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[draculabutbackwards]

[While he's still hoping a lot for this socratic method, he's starting to get interested despite himself. He'd assumed the covens were regulation and distinction, however artificial, but it sounds more like a carve-out.]

I think I've been operating under a misapprehension. Wild magic isn't just magic beyond the coven system, but magic outside? Is there anything beyond a fairly new tradition distinguishing the two?

[badbutsad]

I'm... um. I'm not... actually sure.

[And it's a galling thing to admit, but it's still true.]

I haven't been able to find any records of the transition onto the coven systems besides officially published texts on it. Belos introduced the system as a means of honouring the Titan - using wild magic is blasphemous, it's disrespectful and hurts it.

[draculabutbackwards]

The titan splits some very fine hairs, then. Hm.

[That hm does not drip with palpable disdain. Because he's trying very hard.]

This is just gut instinct, but a creature giant enough to live on its bones and an idea like wild magic don't seem intrinsically antithetical.

[badbutsad]

Well, no-one's been able to speak with the Titan before. [He can't help the faintly defensive edge. He's got a ways until he's above that, unfortunately.] There's no way to have known what it might have wanted before that. Thanks to Emperor Belos, we finally do and we can change to be better.

[draculabutbackwards]

[He doesn't want Hunter's back against the wall. That will get them nowhere. But a little uncomfortable is okay.]

At home you couldn't. The library's... unfortunate in its circumstances just now. But we can make requests of the admiral, use the enclosure--you have plenty of options for curiosity here.

[His sincerity might save him here. Learning is cool!]

[badbutsad]

[He looks away, shoulders tightening a fraction, but it's not sullen defensiveness this time. He is genuinely thinking about it.

It's just... hard not to feel like Belos will find out and punish him for it. He's already proved he can show up, after all.]

I thought the Enclosure wasn't meant to be that accurate? That can't be much help in trying to do historical research.

[draculabutbackwards]

No, if you could just ask the enclosure for a cross-referenced library on exactly your subject, I doubt people would stay here long. But it can be set to specific conditions if we wanted to test magic in your world. And even if there's no Lost Compendium of Titan Lore, we could ask for work from contemporary scholars before and during the changeover.

[badbutsad]

[Well, there's an idea.]

...we could probably go and actually see the Savage Ages. I know the Enclosure doesn't do people properly, but even just seeing what the general civilisation was like back then, it could be... it'd be interesting.

[draculabutbackwards]

[Good, good, the more he thinks of it himself, the better.]

Clever, yes. If there's anything to be said for life on a bizarre magic raft in the middle of a chaotic stream of possibility, there are always options, if you look for them.

[badbutsad]

[The compliment, brief as it is, gets a quick smile out of him. He's gonna get a good grade in inmate.]

Alright. I'll-- try and think of more things we can look into.

[draculabutbackwards]

And I'll raid Father's for good field note supplies. Even if it is all at a remove from reality, good record keeping never hurts.