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

[watchesandlistens]

I'm a human. [ That, at least, is one thing he'll admit to. ] I suppose if it was...how it'd been previously, they'd certainly be trying to put me in a Circle, if they knew. [ Trying being the operative word here. ]

But things are different, and I've never been near a Circle.

[inagutterson]

Well yeah, didn't hear about an elfblooded rifter before now and I know plenty of elfblooded folk to know them. [Liadan is somewhere with her popcorn at the ready for the next dispatch from Skyhold from him about this.] So what can you do because the company I'm with, we have a mage, and she can use knives since when is a knife not handy? But I saw what you did.

[You dick.]

D'you want me to tell you about them? I worked with one of the most famous of them all back in the day.