[quote=Kiddo]
20,000 is a huge number compared to a band of five adventurers :P And not only does your dragon breathe fire, but she's also completely impervious to weapons. Also, there are only 4 characters so far, and one of them is a traveling bard with nothing but his good-at-bardness to commend him, so yeah, two of three :PAlso, I don't think that Sam is a powerful enough magic user to inspire a goblin to be his familiar. If he were still within a Cirk, then it could work (a goblin would actually be well-suited to live in your traveling bands), but since Sam's not, no goblin for him!Actually, none of the characters except for the dragon are magical enough so far! Kind of a bummer, since as passive as the dragon is, she'd make a boring master, and with how little she cares about human affairs, she's not likely to have actually met and attracted any goblins.A question about magic: you say that magic gets distilled through generations. Does this mean that the magic of dead people does not re-enter the system? And if a species were to live in the Sands for generations, would they slowly absorb some of that magic to maybe counter this loss, or even provide a net gain?(A hint at what I'm thinking: goblins have no qualms about cannibalism ;))
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The sands of the desert aren't the same sand. I know it's confusing.
Think of it this way. Life is magic, the sand was used as to give form to function. Dead people don't lose their magic, it still exist in the world, but more people are born than die, so over time the amount on average in each person, decreases dramatically.