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[sangsues]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Etienne Guerinet Beaumanoir
RECIPIENT: everyone (sorry)
WHAT: whats all this
WHEN: post-proposal etc
WHERE: the walliest kirk
NOTES: Orlesians

( A quiet clearing of the throat; one can naturally assume it is a very beautiful clearing of the throat, done by a very beautiful man. )

This matter of the phylacteries for rifters… it seems sensible. If they are such a valuable resource to the Inquisition, the closing of rifts, and so on, being able to find said resource if a rival power were to try and overpower them and abscond with them makes sense, I think. For their own safety, for our own safety. If Corypheus and his forces were, for example, to make an attack on a party closing a rift and kidnap those rifters for nefarious purposes, it would be better for all if we were able to find them as quickly as possible. The phylacteries are an established way of doing just this, no?

By all means, if you wish to see the world end, protest. Even if this is not your world, though, I think we can all agree that you are currently in it. It’s fate is not entirely irrelevant to you.

Comments

[sangsues]

( A weary sigh. )

Some would say that there are those who have suffered at the hands of mages who have deep concerns about apostates who escape Circles doing terrible things not being able to be tracked. Are their opinions invalid? When mages can become possessed and rampage and do great harm, is it wrong that people wanted a means for dangers to be tracked? And it is all well and good to say it should have only been done to dangerous mages, but there would be those who behaved exceptionally well simply to win trust and get opportunities to take advantage of.

Your opinion isn't invalid. The opposite opinion, though, that is also valid, and I doubt you see it that way.

[circleprodigy]

Less valid, yes. This topic is not an even playing field, not when non-mages have never had it required of them. Until that day comes -and let us be honest, it never will- you will not understand it for the violation it is. Mages who have committed atrocities against others should indeed be dealt with and I would never argue otherwise. However, I thoroughly disagree that suffering justifies this course of action.

And I do not believe in preemptive punishing, let me make that clear. An individual who has committed no crimes to date should not be treated as a potential criminal. Perhaps you can live with that level of paranoia, but I don't believe it will lead anywhere productive.