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I wish to learn more of the magic of your worlds, of this world. Not only how it works but how to use it.

I can offer a trade, should you require it.

[ After a moment, there's an addendum: ]

If you do not wish to discuss such things over the lockets, dedicate a shrine to the Outsider. I will know. We will speak there.

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This from the guy who can turn into a whale. [It's acerbic and desert-dry. He pauses for effect before continuing.]

We don't teach—[A beat; he almost said outsiders, despite the....the unfortunate implications that would cause. A vague wave of his hand, meant to encompass like, everyone and everything.]—non-Trolls. 'S cultural. Private.

[And they're a little arrogant an xenophobic, even him.]

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[ Unfortunate but hilarious. ]

A pity, seeing as you may very well have to carry those secrets to the grave.

[ how does sensitive about the fact that you're alone here ]

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[Pft, sensitivity's for people with, you know, emotions. He knows he's alone here. It would probably bother a human a lot more than him, so he believes.

He shrugs.]

Only here. And if Azeroth dies with me, so be it.

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Azeroth?

[ You can't just say names and expect him not to ask, Vol'jin. ]

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My world. [Then he grins.] I'm not the only Troll there.

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[ A quiet chuckle. ] If you were, I suspect a great many people would have questions as to your origins.

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Mayhap I was born of a dragon's egg, stolen away and hatched outside of time.

[Closed-mouthed about his own faith, but's he's perfectly willing to trade rumors about others.]

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[ Head tilt. ]

If that were the case, I would estimate that dragons of your world look rather strange.

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[He scoffs and shakes his head.] Ya got no idea.

[...A pause, then he holds up a hand.]

Which be just a figure of speech. [He already knows you really and truly don't know.]

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An accurate one.

[ So. You know. ]

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[He nods. True, true. Oh, here's something he'd find interesting:]

Every flight has it's own realm of influence; life, death, magic, time...

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Every flight of- dragons?

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[He nods, just once. You got it in one, man.]

Dragons be grouped by their flights. Each flight be one big, extended family, and have a certain color specific to 'em.

[Which is hideously convenient for when you need to go collect 30 dragon asses for some inane reason or another. He just assumes they're all the same color because they're related. Yay, inbreeding.]

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A color and a realm.

[ The Outsider nods, thinking this over. ]

Life, death, magic, time -- there are others?

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Hm. [Scratches the side of his chin. He's forgetting one, but...Oh, yeah.]

Only one; Ysera is mother to the green dragonflight, Keepers of the Emerald Dream.

[He smiles wryly and waves a hand; that's outside his sphere of knowledge.]

But that's a druid thing.

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It sounds like a metaphor.

[ He's just saying. ]

Do druids ever invoke the sea?

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It ain't. The Emerald Dream be something of a realm outside of the realms. The druids travel there in spirit. There be stories of some getting lost there.

A druid wouldn't invoke the sea directly. The spirits they work with be creatures of land, sea and air. [Not unlike what he does, if he's honest.] But a shaman might. Though the spirit of the sea itself might be too powerful for most.

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[ A brief pause, then- ]

It sounds like the Void. [ :c ]