Oh, they're not worth particular praise, [Is an easy sort of concurrence, as he muses more on what he could remember of the place.] I wouldn't care to live in one of their houses overlong unless I had no other choice.
[Enchantments could be broken, could fade... but carefully wrought constructions like they had in Amaurot and its contemporaries would last across time and disaster.
Still, he didn't think the fae's work to be excessive, and any higher use of magic was better than none at all, as far as he was concerned. That it was in a more frivolous direction- he didn't think it was the worst thing.]
It still speaks of a potential that's since been squandered. Not that humans have much of a choice.... Such are their limitations.
[He also falls quiet for a bit, as Lahabrea seemed to be concentrating. While he doubted the other man would accidentally damage his watch in some way irreparable, there was no need to test fate.
The mortal lack of available years... though they had any number of flaws, he'd long suspected this to be the foundation of most of them. Without time, they lacked perspective. Only few cared overmuch for the world they left behind for generations to come, and for those that did, there was no guarantee that those generations would make any use of it.
--Yet he wanted to see them try. If left on their own, without immortal interference, what might they accomplish?
Shaking off the thought, he adds with a sigh:]
Even their rudimentary magic isn't mastered in a day. Who knows, perhaps it's not as feeble as it seems, but in human years there's no chance of any of them ever reaching its true pinnacle. While the longer lived of monsters aren't even permitted to try, limited by nature.
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[Enchantments could be broken, could fade... but carefully wrought constructions like they had in Amaurot and its contemporaries would last across time and disaster.
Still, he didn't think the fae's work to be excessive, and any higher use of magic was better than none at all, as far as he was concerned. That it was in a more frivolous direction- he didn't think it was the worst thing.]
It still speaks of a potential that's since been squandered. Not that humans have much of a choice.... Such are their limitations.
[He also falls quiet for a bit, as Lahabrea seemed to be concentrating. While he doubted the other man would accidentally damage his watch in some way irreparable, there was no need to test fate.
The mortal lack of available years... though they had any number of flaws, he'd long suspected this to be the foundation of most of them. Without time, they lacked perspective. Only few cared overmuch for the world they left behind for generations to come, and for those that did, there was no guarantee that those generations would make any use of it.
--Yet he wanted to see them try. If left on their own, without immortal interference, what might they accomplish?
Shaking off the thought, he adds with a sigh:]
Even their rudimentary magic isn't mastered in a day. Who knows, perhaps it's not as feeble as it seems, but in human years there's no chance of any of them ever reaching its true pinnacle. While the longer lived of monsters aren't even permitted to try, limited by nature.