"I...I come from Uhra," Tolten said, perplexed. Ted's expression said that he may have just as well said he was one of the extinct flying men! Or...or The Golden Knight himself!

"Is there really any part of the world not touched by the Magic-Industrial Revolution?" He couldn't conceive of that! He'd been from Gohtza to Numara to the Eastern Lands and everywhere in between, and magic energy had been in use everywhere.

But that at least answered the question. Ted was not a mage, so they were entirely magically defenseless.