Draiss waited for everyone to sit, before looking around, and nodding, still in his dragon form. He glanced at Vorela, before shaking his head. "Vorela, stop sniggering. Thank you all for coming, I was talking with Hinata, and came across several differences in our basic understandings of magic, and since, as you all know, my curiosity is enough kill any number of cats, I wanted everyone to get in on this. The basic question is 'what is magic?' and the other one is 'what is your perception of magic?'<br/><br/>I expect this discussion to take an absurdly long time as everyone other than the immortals, elves and dwarves reckon, so if you get bored or have something else to attend to, feel free to leave. I will now pause to let everyone actually think about those two questions, before I ask everyone to write down what their current answers to those questions are, just for reference, as I am guessing some of us might have an epiphany as the discussion goes on."<br/><br/>Writing materials appeared on various stands near people, and the two people in the domain that didn't know how to read and write got a quick mental request to let him speed teach them, before he carefully applied understanding to both Keelah and Jessica's minds, giving the mermaid and werewolf lady a new way of learning and expressing themselves. He waited about ten minutes for everyone to finish, and pulled out his own, already prepared paper. "Okay, just for reference, my take on magic is that it is a way to manifest the belief of an individual or individuals on the 'real' world, and that I perceive magic as both a color and music, though not everyone can call it that. The color defines what kind of magic it is, while the music gives it power and purpose. For example, my fireball spell is a strong red martial music, while chain lightning would be an even strong gold or yellow. Mage armor is a soft blue soothing music befitting the weakest defensive spell, while the most powerful illusion spell I know, Weird, is a harsh, almost painfully loud black dissonance."