crystal

[inkindled]

FORM: sending crystal
SENDER: Matthias
RECIPIENT: everyone
NOTES: nah

Right, so--is there anything that can be done to make a staff cool?

[Well.]

More deadly, like. If it needed to be used for offense. Or defense, even. S'ppose it wouldn't hurt if it looked cooler as well.

Comments

[inkindled]

But they weren't oppressed before, or anything? S'ppose if they were, they might have buried those stories away as well. Then again, that'd make for a decent story of its own for how the whole thing started. It'd just be less strong. If it all happened out of a need, so people could be safe--that'd be magicians saving everyone, and everyone'd be so grateful, and all.

[rathercommon]

They might have been. There was someone I talked to - he told me a bit about how...it all goes in cycles. They oppress us, so we get furious and destroy them, and all that.

[ A shrug. ]

I expect it might be like that in Tevinter, someday. The soporati rising up and turning it into what it's like in the South.

[inkindled]

[Sort of what he was thinking, that, and not at all something he wants to think about.]

I hope not. It shouldn't. I mean, they haven't got it right in Tevinter-- [mostly? maybe?] --but it ought not switch around so it's...

I mean, neither way is good, right?

[rathercommon]

No.

[ No uncertainty there. ]

Whether it's the few oppressing the many or the many oppressing the few, it's still oppression. And that's evil, no matter who's on which side. What they do up there is awful, but so's what they do to you lot down here.

[inkindled]

Yeah.

[Who could disagree with that?]

If we get to do things as we like, it won't turn into that. 'Cause we just want to be left alone, really. I mean, the good mages do, there might be those that want something else-- [And does he blame them, really? But that's not a thought he should be entertaining, not now when he's debating the evil of oppression--] I reckon most would settle just to be left to it.

[rathercommon]

Well -

[ She chews a little on her lip. ]

You deserve more than that, don't you.

[inkindled]

Me, I'm being realistic. When it's said and done, I'll take 'being left alone and still alive'. Ambition is for after battles.

[rathercommon]

D'you really think so? I've always thought of it as being most important before 'em.

[inkindled]

Two different types of ambition, I reckon. There's the sort that makes you get up and go into battle, fight for what you believe in, and all--and there's the sort that lets you sort out what's important after the battle's done.

[rathercommon]

I can't go into battle without thinking about what's important after the battle's done.

[inkindled]

Well--you've got to have a bit of an idea, yeah. Ideals and all. But you don't have to have it fully formed or anything.