Literature
Two centuries. Three or four lifetimes for most people; a mere season for us touched by the Lightbearer's gift. "We wizards stand apart, Arkoniel," my own teacher, Iya, told me when I was scarcely older than Nysander is now. "We are stones in a river's course, watching the rush of life whirl past."
"Water makes a mage stay smooth long after others harden into wrinkles."
— Invi, Servant Mage
