"Well, it /is/ a little bit fun to play along with sometimes, if the person isn't going to be reasonable about it." Kostya laughed a bit.
"I mean, it's better if they didn't see me as one, but sometimes it's not worth trying to convince them otherwise. People are going to believe what they want to believe. Might as well have /some/ fun."
Kostya thought for a bit on what Nene said. "Well, some people are kinda weird about power they don't understand. The residents of Vaelan don't mind that I have magic and they don't. They know that they owe their good-being to the land-spirit, so I guess they see me as another way he protects them."
"It's mostly outsiders who don't understand."
"And yeah, I guess you could say I come from noble blood, though my mother is from a merchant family...my family doesn't really care where people come from if they want to marry in to be honest. Having a reputation as family of dark lords seems to make other nobles less than thrilled to offer their daughters in marriage."
(OOC: I probably should clarify what kind of land-spirit Kostya is bound to. Vale started out as a river-spirit that came to become the spirit in charge of not only his river home - the source of which is in a mountain cave - but also the lands in the valley surrounding the river. Hence why his base powers are ice-based since his source comes from mountain melt-waters.)
Re: Kostya
"I mean, it's better if they didn't see me as one, but sometimes it's not worth trying to convince them otherwise. People are going to believe what they want to believe. Might as well have /some/ fun."
Kostya thought for a bit on what Nene said. "Well, some people are kinda weird about power they don't understand. The residents of Vaelan don't mind that I have magic and they don't. They know that they owe their good-being to the land-spirit, so I guess they see me as another way he protects them."
"It's mostly outsiders who don't understand."
"And yeah, I guess you could say I come from noble blood, though my mother is from a merchant family...my family doesn't really care where people come from if they want to marry in to be honest. Having a reputation as family of dark lords seems to make other nobles less than thrilled to offer their daughters in marriage."
(OOC: I probably should clarify what kind of land-spirit Kostya is bound to. Vale started out as a river-spirit that came to become the spirit in charge of not only his river home - the source of which is in a mountain cave - but also the lands in the valley surrounding the river. Hence why his base powers are ice-based since his source comes from mountain melt-waters.)