"This place is beautiful and aesthetic even by our standards, and on behalf of Civilization I compliment the architects and designers -"

"Wait.  Is teleporting always that fast?"  That sort of matches his experience at the Worldwound, in retrospect, but he had almost no experience with magic and spells back then, and didn't know he was looking at a spell and not a device that had charged up over the last three minutes.  Though it wasn't so much that he had alternate hypotheses, back then, as that he hadn't really chunked spellcasting rules as a latent system in a way that would make it easy to update over modular facts inside it.

Well, good on them for remembering to fake it here too, if it's fake.  But Keltham is mostly paying attention to other sights, because they're worth it.

"This place is beautiful and aesthetic even by our standards, and on behalf of Civilization I compliment the architects and designers -"

"Wait.  Is teleporting always that fast?"  That sort of matches his experience at the Worldwound, in retrospect, but he had almost no experience with magic and spells back then, and didn't know he was looking at a spell and not a device that had charged up over the last three minutes.  Though it wasn't so much that he had alternate hypotheses, back then, as that he hadn't really chunked spellcasting rules as a latent system in a way that would make it easy to update over modular facts inside it.

Well, good on them for remembering to fake the skyshow here too, if it's fake.  But Keltham is mostly paying attention to other sights, because they're worth it.

"This place is beautiful and aesthetic even by our standards, and on behalf of Civilization I compliment the architects and designers -"

"Wait.  Is teleporting always that fast?"  That sort of matches his experience at the Worldwound, in retrospect, but he had almost no experience with magic and spells back then, and didn't know he was looking at a spell and not a device that had charged up over the last three minutes.  Though it wasn't so much that he had alternate hypotheses, back then, as that he hadn't really chunked spellcasting rules as a latent system in a way that would make it easy to update over modular facts inside it.