In a way, Istredd is there to guide people to magic for both exploratory reasons and to help them get ahead here. It's fun and exciting to learn magic for those new to it, especially in the safer way it works here, but the best way to succeed in Thorne is to lean into its power. Not that it matters much if you don't also learn how to play the royal game, but it's the best he can do.
"Yes. Magical skill and knowledge. In sweeping terms, Free Cities has technology and commerce. Solvunn has community and neutrality. Also very beautiful nature, from what my friend Wanda tells me."
Istredd thinks he would probably have liked it there if he had to be somewhere else, but Thorne's motivations suit him the best. Whether or not they intended to bring him there, it's the best positioning. He doesn't know that he is talking to one of Wanda's friends back home, obviously, although he only uses the word 'friend' for two people so she is a rare exception.
"I would say it's not not a concern," he replies, dryly.
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In a way, Istredd is there to guide people to magic for both exploratory reasons and to help them get ahead here. It's fun and exciting to learn magic for those new to it, especially in the safer way it works here, but the best way to succeed in Thorne is to lean into its power. Not that it matters much if you don't also learn how to play the royal game, but it's the best he can do.
"Yes. Magical skill and knowledge. In sweeping terms, Free Cities has technology and commerce. Solvunn has community and neutrality. Also very beautiful nature, from what my friend Wanda tells me."
Istredd thinks he would probably have liked it there if he had to be somewhere else, but Thorne's motivations suit him the best. Whether or not they intended to bring him there, it's the best positioning. He doesn't know that he is talking to one of Wanda's friends back home, obviously, although he only uses the word 'friend' for two people so she is a rare exception.
"I would say it's not not a concern," he replies, dryly.