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

[galvanising]

But no one is allowing them to suffer, or leaving them without support. They are protected and supported the same way every other member of the Inquisition is protected and supported, including mages and elves, who are perhaps even more likely to be mistreated and subjected to cruelty. Would you have the Inquisition make public statements and write to Chantry leaders for writs of support and send soldiers to effect reprisals every time a mage is refused service or an elf is called rabbit?

[dashing]

( Her tone remains soft; her temper had eased considerably since the bitten comments about Coupe, and now everything is very calm and controlled, more quietly curious if anything. )

Would you advocate complacency? Do you consider tolerance of such acts the better course?

[faithlikeaseed]

[Quietly,] While I agree we can't go to hyperbolic lengths to defend rifters, there's something to be said for taking away the reasoning that would let people treat them the same way mages and elves are and have been.

[dashing]

Thank you. I am— not so deft with words as swords.

[faithlikeaseed]

Any time. I'd a good sparring partner back in Hasmal to practice the words on.

[galvanising]

You say that as if it would be easy and cost nothing. But everything the Inquisition spends time, effort, and favor doing means that those resources are not available to be spent elsewhere. Is it really the wisest course to go out on a limb--and ask our allies to do the same--to try to clear the names of rifters? When they are so few, and we still know so little of them, and no real harm has been done to them that can't be handled through the usual channels?

We would be better served spending our efforts on ensuring that the next Divine is someone who will be open to the notion of Rifters. Even if we could get a statement made now, it would be worthless when new leadership is chosen and likely doom the candidacy of whoever made it.

[faithlikeaseed]

[Dryly,] Should we only do the right thing if it's easy and costs us nothing, serah?

It isn't simply a matter of preventing harm to rifters--with two of them among the Inquisition's leadership, that fear and doubt about their origins is a very real barrier to anything else we hope to accomplish.