Hanzo scoffs, shaking his head. To hear that your son has been taken by an fools organisation in the south, that he was kept and tortured and harmed... It would not only be infuriating to hear but embarrassing for the family. The blood of Tevinter is intended to be strong, to be powerful, to be great; to have that captured, tied down and held? It would bring some shame to the line of Artemaeus blood, to their line, to Calpurnia herself.
Hanzo knows this because he has experienced it himself. He knows what it means to bring shame to your family, to be the embarrassment. The weight of that threat had pressured him after his father had died, pressed down between his shoulders, had jabbed into his spine and curled disgust around him like an agonising pain. He had murdered his brother - his best, worst secret - because he had been so afraid of that shame and embarrassment.
It's been a long time.
"How were you caught? How did you get taken to the Inquisition prisons?" Hanzo shakes his head. "Perhaps she wishes for you to take your vengeance on your belongings. Perhaps she wishes for you to prove yourself again. When it comes to a Magister it could be any reason, or all of them."
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Hanzo scoffs, shaking his head. To hear that your son has been taken by an fools organisation in the south, that he was kept and tortured and harmed... It would not only be infuriating to hear but embarrassing for the family. The blood of Tevinter is intended to be strong, to be powerful, to be great; to have that captured, tied down and held? It would bring some shame to the line of Artemaeus blood, to their line, to Calpurnia herself.
Hanzo knows this because he has experienced it himself. He knows what it means to bring shame to your family, to be the embarrassment. The weight of that threat had pressured him after his father had died, pressed down between his shoulders, had jabbed into his spine and curled disgust around him like an agonising pain. He had murdered his brother - his best, worst secret - because he had been so afraid of that shame and embarrassment.
It's been a long time.
"How were you caught? How did you get taken to the Inquisition prisons?" Hanzo shakes his head. "Perhaps she wishes for you to take your vengeance on your belongings. Perhaps she wishes for you to prove yourself again. When it comes to a Magister it could be any reason, or all of them."