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[cloakand_danger]

Who: Yuan and whoever answers
When: Now.
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: The library on the Iskaulit

[The feed comes on to show Yuan in the library, with a scattering of handwritten notes in front of him. He addresses the camera in a calm, businesslike tone:]

So there's something I've been wondering about for a while now, since I started meeting people here, and now seems as good a time as any to start a conversation on the subject: there seem to be a fair number of different kinds of elves in the Fleet. Where I come from, elven blood is the only source of magical abilities, at least for mortals. [He holds up a hand, palm upward, and a crackling ball of lightning appears hovering over it in demonstration. Once he's sure his point has been made, he lets it wink out and continues.]

If anyone's willing, I'd like to hear about the elves of your worlds and their relationship to magic, if there is one. And if you have magic that doesn't derive from elven blood, I'd be curious to hear about how you came by it.

Comments

voice

[cloakand_danger]

It's innate to us. We can sense it from a young age, but it takes practice and focus to learn to manipulate it into spells. ...Hmm. I guess without being able to go to our respective worlds and compare directly, we can only speculate. [He sounds a little frustrated by that.]

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[experiencepoints]

Yeah... Well, we wouldn't be able to go to my world anyway, so it doesn't particularly matter.

But the elves have nothing to do with magic, really.