"Educate the masses? Perish the thought. However will the wealthy and noble remain so if the rest of the world actually learns things?" He snorts, shaking his head as he offers back over the boots. "I have seen magic treated both ways- though the science of magic was being studied by someone that summoned demons with blood for whatever reason, isolation does make the mind go strange, does it not?"

Researching the Taint. Attempting to find a cure. Lengthening his span considerably to see it done.

"I suppose it is not so odd that others might do the same. It would make more sense than to treat it as something quite so...abstract?"