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Inessa Surana || Inessa Serra ([personal profile] circleprodigy) wrote in [community profile] faderift 2017-10-04 11:57 pm (UTC)

Not about to stop Prompto's outburst, Inessa patiently listens and is silent for a moment afterward before speaking. Garahel watches them intently, but doesn't interfere, perhaps realizing that some discussions should be had. His mistress nods, a sigh escaping.

"The Templars of the Kirkwall Circle did use Tranquility as a punishment, it's true. For Circles at large, it was meant as a means to avoid the possession of a mage believed too weak to survive the Harrowing. If they cannot control themselves, if they succumb to a demon, the damage would be incalculable. I cannot deny that, even as I wonder how much could have been done, was done, to ensure that it was the very last resort."

She paces, her next words a bit less polished in tone. "...this is not easy for me to speak of, Prompto, but I'll try. Life is not kind to city elves. When the Templars found me, I was a sickly, malnourished alienage girl who likely would not have survived childhood. The Circle gave me regular meals, clothes that fit, an education to rival any in Thedas. I was happy there, for the first time in my life. I thrived in the system, and others like me were similarly raised up. We would never have had that chance outside it, not as elves. And yet, I never saw my parents again; they died during the Fifth Blight. I'm the elf other elves call 'flat-ear' because I'm so out of touch with my elven heritage.

Mages have the potential to be dangerous, very dangerous, and we need an education to help us counter this. I believe that firmly. But I also believe it can be done without strict separation from the world at large."

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