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how do you do magic if you're not a mage

fake magic for not mages?

where do you buy meat for dogs

[These are not, in fact, incorrectly-aimed omni searches, this is simply how local not-a-mage Carver Hawke chooses to communicate. He has all the grace and poise of a preteen trying to google puberty, when it comes to Doing a Magic, but he also doesn't know how to be anonymous, so here he is.

Also if you've ever received a message from a one Palamedes Sextus and are wondering what's up with this severely different un: warden post, oopsie doodle? The click-through userid is different, if you make the effort to check.]

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i'm feeding my dog. maybe she'll like sausages

oh. just a school. okay

i'm not supposed to be a mage, i'm not a mage. i just want to stop making everything cold

[dohaeris]

They'll teach you how to control your magic at the school. If you don't want to take any more classes after that, no one will force you. But Coldblood magic can be very useful; I have been learning how to make it cooler for my own dog with cold bloodstone.

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[It takes him a moment longer than before to reply, as he needs a moment to sit and brood over the fact that coldblood magic can be very useful. It's always about being of use, being special, and he doesn't want-- mmph.]

i'm not a mage

too old for school, too

[dohaeris]

[consider the dog half of that sentence]

I wouldn't know. I never went to school before I came here. Many of the students are grown.

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i never went to school either. learned to read at the kitchen table

so how about too uncultured for school? if some prissy fancy smug scholar type gives me a hard time, am i allowed to hit them?

[dohaeris]

I don't think they can make anyone leave. I wouldn't say it's a very good idea to make enemies of Arcane Scholars, though. It's said they're hiding very dangerous artifacts in the Archives.

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so? i can break a few old toys if they really deserve it. really, why should they keep dangerous artifacts in the basement, not doing that is the first rule of having dangerous artifacts

[dohaeris]

Few of us in life ever get what they deserve; I'm afraid Gaze is treacherous enough without Arcane Scholars rioting over a Sleeper breaking their artifacts.

Arcane Scholars are very often powerful mages, and sometimes alchemists. The alchemy has very much to do with the dangerous artifacts. It's best to treat lightly, here.

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so i shouldn't go to the school and kick the vases around, is what you're saying. got it

you're making them sound like [...] magical pains in the ass

[dohaeris]

Some of them are. Many of them are kind and helpful. It's the same as anywhere. More of the Disciples are annoying than the Arcane Scholars, I think.

[and some of the hunters are very rude!! but picking fights with hunters is even more dangerous than picking fights with arcane scholars.]

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who are the disciples?

[Like Templars?? Oh No.]

[dohaeris]

They worship the Patron Pthumerians. They're all different. I think they put on the festivals at the boardwalk. I don't really know very much about it. They say they're not scholars, and don't seek to understand. Some of them are kind enough; many of them are very comfortable handing out cursed foods. Some of them can be prissy and smug, and some of them seem completely mad.

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but you like the mages more than them. is that it?

what kind of cursed food

[dohaeris]

Disciples can be mages, too. I just think that it's more useful to study the Pthumerians than worship them.

For what it's worth, I'm an Architect.

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oh. not really my scene

you build stuff?

[dohaeris]

I make clothes and a little bloodstone. They call anyone who makes anything an Architect here, even the farmers.

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doesn't make sense to me

[dohaeris]

Very much doesn't make sense to me, but I've found there is very little I can do about it.

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what, the fancy school doesn't help with that? shocking

[dohaeris]

It does help me to remember all of the nonsense.