07-02-2017, 06:00 PM
The elf man smiled upon hearing her titling of him. "Oh, when spoken like that, you paint me a romantic," he said, putting a hand to his chest. "I suppose it is more accurate to say that I find those maladies more interesting than your common wounds." He moved around once more, examining her wares, even setting his staff down against a cleared part of the wall.
"I've largely fascinated myself with human wellness. They are so creative when it comes to finding ways to do each other harm, so there is never a drought of things to discover. Yet, our Grandmother* has ways to counter each and every bodily wound you can manage to inflict, if one merely applies the proper wit." He said. "I wish to prove the same true about those unseen ailments as well...so I seek out such things as challenges."
*"Grandmother" refers not to a mother's mother, but to this world's equivalent of Mother Nature, and is a reference to the oldest parts of elven ancestry that they believed shaped and designed the world.
"I've largely fascinated myself with human wellness. They are so creative when it comes to finding ways to do each other harm, so there is never a drought of things to discover. Yet, our Grandmother* has ways to counter each and every bodily wound you can manage to inflict, if one merely applies the proper wit." He said. "I wish to prove the same true about those unseen ailments as well...so I seek out such things as challenges."
*"Grandmother" refers not to a mother's mother, but to this world's equivalent of Mother Nature, and is a reference to the oldest parts of elven ancestry that they believed shaped and designed the world.