"I've been one for a long time. Over sixty years at least. I'm also a mage, and in my sphere, we are long-lived."
Istredd has seen reactions to his age reveal mostly all seem surprised so he's just getting ahead of that. Lucifer is one of the few people who didn't blink an eye at that, and it's because Istredd knows now that he is much older. Older than him, older than the most aged of the mages he knows. Istredd is glad to have a long life since that gives him so much time to learn and he looks toward his centuries with curiosity rather than it feeling too long. He may feel differently in time, but he's still relatively young, for a mage.
"As a telepath, I suppose the psychic nature of this place keyed into my instinctive wishes. Such as a library anyone could fill with their knowledge or the ability for people to intuitively create their own comfortable spaces to read."
Istredd isn't certain it was an entirely conscious what happened. He does remember precisely creating the tower of books, or the monolith of books before, and that part was intentional. He wanted an ideal creation he never could have had before. But the unconscious additions of how other people could add was another thing. He can tell the Horizon and the Singularity are just good at these things. They react to wants and needs. It's incredible.
He doesn't know many people from Free Cities, outside of Geralt and Cirilla, so he is intrigued by meeting someone independent of them. Or at least he hopes so, honestly, he is not on good terms currently. "I'm in Thorne. Some of their books are here as well, I've memorized a few of the beginner's academic spellbooks." Which could be very good news for someone who wants to learn. "I volunteered to train people new to magic, so I read them many times." And now here they are.
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Istredd has seen reactions to his age reveal mostly all seem surprised so he's just getting ahead of that. Lucifer is one of the few people who didn't blink an eye at that, and it's because Istredd knows now that he is much older. Older than him, older than the most aged of the mages he knows. Istredd is glad to have a long life since that gives him so much time to learn and he looks toward his centuries with curiosity rather than it feeling too long. He may feel differently in time, but he's still relatively young, for a mage.
"As a telepath, I suppose the psychic nature of this place keyed into my instinctive wishes. Such as a library anyone could fill with their knowledge or the ability for people to intuitively create their own comfortable spaces to read."
Istredd isn't certain it was an entirely conscious what happened. He does remember precisely creating the tower of books, or the monolith of books before, and that part was intentional. He wanted an ideal creation he never could have had before. But the unconscious additions of how other people could add was another thing. He can tell the Horizon and the Singularity are just good at these things. They react to wants and needs. It's incredible.
He doesn't know many people from Free Cities, outside of Geralt and Cirilla, so he is intrigued by meeting someone independent of them. Or at least he hopes so, honestly, he is not on good terms currently. "I'm in Thorne. Some of their books are here as well, I've memorized a few of the beginner's academic spellbooks." Which could be very good news for someone who wants to learn. "I volunteered to train people new to magic, so I read them many times." And now here they are.