I know how that is. Not firsthand, but Hasmal had a good share of knight-enchanters. I remember the recruitment process for a few of my more athletically-inclined friends. [The burlier ones, the faster ones, the ones who could hold their own one way or another against people in actual armor. He hadn't really known more than one of them well--but it behooves him to speak more generally about that particular connection.]

I wipe the smirks off healers' faces. [and more literally than he means to joke about, too, but whatever guilt he might feel about it will be a long-delayed reaction. He takes up the flask, if it's been offered, and allows himself another swallow.] No, not really. Not as a goal. But my specialty has always been entropic magic, and people get so holier-than-thou about it. I'd almost want to buy a necromancer a drink and commiserate, but it's hardly the same thing. We'd just end up talking at cross purposes.