text; un: beatrix [1]

[fiendennor]

Do you believe in magic?
If so, what do you know about it?

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video; un: R

[winecasks]

[ Well, this is a familiar face, isn't it? And guess who's drunk again and learned absolutely nothing from their first encounter? He's...well, he's a slow learner. It's difficult to shrug off everything you've ever known and just accept that everything you every knew as false is true. ]

I believe only in magician's tricks and mind games. If I blink-- [ He makes a vague gesture with his hand, as though to embellish his words. ] I believe that someone may swap out my card for another with some impressive sleight of hand. Perhaps, even, a man may be hypnotized into believing he is far less drunk than he originally believed, but magic as the stories of olde tell of it? Merely stories.

[fiendennor]

[Diana fights the urge to roll her eyes.]

If you think it hypnotism, I'm happy to repeat my actions from before.

text; un: justice

[whatisright]

of course
magic is from the Fade
mages are able to call upon it
it is a broad topic and i do not study it academically

[fiendennor]

It is a broad topic, and I do study it academically. The Fade. You come from the same world as Lavellan?

video; un: princess.mipha

[fisherwife]

I've seen magic happen quite often and can wield it myself. However, my specialty lies in healing.

I'm afraid beyond that, however, I do not know much about it except that it exists and works. [She tilts her head curiously] What about yourself?

[fiendennor]

Where I'm from, there are those who can't use it, and those who think it antiquated, but nobody denies its existence. There are schools devoted to its study.

I'd be interested in learning more about your healing, actually. Restorative magic has long been part of the legacy of the Cavendish household.

video; un: deathweaver

[respired]

There is nothing to believe in. It is a simple fact. To say otherwise is ignorance, or folly.

[fiendennor]

I would agree with you, personally. Yet there are people to whom it's somewhat of a fanciful concept.

I wanted to see how many of them there were.

video; un: keaton

[notwagging]

Of course! I may not be able to cast a spell, but I know plenty that can.

[fiendennor]

Is that for lack of instruction, or lack of ability? Could you learn how, if you wanted? Or is it innate?

video | un:SizzleItUp@LinkedIn

[chaoticlootral]

Believe in magic? Yeah, obviously. I didn't get a degree in fake shit. Uh, gotta say, you'd have to be pretty, y'know. Dumb as a rock to think magic is some bunk after being here for five minutes. Think even the toilets operate on magic.

[fiendennor]

I'm beginning to think I perhaps should have phrased the question differently. It was in response to meeting several individuals who decidedly did not have any awareness of magic where they came from. You said you have a degree in it, though? Where did you study?

text; un: crimson duelist

[verflair]

Magic is quite common where I am from, so I do more than simply believe in it. I practice it myself.

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[fiendennor]

As do I. I was curious about its prevalence in other worlds. Do you have a specialty?

NOT HERE!!!!!!

[summertimeblues]

[watches this post while sweating uncomfortably, how many of you are there and what demons did y'all bring]

[fiendennor]

[Sir just because she is a witch doesn't mean you can suggest she brings demons.

Rude tbh]

text || un: IAMNEDSTARK

[learned_to_die]

I DID NOT BELIEVE IN SUCH THINGS PRIOR TO MY ARRIVAL HERE, BUT THIS WORLD SEEMS TO BE RATHER FULL OF IT.

-- EDDARD STARK, LORD OF WINTERFELL, WARDEN OF THE NORTH, HAND OF THE KING

[fiendennor]

Magic and technology alike, it would seem.
Then it does not exist where you come from, Lord Stark?

text; un: lefty

[ownit]

yeah kinda hard not to "believe" in magic when you've nearly gotten your shit fucked up by a dragon.

[You can practically read the eye-roll.]

but if you're asking about where I came from?
magic's just shit that losers to do entertain snot-nosed brats at birthday parties--and anything that looks like magic?
probably science.

