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Late-night Veric thoughts:
During the war, the majority of Veric’s “fighting” was done by proxy with arcana machina, but by the end, just before they were able to reassert the boundary along the Mirror Basin and the fighting turned desperate... the way that Veric got his hands dirty, fought very brutally and personally, is something he’d probably be loathe to admit to. Nowadays, if he were to be dragged into conflict, his first instincts are to defend and to disarm/neutralize his opponent, but if he were desperate enough, he’s capable of pretty intimate cruelty in a fight. His refusal to confront it, though, tends to lead him to disregard even direct violence until or unless he can’t for whatever reason.