[Ah, Cam could provide him with an itemized list, sorted top down through preference and her own personal judgment of being worth the effort to get, and so on. Alas. One day.
Palamedes does not wink again - almost, now that he's in the zone to show off magic it nearly happens - just smiling right back and then dropping into a shrug. That the inter-House marriage laws exist is something he's either never thought about or ignored completely when someone else was thinking about them, so — who knows.]
You'd have to — hello, Rio — you'd have to ask someone else about the laws. [A beat.] It could be arbitrary. Necro-cav marriages are kind of a no-no, too, but it still happens.
[So: random, maybe. Somebody's outdated nonsense ideas. Who knows if it was even the Emperor who came up with that one, perhaps one of the Saints was having a rough go of it and tired of their colleagues on a really extreme, "don't talk to me or my House ever again" level. Enough information about Way Back When is still gone forever...
Nevertheless, Palamedes flicks his finger and makes the seed spin faster, bouncing a little when Viktor brushes against it.]
I'm a quick study, to be fair. [yeah mhm yep this is the showing off portion, for sure] Blood quantity is proportional to the level of power, I think all evidence points to that thus far. Application is the inverse, which should vary by individual. Levels can be supplemented, where necessary — precision can be learned.
[Precision like zipping a pomegranate seed around in a tight circle above the table, before he lets it drop back down. Tada.... 2!!!]
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Palamedes does not wink again - almost, now that he's in the zone to show off magic it nearly happens - just smiling right back and then dropping into a shrug. That the inter-House marriage laws exist is something he's either never thought about or ignored completely when someone else was thinking about them, so — who knows.]
You'd have to — hello, Rio — you'd have to ask someone else about the laws. [A beat.] It could be arbitrary. Necro-cav marriages are kind of a no-no, too, but it still happens.
[So: random, maybe. Somebody's outdated nonsense ideas. Who knows if it was even the Emperor who came up with that one, perhaps one of the Saints was having a rough go of it and tired of their colleagues on a really extreme, "don't talk to me or my House ever again" level. Enough information about Way Back When is still gone forever...
Nevertheless, Palamedes flicks his finger and makes the seed spin faster, bouncing a little when Viktor brushes against it.]
I'm a quick study, to be fair. [yeah mhm yep this is the showing off portion, for sure] Blood quantity is proportional to the level of power, I think all evidence points to that thus far. Application is the inverse, which should vary by individual. Levels can be supplemented, where necessary — precision can be learned.
[Precision like zipping a pomegranate seed around in a tight circle above the table, before he lets it drop back down. Tada.... 2!!!]