Nightwalkers’ hostility toward magic-users

Nightwalkers’ hostility toward magic-users is confronted by Valera’s existence: her good magic and recovery from necromancy undermine the assumption that all magic-users can simply be killed. The change is not only a reassessment of Valera herself; it creates a reason to warn the Nightwalker courts and seek ways to save others who have been drawn into the same danger.

The Presumption Against Magic-Users

Magnus recognizes that Nightwalkers can no longer assume they may kill all magic-users. The passage presents this as a consequential shift in judgment: Valera’s example makes a blanket presumption of hostility untenable, even as the account gives no broader legal reform or immediate change in practice.

Valera as a Counterexample

Valera’s magic is evidence that good magic can exist. Her history makes that proof more pointed: she accidentally entered black magic, which stained and overtook her like an addiction, but later recovered. Her case therefore challenges two assumptions at once—that magic is necessarily harmful and that a natural witch who becomes a necromancer is beyond recovery.

From Recognition to a Wider Response

The immediate plan is for Valera and her companions to visit the different Nightwalker courts so she can demonstrate what she is. The purpose is to make the existence of good Witches known and to teach the courts how to save people who, like Valera, do not know how to use magic safely and have become caught up in necromancy. The proposed response changes the emphasis from killing magic-users to distinguishing harmful use from the possibility of rescue. Valera’s recovery makes that alternative concrete, while the planned tour shows that persuading the courts will require her example to travel beyond the people who have witnessed it.