By Thor, I’ve been long without a woman.

Tell me what you felt when you first looked at me, Branwyn,” he persisted, apparently oblivious to their audience. “What you feel now.”The memory shook her with its intensity. “I saw light. I felt fire....

By Thor,” Eirik choked at last. “Unhand my future wife at once, Sven, so I may kiss her.

The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect.