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[England clears his throat. This is his first video broadcast across the network, and he wants to avoid an embarrassing situation like his mistaking the text function for a telegram the first time.]
Right. Yes. This feels oddly informal but if that's what's done--
--I'll be brief and to the point: I've got two questions.
First, could anyone from Earth who's lived through the twentieth century tell me of its history? Ah, the version of Earth where the British Empire exists. I would like to know how the world changes in the next hundred years. It doesn't matter when or where you're from, I'm just very interested.
My second question is addressed to the users of magic on board the Tranquility. Sorcerers, witches, wizards, healers, mages; whatever you are, how does magic work in your world? What sort of spells do you use? Runes? Talismans? Perhaps a proxy via a familiar or even technology? I've been practicing magic for as long as I've been alive--that's over fifteen hundred years--but one can never learn too much.
--Ah, I'm rambling. Excuse me... [He straightens his shoulders, tilting his nose up to be as dignified as possible.]
At any rate, I've one more announcement: I'm willing to trade tealeaves for sewing supplies, or anything else. Especially alcohol.
[Arthur pauses, not sure how to end the feed, but he just decides on something simple.]
Thank you.
[*edit/ooc: I'm aware of what he's asking. Bring on the temporal spoilers.]
Right. Yes. This feels oddly informal but if that's what's done--
--I'll be brief and to the point: I've got two questions.
First, could anyone from Earth who's lived through the twentieth century tell me of its history? Ah, the version of Earth where the British Empire exists. I would like to know how the world changes in the next hundred years. It doesn't matter when or where you're from, I'm just very interested.
My second question is addressed to the users of magic on board the Tranquility. Sorcerers, witches, wizards, healers, mages; whatever you are, how does magic work in your world? What sort of spells do you use? Runes? Talismans? Perhaps a proxy via a familiar or even technology? I've been practicing magic for as long as I've been alive--that's over fifteen hundred years--but one can never learn too much.
--Ah, I'm rambling. Excuse me... [He straightens his shoulders, tilting his nose up to be as dignified as possible.]
At any rate, I've one more announcement: I'm willing to trade tealeaves for sewing supplies, or anything else. Especially alcohol.
[Arthur pauses, not sure how to end the feed, but he just decides on something simple.]
Thank you.
[*edit/ooc: I'm aware of what he's asking. Bring on the temporal spoilers.]
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And I didn't insult you. You are old, and Denmark said that England is small and weak. [But now that England mentioned a year, he can make more sense of everything. It's a bit difficult to grasp, but in theory - and he's seen it in other people before.]
But that was many years ago for you, yes? And when you're from we're both big and strong. ...Ameh-rica, too.
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... It doesn't matter what Denmark says. He isn't here, and I am.
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...how can you know that he isn't here?
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Honestly Ivan, I've got trade routes all over the world and military presence on every continent. Denmark is the least of my worries here and at home. I'm on decent terms with him at the moment, actually.
Dear Himapapa what was Denmark doing in Russia :||||||||
[He knows that when Denmark and Sweden started coming to his place, the Viking activity in the west got worse, and his knowledge of the world beyond his area might be outdated and not very complete but he doubts that Denmark could change fundamentally enough to stop bullying people, so he figures that he's just doing it elsewhere in his time.]
Who is Canada?
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Yes he is! I am very proud.
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Then when I am strong and big and have a holiday home in the south of America and he is my friend he can come and visit me so he can have it warm sometimes, too.
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Have you visited the gardens yet, Ivan? They're warm and very lovely, all lush and green. We could knit and sew together there if you like.
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[Not Ivan. It's a nice name, but it is also a human name and he's not sure why he would ever use a human name - not out of principle but he has a hard enough time holding on to any nation names and navigating which one a person wants to hear. To add human names to these - half the time, people just call him some form of "little one" or "boy" anyway and he's perfectly fine with that.]
And my lady aunt lives in the gardens. [She doesn't remember him anymore, but he's not someone to let got that easily.]
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[He had no idea.]
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[He wants to add an explanation, but... the thing is that the explanation that he had finally settled on when talking to humans and elves and other non-nations doesn't really work in a nation context.]
She offered that I can stay with her, too.
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I don't expect anything from you like land or money or anything, we don't really have any ties to home here. All I ask is that we help each other when we need it. [Not that he expects he'll need Muscovy's help, but he doesn't want to frighten him off, and this is just how things are generally done.]
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[He isn't without a stronger power to back him up, is what he is saying. His primary reason to stay with Maglor, which slowly changed - also his primary reason to demand to officially be adopted by him. That he would have a stronger power to be used both as a deterrent and as a practical shield.]
The alliance of the Tranquility. [He nods slowly.] And there will be no demands or duties except for a mutual aid pact in cases of a military threat. [No general aid in all cases "when it is needed", because that is vague enough to be abused by the stronger side of those making the pact, and that would likely be England. He might help England out in other cases, too, but he definitely wouldn't want to be tied to it by any duties.]
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Now that's settled, I wanted to ask if you'd like to join me in knitting? I know you like it, and I've got the supplies.
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And we should sign a document about the treaty, yes?
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A-anyway... I've no reason to make knitting or sewing a business. It's a personal hobby I enjoy very much. Keeping one's hands busy is very relaxing. Empires have this sort of luxury. [He means hobbies. It's harder to have those when you're just struggling to survive.]
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But I'm not an empire yet. [He is someone who is still fairly weak and small in an area where life is decidedly not easy, and who had to fend for himself for almost a year in a semi-human state, partly relying on selling his knitted work to support himself. So not thinking of turning the knitting into a business here as well would be counter-intuitive. Even in a place where shelter and food seem to be safe and a given at all times, there will be things that he will need.]
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In the what? Lad, you're not making a bit of sense. Since when did you have family, and fairies, and what's the Drabwurld? And yes, yes we are still nations, but we aren't on Earth. We--No, you're not an empire, but no one's going to invade you here. [He bites his tongue to avoid saying, "there's nothing to invade" but Ivan is a child, and he just... well, even if he wasn't, that'd be somewhat of a below-the-belt remark from one nation to another. He is having an existential crisis and signing a paper just seems so bloody stupid when it'll mean nothing in the absence of government and people and--
Oh he's all for structure of course, and he wants to do his nationly duties as is his nature, but he's always been the rebellious, questioning sort. And right now Russia--Muscovy is confusing him.]
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[He doesn't think that there was a time before he had sisters.]
But I was chased to their world by some fairies, yes? And then I was alone in the forest and found a man who I thought was China but it wasn't him, and then I stayed with him because he was nice and so nobody else would try to claim me. But he wasn't a nation, even though I thought that he was at first, and [here it gets really complicated because he can explain it from every single angle, but in combination - he regarded himself as Maglor's dependency at the same time as he regarded Maglor as his adoptive fater. It's complicated.] he adopted me into his family. [And no matter how complicated that made things and how much Maglor had said that it wasn't a good family to be a part of, having a family, a father and a grandmother and uncles and aunts and cousins... it was a warm, wonderful feeling. It also means that even coming here, he had someone who would provide the kind of protection for him that human families often give to their own.]