[OOC: Time to paint a big target on Ilphyl's back. I'm cool with the TDM thread being canon]
Ravens are common enough on land, but less so over open ocean. Any bird can be blown out to sea, but Ilphyl is used to gulls and cormorants, petrels and albatrosses. They register the ravens and regard them with curiosity -- a small figure in a large straw hat, tinted goggles and a white braid going down their back, doing what looks like fishing and cleaning fish for the pot. There are even some fish guts left out to see what they do. (Befriending the ravens, using magic to communicate, and then borrowing a boat to take them to land is an option Ilphyl is considering.)
Ilphyl isn't hiding their own magic -- jumping into the ocean as a seal or octopus is just as likely to be their fishing technique as a rod, and the ravens might notice a gull circling Ilphyl's houseboat before landing and becoming an elf.
No smoking gun, but Ilphyl's houseboat is not something meant to be in the open ocean alone for long, and Ilphyl certainly meets up with others connected to Flotsam. And Ilphyl still hasn't solved the problem of their distinctive appearance for an elf in this world.
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i. The ravens go forth
Date: 2025-02-22 03:25 am (UTC)Ravens are common enough on land, but less so over open ocean. Any bird can be blown out to sea, but Ilphyl is used to gulls and cormorants, petrels and albatrosses. They register the ravens and regard them with curiosity -- a small figure in a large straw hat, tinted goggles and a white braid going down their back, doing what looks like fishing and cleaning fish for the pot. There are even some fish guts left out to see what they do. (Befriending the ravens, using magic to communicate, and then borrowing a boat to take them to land is an option Ilphyl is considering.)
Ilphyl isn't hiding their own magic -- jumping into the ocean as a seal or octopus is just as likely to be their fishing technique as a rod, and the ravens might notice a gull circling Ilphyl's houseboat before landing and becoming an elf.
No smoking gun, but Ilphyl's houseboat is not something meant to be in the open ocean alone for long, and Ilphyl certainly meets up with others connected to Flotsam. And Ilphyl still hasn't solved the problem of their distinctive appearance for an elf in this world.