genessia | [1st blade:] The swordsman merc

[Kratos is not... a wordy or expressive man. When he arrived at the Bay, he quietly listened to the instructions of the hologram with grim acceptance, and wandered all the over city, looking for a place to stay because it's winter in Genessia. He found the map from a few magazines to find his way around.

Truth to be told, he sort of marveled at the sights and sounds and life of the city, compared to his world of Derris-Kharlan where he foresee his people of lifeless beings under his care after Mithos is gone. The technology is different than the magi-technology, he observed.

After a few days, he settled in an inn in Fayren. His lifeless world, the floating planet in space was left behind...for the time being. Still, the mana he sense here on this world is stable as he can use most of his spells while practicing in the woods of the forest.

Ah, it didn't dawn upon him to use the device to communicate to the Network. So speaking into it with a very mild:]

"... ... ...hello."

[Yup. Pause. Not a wordy man. He's one of those strong silent types.]

"Greetings. I'm Kratos Aurion. I'm a swordsman and a mercernary. How do you do?"

[Good start. There we go.]

"Is there is anyone who is a swordsmans around here too? I think I'm rather out of place in this city."

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[Oh. An elf! Elves are very particular in his world. In fact, if you're half elf, you are the lowest race of the population. That's why, from his usual stoic expression, he shows an interest of curiosity.]

Hello. Are you an elf? Are you familiar with the worlds Tethe'alla and Sylverant?

[Anyone with elven blood is treated as shit on Thedas. 'Knife-ear' is a very popular thing to hear coming out of human mouths. Shockingly, that didn't stop them from raising Alley up as a leader of their stupid human religion, whether she wanted to be or not.]

Oh, did the ears give me away?

Never heard of either place, I'm from Thedas. Ferelden originally, then the Free Marches. Then...

[Well, the Inquisition had practically become its own country for a while there, perched in the high mountains between Ferelden and Orlais. The Inquisitor herself gives a shrug.]

[Kratos is being matter of factly.]

Yes, they do. I see, a different world. [He's curious about all of these beings from other worlds.]

I came from a world where elves and half-elves live uneasily side by side on the fringes with humans. They have the ability to cast magic by tuning into the mana, the energy of our world to cast their spells, an ability humans lacked.

Tethe'alla almost sounds like it could be ancient Elvhen, but...

[Alleyana gives another shrug. There's a massive, spiked shield on her back that keeps shifting when she does that, glimpsed over her shoulders.]

Elves were subjugated by humans thousands of years ago on my world. Over religious crap, of course. We've lost almost everything, including most of our original language. My kind generally either grow up in the alienages -- slums in human cities -- or out in the wild with the remaining Dalish Clans, whose primary goals are to search for what was lost and keep hold of what hasn't been lost yet.

[No matter how misguided, at least they're trying.]

As for magic, we've more of a link to the Fade than the humans do, which is the origin of magic. Seems some things carry over between worlds.

It's the other half, the country of my world of Aselia, and it's the only continent that has elves and half-elves, living beneath humans on the caste system.

[Kratos listened...very intently. And sympathetically, he can feel her pain.]

My world is similar to yours in most suspect. From the religion, to the slums, and even the heritage. Humans are to blame. Yet elves and half-elves have the link to the mana, our magic.

'Beings who lived forever, for whom magic was as natural as breathing.'

[As usual when Alleyana quoted someone from those days, her cadence matched that of the speaker. Solas had often spoken a little... slowly, with great care. It made sense, now that she knew what she did of him.]

That's what we were, before the humans. Or so it was described to me, once, by someone who'd seen it.

I'm not even a mage, but I've been to the Fade, and I could see colors there that my non-elven companions could not. The link is obviously still there, even when it's not... in use.

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"Elves and half elves in my world have lived very long lives. They can live for many decades, centuries even, but they are still mortal. There is no true immortality."

Although, Kratos himself is 4,000 year old modified human, but made possible thanks to his crystal exsphere embedded on his hand. It's a complicated type of bio magictechnology that he and Cruxis developed during their rein over Aselia.

"I see." Still, this is a nice comparison as to how elves and magic on other worlds operate.

"Still, elves and half-elves can use a variety of weaponry. The mage class used a staff or like yourself, the mace and the sword."

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"I've also used sword and axe, I just find bludgeoning everything more satisfying," Alleyana glanced off-screen, and smirked faintly, "I leave the stabbings to Cole."

Ah, violence. It warms the heart.

"I'm a warrior. Champion specialty. Means I take all the hits and then laugh in things' faces."

"By the sound of it, you have a lot of experience with many sorts of weaponary. You must be very strong. Most elves and half-elves in my world used staff as a channel for their magic, and it's their weapon of choice." Kratos said with great interests. "If you like to spar and test your strength against me, I'm up for it. I'm staying in an Inn in Fayren."

"Nah, I'm good," Alleyana wasn't really looking for fights with other people, these days. "Already all moved in, huh?"

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