"Well, me, for one," he says. "It's like this: there's human mages, who can generate and access mana and use it to do magic. They create Devices, which help with that - make spells cheaper, store and record them, protect our wielders from damage, stuff like that. The more complicated a Device's functions, and the more powerful the Device, the more intelligent and autonomous it is. So a one-form one-spell Device that doesn't even have to turn on and off, just maintain its one spell indefinitely, will have about as much brain as a, what's something biological and not conscious, a blade of grass - but I'm complicated and powerful, so I'm a person."

And now he has done lots of talking and will have a bite of ice cream instead. Mmmm, ice cream. Ice cream is fantastic.