What measure is a mage?

[watchesandlistens]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Corvo
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Corvo's not like the other girls mages
WHEN: Now
WHERE: Everywhere
NOTES: is a mage an animal, vegetable, or mineral?

[ The voice that speaks is low, gravelly. Not one often heard over the crystals, or around Skyhold in general. He's not the chattiest guy around. But he's curious. ]

I can use magic, but I would not consider myself a mage.

[ Pause. ]

Not that I have anything against mages. I simply...do not identify as one, particularly within the context of mages in this world.

[ Another pause, to let that sink in. Then he gets to the point. ]

How would you define a mage? Is everyone that's capable of magic truly to be considered one? Perhaps there should be a label for people who do not so easily fit into those categories--if one does not already exist.

Comments

[alankazam]

Oh. Like rope tricks, juggling. [ A pause. ] I think there is a word for that.

[watchesandlistens]

...That's. Not quite what I'm talking about.

But maybe they'd like to be called mages? I wouldn't know.

[alankazam]

That's a shame, we could use one of those. I saw a man in Denerim who could hide handkerchiefs up his sleeves. It was impressive how many he could fit. I saw another man in Orlais who could fit six eggs in his mouth. Is that more the sort of thing you do?

[ now he's just being a shit ]

[watchesandlistens]

No, but if you ever see a man with completely black eyes, and pale skin, he's got quite a large mouth. I'm sure he'd be willing to accommodate you.

[ He's just gonna sic all these JOKERS on each other. ]

[alankazam]

Why, is he a mage too?

[watchesandlistens]

Absolutely.