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therookery2018-03-25 11:23 pm
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crystal | closed to circle mages
FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Nell, Kostos
RECIPIENT: Former Circle Mages in the Gallows
WHAT: Phylactery update, discussing a labor strike, business as usual
WHEN: After everyone is back from the Sunless Lands
NOTES: There's no "Circle mage" filter for the crystals; they're having to read off the names of everyone they know who might be one. But if your character has been reasonably open with the Inquisition about being a mage from a Circle, you can assume they're included.
SENDER: Nell, Kostos
RECIPIENT: Former Circle Mages in the Gallows
WHAT: Phylactery update, discussing a labor strike, business as usual
WHEN: After everyone is back from the Sunless Lands
NOTES: There's no "Circle mage" filter for the crystals; they're having to read off the names of everyone they know who might be one. But if your character has been reasonably open with the Inquisition about being a mage from a Circle, you can assume they're included.
Skyhold has ordered that the phylacteries recovered from the Seekers in the Storm Coast be locked up here in the Gallows until they choose what to do with them. Since they seem to be struggling to come to a decision, we thought we should help them by making clear to them where the mages of the Inquisition stand on this issue. To begin with, Kostos and I are drafting a letter to the leadership urging them to destroy these phylacteries and any others that come into the Inquisition's possession in the future, and we would like to be able to tell the advisors that the affected mages here in Kirkwall are in unanimous agreement, or near enough.
We'll be getting in touch with the mages in Skyhold and the other bases separately, and may speak with others in the wider community if further support seems needed, but since former Circle mages are the only people actually affected by this decision, we are the ones who should be making it.
[ Kostos—quiet, due to both internal conflict, a habit of following Nell's lead, and a natural disinclination to talk to large groups of near-strangers—breaks his silence to add, ] In the meantime, if everyone could refrain from doing anything hideously stupid that would remind people why they're useful, that would be… [ Good. You know. ] And we do need to know how you feel, and how strongly. There is a fine line between making threats and explaining consequences, and we can do our best to stay on the right side of it.
But we need to know how many of you will be willing to follow through if it becomes necessary to demonstrate to the Inquisition just how much they need us.
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We can't know what will come and we can't know if we will ever again have the chance to see thousands of phylacteries destroyed in a single blow, but we know we have it now. I would rather take this opportunity and face whatever comes knowing that there is no longer a noose held 'round my neck or yours or anyone else's as I do.
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My concern is that if it proves necessary to make a stand, in the quest to make the world a better place for mages we risk condemning the entire world by allowing Corypheus some window we cannot easily predict, by significantly reducing the Inquisition's resources to hand. I understand that is the very power in the leverage, but— it cannot be wise, nor beneficial to mages.
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If that's true then what kind of organization is this? What do they truly stand for and should we even serve them at all? Corypheus is a danger, yes, but if the Inquisition denies us this despite understanding the potential consequences, it means that Corypheus is not their true priority, and if he is ours then we would be better off all going to join the Nevarran army instead.
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Who else has made the effort to stop Corypheus, or has the resources to hand that we are able to use? Who would you propose we serve in their stead, or if we were to attempt an independent organisation, how would be begin to amass the necessary influence to make a meaningly difference?
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What is your personal preference in this? The Inquisition, or a nation?