@greatninja3 If you think about it, that world isn't ours and magic exists there. It would be quite short-sighted to assume that worlds history coincides with ours, even if just a little, people would likely focus on honing magic in terms of military power than making tea. Learning the techniques of their mentors and sticking to that is probable cause, since they were shocked that Cyril did not have any of that OR they merely did not come up with that sort of idea. (Btw, Cyril put a bit of science logic into making that tea)