Hardly. The Templars are fools to allow themselves to be bound in such a way. Magic was here long before men - can you imagine what Arlathan truly was? I have been to the ruins of the ancient elves, I have seen the cracked open bones stripped clean of the marrow. Or would you have us be as the Qunari?
[As much as she admired Sten as a singular entity, she would fight to the very death if it came to it should the invasion happen in her lifetime, if she could not find a place to hide and wait it out safely, if the Crossroads were not an option for herself and her son. His strength, his resolve, his will, those were all a credit. But the goals of the Qun? Morrigan would have no part in that, not now, not ever.] There is a way to cut yourself off, if you are so entirely - repelled? Is that the word? - by your nature. [Although that's probably off the table entirely now.
But to be a fly on the wall (or a swarm, to be a singular fly is quite impossible) should the Tranquil discussion ever be raised in a Council session…]
When the Circles seek to wipe out so many teachings, how can there ever be understanding? How much do you think we have lost even since the founding of them? My own magic was not taught within the Circles, the loss of even a single Dalish clan will result in the loss of irreplaceable knowledge. [What she has salvaged has broadened her own mind immeasurably and hers was not narrow when it came to magic in the first place but putting magic into neat little categories never works, not when something is raw, when something shouldn't be understood but simply lived, experienced, felt throughout the whole of a person.] If what this little Mage Council is seeking to accomplish does not hold when all this is at an end, Kirkwall will seek to restrict ever further, a tight little noose for even the unborn.
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[As much as she admired Sten as a singular entity, she would fight to the very death if it came to it should the invasion happen in her lifetime, if she could not find a place to hide and wait it out safely, if the Crossroads were not an option for herself and her son. His strength, his resolve, his will, those were all a credit. But the goals of the Qun? Morrigan would have no part in that, not now, not ever.] There is a way to cut yourself off, if you are so entirely - repelled? Is that the word? - by your nature. [Although that's probably off the table entirely now.
But to be a fly on the wall (or a swarm, to be a singular fly is quite impossible) should the Tranquil discussion ever be raised in a Council session…]
When the Circles seek to wipe out so many teachings, how can there ever be understanding? How much do you think we have lost even since the founding of them? My own magic was not taught within the Circles, the loss of even a single Dalish clan will result in the loss of irreplaceable knowledge. [What she has salvaged has broadened her own mind immeasurably and hers was not narrow when it came to magic in the first place but putting magic into neat little categories never works, not when something is raw, when something shouldn't be understood but simply lived, experienced, felt throughout the whole of a person.] If what this little Mage Council is seeking to accomplish does not hold when all this is at an end, Kirkwall will seek to restrict ever further, a tight little noose for even the unborn.