He prepares a second cup and sets both down with the sugar bowl in easy reach of both of them. “That’s a little complicated. I think all our ways of understanding arcane are all different and based on different systems.”

He stirs his tea. “Where I’m from magic is defined as the energies of the land itself and fed by the memories of everything living upon it. Whether leylines are made by the Heavenly Principles or not, is a scholarly debate and you have no doubt guessed I am not one. People like me generate our own magic as much as we give to the flow. My domain, or rather what I give to things is ice. Winter. The cold. Genshins can see the flow of elemental magic and things the rest can’t. But we are also subject lThe natural inclinations of our elements. We embody aspects of nature. Technically all life has their share of magic within. Just we have reservoirs that are vast in comparison. I use too much and I will pass out or die. Like anyone would if someone tore magic out of the world. But, that’s how the rules of where I am from is. Beyond it, things are very different.”