The Honorable Barbarian
“Klung led him to a smaller room and waved him to cushions on the floor before a kind of stunted, crimson-lacquered desk, rising little more than a foot above the floor. The wizard plumped himself down on other cushions behind this furnishing."Well, younker," he said in passable if old-fashioned Novarian, "What wouldst?""Sir," began Kerin circumspectly, "first, I would fain not commit more discourtesies than I can help in a strange land. So pray explain the difference betwixt a pawang and a bali...mpawang."The wizard made a steeple of his fingers. "A pawang is simply our word for 'magician' or 'wizard.' But we also have guilds, and a balimpawang is the chosen arch of such a supernaturalists' guild.""And you are the leader of the Magicians' Guild of Kwatna?''"Aye, and of all of Salimor. Practically speaking, that means Ambok; the pawangs on the other islands are for the most part mere primitive witch doctors, ignorant of the higher branches of the magical sciences.""Then enlighten me, pray.MoreLess
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