It is-- like how he uses swords instead of tomes! But, he says that his mother is a Sage....so maybe he just hasn't met us yet? I've heard of that happening from that weird picture show those guys who greeted me gave.

[The facts came with a tone that was slightly too chipper-- but, after being whisked off to the Astral Realms, finding one of her fellow maids in the Northern Castle was really a tiny, bird-like dragon, and discovering a kingdom at the bottom of the bottomless canyon.....well, little could phase her now.]