"Oh, a republic! Like Asendar!" Although the question about magic was...well, magic simply was, so it was hard to answer. "It's...just magic?" she tried. "Some people have it, some people don't. It passes down family lines, and there are eight threads...every mage's thread is somewhere in their bloodline, even if very far back. Sometimes a thread will reappear without warning."

((OOC: Asendar is a republic in the same way Venice is.))