One thing Furina is, that most people don't readily know?
A scholar.
Oh, she has not devoted herself to study, like some have--she is no devotee of the art, like those of Sumeru's Akademiya--but she has lived five hundred years, and has given no small part of those centuries to learning as much as she can about the world and pertinent things within it.
Given her curse...magic is, indeed, one of those pertinent things. So it's really not her fault that the question has her lighting up, even in this dreary place, because it's not often she gets to talk about these things, you know? The Hydro Archon has appearances to keep!
"That quite depends on what you mean by magic," Furina says eagerly. "In terms of pure elemental manipulation--yes, that's quite common, even amongst those without a Vision, though the means employed by those without Visions are not always safe. In terms of the more...esoteric...that is much rarer. Most generally don't know there are practitioners of those arts about, and true wielders of it are even rarer. Charlatans are plentiful, though."
She looks at him curiously. "Not common, you say? How so?"
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A scholar.
Oh, she has not devoted herself to study, like some have--she is no devotee of the art, like those of Sumeru's Akademiya--but she has lived five hundred years, and has given no small part of those centuries to learning as much as she can about the world and pertinent things within it.
Given her curse...magic is, indeed, one of those pertinent things. So it's really not her fault that the question has her lighting up, even in this dreary place, because it's not often she gets to talk about these things, you know? The Hydro Archon has appearances to keep!
"That quite depends on what you mean by magic," Furina says eagerly. "In terms of pure elemental manipulation--yes, that's quite common, even amongst those without a Vision, though the means employed by those without Visions are not always safe. In terms of the more...esoteric...that is much rarer. Most generally don't know there are practitioners of those arts about, and true wielders of it are even rarer. Charlatans are plentiful, though."
She looks at him curiously. "Not common, you say? How so?"