Can't be a wizard without a hat

[les_magique]

[Video]

I have taken the time to figure out the use of this communication device for two reasons. The first is to show off my hat.

[She has a hat on. It's a wide brimmed pointy hat that looks exactly like the kind of hat a wizard would wear. She looks quite pleased to have it.]

I suppose a hat isn't that important in the grand scheme of things, but I like this hat, and having ANYTHING from home is something of a luxury, given our current situation.

Anyways the other thing I wanted to talk about isn't quite so trivial. I'm curious about magic.

I have spent the last few years devoted to unlocking magic's mysteries, you see, and I THOUGHT I was making good headway. But now that I'm here, I'm realizing that this is a MUCH more complicated subject than I thought it was. Magic works entirely differently depending on what world you come from. Some worlds don't even HAVE magic in the first place!

So if you know anything about how magic works in your world, I would be interested in comparing notes.

[And then, a minute later.]

Oh right also. Gladio, if you wanted to try teleportation, now seems like as good a time as any.

Comments

[les_magique]

That's...quite the tale.

[Is this how people feel when she starts talking about magical theory?]

I'm afraid there is only one god in my world: Istavan, granter of magic and lord of law and order. I've definitely never heard of anything like these Empty Ones you speak of.

[sacrament_of_blood]

Truly they are horrors and it is fortunate that you do not have to encounter them.

[les_magique]

It seems to me that if you had a lot of gods, they would all get in fights with each other all the time, would they not?

[Istavan, at least, was very much a "Thou shalt hold no gods before me" kind of god.]

[sacrament_of_blood]

They are entirely too busy for that. There are disagreements, naturally, but the Empty Ones are too pressing a threat.

[les_magique]

They threaten your gods as much as they do you!?

[sacrament_of_blood]

Rather, the gods are preoccupied with the threat the Empty Ones pose to the people they love. Those gods are great and powerful, but not all-powerful. At the heights of the Empty One incursion, not even the Bloody Goddess slaying a thousand each second was sufficient. That height has since faded, but the gods have found it more efficient to act through the hands of many than to act singly. Much of their attention are divided directing the flow of power to their followers.