Mm-hmm. On the Continent, at least. [ He isn't sure about this world. His time in Thorne was limited, in several ways, and the Free Cities does not make use of magic as others might elsewhere. For all that he finds this world familiar, much of it remains unknown to him.
He glances over. ] Druids commune more closely with nature. Healers, often. They don't train at the academies as mages do. I had a good friend, once, who was a druid.
[ Once. Dead now, like too many in his life.
It's complicated. He is not mistrustful, exactly, of every mage, but he's all too aware of their role in the world of courts and kingdoms. And the things they do outside of it, that even the Brotherhood won't sanction. Mutating children, for example. Officially won't sanction, at any rate. Who the fuck knows what they agree upon inside their own walls. ]
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He glances over. ] Druids commune more closely with nature. Healers, often. They don't train at the academies as mages do. I had a good friend, once, who was a druid.
[ Once. Dead now, like too many in his life.
It's complicated. He is not mistrustful, exactly, of every mage, but he's all too aware of their role in the world of courts and kingdoms. And the things they do outside of it, that even the Brotherhood won't sanction. Mutating children, for example. Officially won't sanction, at any rate. Who the fuck knows what they agree upon inside their own walls. ]