Adele LeBlanc (
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[ OPEN ] Let No Soul Hunger For Justice: An Inquiry.
FORM: Sending Crystals
SENDER: Adelaide LeBlanc
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Vaguely philosophical question time
WHEN: Current
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Part of Let No Soul Hunger For Justice.
SENDER: Adelaide LeBlanc
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Vaguely philosophical question time
WHEN: Current
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Part of Let No Soul Hunger For Justice.
[ Adelaide’s voice is even, if tired- but what else is new? Still this is a requirement for the next ritual and to that end, she must find some sort of acceptable truth from a variety of opinions. Sequestered in ‘her’ desk in the Library, full pot of coffee warmed to one side, sheaves of blank paper and bottles of fresh ink before her. To her right? Anders with a similar set up, papers, quills, ink- a kitten. To her left, Roul to take just as many notes. Prepared as they are ever going to be- she asks. ]
A few questions for the Inquisition:
What is a soul, truly? What fundamental differences are there between a mortal’s soul and the embodiment of a spirit? Is it the culmination of our thoughts and experiences, our emotions? Is it a combination of our self given purpose and our ambition?
A mortal might change their purpose, might grow and become more due to our experiences- most spirits do not. But what more than that? What sets one soul apart and makes it distinct from another? Can the same be said of similar spirits?
Answers need not be religious or academic- merely true. What do you believe to be the difference, what do you believe to be a soul?
[ ooc: threadjacking is welcome and encouraged ]
A few questions for the Inquisition:
What is a soul, truly? What fundamental differences are there between a mortal’s soul and the embodiment of a spirit? Is it the culmination of our thoughts and experiences, our emotions? Is it a combination of our self given purpose and our ambition?
A mortal might change their purpose, might grow and become more due to our experiences- most spirits do not. But what more than that? What sets one soul apart and makes it distinct from another? Can the same be said of similar spirits?
Answers need not be religious or academic- merely true. What do you believe to be the difference, what do you believe to be a soul?
[ ooc: threadjacking is welcome and encouraged ]
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[There's a pause where Asher's breath catches like he might cough, where he's fighting it back and down, breath rattling in the back of his throat.]
Sometimes a healer has to know when to slip the knife into the thigh and let someone go. I'm not trying to be a prick, this is how it is.
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[Because a spirit is a god is a spirit, because it doesn't matter what other people believe, it just matters what Asher believes because he lives it, he carries it with him wherever he goes, and he almost died because one of his gods is punishing him for dragging his feet on another matter.]
Rituals can force a spirit out but here's the thing: that spirit is out. You haven't solved the problem. You haven't even halved it, if anything, you've probably gone and doubled it because there's a corrupted spirit and a mess of a person and you can't split yourself in half to deal with it.
[Never half ass one thing Adelaide, whole ass one thing. Not that Anders even deserves a fractional peripheral glimpse of dat ass.]
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[ Cured is-
No one has attempted to do so. No one has tried. And at the moment she doesn't terribly care if Anders is left a mess- he'd done this to himself. What comes after is his to mind, her word is secure, some manner of progress made. ]
I would rather separate the spirit from the man and kill the spirit than stand by the Chantry's tried and true 'kill the abomination' or 'kill the supposed abomination'. We have to try to find something better or there's no point to any of this.
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[Asher might not be book smart but he's a battlemaster, and current wounds notwithstanding, he is a damned good one. Asher cares about people, selfish though he generally tends to act and sound. There are a lot of people already hurt and hurting in Skyhold.]
'I would rather'. Life isn't that easy.
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[ To put a blade to him in his sleep, if there is truly no hope of recovery. If he has become so entangled with all that Justice is that there's nothing of him left. ]
You think this has been easy?
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[But Asher knows augurs so of course he can speak like people should just know that.]
Why do you think it's in their sleep in the hold? When neither know? The abomination goes to sleep and neither wake. [If Asher was a different person who hadn't been kicked out at fifteen, who lived a life where comfort was a common thing, then maybe he'd say that they both went somewhere they could be together and their lives were free of pain but dead is dead, and they go off to the Lady of the Skies in the case of the body, and a new spirit fills the gap.]
I'm not saying it's been easy, but someone has to say it. Someone that actually does kill for a living and that knows this sort of thing.
[It's not exactly an offer but it's been said.]
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[ Not the desired result, but- he was prepared to die, many wished his head on a pike. It wouldn't be the neat execution most would expect but it would be a fair price paid for what happened, in theory. ]
It...we have not come to that point just yet. We've a few more left to try and then- one option more after that.
Should all else fail? The knife. And as I am the one that has fought so long to see these rituals done, I shall hold it myself.
[ It would only be fair, unless someone else would wish to claim that particular honor. A sleep spell, cutting a vein- the very thought of it makes her feel ill. But if there were no other choice left- he was right. It would be the most kind thing to do. ]