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[dashing]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Herian Amsel
RECIPIENT: Division Heads (and/or their stand-ins) project leaders & assist leaders, Saoirse & Myrobalan.
WHAT: An idea to tackle the rifter phylactery discusssion.
WHEN: Current
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES:

I apologise for making contact with you all after so recently sharing an update on the Chantry Relations project with the network, however I think we can agree that the matter of the rifter phylacteries and the reaction to them is a disruption to our work, and causing divisions amongst our ranks.

Following the hard work of those who attended Skyhold to negotiate the matters of the phylacteries and were faced with considerable opposition from the Templars and Chantry, I think it is key that they come to understand it is not Skyhold and the Inquisition that pushed for this measure, but those other agents.

I also come to you to propose an idea to counter. Given that the Chantry and Templars pressed the matter of phylacteries for rifters, the most effective way to work against it is to diplomatically persuade them of the dangers and risks that come with said phylacteries, and diffuse the idea without further fracturing of our alliances and resources.

One matter that has been raised is that, as we have so recently seen, phylacteries could be used to harm the rifters should they fall into enemy hands. Furthermore, they could be used by the Venatori to target and abduct rifters. We do not know what they could do with them, but their shards are powerful and important to our efforts, even if we were to neglect what the Venatori might use them for in order to further their goals.

If you have insights or ideas on what other arguments could be used to present to the Chantry and the Templars, I appeal to you now to share them with me so we can present a strong and effective argument. This is not solely a matter of concern for rifters, though I can confess my bias; this is for the sake of our Inquisition, and more importantly, the sake of Thedas. Interruptions to our work jeopardise our cause.

Those who would be willing to attend a meeting with Chantry leadership with me, please make yourselves known.

Comments

[aceso]

Have you studied the sending crystals extensively? I thought they were still more mystery than repeatable magic. Though I suppose if you are thinking of enchanting something else, then understanding the crystals wouldn't be necessary, unless you wish for these things to receive messages too.

[ Color her intrigued. She's always so focused on healing magic and unlocking the mysteries of red lyrium that she doesn't have time to focus on other magical research. ]

What are you thinking of?

[faithlikeaseed]

Not as extensively as I'd like, [rueful,] only in and among everything else there is to do. But something in them has a sense of where other crystals are, else we'd not be able to say "send this only to crystals within a mile of me". So that might be used, and we might take that principle and apply it somewhere else.

Something that could be slipped into a seam of clothing, or inside a boot--though those might also be taken from a prisoner, which... mm. Well. I can see one other way to hide something so it can't be taken away at all, but it's not pleasant. [Or two, really. Swallow it or--]

[aceso]

Embedding it under the skin?

[ She's a healer, so these are the places her mind goes. ]

[limier]

[ for fuck's sake guys ]

Focus.

[aceso]

We have not gone off track in the slightest. If we wish to bring other options to the table, we must work out if there are other options and discard the ridiculous ones first.

[faithlikeaseed]

[He cuts back in here,] And while not ridiculous, cutting people open to embed things in them won't be any more popular with the Chantry.

[aceso]

[ She exhales a laugh. ]

They would frown on it, yes.