This reminds me that I owe you ninja!Merlin fic. Sweeter words I have not heard today.
Yeah, it change it up every year. Stupid lunar calendar.
Gaiussss. I wonder if Gaius's master did both the magic AND medical tutoring, or if Gaius ever had to go to Geoffrey and bully him into finding magic scrolls in the library or something. I think a little of both. (Geoffrey grumbles about it a bit, why can't Gaius do his own damn research, Geoffrey has books to reshelf! But Geoffrey indulges his friend.) Magic wasn't outlawed back in the day, and everyone had access to at least a little bit of it. Even Gaius's master. Just little things though, like maybe in enchanting a cauldron hot or something.
I'm not sure if Gaius ever had a real magical apprenticeship. I lean towards no. Possibly magic was just so ubiquitous and benign that he picked up some stuff here and there, and pursued it as a hobby and matter of intellectual curiosity, but he wasn't super all about it.
It is possible that his master was killed by Uther for using sorcery, and Gaius has issues about it, because he didn't or wasn't able to do anything. The line between "didn't" and "wasn't able to" is getting finer and finer, he finds.
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Sweeter words I have not heard today.
Yeah, it change it up every year. Stupid lunar calendar.
Gaiussss. I wonder if Gaius's master did both the magic AND medical tutoring, or if Gaius ever had to go to Geoffrey and bully him into finding magic scrolls in the library or something. I think a little of both. (Geoffrey grumbles about it a bit, why can't Gaius do his own damn research, Geoffrey has books to reshelf! But Geoffrey indulges his friend.) Magic wasn't outlawed back in the day, and everyone had access to at least a little bit of it. Even Gaius's master. Just little things though, like maybe in enchanting a cauldron hot or something.
I'm not sure if Gaius ever had a real magical apprenticeship. I lean towards no. Possibly magic was just so ubiquitous and benign that he picked up some stuff here and there, and pursued it as a hobby and matter of intellectual curiosity, but he wasn't super all about it.
It is possible that his master was killed by Uther for using sorcery, and Gaius has issues about it, because he didn't or wasn't able to do anything. The line between "didn't" and "wasn't able to" is getting finer and finer, he finds.