This is true. No doubt they would have been even more massive, to blot out the sun, or something else similarly poetic. I fear to know what absurd armament would have graced the end of my tail.

[He laughs, making a sweeping movement reminiscent of the venerable master.] An homage to greatness, and a fitting figure besides. This is the image many worlds have of the sorceror... one must wonder how much meddling was done to provide that image.

The hosts? I only met them upon my arrival here, but I feel as though I've known them for years...