crystal

[arcaneadvisor]

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Morrigan
RECIPIENT: All
WHAT: Let's talk about what god is aka so you found a troubling thing and need to address that one day
WHEN: Post-tourney
WHERE: Kirkwall/Kirkwall-adjacent
NOTES: If you want to push Morrigan on certain things you can certainly try but her finding Geldauran's Claim isn't public knowledge yet given the possibility for it to be highly inflammatory, especially with the rifter status and the Dalish in positions of power in the Inquisition

What do you believe gods are Inquisition? Do you indeed believe that there are gods? The Chantry that likes to press and to meddle might not be for all but there are many of those who will still have the name of the Maker upon their lips in a time of strife. The Dalish have the Creators. The Avvar have beliefs about spirits and gods, and the Chasind have gods of a fashion, men and women beloved of them.

Rifters need not be shy in answering, I ask about...what a god is. What it might be. If it is a thing indeed. Something far beyond the comprehension of any mortal being, shifting even beyond the Veil or Fade that we might never know what it truly is, or if it might something else. Something closer to flesh and blood fashioned long ago. Shaped in the way the world is shaped.

[That phrase turned over and over: There is only the subject and the object, the actor and the acted upon.]

Perhaps… [and well she might as well voice a possibility when they're in Kirkwall where the Veil was stretched so thin long ago] once 'twas possible to raise those of ambition and power as high as the magisters of old Tevinter, to leave terror and awe in their wake depending on the mood, the whim, the offering.

[Eventually...well eventually there will be a report, but until she can trust how to write it, can know what the reception might be when it dares to leave the small group that know even the truth of what lies deep in the Tirashan, she can't bring her hand to write it.]

Comments

[swordproof]

Then I am sure I would be glad to know her. I will reach out when I can. [ Honour is rare among people, Six is aware of that, and she is inclined to trust those that adhere to it themselves.

She can, too, understand some hostility towards a parent. Sometimes she thinks of what it might mean should she meet her father again, armed with blade and magic at her side. Sarenrae would turn from her, that is one certainty, and the fear she feels at the loss of her God and Oath is what stays her hand. ] Darkness does not always mean cruelty or evil. It is not my judgement to make. If a man has murdered innocents then he should be punished for it, justly. Those that are walking a path that will lead to their destruction should be given an alternative.

[arcaneadvisor]

[Flemeth's shadow lies over Sundermount, darker than any dragon's wing might where Morrigan can see from her door, from her window, each and every day and night but for all her prowling, all her searching, nothing more than a tale that's as much embellishment as fact. If Flemeth comes for her-- it won't just be for Morrigan. Better to be the one doing the hunting.] What do you make of what you have seen of Thedas then? Does it conflict with what you are already sworn to?

[Will it? Well how much does anyone stick to their principles in the end, likely for as long as their belly remains full. Hunger is ever the first to creep at the door.]

[swordproof]

[ There is still much for Six to learn, and she's aware of that. It beats down on her heavily, and she is doing all that is within her power to survive it, to last it, to... Be something. To prove herself, even now, in a foreign world. ]

Nothing conflicts with Sarenrae's desires thus far. [ She has not been asked to murder or kill or maim. She has not been asked to do much more than survive and follow her own path, which is something she is used to. ] It is very similar to my own world.

[arcaneadvisor]

The symbol the Inquisition marches under is called the Watchful Eye. Long ago it was but the eye for the Lady of the Skies when she opened one to lead them to the Frostbacks, though when Andraste marched to make war on Tevinter they emwere guided by the Eye that had become the Maker's. Then a sword was thrust through it to mark her death. [Morrigan is going somewhere with this, and it's that things change, twist, though she's not coming out and saying it.] The first Inquisition used it for their symbol same as this, and the Seekers and Templars split it between them. Something to think on.

[swordproof]

[ Six hums, low and quiet. ]

It is something for me to research. To investigate. You have my thanks for offering such knowledge, my lady.