(Voice) Two pieces of food for thought

[retributing]

[Arthas has been relatively quiet since his arrival, but he's since grown comfortable with the general community enough to strike up a bit of conversation. Perhaps it is to take his mind off the many things he knows he will be facing when and if he ever returns to Lordaeron.]With the passing of Hallow's End, we begin to enter the final month of the

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[kyudousha]

Why does there have to be some tradition that marks this kind of transition, anyway?

It just sounds like a waste of time to me.

[retributing]

[Oh you again]

There doesn't -- if I inferred such, it was not my intention. I would not expect all cultures to be similar to my own.

The elves, for example, have no winter at all. Quel'thalas is in a constant state of springtime.

[kyudousha]

[Yes, us. :/b]

Then maybe you should word your question better, because that's obviously what inferred from it.

... and how's that even possible, anyway?

[retributing]

[Patience. The Light teaches PATIENCE.]

It may not be traditional festival of any kind at all, merely a routine one goes through. Or, perhaps, nothing. I am curious.

I suspect it has something to do with their coveted Sunwell...perhaps Jaina has told you of it?

[kyudousha]

I'll agree with you on the 'routine' bit, then, because the seasonal changes do have their uses. You wanna know what I do when the season changes like this?

... not yet. I couldn't exactly ask about something that I didn't really know existed, you know? What's a 'sunwell'?

[retributing]

Indeed.

Jaina is likely much more educated on the matter than I. I've never seen it for myself in my few trips there, but I do know that it is a fount of arcane energy that the elves learned to manipulate. My understanding is that it keeps a constant presence through every inch of Quel'thalas, but no further than its boundaries.

[kyudousha]

Let's see now... Autumn to winter, right? Basically, I need to finish my fall specimen collections, and start preparing for all the experiments that I need cold weather for. There's usually not a lot of them, so afterwards, I go library reading. Get in fights with them over book rights. Something like that, anyway.

And... huh. That's some power, then. So basically, natural changes don't happen within a set boundary. Do they age?

[retributing]

Specimen? What is it you do?

Indeed. They are very protective of it. Elves can live for hundreds of years, but they are not immortal.

[kyudousha]

I'm a mage. I study things -- everything I can get my hands on, basically. Though my specialty lies in blastia magic.

Good thing, too, or else you guys'd probably have a population crisis. Do your elves have pointy ears?

[retributing]

I can't say I've heard of it. Though I humbly admit that my knowledge in magic is scarce.

[Chuckle]

Perhaps. And yes, they do.

[kyudousha]

You wouldn't have heard of it. I'm pretty sure it's a thing that's from my world only -- so it's only logical that only people from my world know it. Besides, you don't look the part of a mage, anyway. I wouldn't worry about it.

... that's uncanny.

[retributing]

I am a warrior, not a scholar.

Oh?

[kyudousha]

So, you go out and fight wars? Or do you just stick around and protect cities, or something?

Yeah, it's uncanny. Some other guy told me that elves had pointy ears too. Which... is weird.

[retributing]

Indeed. I was apart of Lordaeron's sect of paladins, the Knights of the Silver Hand. When called, we answered, for things as small as escorts to things as large as fighting armies.

[We don't need to mention that we disbanded them shortly before our arrival~]

Interesting. Though, it seems there are some similarities between different worlds.

[kyudousha]

So you were a knight. Or a paladin. Or something like that. Out of curiosity, what's the difference? Rank, or something?

... it does kinda seem that way. I need to do a study on this.

[retributing]

A paladin is a knight that is blessed with the Light and uses its powers in combat. A plain knight is merely a mounted soldier.

I would be happy to assist, should you require it.