sensibly.

[voidtransport]

[Allumin lets out a very audible sigh of relief, then:]

Does that mean all bets are off if it's not a Fireball then?

[charmoffensive]

I'm not writing that blank check for you.

[ Wizards, honestly. But his tone is light, breezy. ]

Anyway, I remember loads of conversations around how incompatible these magics are, between wizards and clerics, even if I could not tell you what went on in them, but Richard Dickerson is quite capable with his abilities in this world, if a basis for comparison would be useful to you.

My magic's a bit rubbish, so.

[voidtransport]

[He laughs at that.] Probably for the best.

[There is the muffled sound of him trying not to laugh. That does not sound like a real name at all but he's not going to ask - and he should be nice if it happens not to be fake.]

I know some spells have an overlap between cleric and wizard magic, and the way they work might be more similar considering how things are altered to fit this place. [A pause.] Can I ask about your magic?

not here

[nonvenomous]

→ private.

[charmoffensive]

[ A breath taken like he's about to speak, then changing track, sighing it out. ]

I don't know very much about it, I'm afraid. I discovered I had any not very long ago. I mean—

Well, one moment.

[ And: ding. He switches to private. Now that it occurs to him to do so. ]

Magic besides the kind I was born with. Prior to arriving here, I was a tiefling.

[ Waiting a beat, both to see if this is a familiar concept to the wizard on the other end of the line, along with. Well. How he might react. Hence the crystal firewall. ]

private right back

[voidtransport]

Oh!

Oh... I imagine magic inherited from infernal lineage is, um, perhaps a bit hard to explain here. If that's what you're meaning?

∞

[charmoffensive]

Right.

[ Well, that wasn't awful. Empathetic, even. ]

That's magic I've had all of my life, nearly. It's hardly anything, where I'm from. But not very long ago, before I came here, I discovered I had a different kind of magic. Sorcery, if my reading was right.

[voidtransport]

Ahhh. [Yeah, that's different.]

Did you happen to learn where or what you inherited it from before your arrival? [A beat, then:] Oh - that's probably personal. You don't have to answer if you don't want to, it's not even my place to ask. I just can't help be curious, if you feel inclined to talk about it.

[charmoffensive]

[ A laugh. ]

I wouldn't have raised it if I was going to get stroppy for you asking. And the answer is I didn't, not really. The literature available's a bit sparse on the subject.

But I don't suppose you know much about it?

[voidtransport]

Oh - [there's a laugh, nervous but relieved, in return]

Well, I know usually dragons tend to be the most common source of a magical bloodline, but on occasion there are others. I think in some cases, gods are not out of the question but rarer than dragons. If there's any sort of eldritch or cosmic entities where you're from, that's also a possibility.

Whatever magic you've inherited may have some clues about it.

[aestivation]

There is a third of you?

[ taking notes ]

[charmoffensive]

No. Well. Three of us from planes that seem to resemble one another without being exactly one another.