she rules her life like a fine skylark

[arcaneadvisor]

WHO: Morrigan & you & bonus Kieran
WHAT: For all your witchy needs + all your OGB needs
WHEN: The month we should totally rename Queensway amirite
WHERE: Skyhold/Skyhold area
NOTES: Prose or action spam, I'll follow, feel free to make your own starters too. All starters are in the comments because I like pretty posts shut up

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[arcaneadvisor]

Kieran might actually go to bed right away tonight without begging for extra stories or without a fuss for a change if he's exhausted enough from this sort of rampaging. Perhaps even the bath might be met with nary a complaint.

"The Exalted Plains has such a long and bloody history that the Veil there is already thin," Morrigan says when she knows the history so very well for how many times has she passed through it and further afield on her journeys? "Rifts there are hardly surprising, and the more that fall in battle, the more spirits that shall push close. Yet the Inquisition cannot," or is it will not, "move until someone seats the throne more easily. There is truth to the predictions of where the rifters will arrive, Solas is said to be responsible for that though I heard it from the scouts and volunteered to go myself. I move faster than most men."

[circleprodigy]

Knowing well about what happens to places where the Veil is thin, Inessa's lips form a thin, grim line as she nods. It makes her wonder about the state of her former home, but she can't bring herself to mention that. Besides, talking about rifts and their predictions are much more interesting to her...and that last comment, as well. She nods, intrigued rather than put off, for all that it isn't Circle magic.

"You mean shapeshifting. I've taken to studying rift magic for the time being, learning more about the Veil and how to use it, but I've wondered about that particular magic as well. Taking another form and seeing the world through its eyes must be quite an experience." She looks thoughtful, uncertain if it's something she wants to commit to any time soon if ever, but it never hurts to discuss possibilities.

[arcaneadvisor]

"As the crow flies," Morrigan confirms because well. How can she not when she rather literally did just that, one of the very first to arrive to assess the scene, able to observe from a distance and watch the rift dump out that first new arrival onto the ground?

(What she would say, if asked about Kinloch Hold, is that it has withstood being surrounded by Lake Calenhad. That it endured the Fifth Blight and the horrors that came with it. That it shall stand. That it shall keep standing for some time to come. Witches were involved, or one in particular.

So they say.)

Instead she inclines her head in a way that might be mistaken for a nod by others but isn't, because Morrigan isn't like that, not with the way she holds herself. "Tis hardly a secret, not when I have taken several students by now nor when I have used it in battle. If you wish to discuss it, I will speak of it - if you will speak of rift magic." That seems good and equitable in her opinion.

[circleprodigy]

Maybe someday, she'll be able to bring up her home again at length. Most likely when she can gather up the courage to visit it again, sooner or later. For now, though, she'd rather been seen as more than the tiny apprentice mage who needed rescuing, gratitude aside.

Inessa nods, readily accepting such terms. "A fair trade. I admit I am just beginning in my studies, so I'm not very far along. But I have learned enough to manage the basic spells; summoning a boulder from the Fade or using its essence to smash enemies into the ground. The nuances beyond that are what I'm working on now, to learn to use it to my benefit in a more passive manner, powering my spell repertoire.

What criteria do you hold for students? Are there specific forms you have them master--the crow, for instance?"

[arcaneadvisor]

"I study arcane matters, I cannot say that some knowledge would not be of use." There's Solas, of course, but thus far their paths have not crossed and Morrigan is in no real hurry to change that. "I have wondered at the similarities so many of the rifters share with us, some of what you might say may shine a light somewhere."

Stranger things have happened, after all

"No. Flight is not for all, and flight is no small thing. To learn to shapeshift is not to simply copy the form of an animal. Were it that, t'would be a simpler discipline." Not simple, not to reshape yourself but a mage can better appreciate the layers that make up a person better than a rogue or a warrior can. "Tis the soul. In that way, I encourage the student to choose an animal that suits them. To study it in whatever way they see fit. Some simply observe it often, some others might read in the library too and draw it as it moves, as it rests." The ways her students thus far have chosen to learn has surprised her, and that's no bad thing, not when there is Kieran to consider one day.