Vox Mentis

Have the both of you studied any evolutionary biology? Particularly, signalling theory?

"It's only a little more complicated than a meerkat screaming "eagle", or maybe more like spots on a sparrow's chest so they know who's in charge without wasting time and energy fighting. They're little abstractions humans use to connect with each other in increasingly-specific ways, and I guess some wizards or whatever decided to take them apart and look at the ins and outs instead of taking them at face value."

There's been a less philosophical question on your mind though about this place.

"You gather a bunch of sorcerers, though, the kind of people who could each rule a country. How do you stop them all turning on each other?"