[IC] Lost in Dreams [Graham]

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by momothefiddler

"I suppose if you want to put it that way. And we regularly conduct long, multi-person enchantment rituals using metal to make things that do almost everything: fly, kill each other, travel to the bottom of the oceans, travel quickly... The biggest difference I can think of is that in all the fiction I've read, giant multi-participant rituals are based on knowledge of the ritual, while in my world nobody knows the entire ritual. Each person knows a small part and does it and they don't even have to know the rest exists for it to work. We even have rituals for making casting devices. All of our cars - devices for traveling quickly on land - are made largely by robots - devices that act on their own and have no purpose but making cars."

"Its a very strange world. And you teach people how to do all this? You are a very important person"

[momothefiddler]

"I'm a mathematician. I work with the basic theory. The fundamentals of magic, if you will. Then there are the people who take that and apply it to researching different colleges - physicists and chemists and biologists and so forth. Then there are the people who take that research and use it to develop new rituals - engineers. Finally, there are all the various workers who work together cast the rituals, who generally don't understand much of the theory at all."

[ericthered]

"So you're a theorist only? interesting."

[momothefiddler]

"Yes. Though I use many of the enchanted items in my daily life." He pauses. "How did you make this cloth?"

[ericthered]

"with a loom and reinforced with magic, of course."

[momothefiddler]

"I guess that's similar. We wouldn't call what we do magic, because it's all about the tools and how they're used. Imagine you used that loom to make some cloth and you didn't reinforce it. You're using the way the world works to..."
He pauses
"Magic is just another tool, isn't it? Or tools are a different form of magic. It's all about using what you have to change the world into a world a little more like the one you want."

[ericthered]

"You have a strange mind. what will we call you?" (the woman)

[momothefiddler]

"Graham. And you?"

[ericthered]

"I am Ellholora, keeper/lady/grandmother of this land."

[momothefiddler]

"Then it's an honor to meet you."