"That was the most fun I've had in that class in ages," she says when the class is over.

"Delighted to be of service!"

She grins at him, and then there is an illusory bunny-in-lab-smock nibbling on a piece of paper someone left behind.

Giggle.

"It was World History next, right? That's in the same building as Genoshan History..."

"Cool. Off I go."

"See you."

World History! They are currently covering the formation of the Council of Magi, 2,600 years ago.

Fascinating.

Lots of detail about that and similar events was lost in the Mysterious Catastrophe five hundred years ago but there's still a lot of stuff about how it affected international politics and so on to study.

Milan pays close attention.

There had previously been several magocratic countries; this was generally not to the benefit of their citizens; the Council put a stop to it. To all of it, despite the fact that not all of the magocratic countries were badly run. It is slightly ambiguous how voluntary it was that one who had previously been in charge of most of northeast Eurasia stepped down; but then it was also somewhat ambiguous to what extent she actually did, as opposed to installing a token puppet nonmage government and continuing to rule behind the scenes. She certainly didn't move out and definitely continued doing large-scale public works magic in the area.

Heh.

Kemet had previously been a hereditary magocracy; the current pharaoh simply stepped down and passed the throne to a non-mage offspring. Other countries had dicier transitions.

Goodness, dicey transitions.

This one country handled it really badly and was a total disaster for several decades!

Unfortunate. He can just imagine what King Eisar would say.

Unfortunately, King Eisar wasn't there. Some people who are worse at handling this kind of thing were.

Also, King Eisar would not have stepped down from ruling his kingdom.

Who knows what would have happened? Maybe the Council would have come to a different decision. Speculating on how history might have gone differently is an acceptable class activity but if he tries this particular thread he might have a problem what with how no one else knows anything about King Eisar.

Nah, he keeps his Laefarrin opinions to himself.

Then the class discussions will go on in ignorance of his country's ruler.

Probably for the best.

Well, no one here has any particular preconceptions about undead in general or liches in particular, but maybe.

Intro to Magic Theory is next.

There is a lot of vocabulary being throw around that he's going to have to look up later!