sending crystal

[mythalenaste]

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Pel
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Bored insomniac crap
WHEN: Current, an hour or two after the Kirkwall announcement
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES:

What's a good name for a sword?

[beat]

Not Alexander.

Comments

[mythalenaste]

No...

[She's read about those. The qunari have them.]

[not_the_question]

Why not? I've seen guns named sword.

[We'll the Doctor hadn't seen them here yet, so he had no way to know.]

[mythalenaste]

Well, it's not going to be the name of my sword.

[Never mind that she has a horse named Cow.]

[not_the_question]

Well, now you're changing the question. You asked for a good name for a sword. Now you're saying your sword. I don't know who you are, so how can I know a good name for your sword?

[mythalenaste]

Because swords are swords. Not exactly different depending on the person.

[not_the_question]

But naming things is important. If gives you power over and connection to the thing you're naming. Why would you give anyone else that right?

[mythalenaste]

I haven't. At all. Just...opened it for suggestions.

[not_the_question]

Oh... is that what the young kids are calling it these days?

[mythalenaste]

...What? What is it?

[not_the_question]

Giving power to others, only calling it 'asking for suggestions'.

[mythalenaste]

That isn't giving power at all. It's more a matter of running out of one's own ideas and asking for inspiration.

[not_the_question]

There is nothing in the universe more powerful than a name. And you're 'asking for inspiration' from others to name something that will become an extension of yourself.

[mythalenaste]

That's...really ridiculous. It's a sword, not a soul. I might not even name it at all.

[not_the_question]

Really? Everyone here talks about magic all the time and you don't know the oldest magic in the Universe is the power of a name?

[mythalenaste]

You know this isn't your universe, right?

[not_the_question]

You know every single universe uses names, right?

[Seriously, names are that important, it's why he never lets the companions do the naming.]

[mythalenaste]

You know every universe has the word patronizing, right?

[not_the_question]

Listen to me, you're the one who made this some weird competition about universes without acknowledging there are constants across all universes. I don't know why you're saying I'm the one being patronising.

[mythalenaste]

No, you started it with talking about the oldest magic in the universe. I'm a mage. I'm pretty sure I know how magic is in my universe.

[not_the_question]

Then you should know the importance of names.

Now, if I were to tell you that magic in my universe wasn't magic but simply the science of words, and therefore magic doesn't exist here, or if it does, it's only the science of words, then you could call me patronising.

But that's not what we were talking about. We were talking about the power of names. And that is a constant across all universes. Unless you're prepared to tell me that your chants never have any names involved?

[mythalenaste]

You act like you know how things are here, but you don't. Unless you think dropping in from across universes makes you an expert on mine. I have a lifetime of experience here, where the rules are very precise and you have no training. Bugger off. You're not the expert here.

[not_the_question]

Yes they are. Very precise. And they involve names. But never mind me, I clearly know nothing whatsoever about anything.

[mythalenaste]

Finally, we agree. [And that's the end of transmission.]