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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

[limier]

You do not hear me: If you wish others to seek a destination, you must lead them there. And you will have little luck by force alone.

Do you recall, in Nevarra, when the Provost asked me why I joined the Chantry?

[faithlikeaseed]

[if the rebuke stings, there must be something to it. he bites his tongue a moment.]

"Something had to be done," you said.

[limier]

Do you imagine it the same answer Ser Ashlock would give? Brother Jehan? The late Divine, the Lady Seeker, the sisters and mothers who set to these very negotiations?

My brother died in Harrowing. Not before — as I understand it — taking a man's hand. We've all our reasons to care; what unites us is that we do. There is strength in that.

There is opportunity.

[faithlikeaseed]

Maker's name--

[he'd died at seventeen. of course.

a span of silence follows. then:]

You'd have me bridle my tongue. Listen more to what others might say, what it is they're striving for, even if the means--aren't what I'd wish.

[easy to do--frighteningly easy to do--with the rebels, and yet he can't give up the matter of blood magic; when had he become so judgmental of his own side of this thing?]

See how that might be knit together into the ends we're all seeking. Without force.

[limier]

A friend is shifted more readily than an enemy.

[faithlikeaseed]

Then I'd do better to use my skills at making them.

i am definitely not responding to this just to wrangle one more point out of AC to cover my ass

[limier]

Take heart. You've more skill for it than most.