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[dashing]

WHO: Herian & poor unfortunate souls.
WHAT: catch all for Guardian
WHEN: all month, mostly post cure
WHERE: various
NOTES: Magical mishaps & injuries, nothing else as present.
Starters in the comments, I'd like to try and do custom stuff for folks so if you'd like a thing please feel free to fling me a pm and we can work out a thing.

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[overharrowed]

Julius has had worse welcomes. He knocks lightly on the door frame so as not to startle her. "Knight-enchanter? Am I too early?"

He looks a bit tired, though arguably better than he had before they'd found a cure for the rifters. His workload hasn't eased and the phylactery problem is only getting worse, but at least he's not stuck feeling responsible for failing to save lives day in and day out. Then again, this is their first meeting, so she doesn't really have much to compare it to; his fatigue is generally a subtle thing.

"If your experience is like mine, I suppose there's not much delay between assignment to the post and having too much to do."

[dashing]

A sharp look up - poised to move, rather than a sharp jerk, although the potential impression of tightly wound coil in a trap might be applied in either case.

"Enchanter Julius," she realises, and shakes her head. "No, please. You are most welcome. Please forgive my—"

Scowling? Focus? Talent for looming at a distance, while of of height only slightly above average?

"manner, I was much absorbed in work. It is as you say." At least it's a very ordered sort of too much to do, and she gestures to a seat in offering.

[overharrowed]

"Thank you," he says, taking the offered seat. "I'm grateful to be kept busy, but I do occasionally suspect my job would be better performed by three people. Still, we do what we can." He glances at her papers, not overly nosy but unapologetic for his curiosity.

"So. The quarantine's wound down, but would you still like to discuss glyphs? Or was there something else on your mind?"

[dashing]

"I would. No harm lies in being better prepared, should another incident occur where such precautions are required."

She pauses a moment, and rather than staying standing, takes a seat at the same corner as Julius. "My magical abilities are largely offensive in nature. Useful for defending others in combat, less so in circumstances outside battle. I think perhaps that having plans for necessary countermeasures. You also mentioned fortification - I wondered if I might ask you a little more about that."

[overharrowed]

"Absolutely. Given your combat experience, I assume you're familiar with the fact glyphs needn't go off instantaneously. A caster can delay them, or even design them so they don't trigger until someone walks across them, for instance." He unrolls a small sheet of parchment he's brought along. "In a battle, someone's almost inevitably going to walk across a glyph shortly after it's cast. But there's no reason why they can't be incorporated into fortifications too. I know some mages have done more with this than I have, but even relatively simple modifications can prove very useful."

[dashing]

"Fire glyphs are the extent of mine own experience in casting, though not amongst the spells I cast most often." she confirms. She was hardly, however, able to say that she'd never been on the receiving end of a glyph lying in wait. "That would prove invaluable. One use I had considered was for securing the memorial site. Do you imagine something of that sort would be appropriate? We are trying to ensure the memorial is not tampered with during its construction, but—"

She shakes her head. "Mayhaps too risky, with all those who are attending to pay tribute and will need to see to construction."

[overharrowed]

"Hm, yes, you'd have to work out some mechanism to make sure it wasn't triggered by those visiting in good faith. That might prove more complicated, though not necessarily impossible." He glances up from his notes. "Are you acquainted with Myrobalan? He has a talent for glyphwork, and for something that nuanced I might consult with him to save myself reinventing something he's already thought of."

[dashing]

"The people of Kirkwall have endured much, and magic remains a matter of no small concern. I cannot but dread the repercussions if a well-meant protective ward were to activate when a mourner went to pay their respects."

Perhaps Herian should be introduced to the rifter concept of #yikes, if it has made its way to Thedas.

"Mage Shivana? Aye, I've some acquaintance with him," she says, because that's a totally normal way to acknowledge being friends with someone. "Whatever you feel is necessary, Enchanter. He has some familiarity with the memorial through involvement with Chantry Relations - I am sure he will be able to offer a good many insights."