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Would you bang the avatar above you?

Can I get a promise he won't mutilate and/or kill me and/or my soul? Because he looks the type.
 
No banging, however-

DINNER. IS. SERVED!

*Roast duck goes in the belly*
 
If that's the Merlin I'm thinkin of.... hard yes.
 
Looks hot, sure, just let me get some burn heals.
 
I feel like I should recognize them, but nothing is coming to mind.

She's Sofia, the protagonist of a fantasy quest ran on /qst/ called "Court of Swords". Sofia is a freshly licensed duelist on retainer to the city as a public defender, to act as representatives and seconds to those challenged by a trial by combat, but without the money to hire a pro.

It is said everywhere, from trade-chatter in the Unfree Cities in the east to the Hoppalon Archipelagos in the west, that all rivers in the world share the same source. This is demonstrably untrue but nevertheless, if you know the right way, you can follow any river deeper and deeper inland up towards a single point. And rising there higher than any mountain, atop an aquatic plateau whose edges are perpetual waterfalls, is the city. It stands between the bickering central nations but obeys, respects and recognizes none of them.

It has a name, Aquitae Cogituum, but this name barely matters as its citizens simply call it the City. For only rarely would they ever see another. And why would they? It is the grandest city in all the world. It sits close to the heart of all things, above the Font and is both above and separate from all the Lesser Realms. To the city, the matters of the world outside...don't.

Down below, prophets dream of walking its streets and wars are fought and kings slain for their meagrest treasure. For here it is said that all magic is born. This is something only said by those of the Lesser Realms of course, as it is a statement that would only invite scorn above. Magic is a foreign word. The people of the city above have no word for magic in the same sense that fish would have no word for water. Of course, you could say that a fish doesn't have a word for anything but in the city it just might.

It is the City of Dreams, the City of Reflections and the City of Revelation. It is also, rather more relevantly, the City of Duels.
 

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