The story and look into young Galby is great, and I really like the twist with magic being bound to language itself, rather than the elven language specifically. Well... okay, I like it, but I also think it brings up a lot of questions.
Magicians may not be too common among the humans, but Trianna shows that there are still self-taught or independent magic users out there who learned apart from the elves. And that's not even mentioning the dwarves and Urgals. If magic is connected to all language, I feel like at least one non-elf, non-rider spellcaster would have figured it out by accident before now. And it doesn't sound like this is an intentional conspiracy on the elves' part either, since Kaa'ti says that the elves can tell untruths as long as they don't know they are mistaken. So the question now is, is Kaa'ti just mistaken, or does the Elven Conspiracy stretch farther than we know?...
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Magicians may not be too common among the humans, but Trianna shows that there are still self-taught or independent magic users out there who learned apart from the elves. And that's not even mentioning the dwarves and Urgals. If magic is connected to all language, I feel like at least one non-elf, non-rider spellcaster would have figured it out by accident before now. And it doesn't sound like this is an intentional conspiracy on the elves' part either, since Kaa'ti says that the elves can tell untruths as long as they don't know they are mistaken. So the question now is, is Kaa'ti just mistaken, or does the Elven Conspiracy stretch farther than we know?...