[No lie, he is 100% here for long philosophical debates. Partly, it's because he likes to hear himself talk.]
Yes, but we're talking about two different systems of magic, as well. The one I know of comes from the Fade, the realm of spirits and dreams. If your sleeping mind cannot touch the Fade, you can have no dreams, and therefore, no magic.
There are benefits, though: it makes the particularly resistant to the Fade-metal lyrium. No one else can work the metal quite like dwarves. Even holding pure lyrium would cause you or I to become mad or poisoned.
[Finally, he pauses, taking a drink and then resting with the cup between his hands, feeling the warmth through the thin china, his thumb and forefinger gripping the handle gingerly. Then he tilts his head to the side.]
Are there no volcanoes near Camelot? Hot springs, geysers, anything of that sort? ...How far have you been outside of your city, anyway?
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Yes, but we're talking about two different systems of magic, as well. The one I know of comes from the Fade, the realm of spirits and dreams. If your sleeping mind cannot touch the Fade, you can have no dreams, and therefore, no magic.
There are benefits, though: it makes the particularly resistant to the Fade-metal lyrium. No one else can work the metal quite like dwarves. Even holding pure lyrium would cause you or I to become mad or poisoned.
[Finally, he pauses, taking a drink and then resting with the cup between his hands, feeling the warmth through the thin china, his thumb and forefinger gripping the handle gingerly. Then he tilts his head to the side.]
Are there no volcanoes near Camelot? Hot springs, geysers, anything of that sort? ...How far have you been outside of your city, anyway?