A day had passed and Kabel was sitting at the lunch tabel with Mirranda sitting across from him. "So it's clear you lack education so I'll be teaching you the basics".
"I thought Rotund was already taught me the basics?" Mirranda coughed and said "Well yes but he's no mage I've seen much more than he has" Kabel understood and nodded his head up and down vigorously.
"Now you know the basic geography but mages and knights surpass mere kingdoms, often kings will have mages or knights under his employee but any mage worth its stuff belongs too a den which is what we call mage organizations" Kabel looked confused as he asked "What den do you belong too Miranda?" She gave a grim smile and simply said "A mages life is one of talent and fortune" Before continuing with her lecture.
She continued with her lecture discussing the big mage organizations and their famous quirks. "Now to understand this next part you need to understand the basics of magic but you must promise me you won't think too hard about this okay?" Kabel gave a confused but affirmative nod. "Mages are a mistake on this world, knights work with the natural laws while we twist them...Make them our own to use for our gain, now despite this the world isn't against us, no the world is against very few people" Kabel interjected and asked "so the world thinks?"
"Of course it thinks the world or what we are actually referring too is the gathering off all laws and all things in existence and the gathering of their conciseness" Kabel looked confused so she took him outside.
She flew Kabel too a nearby lake and took him too the shore and grabbed some pebels. She threw one into the water and it cuased ripples to spread outward. She threw two at the same time and continue increasing in number throwing the pebbles in a circle. At the center all of the waves smashed together forming a strong disturbance.
She pointed her finger and made a circle all around all the ripples "that's the world" She then pointed too the disturbance made by all of the ripples "that is heavens will and the path of a mage starts with defying it that is where I got the scars on my arm and you'll see every mage with these scars"
"Now in a very simmlar manner imagine if instead of those ripples being everything that is happing instead they are all hungry people making those ripples, what do you think gets created in the center?" Kabel thought hard for awhile and said "A God of Hunger" Mirranda looked impressed.
"Good job that is where all gods are formed the more ripples the more their power, which also means that eveytime you think or feel hungry the god of hunger knows so do NOT try and ponder deeply about any specific god cuase they will know and you're not ready to handle even getting seen by a god and that is how us mages get power, from borrowing power from the gods" Kabel looked confused and asked "but..I thought mages went against the natural order?"
Mirranda similed and said "We do steal from them but if they wanted too they could kill us instantly but Tell me what if instead of having lots of tiny ripples you have many big ones? A mage using the power of hunger too starve a nation is much better than passively gaining millions of sheep so the gods let us skim some of the power because they know that the mage will earn it back with interest"
Kabel stood staring at the water for awhile as Mirrand let him digest that over the flight back too Rotunds house. Soon they arrived back and Kabel asked "So...why doesn't everyone just choose the most powerful god?"
"Think from the gods perspective even if the god will eventually get it back in how long? Or what if the mage dies before paying it back? There's too many variables and even a god can't give their power willy nilly too anyone so they are very selective on too who and how much" Kabel enthralled but the time was starting too pass by "anyway that's enough for today go do whatever children do I still have a life to get back too"
Before Miranda left Rotund caught up with her and asked "Miranda I'm grateful but how will you explain too the lord all of your time spent here?" Mirranda give a cheeky smile and said "Well I just told him that our dead relationship has risen from its grave and that I would like to spend my old years with someone" Rotund was left speechless and simply let it go if it worked then it worked.