jarandhel

True, I think this is the first time he's really run into a strong proof of magic. If my grandfather had just mentioned a dream about his wife, sure that could have just been a coincidence. But the fact that so many of the people he mentioned were ones that we specifically invoked, and people he hadn't previously been talking or thinking about, was really kind of impressive. And far more dramatic a result than I was expecting from a highly improv ritual. It's definitely going to be interesting to see where this goes. I'm not sure how strong magic runs on his side of the family, really... I know my little cousins on that side of the family feel Otherkin to me, but neither my father nor my grandmother on that side ever were into magic in any way, nor any of the other adult relatives I've met on that side. Though there's some potential with some distant relatives I haven't met out in Minnesota who are into the SCA and also attend native pow-wows if I recall correctly. I never knew my father's father, though I know I get some of my interest and skill with computers from him, but as far as I know he wasn't into the metaphysical either. On my mother's side there's a clearer connection... a great great aunt or something that was a Spiritualist and worked as a medium. And my mother sometimes claims to see things that aren't physically there, which have coincided with my own impressions at least enough for me to take seriously the fact that she may have seen something even if she's not great at figuring out what it was. And her sister may be elven like me, we have a lot in common, though she's never gone into metaphysical things to the best of my knowledge. The one time my aunt ever played D&D, with some friends who wanted to see for themselves whether or not it was "dangerous" for kids to be playing, she ended up playing an elven ranger. And I was able to guess that would be the race and class she would take, before she even said it. Lots of little things like that seem to run in my family. It's one of the reasons I keep an open mind about otherkin having a genetic component to it, even though other days I hardly see how I could share DNA with my family.