Video Post - 01

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[If nothing else, this sort of broadcasting and storage and communication device isn't entirely unfamiliar to Ming. But everything else certainly is. First and foremost her own body. Where's the pulsing thrum of her magical energy? Even the mark on her chest is dull and decorative. It's a frightening thing to see. She can feel the passage of time, something only once felt briefly. And terrifyingly. The seconds are moving by her, taking her with them.]

[She realizes she can't feel any any magical energy. Not in the atmosphere, not in the earth, not in the large creature that follows her. It's an unfamiliar beast, but one that looks as though it would be right at home on the paradisaical beaches of her island kingdom.]

[If this is a kidnapping, it's a frightfully strange one. She's nowhere near Numara. This place isn't familiar at all! But she's not restrained. Quite the opposite. She's made it to a bench in the little village she awoke in, and then that overwhelming feeling that threatens to steal her consciousness slips upon her and she sits, shaking and confused, to fiddle with the portable teleson.]

What...what is this place?

[There's a high note of fear and confusion in Ming's lightly accented voice.]

Something's wrong...something's terribly wrong...what's been done to me?

What's going to happen to me?

[Without her magical energy, what is she? Her magic is her soul, her consciousness, her very being! She's never felt so tied to this human shaped shell in all of her existence. She's certain she can feel the decay and dying of mortal cells. Is this mortal death?]

Please...if someone can help me...

[It doesn't occur to her to explain further - there's not a single sentient thing in her world that doesn't know her face and who she is. What she is.]

[Surely someone can aide her!]

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Yes. My original world was one of energy. My kind had no physical forms, only energy and thought. I don't remember it, though. But Plank, the world I call my home and the only world I remember, is a physical world where even magical energy must follow the natural laws of that reality.

[Ming blinks, a bit surprised.]

Why yes, it does! You're also immortal, in your world? I've met so few...there were only four others in my world, and...now there are far less. Do you have magical energy?

[She says nothing on tragic lives. She knows full well hers is also a tragic one, and there's no need to share any of it.]

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[He chuckles, waving his hand.]

I'm not immortal-- at least, I don't think that I am. But, then again, when you're an amnesiac, it's difficult to decipher your past. Perhaps I've some grander origin that I expected!

[Though he's had months to mull it over and has... vague inklings here and there, and he highly doubts he's an immortal like DeRosso. He's a... peculiar case. An anomaly, really.

Still, it's amusing to think about, ignoring all the tragic complications.]

We do have magic, though, and I have seen magic used as a source of energy in the past. Up until recently, the Duchy of Eternia had drawn white magic from the Earth Crystal in order to use its healing properties, but that regrettably is no longer the case since we awakened said crystal.

[Fortunately, medical advances have made it so that the patients can still thrive, but it was a... difficult decision to say the least, especially for Edea.]

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Oh. Well, I suppose one never knows. I didn't know I was immortal, for many years.

[Unfortunately, the truth had been learned when her first village attempted to burn her for witchcraft.]

We use crystals as well! Many of them hold energy, or are able to focus and utilize it in magical engines. Though...well, earth magic is an offensive magic, not capable of being used for healing in my world. Healing falls under the element of light, it's an entirely different sort of magical energy. Most mortals in my world can only use one or the other - base elemental magics or light magic.

...Awakened?

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Earth magic typically is more offensive, so I'm not entirely sure how it correlates to the use of white magic. However, Luxendarc's crystals are more than just trinkets. They hold direct ties to the elements themselves, and as of late, they've been corroded by a great darkness, which led to the sea rotting, the breeze fading, mountains rising, and devastating eruptions...

[Well, that's it in a nutshell, which brings him to the next point--]

My friend Agnès is the Vestal of Wind, tasked with overseeing the Wind Crystal. However, with all the other vestals gone, she alone has been tasked with awakening the crystals to purge the world of darkness, which we supposedly did.

However, I was pulled here before I could see the aftermath...

[And, truth be told, he's not certain they actually succeeded.]