Well, no, I did not learn magic in my world. I... has no one told you of Infiltrators yet?
[Oh dear, this is going to get awkward. Leonardo sighs softly.]
When we visited the kingdom of Dolorosa, some of us - the Travelers, that is - became those mages in the circle I described. Memories, abilities, thought and speech patterns... all of those were replaced with those of the eight Illuminated. None had more magical power than they did, though their power did come with a heavy price. Magic seems to at least have that in common across all of the systems I have heard about, in my limited studies.
[He hurriedly places the brooms back in the closet, and when all of them are accounted for, he closes the door.]
... Harry, where I come from, the biggest city I know of within a thousand miglia is Paris. It has, at the most, two hundred thousand people in it. It would take more than thirty thousand cities of that same size to equal seven billion! How is there enough space for anyone to breathe with that many people on the Earth?
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[Oh dear, this is going to get awkward. Leonardo sighs softly.]
When we visited the kingdom of Dolorosa, some of us - the Travelers, that is - became those mages in the circle I described. Memories, abilities, thought and speech patterns... all of those were replaced with those of the eight Illuminated. None had more magical power than they did, though their power did come with a heavy price. Magic seems to at least have that in common across all of the systems I have heard about, in my limited studies.
[He hurriedly places the brooms back in the closet, and when all of them are accounted for, he closes the door.]
... Harry, where I come from, the biggest city I know of within a thousand miglia is Paris. It has, at the most, two hundred thousand people in it. It would take more than thirty thousand cities of that same size to equal seven billion! How is there enough space for anyone to breathe with that many people on the Earth?