Not all perceive the same thing. [A mage perceives the Fade a different way to a non-mage, a dwarf doesn't dream, who knows what the Qunari know it as she's never asked one, and the Crossroads-- well Adalia has access to what's written about the eluvians thus far, Morrigan hasn't kept track of who might share what ever since the meeting over maps once ago where the truth was laid out over a table.] You would discount Andraste as evidence of his existence? [Curious simply because there is always Andraste, Andraste and what she was before, what she became while she lived, what she became ever after in every bloody statue in even the simplest Chantry in a village undeserving of a name on a map. (Morrigan knows those villages, she's traipsed through too many of them now.)]
You will have heard of the Old Gods of the Imperium, the Magisters who worshipped them. [She's half of the head of Elven Artifacts, Morrigan more than trusts that she'll have that part in hand since you can't know elven history without knowing the Tevinter parts.] Dragon cults still exist. Or existed, one not so long ago with altars small enough to sacrifice a babe. But for something more like your Raven Queen at least in the spirit of such, there is Ghilan'nain, a huntress changed to a halla and raised to godliness by Andruil after another hunter betrayed her.
[Morrigan listens though, listens intently because this is what she needs to know: what other gods may be like elsewhere because before any of this there was little reason to question much of any of it. Now there is. Her faith, her beliefs? They were her own, private unless there was scorn to be poured upon the Chantry as an organisation, now she has questions to be asked that she has to ask of so many people rather than the echo chamber she might rely upon otherwise. Hearing this is...too much might be familiar in strange places.]
Ever the dragons. Ever the dragons, that which mankind knows little of. [Half of it to herself but where there's a dragon, there's worship, and how many times has that worship gone awry in some fashion? Far better for Adalia to tell her this over a crystal, not in person, for as good as Morrigan is in keeping her expression into a scowl or smirk or some level of interested, she might give it away here. Too much is almost alarming.] Tell me...how much do you know of the Old Gods. Of Corypheus?
[Of the Archdemons.] The cult in Haven performed sacrifices, to an extent I am uncertain of, and Tevinter's legacy is slavery, blood magic fuelled not by their own blood though some of that too sacrificed but not in death. Or not that I am aware. This one you speak of, his will was strong? If you had to say what they were to him, his followers, would you say they were people, or something else? [A leading question, though at this stage every question feels that way. She's too aware of what she brought back with her, locked safely away until such times as it needs to be revealed. Still, she'd rather know, slot more pieces in place.]
You might do well learning of the Avvar or the Chasind, those who split from the Alamarri yet kept their ways. They believe in spirits as greater beings to differing extents to all others in Thedas. Here with those who believe in the Maker, he must be won back after all the wrongs that were done by the Breach of his Golden City in Ages past. [Passive-aggressive parenting is alive and well in Thedas.] To them, to even know the will of the Maker or claim it might be to deny reality when you put how Toril works.
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You will have heard of the Old Gods of the Imperium, the Magisters who worshipped them. [She's half of the head of Elven Artifacts, Morrigan more than trusts that she'll have that part in hand since you can't know elven history without knowing the Tevinter parts.] Dragon cults still exist. Or existed, one not so long ago with altars small enough to sacrifice a babe. But for something more like your Raven Queen at least in the spirit of such, there is Ghilan'nain, a huntress changed to a halla and raised to godliness by Andruil after another hunter betrayed her.
[Morrigan listens though, listens intently because this is what she needs to know: what other gods may be like elsewhere because before any of this there was little reason to question much of any of it. Now there is. Her faith, her beliefs? They were her own, private unless there was scorn to be poured upon the Chantry as an organisation, now she has questions to be asked that she has to ask of so many people rather than the echo chamber she might rely upon otherwise. Hearing this is...too much might be familiar in strange places.]
Ever the dragons. Ever the dragons, that which mankind knows little of. [Half of it to herself but where there's a dragon, there's worship, and how many times has that worship gone awry in some fashion? Far better for Adalia to tell her this over a crystal, not in person, for as good as Morrigan is in keeping her expression into a scowl or smirk or some level of interested, she might give it away here. Too much is almost alarming.] Tell me...how much do you know of the Old Gods. Of Corypheus?
[Of the Archdemons.] The cult in Haven performed sacrifices, to an extent I am uncertain of, and Tevinter's legacy is slavery, blood magic fuelled not by their own blood though some of that too sacrificed but not in death. Or not that I am aware. This one you speak of, his will was strong? If you had to say what they were to him, his followers, would you say they were people, or something else? [A leading question, though at this stage every question feels that way. She's too aware of what she brought back with her, locked safely away until such times as it needs to be revealed. Still, she'd rather know, slot more pieces in place.]
You might do well learning of the Avvar or the Chasind, those who split from the Alamarri yet kept their ways. They believe in spirits as greater beings to differing extents to all others in Thedas. Here with those who believe in the Maker, he must be won back after all the wrongs that were done by the Breach of his Golden City in Ages past. [Passive-aggressive parenting is alive and well in Thedas.] To them, to even know the will of the Maker or claim it might be to deny reality when you put how Toril works.