I don't know if you ever knew Alexander — Lord Luthor — but before we had met, he wrote about the essential importance of viewing our world as... Maker, I'm going to make a mess of this, ( with a little laugh, thin, a restlessness in her hands and the way she looks down at her meal as she tries to recall the words. the ideas had stuck with her, resonated with her, lingered in the way she has slowly learned to care about the things that she hadn't, really, when she'd first been reading his essays. she'd been fascinated, but it hadn't felt meaningful the way it does, now.

maybe they've nothing in common but oppression, but if they're all being oppressed by the same fucking things. do people see her vision. (they historically have not.) )

As ours, I guess? A citizen not of the Marches or Orlais or Ferelden but, people in a world who are going to be impacted by each other. And mages are in the world. If we can't imagine a world they exist in without fighting, we're never going to do anything else, and the people that serves are the people who won't have to fight. Wear ourselves out against each other. No one's killing the fucking Empress.