Kyle has not really opened up to him this much before and Istredd is fascinated, listening intently. It is always interesting to see how different spheres approach similar things. Women burned for the type of things men can do without problem? Ridiculous.
"That's why I don't know how old I am. I was taken as a child, they can sense when magic is used for the first time, and they come for you." To some people that sounds a little unsettling, but Istredd says it factually. It sounds like Kyle went through something like that if he was taken to be trained too. "I agree though, I've never seen anything like this magic wise. There are very few people born with the gift in my sphere."
Istredd pauses and as they start walking, he pulls down the protective shield that has been circling around him. He instead puts that protective sound bubble around them again, something Kyle can probably sense the difference in when he does it now, like the sound is closed in.
"You either become a mage, die by magic gone wrong or Chaos consuming you, or they turn the weaker of us into eels and absorb their potential through a lake of magical power." Lucifer was confused about the eels part, specifically the animal of the eels, which Istredd's never really questioned. But it gives some kind of image of how unnerving the process was for a child. Your options are very limited.
"In exchange, we get to live a very long time, have magic at our fingertips, and get to choose how we look for those centuries. For some, they transform themselves entirely during ascension. Eyes, face, body, everything. I chose not to change." Though to be fair, Istredd also was born relatively good-looking and healthy. Not everyone had that reason to shrug off the transformation. AKA Yennefer.
"What kind of training do god's own bones boys have, if I may ask?"
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"That's why I don't know how old I am. I was taken as a child, they can sense when magic is used for the first time, and they come for you." To some people that sounds a little unsettling, but Istredd says it factually. It sounds like Kyle went through something like that if he was taken to be trained too. "I agree though, I've never seen anything like this magic wise. There are very few people born with the gift in my sphere."
Istredd pauses and as they start walking, he pulls down the protective shield that has been circling around him. He instead puts that protective sound bubble around them again, something Kyle can probably sense the difference in when he does it now, like the sound is closed in.
"You either become a mage, die by magic gone wrong or Chaos consuming you, or they turn the weaker of us into eels and absorb their potential through a lake of magical power." Lucifer was confused about the eels part, specifically the animal of the eels, which Istredd's never really questioned. But it gives some kind of image of how unnerving the process was for a child. Your options are very limited.
"In exchange, we get to live a very long time, have magic at our fingertips, and get to choose how we look for those centuries. For some, they transform themselves entirely during ascension. Eyes, face, body, everything. I chose not to change." Though to be fair, Istredd also was born relatively good-looking and healthy. Not everyone had that reason to shrug off the transformation. AKA Yennefer.
"What kind of training do god's own bones boys have, if I may ask?"