video; un: rosseland

[hatinacat]

Greetings and salutations, my esteemed captive audience!

[TODAY. . . your video feed is taken up by the face of a young man with a teardrop painted on his cheek and a top hat adorning the crown of his head. he presses a hand against his chest and gives the camera a polite and tiny bow, though it's clear from the angle that he's holding said camera with his other one]

Ahaha! Was that joke a bit too gauche? My apologies, I couldn't quite help myself.

[he does not actually look apologetic at all. look at him he made a funny]

All humor aside, I'm a relatively new resident of this. . . [a beat] Lovely city. ["lovely"] I haven't been here long, but already I'm learning much about worlds other than my own. Which brings me to the purpose of this communication.

[it's brief, but the astute may see Lyney flick his wrist subtly and suddenly, until a small red rose blossoms to life between his fingers. he twists the flower idly in his hand as he speaks]

I have a particular interest in magic, you see. Stage magic, to be more precise. After all, I am a great magician, and being brought to this strange land won't change this fact!

[another flick of his wrist, and he closes his flingers around the rose, which seems to just. . . vanish into thin air. where did it go??]

But I am now aware that magic can vary from world to world. In addition to stage magic, my world has Visions, and I've further learned about the existence of something called "magecraft."

If you're feeling a little bored, won't you share with me the nature of magic in your world? It's for research! I promise.

[HE'S JUST A CURIOUS MAGICIAN, THAT'S ALL]

Comments

[excaliburden]

[A contemplative pause at that.]

I... maybe...?

[Hmmm...]

I've met lots of people who say they can do some sort of various of magic. I guess it just... never occurred to me to classify it as anything but their unique version of magecraft.

[hatinacat]

From your perspective, that isn't wrong.

[all she has ever known is magecraft, after all. so why wouldn't anyone else's magic be magecraft, too??]

[excaliburden]

Now that you mention it, though...

[It's possible there are magics entirely separate from magecraft, huh...?]

I wonder what differentiates all of them...? Is it just what we call them? Or is there a really significant difference?

[hatinacat]

[nodnods! she gets it!]

I'm curious about that, too. It's why I posed this question in the first place.

[excaliburden]

Have you gotten any good answers?

[hatinacat]

A few, yes. A kind gentleman has told me about the Small Science of his world.

[which bears both similarities and differences to the Visions of Teyvat]