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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[ A little quietly: ]

Really broad. I watched a lot of my neighbors disappear for nothing worse than speaking the wrong language at the wrong time.

[ A breath, and she tries to pull her thoughts out of London and back into Thedas. ]

But - what sort of change do you think there'll be?

Have you had a chance to read at all on the Orlesian occupation of Ferelden?

[Not quite the same but it hadn't been a great time for those involved. It's close in some respects where they'd been determined to seize a nation, to take it, and it's a far more recent account.]

Slavery will be brought into the light: we have voices here who will not stand for it and where the Inquisition goes, change follows. I imagine that there will be those who will bring it to the attention of the Mothers, the Grand Clerics, perhaps even our next Divine. The people of Tevinter who have found themselves ground beneath the oppressive mage rule, people who might at last find themselves in a position to rise up too. To seek change. If Tevinter is in tumult then this is the time for them to rid themselves of the Magisters at long last, to do away with a system that has only ground them down.

A little bit. Only that I know that it happened, and that it lasted for about fifty years or so, and only ended a few decades ago. And that there's still a lot of hatred between Fereldens and Orlesians because of it. The Orlesians - they're sort of people who try to build empires, aren't they?

[ But - ]

But I definitely agree. The people of Tevinter - the slaves, and the people without magic - they mustn't be ground down just because the mages are more powerful than they are. That's not right. They ought to have a say in how they're ruled.

Orlais isn't happy if it isn't at war, it's probably half of why it was at war with itself. They have their curious politics that they call a game despite all that it might destroy or ruin but no, only a game, The Game to them as if there aren't still people dying for want of food when they want their borders back from Nevarra.

[Fuck Celene. Fuck Gaspard. Fuck their roots twined about the Chantry. That it's The Chantry vs the Chantry because of Orlais.]

You might find the mages of the Inquisition will put themselves and their fellow mages above all others. After all, no one will ever have had it so terribly as a mage. It's a powerful image for them. The mage in shackles. As if people have nothing to fear from a mage in the first place.

[Deacon is absolutely not above stirring that pot.]

[ Kitty makes a little noise of acknowledgment. ]

That's how it always goes, isn't it? People do wrong to each other, like the way the mages have been wronged. And the people who've been hurt, they remember, and then they turn their anger on the people who wronged 'em. I'm sure that in Tevinter, when the uprising comes, the mages will get slaughtered. And Orlais, in time, their nobles - laughing at all the carnage - I wonder if it won't be bad for them, too.

For all that they've allowed and partaken of it's no more than the Magisterium and many more besides deserve. Though here you'll have the divide: poor helpless mages who must be saved against the slaves, many elven and you have a great many elves here, and the people always forgotten who have no magic and no one to stand for them that we must stand for instead. It is no less than our duty to make sure they are protected. At last offered protection. Freedom from mages who might loudly make decisions over their heads once more.

Orlais has another war with the Anders to survive yet.

[ A slight hesitation. ]

If I can ask - who were you, before you joined the Chantry? Where'd you come from?

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