[ Charles blinked at the opening and closing of that email for a minute, Theo. ]
Your Majesty,
It would appear that I became a peer of the realm and promptly forgot! I shall hope you'll forgive me as I would hate to offend the Royal We and a god in the same breath. My manners are clearly in shambles in this bizarre land.
1. That is all very fascinating. Are you the first in your family for seven millennia, then? Are you expected to take an active role in your father's pantheon? If you were the last and had no believers, what would happen to you?
2. & 4. & 6. I suppose it is the etymology that has me stumped. Tracing the word 'magic' back leads one to ritual and priesthood - several of a number of positions that separated one from everyone else since the development of civilization and religion. Part of me wonders, then, what would cause a word like magic to become so all-encompassing of a concept but it may be boiled down to something as simple as I am not content with the common vernacular in this case, which is not your fault at all.
Having eyes was a mutation at one point in the biological history of life.
If there is ever an evolutionary biologist or geneticist who comes from your world to arrive here, I would be forever thankful for the chance to speak with them.
Did you notice this ability being limited, as a child?
5. That's perfectly fine and understandable, thank you.
For a moment I had entertained a notion that a world in which unique and occasionally fantastic abilities would lead to a very different social structure on a massive scale. However I doubt that between the mere two of us we could device a precise enough method of comparison between the histories of our two home worlds or realities.
Instead I will ask you what you think the largest problems in your society are?
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Your Majesty,
It would appear that I became a peer of the realm and promptly forgot! I shall hope you'll forgive me as I would hate to offend the Royal We and a god in the same breath. My manners are clearly in shambles in this bizarre land.
1. That is all very fascinating. Are you the first in your family for seven millennia, then? Are you expected to take an active role in your father's pantheon? If you were the last and had no believers, what would happen to you?
2. & 4. & 6. I suppose it is the etymology that has me stumped. Tracing the word 'magic' back leads one to ritual and priesthood - several of a number of positions that separated one from everyone else since the development of civilization and religion. Part of me wonders, then, what would cause a word like magic to become so all-encompassing of a concept but it may be boiled down to something as simple as I am not content with the common vernacular in this case, which is not your fault at all.
Having eyes was a mutation at one point in the biological history of life.
If there is ever an evolutionary biologist or geneticist who comes from your world to arrive here, I would be forever thankful for the chance to speak with them.
Did you notice this ability being limited, as a child?
5. That's perfectly fine and understandable, thank you.
For a moment I had entertained a notion that a world in which unique and occasionally fantastic abilities would lead to a very different social structure on a massive scale. However I doubt that between the mere two of us we could device a precise enough method of comparison between the histories of our two home worlds or realities.
Instead I will ask you what you think the largest problems in your society are?
Yours,
Charles