Once the kettle was removed from the stove, the next step that came was to pour the water into the teapot. Different leaves required different temperatures and to steep for different amounts of times, but to Ferdinand, this was all second nature. He could talk and brew tea at the same time without even needing to give more than a cursory thought to the latter.

"Perhaps this world could not rely upon magic like ours could, so they developed advanced technology instead," he suggested, placing the tea leaves into the teapot within a diffuser to keep particulates out of the tea. Next came adding the water from the kettle. "That is not to say that magic holds back technology. But since we have widespread access to magic in Fódlan, perhaps our technology will develop in entirely different directions, as many of our needs are already covered."