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But your friends don’t dance, and if they don’t dance, then they’re no friends of mine.

A thought on why Seyunolu are discriminated against by both Humans and Uryuom beyond just simple racism: most Seyunolu are less able as spellcasters then humans and less able as shapeshifters than Uryuoms (able to shift only through various mixtures of their ancestral forms). Mist is potent in his dream/illusion magic largely because of the Unicorn part of his heritage.

Taking down the Verres/Kitsune clan will also reduce the level of mortal oversight on him. As for his final fate, I foresee the other Immortals enforcing a complete memory wipe on his new reset, in order to stop him from rebuilding his legacy.

Oh, he grasps ethics—it’s merely that he believes that he is justified in acting in a severely self-serving manner.

Not just sheer temperature, but also other winter weather issues—e.g. depth of snow meaning that wheeled wagons/carts could not be used, and Napoleon’s army had not brought sleds large enough to carry heavy equipment.

Voltaire is definitely taking advantage of the trio’s ignorance of local Immortal law here. I’m fairly certain that the new Law still does not allow him to simply punish them unilaterally without them agreeing to some sort of bargain with him first, so his “you are mine” claim is largely intimidation.

Strategic, yes. Logistic, no. Current Russia is crap on logistics.

Although it is possible to be in someone’s mindscape, it seems more like a “one target at a time” thing than a “view the thoughts of everyone you see” thing.

Observing dreams seems to involve moving their own viewpoint “inside” the dream, so they possibly cannot be in “multiple places at once”—entering someone’s mindscape would take their focus over whatever their physical body was doing, and they would “space out” like Sarah’s body does when she is within her mindscape spell.

It’s neutral because it ends with the diminutive suffix -chen, which always takes neutral. Compound words in German always take the word gender of the last part of the word, regardless of the gender of the other parts. “Madchen” more or less translates literally as “little maid”.

I was talking about whoever was pressuring you to work longer hours than you want.

Danged bosses, always making us work all hours of the day.

They didn’t have a hierarchy of ranks of Nobility, but it still worked out because you didn’t need to be a Jarl (Earl) or the blood relation of one in order to be a warrior in their society, so they could still field sufficient numbers of warriors without having to grant nobility to them all.

For temporary transformations, it seems that a sufficiently experienced Immortal can take the appearance of anything which can be reasonably called “animate”—see how inhuman Pandora’s “chaos cloud” form was. An Immortal’s “core” form is apparently based upon their subconscious self-image, so if an Immortal who previously thought of themselves as being male were to start thinking of themselves as being female at heart, then their core form would presumably change to mirror this.

Privateers were sometimes regarded as “enemy auxiliary forces” if they were flying their sponsoring nation’s flag.

We use the names “Duke”, “Earl”, and “Baron” as given names for boys, so why not “Contessa” for a girl?

Yah, AFAIK one is only supposed to use the left hand when using the right hand is impractical.

Yah, a pill sized for humans is a dozen times too big a dose for cats, and thus likely toxic.

The largest number of post-pubescent male cats that I have had in my care at one time has been three, and they already got into quite enough of a pissing contest as it was.

Ever since the time of Descartes, we have had the dualistic worldview in which the mental and physical realms are entirely separate, with the mental only able to influence the physical through our control over our own bodies. The whole “unthinking matter reacts to intent” is usually relegated to literal Divine Intervention. I think that the paradigm here is that Immortals are not actually beings of Matter, and are instead “made of” magic. Literally every action that they perform upon the physical world is not a matter-upon-matter interaction, but rather a magic-upon-matter interaction.

No, that would be Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana-fana-fo-fesca III.

An intact male cat also tends to spread his urine on things.

They don’t need to—any breathing needs are supplied by their own magic.

Yah, television itself is a relatively recent thing—daily broadcasts weren’t really happening until after WWII. Before that was a few decades of cinema, and before that was novels and the theater.

Yah, as far as we know, the only “government” that the Immortals have is their general council meetings, which is closest to an Athenian style direct democracy, with no assigned leaders or officers. There seems to be no formal authority of any particular Immortal over others.