"And do you? Have plans?" No she shouldn't be smiling but she is, bright as a newly minted coin, swinging up and back on her toes then to her heels. And her, friends with a blacksmith. And a bard that might be able to procure things if she speaks to certain nobles charmingly enough.
"Templars are warriors here, before the Mage-Templar war they were part of the Chantry which is the main religion for the humans and the city elves, and magic was regulated with mages confined to places called Circles. Some Templars and Circles were decent but they had power, and what happens with power?" She shrugs - power is abused easily, especially if it's put the hands of someone with a sword who is told they have the right, they have sanctions, she can only imagine how much worse religion makes that. "They hunted down blood mages, abominations, and apostates too. Blood mages use blood magic, it has a fearsome reputation, apostates are any mages living outwith the Circle, and abominations...abominations are something else. It involves possession, spirits and demons. Things I understand but not well enough to explain to someone, I apologise." She would like to but she just about keeps certain things straight and if she thinks about them for too long then it all starts to slide sideways faster than she can keep up, and she has to go scrambling after it.
But she smiles, wiping down her blades and inspecting them for damage because demons are demons. "They're people, of course, so some are good, some are bad, and most of them will fall in the middle and swing between the two. The peace can get very strained at Skyhold when the Mages have their own Council and are working towards the goal of freedom for good."
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"Templars are warriors here, before the Mage-Templar war they were part of the Chantry which is the main religion for the humans and the city elves, and magic was regulated with mages confined to places called Circles. Some Templars and Circles were decent but they had power, and what happens with power?" She shrugs - power is abused easily, especially if it's put the hands of someone with a sword who is told they have the right, they have sanctions, she can only imagine how much worse religion makes that. "They hunted down blood mages, abominations, and apostates too. Blood mages use blood magic, it has a fearsome reputation, apostates are any mages living outwith the Circle, and abominations...abominations are something else. It involves possession, spirits and demons. Things I understand but not well enough to explain to someone, I apologise." She would like to but she just about keeps certain things straight and if she thinks about them for too long then it all starts to slide sideways faster than she can keep up, and she has to go scrambling after it.
But she smiles, wiping down her blades and inspecting them for damage because demons are demons. "They're people, of course, so some are good, some are bad, and most of them will fall in the middle and swing between the two. The peace can get very strained at Skyhold when the Mages have their own Council and are working towards the goal of freedom for good."