>>117330910Alderode is the capital of "anyone can learn to bend reality", and has the most built up magical knowledge. Aldish spellery is apparently the most advanced and complicated. What they lack is the mass proliferation of pymaric goods that Cresce has, owing to their more First Materials scarce landscape, and the fact that their government is far less tyrannical than Cresce's in certain ways. This isn't to say that Alderode is not a shithole, but it's a shithole because of its unique situation in that it cranks every otherwise mundane issue up to 11.
But, the Adelier household had a magical toilet, and magical lights, and magical water heaters, and presumably magical water pipes. He just had to be a bigger cheese than a Crescian would have to be to get these things.
>>117333543He also hasn't been cleaning himself.
