"Yes to both, but these were men encountering new continents. They...were a little bit more fanciful with sealife that they hadn't encountered before. Manatees were new." The question of how continents had been fairly ignorant of each other was hopefully a question Waver wouldn't have to explain. Hopefully.

"Probably. These were magicians who would bind themselves up, suspend themselves in water, or other such situations, and escape from these bonds. It was a massive thing for a while, and some magicians still follow in that particular tradition."

Waver nods along with the talk of metal, but the purposeful part. That's dead on. "I think that it is the right word. Sail can be for recreation or travel, but nine times out of ten, it's only for commerce, and commerce demands faster shipping, more reliable forms of it, and all the other innovations that go with it. The journey isn't important, the end result is."