#also im so sorry. siluria in the novel does not know magic :(

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I thought the one in 62 just meant an ordinary necklace with the family symbol but what a hologram appears because its actually a magical device?! Wait so they really can use magic freely or its limited? I mean why never use magic for constructions or why does Javier ever question Lloyd skills if it can be explained as 'its magic'… Hmmm but thinking about it it feels like the only mention of magic is about necromancers and black mages and the interrogators and siluria, thinking about it again the only ones who freely uses them are helkaros, the dragons, the angels, so maybe magic is limited, unless there are some that i don't remember

Magic is limited in the same way giant flowing garden projects are limited - they're expensive!

It's true that most of the magic we encounter from humans seems to be black magic, but that's because most of the magicians seem to work in the capital! And there are so few, that when a few bad apples turn, its quite noticeable.

It seems like magicians are the classic wizard-type in Lorasia, where you must study the art of magic. So nobles and some merchants, who can spend that kinda money, are the only ones who can get someone to educate their kids or send them to learn at an academy. And then, being such a rare job, magicians are really expensive to hire and thus only nobility can really afford them.

Argh, its killing me that I cant find when he said this, but Lloyd mentions once that hiring a magician to help with construction would be incredibly expensive (i feel like he said it would be like the equivalent of the construction itself? But i have no proof (-᷅_-᷄๑) I feel like it was an earlier construction). When the palace magicians help with the Magenta suspension bridge (bc its a palace construction order afterall) Lloyd is overwhelmingly happy about how much easier everything is!

My assumption is that once someone becomes a noble (born or otherwise), then that person is given an identifying necklace by the palace, as a means of maintaining the legitimacy of the nobles (we dont want fake ones wandering around *cough*) and as a sort of census tracker for the kingdom. You need the necklace to prove youre a noble, and we know who all the legit nobles are because we have a list of necklaces!