CLOSED | C is for Chantry Relations

[limier]

FORM: sendin' crystal

SENDER: wren coupe
RECIPIENT: chantry relations project members
WHAT: check-in, discussion, planning
WHEN: some time this month when not everything's on fire
WHERE: n/a
NOTES: the comments have headings, please feel free to also just post generally or to make your own! ♥

This is Coupe.

[ there are new faces; it bears repeating ]


We’ve received the latest dispatches, including words collected of ranking clergy. You will find a copy of these — and of Brother Jehan’s report from Orlais — within the office. 

I ask your thoughts, and your priorities of each. We need look to the year ahead.

The theological status of Rifters will only gain controversy, as we draw closer to a new Divine. I needn’t state the importance of not aggravating matters within Kirkwall. 

[ but like, she just did anyway. so, ]

The Inquisition has offered the Rifters her protection; our fates are necessarily tied. If you’ve questions regarding them, I encourage you to speak with myself or another member of this project, rather than in public forum.

Last: I have received a disturbing report of Venatori action against the Tranquil. Contact me privately, if you would lend aid.

 

Comments

[faithlikeaseed]

I'm going off lack of similarity--and malice--myself; pragmatically, if they don't act like demons, that's enough.

But it would be good to be able to say with a certainty they're not. How would we prove it?

[galvanising]

But not all demons act like demons to begin with, otherwise they'd never fool anyone.

I've no idea how you prove it, that's not my area. I just don't think the Inquisition should say they definitely aren't demons when we don't really have any idea what they are.

[faithlikeaseed]

True--but there's an ultimate point to their deceptions, and if they disguise themselves, they disguise themselves as something plausible in our world.

And there's the matter of creatures without much imagination but whatever they've got from our dreams making up elaborate stories about where they're from, with wonders we haven't even conceived of here.

[Thoughtfully,] What would you say instead, if someone asks you directly?

[galvanising]

I'm not in Diplomacy, either. My point is just that the Inquisition has already taken a big risk taking all of these people in. So far it's worked out alright, but the more the Inquisition goes around promising Kirkwallers or whoever that Rifters aren't demons, that they're all safe and friendly, the worse it's going to be if a day comes when it turns out that's wrong, about all of them or even just about a few.

[faithlikeaseed]

[Dry,] We can't promise they're all friendly; there'd be some offended to be characterized that way.

I'm not asking for a diplomatic answer, though. I'm asking for what you'd tell them as an agent of the Inquisition, buttonholed off the street by frantic Kirkwallers convinced the place is going to come down around their ears again.

[galvanising]

I don't get "buttonholed."

[faithlikeaseed]

Fair enough.