How long since your Circle fell, Myrobalan? [If Deacon is to know who, exactly, he's dealing with, he has to know what Circle he came from. There isn't time enough for him to go chasing it up the way he might do (the way he'll perhaps have to now with others) to start guessing at loyalties or sympathies, where they're going to draw their lines in the sand.] You can't be unaware of the Nevarran Accord or before that in the Divine Age the restrictions on ordained mages that might serve. There has ever been reason to be more than wary of magic. Foul and corrupt are they who have taken His gift and turned it against His children.
Kirkwall was blinded by much. The Seekers could not see. The Templars could not either. What we know now of undue influence that had collected in this place already-- Who can say what might have happened had other factors not played their part in it. There is rot in the Chantry when it sits by the throne of Orlais for men and women starving for bread cannot eat the gilding nor do the promises and pacts that place one Mother over another do much to help them.
[Deacon is from Markham. Markham where they care for their agriculture. Where they have their own university but with less pomp and circumstance about it.
Where a man like Deacon can live to grow appalled by excess, where he beats it out in streets when folk will harrass those in need or the Faithful, will speak out of turn against the Chantry, Andraste, the Maker. His body is testament to that.]
You are a mage speaking with rifters when we have no proof of what they are. They have come from across the Fade and some speak of false gods, when last did you hear of that? What havoc did it bring to Thedas that plays itself again now?
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Kirkwall was blinded by much. The Seekers could not see. The Templars could not either. What we know now of undue influence that had collected in this place already-- Who can say what might have happened had other factors not played their part in it. There is rot in the Chantry when it sits by the throne of Orlais for men and women starving for bread cannot eat the gilding nor do the promises and pacts that place one Mother over another do much to help them.
[Deacon is from Markham. Markham where they care for their agriculture. Where they have their own university but with less pomp and circumstance about it.
Where a man like Deacon can live to grow appalled by excess, where he beats it out in streets when folk will harrass those in need or the Faithful, will speak out of turn against the Chantry, Andraste, the Maker. His body is testament to that.]
You are a mage speaking with rifters when we have no proof of what they are. They have come from across the Fade and some speak of false gods, when last did you hear of that? What havoc did it bring to Thedas that plays itself again now?