Winter 2026 Anime Thread

It just occurred to me that even before passing the first class mage exam Denken was probably connected well enough to have heard about Macht and "The Golden Land", if so then that's almost certainly what prompted him to attempt the mage exam in the first place. Which would mean that 'I want to visit a grave I havent been to in a while' was just a convenient and less conversation-ending thing to say than 'I intend to travel north and die fighting an unwinnable fight against the last sage of destruction', while still being a true statement.