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Categorically, this has been the first.

Is it a subject that interests you personally?

I'm glad you've avoided it so far but also sorry to be the first Well I like being dominated and I like women. I just always felt like "femdom" was kind of a dumb term. Like why do we have to have a special term for a woman being dominant? It's not an aberration. You don't see "maledom" as a term NEARLY as often even though they're probably about equally common in practice So yes

You raise a good point. I suppose the alternative is just to venture a longer request for anyone to dominate, unless the preference is for a woman to do it over a man, hence the specification.

I feel like specifying a sexual preference in general probably covers that, right? I don't know maybe femdom is a useful term but if it is we should use maledom just as often Anyway hi I'm Quentin, I'm from Earth, the year 2018 and I do magic. Just so you know I have a personality other than liking femdom no matter what the city says

[He can feel the awkward coming out of his fingers, he can see it on the screen, and yet...he is powerless to stop it. Especially now that he's checked her ID and seen how intimidatingly gorgeous she is.]

Perhaps. Does a preference for the one who dominates you go hand in hand with who you would also prefer to fuck?

[ yennefer hasn't been in this city for very long, but based on what she's seen already, not everything orchestrated between a dominant and a submissive has an overtly sexual component. some of it plainly appears to be about power and control. ]

Yennefer. The Sphere I hail from is what is known as the Continent, year 1263.
What sort of magic?

Okay that's a fair question but yes, I do like domination to be combined with sex. Or at least like intimacy, even if I'm doing something not sexual I probably want it to be with someone with whom sex is an option I can do lots of things. What I'm best at tends to be physical magic, things that affect matter and objects and stuff. But I'm okay at some illusion magic, some psychic magic. I'm worse at nature and healing but I can get by with those.

That's your prerogative.

[ yennefer's own feelings about intimacy are more complicated, and as of now she's less inclined to engage in any display wherein she'd experience a greater attachment to the other person, for reasons she won't move to divulge here.

besides, it'll become clearer in short order that her interest is less in speaking with him about the sexual component and more about something else. ]

So mages have a specialty in your world. Something they have more of an affinity for over other areas?

[That's cool; he's WAY more into talking about magic than femdom.]

Yeah, we call it a Discipline. Mine is somewhere in physical magic but I don't know exactly what it is. My [.....] friend Alice is a phosphoromancer, which is a physical discipline where she manipulates light. This other guy, Penny, is a Traveler, which is a psychic discipline where he can hear people's thoughts and basically teleport to them, or anywhere he wants. There's metacomposition, which is knowledge magic and has to do with creating and breaking apart other spells.

[ she's taking a second to absorb all of this, what he's telling her, though she doesn't get so fascinated that she forgets to ask about something else. ]

How long does it normally take? For one to find their discipline.

You usually don't find it yourself. The school I went to tests for it. You should theoretically have one by the time you're in your first year, so like age 23 or so. Not being able to find it can mean you're late forming one or it's just rare and they don't know how to test for it. My friend is a Traveler which is really rare so at first they thought he was something else because usually when someone can hear voices they're just a telepath

[ it's a school that remarkably sounds a lot like aretuza, all things considered, although even they usually wait for someone to display any sign of being able to channel before snatching them up.

these days, though, it seems that any fine family who can pay to send their daughters will earn them a place beneath the rectoress, even if the girls themselves show no talent for it whatsoever. ]

I'm guessing this Traveler friend of yours discovered his ability the hard way. Where did he teleport to first on accident?

I think he said it was Hong Kong? That's a city on the opposite side of the planet from where we were He's teleported into volcanoes and the ocean, too, thankfully nowhere that immediately killed him Thankfully for him anyway

[Look, Quentin doesn't, like, hate Penny, he was sort of sad when he died for a minute there, but he can't pretend there haven't been days when the guts a volcano would have been a more suitable place for him than bothering Quentin.]

Does he have those abilities under control now? I presume at the start, those unexpected teleportations would be more difficult to surmount.

Does that mean those with that power have a slightly lower lifespan, compared to other magic wielders?

[ it seems a fair question to ask, considering. ]

Oh yeah definitely. Apparently a lot of Travelers die before they even graduate Brakebills Actually that even sort of describes Penny but he didn't like directly die because of Traveling but he also wasn't officially dead, I guess? It was confusing but I'm pretty sure he's like 95% officially dead now and he got replaced by a Penny from another timeline Wow I almost never just like lay my life out like this and realize how fucking crazy it sounds

Brakebills is the name of your academy? [ as someone who went to a school to train those in magic herself, that piece of his story seems fairly straightforward. ]

You're not wrong. It does sound fucking crazy, but it almost makes an impressive amount of sense to someone who knows more than a little about magic themselves.

What about your magic? What kind of things can you do with it? Is there a school like Brakebills? Is it divided into types like mine?

There are few things chaos can't achieve, but its power is rooted in balance. You cannot create something by drawing from nothing, or there will be consequences.
And yes, there is a school. Two of them, in fact. Aretuza trains girls who are worthy enough to ascend to sorceress. Ban Ard is for the boys.

Oh yeah that makes sense, magic doesn't really have a cost in the traditional sense but the trade-off is that it takes a lot of skill and there are spells that can go off like a bomb if you screw them up Well I guess the cost of trying to do too much magic is you can become a niffin which is sort of a demon made of magic, they don't care about anything but magic, my ex-girlfriend was one for a bit but she got better Do boys and girls learn the same things?

So there is a consequence to how much power anyone can reasonably possess. How did your ex-girlfriend recover from her condition?

Not entirely. The boys are encouraged to pursue means of further edification, and the girls are initially intended to look like pretty window dressing for royalty even while privately cleaning up political messes themselves.

I fixed her. I don't know if anyone's ever done it before, but the thing is that making a body and animating it is easy, but a niffin is dead, so their Shade is in the Underworld, and you can't really bring someone back without their Shade. A living person can lose their Shade and survive but you can't start living without one. So I got her Shade back and then the spell worked. Hmm, gross. CAN girls study whatever they want to? Is it like they're just encouraged in different directions but anyone can actually do anything they want? Or are you actually barred?

Does that mean you traveled to the underworld to recover the part of her that was missing?

It's less of an encouragement and more of a firm direction. They don't respond well to sorceresses who decide to forego their intended duties and live life by their own choosing.

Yeah. A friend of mine had lost her Shade so we went to the Underworld together to get it. We found Alice's Shade in the process of looking, and she chose to bring back Alice instead of her own Shade. That's shitty. You should get to do what you want.

What was it that happened to your friend without her own Shade?

I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, the Brotherhood didn't see it that way. Simultaneously, I was more than inclined to tell them to go fuck themselves.

It's not really my story to tell and it's a long one, but the very short version is that she needed it amputated during a magical medical procedure gone wrong. Good. Some people need to be told that. I think Brakebills was mostly okay, but in hindsight there were definitely some moments where I wish I'd said "no, fuck you."

It seems as though magic can accomplish much in your sphere, Quentin.

I've found it's never a good idea to let the truth fester in silence. And it's always very satisfying to deliver a good fuck you to someone who deserves it.

[ too bad she isn't taking her own advice on the former, especially when it comes to hiding the truth from geralt. ]

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