set your heart against the scales, keep your head above the tide

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WHO: Ambassador Amsel & others
WHAT: a Herian catch-all
WHEN: through the month
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: closed and open starters to be added through the month, I have a hideous cold atm and am even more forgetful than usual, so if we have discussed something and I've neglected to follow up or set something up, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Comments

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It is a reasoning that I understand, ( and she can be gracious about understanding it—she's had so much practise, of late, though she has found herself sorely tested and perhaps has not always been as gracious as she might wish of herself with one colleague of herian's in particular. ) Certainly I don't disagree that our priority must be the work. I simply felt it worthwhile to consider the ways in which that work is better done.

And that has been borne out, here, with rifters. Few of them will share that priority, ( frankly, ) and the weakness of that separation and their suspicion is the weakness being exploited. They do not feel safe, and they turn, mistrustful, from the only things that can provide safety to them.

It will be difficult. Which is why I feel a more broad approach is wise, yes; the narrower our focus in this, the easier to chip into it.

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I had... Enchanter Averesch suggested that the rifters be presented as pious and saviours to Thedas coming through the rifts through the will of the Maker. That presenting their power and the aid all have brought to Thedas as being a gift aligned with the Chantry and that it could be credited with, as a means to sway the Chantry's words concerning them.

( A quiet exhale. ) But as you say, there is much reason for distrust, both of the Inquisition and the Chantry. I like the proposal, though I worry that with the attitudes some hold of the Chantry and their openness with their views. I do not fault them for advocating change, but I... worry their brazen contempt will only provoke the Chantry and may have prompted the Templars to take the opportunity to put forward the demand for rifter phylacteries.

Do you think there might be any possibility of such an avenue being explored? I do not know that it would sit well, proposed by a native.

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It is an interesting suggestion, but I share your concerns regarding the feasibility of implementing it with any true success. Regrettably,

( and she is a little regretful, if only for the position it now places them in—she should have seen this, should have been better prepared to combat it, but it had been such a source of acute frustration and her own biases had coloured her resentment, her irritation at being forced to shoulder the burden of ungrateful strangers even so much as she had done, )

I am no expert on the question of what these rifters will be prepared to tolerate.

( from the way they discuss the matter already, it seems clear to her it would be a question of persuading them to tolerate it, more than anything. )

I think it would be shortsighted to cast it aside without an effort, at least. Perhaps they would surprise us.