idk my bff minor vandalism

[aenseidhe]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Iorveth
RECIPIENT: All erry1
WHAT: Reacting to this, specifically the part about Rifter phylactaries.
WHEN: Right meow.
WHERE: Kirkwall, the Gallows announcement board
NOTES: Rudeness and vandalism. Open to crystal chatting and action!! Though he'll be storming off pretty fast after this.

[ For a long several moments, silence broadcasts over the crystal, Iorveth having just activated it after reading the announcement on negotiations results posted, lost for words. When they do come, it's like they're being spoken through a snarl. ]

You left to end the blood leashing.

Not push it off on the next lesser group.

[ there is a deafening thud that sounds before Iorveth's voice goes out, and anyone physically standing by the Gallows announcement board will have just witnessed Iorveth pull a dagger (with at least a foot worth of blade on it) free, and slam it through the notice and into the board, metal and splinters jutting out the opposite side, before walking away.

He mad. (And he'll come fix the board later, leave him alone) ]

Comments

[faithlikeaseed]

From my understanding, serah, they were spread too thin to do so without sacrificing the wellbeing of our own native mages.

It wasn't much of a choice, given the powers massed against them.

[aenseidhe]

Among those at the table making this choice, how many of them were Rifters?

[faithlikeaseed]

[Gently,] D'you believe a rifter would have been more persuasive at the bargaining table?

I know what it is to be sacrificed without having a voice in the matter. So did our negotiators. Those of them I know--they wouldn't've perpetuated that. [Those of them he didn't--well, they'll get the benefit of the doubt for now.]

[aenseidhe]

I believe a Rifter would've had a sliver of a right to talk for the rest of us.

[ in truth, he knows well enough that this was probably coming whether they meant it to or not, so much of it just rings of cintra, blind to what's coming until you have a knife to your throat with your once allies saying 'there was just nothing to be done about it'. There's a heavy sigh from Iorveth's side of the crystal, and a whispered curse in a foreign language, before the sound of wooden steps being ascended. ]

How is it such a wide-spread church can retain so many followers when a major tenant is making controlled animals of people? All that seems to make sense is that most people of this world are sick in their minds. [ fuck this place, fuck these people, fuck their stupid ass religion that thinks it has any kind of right to his body. ]

[faithlikeaseed]

[Slow breath in. Slow breath out.]

Because it isn't a major tenet, serah, no matter what words others may have put in your ear. Our Lady repudiated slavery.

[aenseidhe]

Was it not the Chantry and their Templars that first introduced the Circles and phylacteries?

[faithlikeaseed]

The history's longer than that, and mages were as involved in the creation of Circles as anyone else. Because it was better, [there's a thread of ironic amusement here,] than using their talents only to light fires--and better for all the rest of Thedas than mages running roughshod over whoever and whatever they liked with the Maker's gift.

[He pauses, considers, then adds more softly,] Our Lady repudiated slavery, but we've drifted very far Her word. She'd be no happier with the state of the Order as it is. [And not for all the reasons that might immediately come to mind.]