"No. Many beings in Oblivion aren't."

"What are you instead?"

"The official category is et'Ada, those spirits who predate our universe, Aurbis. I am one of the more powerful ones, and as such mortals consider me a Daedric Prince - loosely, Daedra are those et'Ada who did not participate in the making of the universe, and the Princes are the most powerful of them, although I am not technically a Daedra. The other two types of et'Ada are Aedra and Magna-Ge, and I am of that last group. The Aedra gave much of their power in making the universe. The Magna-Ge are those who gave some of our power and then left the project. Mortals sometimes name some of us gods, as well."

"Why are you considered a Daedric Prince if you aren't a Daedra?"

"Most Magna-Ge left Aurbis, so it's not a category mortals are very familiar with. The Aedra have their own interwoven politics and alliances and do not keep their Realms in Oblivion. The Daedra have no such alliances, and most rule within Oblivion."

"Gosh. My world doesn't seem to have gods, as far as I know. In my country we have a king, and five primes, associated with the five elements and the five aspects of people. I'm the sweela prime, fire and mind."

"Interesting. Do other countries have primes, too?"

"As far as I know they don't have anything like us."

"Do you know why?"

"No."

"How does your fire primacy manifest?"

"Do you mean what happened when I got it or what can I do?"

"The second, though the first would be interesting to know, as well."

"I have the involuntary mindreading at a short radius. I can also do other things to people's minds on purpose, though I'm very nervous about it and only do it when the alternatives are all really bad. Over a much wider area I have pretty arbitrary control of temperature and I can create and extinguish and control fire."

"Interesting. I would like to know how your powers compare against mine, sometime, but I would be hesitant about the impact reading my mind might have on a mortal, and this does not seem a place to test fire control."

"I mean, it's not going to go out of control." She holds out her hand and a little orange flame dances in her palm.

She nods. "Interesting. It seems to be an ordinary fire, to my senses. What is the definition of 'fire' your powers operate under? Does it include all plasmas?"

"Plasmas?"

She explains the states of matter, and that some especially hot fires are the same sort of matter stage as lightning, and a few other natural phenomena - technically lower heat, gaseous fires are more a product of continual chemical reactions, rather than being a particular state of matter...

"I... don't feel like I can do things that aren't fire, but maybe if I heated it up enough it'd technically be some of these other things?"

"That's reasonable; magic in my world sometimes also - interacts with a physical reality in a representational way. Is the definition of fire then a natural language one? If you can't control chemical reactions that produce heat in general."

"I mean, I can control heat in general... I don't know what the chemicals would then tend to do about it."

"Might be something to test, then, especially once I have a better sense of this place."

"Sure, take your time, I'm going to be here for a while most likely."

She nods. "I think I have some questions for Bar, first."