That makes sense. I've heard snippets of what happened, and most everyone doesn't seem to want to talk about it much. It definitely sounds like it was worse than the war I fought it back in my world.

[He pauses for a bit... tossing an idea back and forth in his head... before he actually decides to go ahead and ask it.]

Well, our world definitely has spirits and magic and supernatural weirdness, so that would be a thing. Soooooooo... let's say, you know, hypothetically that someone, maaaaaaybe somewhat like myself, was interested in maybe possibly learning this magic stuff. Would that be possible? What sort of things would that person have to go through to learn it? And... what sorts of magic could that person actually learn?