[Closed] A very cold place

[justice_is_blond]

WHO: Anders, Janzik
WHAT: Janzik is sick, who the heck knows where it might go from there.
WHEN: Around now
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: None atm.

"Honestly, it's a wonder more didn't catch ill considering how brutally cold it was," Anders says, bringing over an herb infused broth. "I don't know how anyone manages to live in places where it's always snow, long-term."

He takes a seat and offers out the bowl.

Comments

[lightninginabottle]

"All right," he muses, "okay, I can see where they're coming from now." Trying to harness, weaponize and monopolize a fighting force at all costs is unfortunately not going to be a foreign concept on most worlds, and Azeroth is not an exception.

"Can't anyone get possessed by a demon, though? I feel like that's where their argument kinda falls apart. That's just, you know, what demons do, isn't it? Why say it's a mage thing in particular?"

[justice_is_blond]

For a brief moment he stiffens, thinking that Janzik is saying the Chantry is justified. The follow-up questions make it clear Janzik means something else, though, so he relaxes slightly even though he doesn't know what Janzik might mean.

"Anyone can, yes. Their argument is that since we're closest to the Fade and hear the demons more often than the rest of the population, we're the only ones truly at risk. No one talks about Templars turning abomination or so on. It's... not as easy for it to happen, to be sure. Mages are more vulnerable. But that isn't truly helped by the Circles. They kill or destroy more mages out of their own fears of abominations than actually would go abomination, and again, drive people to it as well. They're another disease, not a cure."