Begging your pardon, Your Highness, if it seems outdated to you. The magic dates from 1400, and is only just beginning to be practiced again. We had had quite a lapse from it in England, and it was nearly lost to time.
But I do not mean to digress. To have an entire field of magical focus based upon and drawn from the dead ... I should think something very terrible must have happened to make that necessary.
[yes, he is taking the 'king' username literally. why should he not? he hasn't become aware yet that people's usernames can just be fanciful. he had chosen shadow as his own because that was what he had always been - either behind someone or working in darkness, that thing waiting in the light cast by his betters.]
No matter what happened, or when ... you have my condolences.
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But I do not mean to digress. To have an entire field of magical focus based upon and drawn from the dead ... I should think something very terrible must have happened to make that necessary.
[yes, he is taking the 'king' username literally. why should he not? he hasn't become aware yet that people's usernames can just be fanciful. he had chosen shadow as his own because that was what he had always been - either behind someone or working in darkness, that thing waiting in the light cast by his betters.]
No matter what happened, or when ... you have my condolences.