I don’t know if I would go that far. I mean more—like the Inquisition, you know? It is there to defend against Tevinter, but people know what they are joining there. If they don’t want to be among Andrastians or to support the Chantry, they don’t join and try to fight everyone every time something like that comes up. They just don’t go.
We don’t have an identity like that, except weird. We don’t answer to anyone. We aren’t part of anything. We take every troublemaker who doesn’t want to work with the Chantry, but then we never stand for anything that might get us into trouble.
But maybe we don’t have to do that. We could at least try imagining a world where we don’t have to do that. We have all these pirates. And the Circles had all that money— [ thanks to the Formari and an entire fraternity dedicated to increasing their organizational wealth ] —and the Inquisition already promised them they would be entitled to keep it. Maybe they could chip in.
[ He swirls his hand through one of By’s exhaled smoke streams. ]
And it wouldn’t have to all be about the mages. We could see if they’re willing to care about the things we do, too.
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Date: 2023-03-20 02:54 pm (UTC)I don’t know if I would go that far. I mean more—like the Inquisition, you know? It is there to defend against Tevinter, but people know what they are joining there. If they don’t want to be among Andrastians or to support the Chantry, they don’t join and try to fight everyone every time something like that comes up. They just don’t go.
We don’t have an identity like that, except weird. We don’t answer to anyone. We aren’t part of anything. We take every troublemaker who doesn’t want to work with the Chantry, but then we never stand for anything that might get us into trouble.
But maybe we don’t have to do that. We could at least try imagining a world where we don’t have to do that. We have all these pirates. And the Circles had all that money— [ thanks to the Formari and an entire fraternity dedicated to increasing their organizational wealth ] —and the Inquisition already promised them they would be entitled to keep it. Maybe they could chip in.
[ He swirls his hand through one of By’s exhaled smoke streams. ]
And it wouldn’t have to all be about the mages. We could see if they’re willing to care about the things we do, too.