Distribution — you don't concentrate trouble, when it gives you an excuse to crack down elsewhere.
[ ghislain was as it was, because the rest of orlais, nevarra, couldn't be. easier to move a problem, than to risk upsetting a functional system. only look at the spire, the gallows.
but nothing's functional now; a clean slate. ]
Perhaps Aeonar’s real. We could all meet up for holidays.
[ Unlikely, he thinks, at least in his case, whether he's personally willing to cooperate or not. Maybe Isaac would be fine. He seems like the sort of person who usually scrapes his way into being fine in the end. But, more thoughtfully, ]
he is — to some degree — counting on that. the sort of calculations you run at the back of your head, where the light's all dim and fuzzy, and you don't have to acknowledge too dearly that you've done it.
he'd like to say that gareth knows better than to trust him, when the time comes. (probably marisol will handle that) ]
Is the boogeyman real? Don't answer that. Why bother testing if someone's a blood mage? Why try to make an abomination? The menacing aesthetic is all very well, but it's impractical even for the Chantry.
[ Why doesn't isaac want to hear his excellent and literal answer about boogeyman.
And also: what is this nonsense about the Chantry ever lying to them about anything. Sounds fake and wrong. ]
It might be worth—
[ a half-formed thought that needs a couple additional seconds to finish ]
The Inquisition ought to know if our most dangerous and deranged are still out there somewhere, if they have not already looked, and we ought to know if they never were.
[ 'everything's real if it's thought about long enough blah blah i'm going to get possessed before i'm forty' ]
If they are, the Inquisition ought to find them before anyone else does.
[ before their opposition does. if mages can handle their own dangers — of course. but there's handling and there's harnessing. if they're real, then the inquisition ought to find them. before some of their own people do. ]
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Do you think they will give them their own Circle or distribute them?
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Distribution — you don't concentrate trouble, when it gives you an excuse to crack down elsewhere.
[ ghislain was as it was, because the rest of orlais, nevarra, couldn't be. easier to move a problem, than to risk upsetting a functional system. only look at the spire, the gallows.
but nothing's functional now; a clean slate. ]
Perhaps Aeonar’s real. We could all meet up for holidays.
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[ Unlikely, he thinks, at least in his case, whether he's personally willing to cooperate or not. Maybe Isaac would be fine. He seems like the sort of person who usually scrapes his way into being fine in the end. But, more thoughtfully, ]
Do you think it might not be real?
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he is — to some degree — counting on that. the sort of calculations you run at the back of your head, where the light's all dim and fuzzy, and you don't have to acknowledge too dearly that you've done it.
he'd like to say that gareth knows better than to trust him, when the time comes. (probably marisol will handle that) ]
Is the boogeyman real? Don't answer that. Why bother testing if someone's a blood mage? Why try to make an abomination? The menacing aesthetic is all very well, but it's impractical even for the Chantry.
no subject
And also: what is this nonsense about the Chantry ever lying to them about anything. Sounds fake and wrong. ]
It might be worth—
[ a half-formed thought that needs a couple additional seconds to finish ]
The Inquisition ought to know if our most dangerous and deranged are still out there somewhere, if they have not already looked, and we ought to know if they never were.
no subject
If they are, the Inquisition ought to find them before anyone else does.
[ before their opposition does. if mages can handle their own dangers — of course. but there's handling and there's harnessing. if they're real, then the inquisition ought to find them. before some of their own people do. ]
We'd need a collaborator. Or a templar.
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Do you know anything about the one with the sideburns?
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The rest are assholes.
Amsel might count. Or the—the cute one. [ Saorise. Obviously. ] Shivana, if we were to go soon.
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[ probably cade's a bad idea ]
They've all gone in on Chantry outreach. Might have contacts, if you trust them enough to ask — Shivana's old healer thought he was Loyal.
[ says the loyalist, to the loyalist ]