[ Slight blush! Really, does he need to learn any sort of defense at all, when he's already so disarming-ly charming? ]

Well... I suppose the magic in my realm is a bit more simplistic, depending on where you are raised. Aside from healing, there are the elements - water, fire, and lightning - but usually just for a direct attack and little else. These sort of magics - changing one's appearance, for example - are usually seen as Dark Arts... forbidden lore that only dark mages use. And they typically tend to be...

[ She's struggling to think of ​nice ways to describe Henry and Tharja. It ain't easy. ]

Er, well... I'm not going to rudely sweep them all under the same label, but the ones I knew of back home were... unusual people.