It seems very sensible, she says, and he hadn’t realized he’d been braced for a fight on two fronts until then. That’s already endeared her to him.]
It does; but it was crueler still for those without magic to live under the rule of mages. Besides, [and here his voice is rueful,] it’s not that we’d have all had so many other opportunities to do as we wished outside the Circles; most elves live and die within a mile of where we’re born. [An alienage’s walls are more permeable than a Circle’s but where did you go, when you crossed outside them? Mostly back in.
He pauses a moment at her question, considers, reconsiders, and spends a moment in irritation at himself for doing so. Where's your certainty gone, Myrobalan?]
Much will depend on the Divine when she's chosen--though I'd consider also the Nevarran Accord as the closest we've got for precedent to your case. That carved out the Circles and lasted us better than eight Ages until it was broken, and not by the Chantry. A simple declaration without a Divine on the Sunburst Throne--it's not like to have such staying power, unless a woman who agreed with it is elected.
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It seems very sensible, she says, and he hadn’t realized he’d been braced for a fight on two fronts until then. That’s already endeared her to him.]
It does; but it was crueler still for those without magic to live under the rule of mages. Besides, [and here his voice is rueful,] it’s not that we’d have all had so many other opportunities to do as we wished outside the Circles; most elves live and die within a mile of where we’re born. [An alienage’s walls are more permeable than a Circle’s but where did you go, when you crossed outside them? Mostly back in.
He pauses a moment at her question, considers, reconsiders, and spends a moment in irritation at himself for doing so. Where's your certainty gone, Myrobalan?]
Much will depend on the Divine when she's chosen--though I'd consider also the Nevarran Accord as the closest we've got for precedent to your case. That carved out the Circles and lasted us better than eight Ages until it was broken, and not by the Chantry. A simple declaration without a Divine on the Sunburst Throne--it's not like to have such staying power, unless a woman who agreed with it is elected.