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[fiendennor]

[Oh, she's going to like you. No, the other thing.] I'm going to have to ask you to clarify. By that, do you mean that "magic," as you know it, is little illusory tricks usually done with science (and does not, in your view, actually exist), or that "magic" exists, but in your world is only done for parlor tricks?

text | un: stormsend

[bruxisms]

YES. I HAD SEEN IT WITH MINE OWN EYES WHERE I COME FROM, AND MUCH AND MORE OF IT HERE.

[ well at least she's already had Ned to deal with the capslock. ]

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[fiendennor]

[What is it with you men who can't figure out how to turn the caps off?] May I ask what kind of magic? I'm curious how it works in other places.

text; un: swan

[sheriffing]

Yes.
I know in my world, it always came with a price.

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[fiendennor]

May I ask for elaboration?
In mine, the only price to learn magic was hard work.

text; un: octoberdaye

[errantdetective]

Sure, if the music is groovy it makes you feel happy like an old time movie.

[....she very much believes in magic, but it's not a conversation she's ready to have lightly. Not when she can deflect with references to old music.]

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[fiendennor]

I'm sorry, I don't get the reference.

[voice] un: watercouncil

[bentbloodline]

Some people regard the bending of my world as being like magic, and there are a variety of different abilities here.

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[fiendennor]

Bending?

I'm not familiar with the term.

un: altea

[juniberries]

Magic existed in my universe in many forms; I am most familiar with it as quintessence.

There is still much to learn of my own ability, but I know my father had been a great alchemist.

[fiendennor]

So you would treat alchemy as magic rather than science? At least, that's how you categorized it where you came from?

text; un: armstrong

[wallofbriggs]

Why would I believe in it?

[fiendennor]

Presumably because it is a real thing that exists. Or, rather, it is where I came from. Not believe in magic would be like not believing in the sun. It's different where you're from?

text » id: nightingale

[ettersberg]

I believe in it, in that I know it exists.

[fiendennor]

You mean here? Or back in the place you came from?

text; un: trickfoot

[trickfoot]

How can one not believe in magic?

And it depends on what type of magic you're speaking of. I know more about divine than arcane.

[fiendennor]

I'm similarly surprised, and yet, I've encountered people who don't seem to have anything of the sort where they come from. I'm not familiar with divine magic. Can you please elaborate?

Text; un: Iceheart

[ysayle]

Magic is granted through aether, the very life essence of the world. Even those unable to use it are a part of that, magic is an undeniable part of life.

Or so it is, where I am from.

[ She'll leave out the nonsense of the Fury showing favour to her chosen few - no one here need choke on the lies of inquisitors. ]

[fiendennor]

Aether... you're not the first I've heard refer to that. Do you know Alisae? Are you from her world?

text; un: NOTVAX

[moneytwin]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by 'believe'. Magic is what it is, after all.

That depends. Why do you want to know?

[fiendennor]

Curiosity, mostly. I met some people who did not believe it existed; or rather, it did not exist (to their knowledge) in the world they came from. I was curious as to how widespread that was, and also what sorts of magic exist in other realms.

text; un: helloimcole

[forgetmenow]

yes. it would be weird if i didn't.
but... it's not real for some people...
it's strange

i don't know any magic myself. but i've known a lot of mages.

[fiendennor]

There do seem to be worlds where magic does not exist, strange as that might be. What is magic like where you come from?

text. un: PRONGS

[heorot]

[ LOOK ITS YOUR FAVORITE ]

course i do
it's real.
how'd you not believe in something when it's real?

[fiendennor]

[At least he's sober this time.] It doesn't seem to be real for everyone in the world they came from. Hence my question.

text; un; catfriend

[izanyagi]

I believe in magic!

I am able to do a few magic tricks myself.

[fiendennor]

Are you referring to sleight of hand, or things that some might term supernatural?

un: nash

[latkje]

I think it would take more blind faith to not believe in magic, here.

[fiendennor]

Or willful ignorance. But I was more referring to where you came from.

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[offtune]

dunno. depends on the source of the "magic"

[fiendennor]

Why would the source make it any less real or not?