"Knowing the Chantry, they probably thought of it as the way for the mages to test their 'moral centers'. Like a Vigil for the Templars, or whatever it is the Seekers do to become Seekers. If you don't die doing this, you were meant to do this." She snorted quietly, "They seem to forget all too well that a Vigil just empties your soul - a Harrowing threatens your very existence. Or perhaps they truly never understood at all."

She put one slender finger inside of her book, looking thoughtfully over at Adelaide, "Do you think it possible they just never knew at all - because they were not mages, and could not step as we do, onto the other side of the Fade?"