Do you also feel the need to go through every empty barrel and box in the streets and collect every piece of half-rotten trousers and broken jewelry to take with you?
[ he'll go to wiggle a doorknob too, but he's not a rogue so. that's useless. ]
Yes. I moved around a good bit - the clinic could rarely stay in one place for long before the Templars came to raid it. And before that I was on the move almost constantly.
[ going down to wiggle another door. so maybe he is curious too and wants to know. ]
Yes and no. I'm never quite alone.
[ lol ]
The clinic had volunteers for a time - other refugees. No other mages, but they wanted to help, so I had to let them. And then there was Hawke and Varric and the others. But I lived on my own. If Hawke needed me for something or other, I would come.
[ everyone keeps so politely allowing him the mage rights rant and its going to his head. ]
It is Chantry law. To be born a mage is to be born already guilty of sin. Of deserving death and having to prove you deserve to be alive, that somehow children who can do magic deserve to be taken from their homes and imprisoned in Circles. They take your family, your life, your ability to ever love or care for another, and demand obedience at the point of a Templar sword. If you try to run, if you step a foot out of line, they track you down and drag you back and beat you senseless or throw you in a cage. Sometimes both, for fun. Your options as you grow up are the Harrowing or Tranquility. You either face a demon in the Fade - where you will either emerge victorious and terrified, or die. Or you can submit to the lyrium brand, where they burn out all your magic, your emotions, your desires, your free will, and leave you an empty husk.
... there are people who can do magecraft where I am from. I can even do some, but in general it is something that people keep secret from the general populace.
[ they don't reply right away, trying to think of a response. ]
... there is apparently a group of them. They made up rules for themselves, I believe. To be secretive. I assume it's because most people aren't even aware things like magic exists anymore, so they want to keep it hidden from them.
[ ... ]
I know this is vague. But I have lived... separately, from a lot of this, so I don't know the exact details.
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saber is trying to open all the doors on the second floor ]
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[ surely there's a deeper meaning here. what could it be. ]
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[ they wiggle a doorknob even harder. ]
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[ hawke mentality. ]
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[ anders said 'also' so saber just assumes that he was referring to himself... ]
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I don't keep many personal belongings.
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[ or is he poor... ]
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Yes. I moved around a good bit - the clinic could rarely stay in one place for long before the Templars came to raid it. And before that I was on the move almost constantly.
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I see... Was it just you on your own?
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Yes and no. I'm never quite alone.
[ lol ]
The clinic had volunteers for a time - other refugees. No other mages, but they wanted to help, so I had to let them. And then there was Hawke and Varric and the others. But I lived on my own. If Hawke needed me for something or other, I would come.
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Ah... [ they pause, considering it. seems like rather bad circumstances. ] You are a mage, then?
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Yes. And I won't hide who I am.
[ like he needs to??? in heaven???? ]
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[ saber can understand hiding things from the general populace but he said it so seriously ]
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Apart from the illegality of it ... ?
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[ sits down for a history lesson (they are not actually sitting down) ]
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It is Chantry law. To be born a mage is to be born already guilty of sin. Of deserving death and having to prove you deserve to be alive, that somehow children who can do magic deserve to be taken from their homes and imprisoned in Circles. They take your family, your life, your ability to ever love or care for another, and demand obedience at the point of a Templar sword. If you try to run, if you step a foot out of line, they track you down and drag you back and beat you senseless or throw you in a cage. Sometimes both, for fun. Your options as you grow up are the Harrowing or Tranquility. You either face a demon in the Fade - where you will either emerge victorious and terrified, or die. Or you can submit to the lyrium brand, where they burn out all your magic, your emotions, your desires, your free will, and leave you an empty husk.
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[ ... ]
That is horrific. I apologize that I don't know what to say, other than... what the hell!
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No, I think that covers it.
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... there is apparently a group of them. They made up rules for themselves, I believe. To be secretive. I assume it's because most people aren't even aware things like magic exists anymore, so they want to keep it hidden from them.
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I know this is vague. But I have lived... separately, from a lot of this, so I don't know the exact details.