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They do say that much of the Art came from the Orient; mirrors and magic lanterns and so forth. There was a city once, that was said to have been a city of magicians. They wielded a Great Art, it was called - called something like the Algorismus. I believe they revered birds for some reason, they believed in divinations carried upon the flight of birds. How preposterous! No-one could possibly understand the speech of birds, or believe that words could be carried by them!
