Editing Illumian (section)

===Leisure===
Illumians find the concept of leisure for its own sake a foreign notion. They teach their children from birth that spare time is wasteful—calisthenics or meditation is an acceptable substitute if they can’t find something more productive to accomplish. An illumian is never happier than when she’s putting her skills and powers on the line in a bid for mastery. Dispelling a rival’s protective spells, stealing a lorebook from a [[dragon]]’s hoard, or completely beheading a [[hydra]] — that’s fun for an illumian.

But while illumians spurn leisure, they crave variety in their studies and exercises. Illumians tend to be patient and goal-oriented, discounting simple pleasures such as a streetside puppet show or a tankard of ale at the local tavern. They’d genuinely rather be learning a southern dialect of Draconic, resharpening their crossbow bolts, or observing the patrol routines of the city guard.

This doesn’t mean that illumians are killjoys. A traveling illumian might find a late-night chess opponent in an [[elf]] party member, but he would reject the very idea that chess counts as leisure, instead regarding the game as training in strategic thinking and anticipation of an opponent’s future actions. Likewise, an illumian might regard a card game as an exercise in memorization and probability math. Others accuse illumians of taking the fun out of everyday events, but they derive a great degree of satisfaction from turning trivial activities into useful training.