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

[crowncitizen]

And former glory might not be what they picture it to be, either. [He wonders what their definition of said glory is. Given the Chantry's views on so many things - magic, spirits, elves, and so on - he's not sure that's the best kind of glory to be striven for.] Like - yeah, what you said. Corypheus has his own idea of "former glory". Everyone has their own idea of it. Who's to say what the Maker's might be? What if his idea is "well this was all a wash so let's start over to where there's nothing and start over"?

[Fun and by now obvious fact: Prompto doesn't have a super high opinion of gods.]

[arcaneadvisor]

Corypheus would remember Tevinter in the days where the worship of the Old Gods still ran strong. I have ventured down to his prison in the mountains to where the Altar of Dumat was, and in those days there would have been slaves; elves do not have easy lives now, 'twould be far worse for what he imagines. [Truthfully, former glory is the least of it with Corypheus after all he's done thus far but for so many of them it would be a grim reality to greet if he managed it.]

That does suppose the Maker has the power to do it, if he exists at all and is not a figment dreamt up by a madwoman. Andraste who might have been but a mage only with tales coming after. The Maker did not rid himself of his first creations that disappointed him, nor did he do much no matter what has come since the Magisters set foot in the Golden City. Perhaps they shall be disappointed and he shall simply not care.

[Of all the options, it'd be that one in her book. The Great Dispassionate Shrug did the Maker grant unto the holy, and lo did they drown in their tears ad nauseam.]