therookery | crystal

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Deacon and Myrobalan
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Confess your weird magic Inquisition
WHEN: Throughout the month
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES:
HERE is the survey sheet if you want to just fill it out that way. HERE are the assignment details. Also if you've got a rifter and/or a non-loyalist mage who'd like to be part of this please PM Deacon's journal and we'll sort it since they'd include one of each to try to get better coverage.
There's the option to self-report via npc if your character wouldn't but you'd like to. If you'd like to report on other characters please check with that player first but I know we got spies and shady folks and that's fun but let's make it fun for everyone!

Greetings Inquisition. In light of the negotiations some of your number participated in there are of course promises to be upheld on the Inquisition's end. Namely concerning magic or abilities those among you called rifters possess not native to Thedas as well as magic outside the Circle.

If you'd complete this survey, you'd have our gratitude. If you will have it, you'll have the Chantry's gratitude too: I needn't have to tell you the importance of not sitting idle, all of you.

We'll be available if you'd rather do this in person but copies of the survey are available in the Chantry Relations office.

As with the medical surveys and the information we’re keeping on the shardbearers, this will be maintained--and transferred to the Chantry--under a cipher. If you’ve further concerns about what might be done with what we’ve gathered, [and Myr’s tone says he very well knows there will be,] I’d ask you bring them to me as the new head of Chantry Relations.

[Not for him this whole formal announcement stuff; or, more likely, he’s had too much on his mind to make one. Nevertheless, a splinter of his usual humor:] I’ll be with the surveys in the office.

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[Recognising rifters as people was a Mistake hopefully the next Divine will correct that one swiftly because hashtag regrettable.]

The Inquisition was founded by Divine Justinia, Maker rest her and may she find peace at His side. Her Right and Left Hands Seeker Pentaghast and Sister Leliana remain at Skyhold to give guidance and leadership; there can be little separating the Inquisition from the Chantry. There is only the Chant. The elves worship their false gods. The Qunari desecrate the Chantry and the Maker. The dwarves worship themselves.

[This is the Brother Deacon teaching Thedosian Sunday School voice because he doesn't trust that Lakshmi won't suddenly appear screaming over this particular subject.]

It is only through the Chant of Light that the Maker will return and grant paradise to the people of Thedas, no one would surely deny them that?

I did not suggest that they should be separate. Sometimes organisations founded upon the common bond of religion can be successful, worthwhile institutions.

[ She had not travelled to many Temples devoted to Sarenrae - she had felt to new, too fresh - but she had known they were there. She had seen other Paladins of Sarenrae, some clerics, other people... She knows them. She simply didn't feel at peace with them, not without guidance.

There's a slightly harder edge to her voice. ]

I will do nothing that will come between people and their Chant, but I will not abandon Sarenrae. Nothing will convince me to turn from her. Nothing.

There was an Inquisition founded long before to defend against the dangers of magic after the First Blight which last near two hundred years. It rose up to defend Thedas against the dangers of magic and heretics to then ally with the Chantry, splitting to form the Seekers of Truth and the Templar Order. That we have a second Inquisition now can be little coincidence.

[Careful, to keep his voice level and there is a respect, a fondness, even a humbleness to speak of that first Inquisition. To even attempt to imagine the tumultuous times they lived through. What they fought against. That they had such conviction now. Such steel in their spines.

But he had contemplated Lakshmi's anger, Myira's, others who will come with their 'faith' and it had come to him, had settled as a stone in a well, and his voice rings out solemn as a bell with the Chant.]

We dreamed up false gods, great demons
Who could cross the Veil into the waking world,
Turned our devotion upon them, and forgot you.

From the Canticle of Threnodies, the lamentations. The story of the creation of the world and how man fell as man did. All of you who have come through a rift have crossed the Veil, what proof have we that your false gods are not a thing we should beware? The Old Gods bring the Blight when they rise as Archdemons, they bring suffering, they bring death beyond measure, they bring sickness and fear you cannot fathom in their wake that take years to recover from even if the Blight is short. You might think hard on such a statement here.

Sarenrae is not false. She has spoken to me. Nothing that happens here will encourage me to deny her, not when I carry her in my heart as surely as I carry the strength in my arm.

[ Her voice is low, careful. Tense. ]

She is the Everlight. She brings nothing but compassion and redemption and seeks nothing but peace. There is no evil in her, no suffering, no death. I do not care what you think of the falsehoods of your world - I will not deny her. I will not ignore her. Nothing you can say, no lamentation or Canticle, will urge me to turn from her, nor will it bring me to deny her place in my heart.

As did the Old Gods to the Magisters of Tevinter. You might read from the Canticle of Threnodies or if you haven't heard it, I would be glad to speak to you of it, this is what I've done for years in Markham, taught the Chant, given the guidance a Brother might but it is clear in what it says. That they whispered to the men of Tevinter who heard and raised altars, and in exchage there were more hushed whispers for the darkest magic.

[Had this one come before or after the quarantine? He'll have to find her Division leader, ask why any of this is allowed. The Dalish he can understand when the Dalish have long been here but this is a danger.]

There is always death. There is always suffering. The Maker sheds a tear for the suffering of those who don't deserve it but this is the world where the Maker's own prophet was murdered, betrayed by her husband of flesh and blood which caused the Maker to turn from us again. You should care not for what I think but for what the Chantry thinks for the Chantry will have a say in all this. The Inquisition will not last forever.

I do not care what the Chantry says if they think that they can take my God from me.

[ Her voice is set, strict, sure. ]

I will take your lessons gladly, but nothing will turn me from Her.

You are part of the Inquisition formed by the Divine in Thedas where the Chant has been since the beginning of the calendar.

When lessons begin perhaps you will understand better with someone who would be dead without it to teach.

[Deacon's not above leveraging that to better argue the value of the Chant.]

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