video | un: fashonti

[thaumewturge]

[It's a video because Rhel accidentally found the video button and, frankly, could not be arsed to turn it off of video so hey, Libra, enjoy the bespectacled blue-green haired catwoman on your screens!

And please pay no attention the fact that she has been here only a short time and already her Zodiac-provided apartment looks a bit of a mess, what with her bag and its contents and her Alpha mammet scattered on the bed, and the Litwick from the gate hopping around in the background for this entire little deal.

A smile!]

I think I've got this so it will send this to anyone using Libra...My name is Rhel Fashonti, late of Eorzea, for those of who I haven't yet met. I have a question or two that I am hoping someone here can answer. I did use the...Gubal? No, that's in Drav--the Google, but the answers it gave me are a bit unbelievable.

[She actually pulls out a notepad she'd gotten to write down some of this stuff because it is just absolutely bonkers to her what Google said.]

Is it truly only Hyurs--humans--here? Nothing else at all? And most are not capable of magic? Does this world truly lack any form of aether? You've discovered every ilm of your star, save for the lowest depths of the sea? [Flipping to the next page...] Some of these aren't terribly important, they can wait...ah! Yes.

Is your moon truly just a giant lump of rock in the sky? And you're certain?

[This is a valid question, okay? Everyone thought Dalamud was lump of rock and look at how that turned out.]

[[ooc: I do have a spoiler opt-out post if you would like to make sure I know to avoid Endwalker spoilers with you! I will try to do so anyway but]]

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[thaumewturge]

[Rhel can tell she's overwhelming the poor boy, so she will stop with the cavalcade of questions, though she is scribbling down notes to check into this later. Poor Kakyoin.]

I see. There's nothing like that at all where I'm from, or at least not in any of the countries I know of. [Maybe Sharlayn has it but she honestly never asked.] I was a teacher of thaumaturgy before...well, let's just say before several things started happening all at once, so to hear that there is compulsory education is astounding.

[kokaiwanai]

[Oh, look at how Kakyoin's eyes light up with curiosity at that.]

Thaumaturgy? What does that entail?

[thaumewturge]

[Oh she perks right up.]

It's a school of magic, seemingly straightfoward--especially compared to arcanmia, which involves arcane geometry--but is in actuality a careful dance of astral energies--active, burning, like fire in most people's minds--and umbral energies--static, unchanging, similar to the most common forms of ice. Those two elements make up the core of our skills, alongside thunder and good old-fashioned magic explosions.