Be smart about it, so you don't just die on the hill of your ideals. If you don't adapt first, no one is going to listen to the latest in a long line of dismissable idiots who just don't understand their situation.
We're not unaware things are terrible. We're sort of in the middle of trying to do something about a lot of those things. If you can't earn respect contributing to what is being done usefully, you will never earn enough to be listened to and do anything else. You aren't new or novel. Rifters have been coming for years, now. The rifters who've effected change weren't the ones who strolled around shouting 'I'm the King of Imaginary Land And Here's How Much Better It Was At Home'.
The Provost leads an entire division of this outpost. He rose to that position despite being both a rifter and an elf. You think he forgot where he came from, or that he learned how to use it?
( spoiler, it's the second one. )
Mages hold positions of authority and were able to negotiate on their own behalf; whatever my opinions of the implementation ( AND THEY ARE MANY, AND UNIMPRESSED, ) it's not to be entirely dismissed that legal protections and rights for elves in Orlais have been drastically improved, at least on paper, in the last few years. You aren't one lone voice. If you act like it, you'll be treated like it, and you'll achieve nothing but a sore throat.
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We're not unaware things are terrible. We're sort of in the middle of trying to do something about a lot of those things. If you can't earn respect contributing to what is being done usefully, you will never earn enough to be listened to and do anything else. You aren't new or novel. Rifters have been coming for years, now. The rifters who've effected change weren't the ones who strolled around shouting 'I'm the King of Imaginary Land And Here's How Much Better It Was At Home'.
The Provost leads an entire division of this outpost. He rose to that position despite being both a rifter and an elf. You think he forgot where he came from, or that he learned how to use it?
( spoiler, it's the second one. )
Mages hold positions of authority and were able to negotiate on their own behalf; whatever my opinions of the implementation ( AND THEY ARE MANY, AND UNIMPRESSED, ) it's not to be entirely dismissed that legal protections and rights for elves in Orlais have been drastically improved, at least on paper, in the last few years. You aren't one lone voice. If you act like it, you'll be treated like it, and you'll achieve nothing but a sore throat.