Magick is king here in Thorne. It's what represents true power to them, and Ambrose is the high mage.

[ Thancred imagines that all more or less speaks for itself. It's why he had been so baffled as to why he'd been brought to this faction in particular, given his shortcomings, but he's started to realize that he might be here precisely because of that. He's meant to fill in those blind spots.

He's planning to suggest that Ches speak with Stephen about magical training, but it's as he's taking a drink that something else about what he said fully sinks in. ]

You have people? What do you mean by that?

[ It doesn't sound like anything malicious, but it does have him curious. ]