( he takes a moment, thinking about all he's seen, then nods. ) Technology-wise, yes. But that's really where the similarities end. Well except for maybe heavily mortal populated.
Mine is...technology is a lot more. To me, this place looks like something from a period drama. Like, my world was like this maybe a century or two ago.
To start, I don't know what you mean by period drama? ( it's not that he doesn't know what drama means, but the context doesn't fit. )
But I don't know really. It would take awhile to describe everything. We have witches and expositors. Then there's the Immortal Blessed. I don't know really how to describe our architecture... it various from people to people really. But this more flowery I suppose? More minute details and brighter colors.
Okay, so like what is an expositor? You said that before.
[ Nate's never heard of that. He's never heard of the immortal blessed either, but he's wondering if these are different names did things that he would know about. ]
You know witch and demon but not expositor? ( we'll be guesses he didn't know about them the first two years of his life either. ) Another kind of magic worker that primarily uses the dead to fuel their magic.
[ yeah, okay. Magic in this guy's world works very differently. ]
Well we wouldn't make that distinction, if you're doing magic you're a witch.
But we don't use the dead like that, that's... [ It would be forbidden, he imagines, like resurrection is forbidden. ] What do you even mean, how do they do it?
All magic users are the same in your world that they'd all be witches? ( it sounds a bit redundant. then again, he has theorized that expositors are a different kind of Witch that developed differently. but there's no true evidence of that.
but moving on. ) I suppose death is a bit simplistic to describe it. They use pain and suffering and death can provide the biggest and easiest well of power to do so. The more skilled expositors can do more with less, but they're few and far between.
But they use the energy released from death to fuel their magic. They have a wide range of magic, but that's the essentials of it.
Right. [ Nate's tone sounds dry. ] So they don't use the dead, they kill people.
[ It doesn't really matter to him what else they're able to do. They're murderers, and they're doing it to increase their magical power. That's horrific. ]
Sound like lovely people. We don't do that.
I guess witch is a general term. I'm a blood born witch, from a witching family. There's hedge witches too, who aren't from families, but they're generally speaking not as powerful and can't always access true magic like we do. Then there's other creatures, like incubi, genies, demons. They have their own brand of magic, and they're all their own thing.
( he can detect the note of distaste in Nate's tone about expositors and death. at least they can both agree on that. ) Expositors are no friends of mine. I prefer the company of witches.
We don't have... any of those other things that aren't witches and demons. But we do have the Immortal Blessed. They're as their name suggests, immortals with their immortality fueled from wells of power they develop from time and places of significance. Their power is more in their physicality, they don't practice magic as such.
[ Nate leans forward a bit, watching the gestures. They're not familiar to him, but after a moment, he moves his own hand through a series of gestures, and circles of flame start to cycle his fingers, his hand, his wrist. ]
Gestures or movements can make spells, like tracing symbols in the air instead of speaking the words, or drawing them on the ground. I don't recognise what you're using, though.
[ He closes his hand into a fist, and the flame rings wink back out. ]
[ They were persecuted in Nate's world, too. Or at least, humans tried. A long time ago, which led to a more intense mandate on secrecy. One that Nate hasn't always agreed with.
But that's a story for a different day. ]
Okay. Cool, so...the gestures you made, what do they mean?
( he repeats the gestures. ) 'Do you understand' essentially. While almost all witches know Witchspeak now, if you need to be certain this was the most common way to ask.
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Is your world like this one, I mean...technology-wise?
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[ he chews his lip. ]
How is yours different?
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But I don't know really. It would take awhile to describe everything. We have witches and expositors. Then there's the Immortal Blessed. I don't know really how to describe our architecture... it various from people to people really. But this more flowery I suppose? More minute details and brighter colors.
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[ Nate's never heard of that. He's never heard of the immortal blessed either, but he's wondering if these are different names did things that he would know about. ]
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Well we wouldn't make that distinction, if you're doing magic you're a witch.
But we don't use the dead like that, that's... [ It would be forbidden, he imagines, like resurrection is forbidden. ] What do you even mean, how do they do it?
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but moving on. ) I suppose death is a bit simplistic to describe it. They use pain and suffering and death can provide the biggest and easiest well of power to do so. The more skilled expositors can do more with less, but they're few and far between.
But they use the energy released from death to fuel their magic. They have a wide range of magic, but that's the essentials of it.
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[ It doesn't really matter to him what else they're able to do. They're murderers, and they're doing it to increase their magical power. That's horrific. ]
Sound like lovely people. We don't do that.
I guess witch is a general term. I'm a blood born witch, from a witching family. There's hedge witches too, who aren't from families, but they're generally speaking not as powerful and can't always access true magic like we do. Then there's other creatures, like incubi, genies, demons. They have their own brand of magic, and they're all their own thing.
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We don't have... any of those other things that aren't witches and demons. But we do have the Immortal Blessed. They're as their name suggests, immortals with their immortality fueled from wells of power they develop from time and places of significance. Their power is more in their physicality, they don't practice magic as such.
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[ Somehow, that's weirder than what he was imagining. ]
So they're not like, angels or something.
Okay. And so humans, they know that all of these people exist?
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And of course they do. Why wouldn't they?
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It's the big secret in my world. Telling is against witching law. The others prefer to do their shit in secret, makes it easier.
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So I take this all to mean you don't know Witchspeak?
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What is that, like Latin?
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Gestures or movements can make spells, like tracing symbols in the air instead of speaking the words, or drawing them on the ground. I don't recognise what you're using, though.
[ He closes his hand into a fist, and the flame rings wink back out. ]
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It's a language, not magic. Spoken with hands.
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[ Nate sits forward a little. ]
So it's like sign language. Why do you call it Witchspeak?
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[ They were persecuted in Nate's world, too. Or at least, humans tried. A long time ago, which led to a more intense mandate on secrecy. One that Nate hasn't always agreed with.
But that's a story for a different day. ]
Okay. Cool, so...the gestures you made, what do they mean?
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So it's how they find each other.
But how is it that you know it, are you part of witch society?
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