"Gate?" Never mind, there's explanations to run through. "You're going to have to tell me what 'wizard' means in your world since... there's so many worlds here it's probably not what I'm thinking of."
Saash is definitely not an old man with a beard and a funny hat, so there's that stereotype gone.
"A Karas is... uh. First I have to explain what a yurine is. It's the... personi... anth... I can't remember the word, but she's the will of a particular city and she looks either like a girl or a white cat. She picks someone to be her guardian, called a Karas. I know other cities in Japan do - at least the one that other Karas came from? We didn't really talk much. I don't know about other places. Never really asked."
He probably should have, come to think of it. "Anyway, we can't use our powers without her letting us use them. And our souls are in - uh. ... Don't know about other places, but mine is in an amulet. ... We make a contract with her. I don't know if other people know they're making a contract... she just told me my soul called out to her when I was dying."
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Saash is definitely not an old man with a beard and a funny hat, so there's that stereotype gone.
"A Karas is... uh. First I have to explain what a yurine is. It's the... personi... anth... I can't remember the word, but she's the will of a particular city and she looks either like a girl or a white cat. She picks someone to be her guardian, called a Karas. I know other cities in Japan do - at least the one that other Karas came from? We didn't really talk much. I don't know about other places. Never really asked."
He probably should have, come to think of it. "Anyway, we can't use our powers without her letting us use them. And our souls are in - uh. ... Don't know about other places, but mine is in an amulet. ... We make a contract with her. I don't know if other people know they're making a contract... she just told me my soul called out to her when I was dying."