[Ooh what sort of farm did you grow up on? I've been horsey since I was like ten, but that is of course a very particular sort of farm life, its own little niche.]
Aurus chuckled, shaking his head but relenting--ok, ok, he would believe it. "Any asura worth their salt would be captivated by the idea, I'm sure. Their science--I suppose you might say that it's a systemic inquiry into how magic works and how the universe is structured by it. It was the asura who invented the transportation gates that allow people to travel across the world in a mere second, and it was they who first theorized the relationship between magical energy and the elder dragons.
"Humans, by contrast..." Aurus paused to think as he returned to Charles' earlier question, "I suppose their greatest concern is in preserving their own culture, their cities, their lives.
"There are relatively few of them now. I don't mean to say that they are rare. That's not at all the case. But they are threatened. The charr, the centaurs--humans have been at war with both for centuries, and in that time whole human nations have been lost. Ascalon to the Foefire, Orr to the Cataclysm brought about by the Lost Scrolls. Cantha and Elona have long since been cut off. Only Kryta now remains.
"We have no easy way to communicate across distances like you are describing though. Magic helps our letters to arrive as intended, even in remote places, but it always takes time, and I will admit that I don't understand the mechanisms. Sylvari are not especially known for their interest in science either...save for one of us, at least, and she is rather," he frowned deeply, "infamous."
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Aurus chuckled, shaking his head but relenting--ok, ok, he would believe it. "Any asura worth their salt would be captivated by the idea, I'm sure. Their science--I suppose you might say that it's a systemic inquiry into how magic works and how the universe is structured by it. It was the asura who invented the transportation gates that allow people to travel across the world in a mere second, and it was they who first theorized the relationship between magical energy and the elder dragons.
"Humans, by contrast..." Aurus paused to think as he returned to Charles' earlier question, "I suppose their greatest concern is in preserving their own culture, their cities, their lives.
"There are relatively few of them now. I don't mean to say that they are rare. That's not at all the case. But they are threatened. The charr, the centaurs--humans have been at war with both for centuries, and in that time whole human nations have been lost. Ascalon to the Foefire, Orr to the Cataclysm brought about by the Lost Scrolls. Cantha and Elona have long since been cut off. Only Kryta now remains.
"We have no easy way to communicate across distances like you are describing though. Magic helps our letters to arrive as intended, even in remote places, but it always takes time, and I will admit that I don't understand the mechanisms. Sylvari are not especially known for their interest in science either...save for one of us, at least, and she is rather," he frowned deeply, "infamous."