Artorius paused, frowning as he finally turned his full attention on Averson. "Magi? Amongst the Soriithans?" Soriithans had a long history of distrust for magic users, although 'distrust' was a weak word for what was effectively abject hatred, great enough that even demonstrating a magical talent was enough to have a child killed. They were also a nomadic desert people, more hardy than the inhabitants of the Northlands but smaller in number. That they were acting so aggressively...