A young woman with short blonde hair walks in, stops, and looks around in surprise. She is wearing worn baggy trousers, a slightly stained linen shirt, boots, and a swordbelt from which hang a sword and a silver dagger.
"By the Lord of Hell's black hairy balls! Since when did Brin Toraedic have a room that looked like this(OOC: This Jill is from
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English originated in a country called England, as a hybrid of several tongues. The English were one of several nations to colonize a land called America, where it absorbed elements of their languages and other immigrant peoples' into a sort of second-generation version of English. American English is the one I'm native to.
What would your land and language be called?
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"I'm from a land called Deverry," she says. "The kingdom includes Eldidd and Pyrdon as well, which used to be seperate countries until the Time of Troubles, after which High King Maryn unified them all. Our language is Deverrian."
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I assume you're finding that your 'dweomer' and our 'magic' may be closely related concepts? Since you are without your own tutor here, have you any idea how you'd like to proceed with your studies? I'm sorry to say I have no idea how to get you back home, though that's certainly not to say there isn't a way out there somewhere.
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Those of us who are brought here all seem to have something in our past lives that would mark us as good candidates. In my case it's scholarship; I'm an expert of mathematics. So of course I support your continuing your studies. Perhaps you could use your time determining where our magic and your dweomer coincide and where they differ? That might not take you too far off course from your original training, in case you're able to resume it.
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Jill considers the suggestion about studying the difference between dweomer and magic. "That sounds like a sensible idea. I've just been told about potions here, which sounds a lot to me like some of what I've been studying. Herblore isn't dweomer, but it's a place to start. And, ah, what are 'scholarship' and 'mathematics'?"
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I've spent most of my adult life as either student or teacher of mathematics, which is the use and manipulation of numbers. It can be very abstract at a high level, so it requires the kind of mental discipline we've been discussing. I've found that discipline does help greatly when applied to magic.
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