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[spacegoat]

This place, it is so lovely! All the lights and technology and the new things to explore!

[ Hello, have a very warm, bubbly voice, soon followed by a face as she does her best to keep the recording still. This one worked a bit different than the S.E.L.F.I.E. Camera MkII back home, so Mina had to readjust a bit. She's in her room, a nice big bed behind her and a glowing staff made out of crystals in a corner. ]

Would you tell me what you think the best thing about it is? I very much enjoy how open people are about having fun, and trying new things, it is always lovely. I had a very good time with a Mr. Laughter and I'm hoping to meet others as well! After all, this place seems to like the loving, no?

[ Which makes it really interesting in her book. Some people were prudes in her world, or instead quite over the top. (Don't visit Goldshire, kids.) ]

My name is Minarii, and I am an arcane mage teacher from Azeroth. Well, most recently from Azeroth, it is a very long story. We have something that was very similar to this Firialia and what others called Christmas, so finding out what other holidays match would also be fun, yes? Or new ones! New ones would be lovely as well.

[ She knows she's rambling a bit, so she takes a moment to pause. ]

Ah, I almost forgot. I was asking the prismals, but they did not have an answer for me. This place, it has a farrier, yes? I would very much like to know if it has.

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[castcure]

I'd have to think a while to say for certain what the best thing about this place is... I want to say the food? [She laughs, her hand coming up to briefly cover her mouth.] But... mm, no, I think it's the chance to learn about things that I might not otherwise.

You said you were an 'arcane mage' instructor? What would that involve? I'm very experienced in my world's conjury, and was diving deeper into thaumaturgy before coming back here... aah, only if you're interested in talking about that, though! That might be more serious a topic than you'd meant to bring up...

[spacegoat]

I do agree the food is very nice! [ She smiles brightly. Food was always amazing! ] But as you say, learning new things, that is very good as well. Everything is both different and similar to back home.

Ah, I love to talk about magic! That might be one of the most different things I have noticed here, yes? Some do not use mana, others use books... it is very interesting! I am a teacher, so that means I teach the little children magic. If they are interested or have the aptitude, they come to the Mage Quarter and we have many teachers there. I do the ones from very young to before puberty - that is when they learn about the Arcane, since that is the basics.

[castcure]

You find that, too? The Chroma here is almost like the aether that we manipulate on my world, but... well, it's not produced like Chroma, for starters... [And it's here where she laughs, a little pink coming to her cheeks. No need to explain, surely.]

That's quite young to start! I know the conjurers at Stillglade Fane will take on students at the older end of that, if they have the aptitude.... though that has a focus on earth, and wind, and water. When you say 'arcane', is that just.. unaspected energies? Astrally or Umbrally aligned?

[spacegoat]

It is a very new thing, to have this other power to draw from. I will be missing the benefits from my mana cookies.

[ She's... still gonna eat them, though. ]

It is important to learn young, or there might be accidents. It is not difficult or hard schooling, though. Just understanding the basics... and that is what the arcane is. The basics of magic, which is then formed to other kinds of magical power. It is the raw form of the mana that we draw from, and pure energy from the leylines. It is an intellectual magic that warps time, space, and controls the flow of mana, which is just a measure of a fundamental power — if mana was water, then arcane would be steam pressure. It represents order in the magical elements.

[ Now you got her going. ]

[castcure]

[Dakki takes the explanation in with considerable interest, eyes wide and posture leaning forward. And if she has gotten Minari going, Minari has gotten her going in turn.]

It's... it's impressive to me that teaching how to manipulate unaspected ae... er, I mean, mana, unaspected mana, would be what to begin with. Magics of that sort are reasonably common, of course! Teleportation magics, and some aspects of what arcanists do.... But I know I started in on the path to learning conjury with a focus on earth-aspected aether. The Eorzean approach seems to be one of learning the fundamentals through an understanding of one facet, then moving on to another?

[spacegoat]

In our school and most the schools, we feel that the base of all magic should be understood before manipulating it into other forms - but that's just how our worlds do it!

[ It is so interesting! ]

I would think it dangerous to learn an aspect of magic before truly knowing how magic itself works?

[castcure]

And I'd think it would be dangerous to handle the raw form without first being familiar with the element to which you're more naturally inclined towards attuning to?

[It's an interesting difference, not an argument. She smiles through it.]

Is it... is it fairly common, where your from, to have the ability to manipulate mana?