No, ah-- I only meant in comparison to recent times. I suppose one must become used to blood?

[ he nods though, and pulls out the notebook he's started carrying around in his spellbook holster. ]

Yes. Most of them proved quite interested in either the tadpole or the orb. [ every single one of those npcs is so badly wizard-brained. ] War agreed to teach me something from their spellbook, provided I met a condition they have set.