"This shall likely not be about making or convincing anyone to recognize truth or to support mages or to care for the abuse of them," Alexandrie replies after a moment with what gentleness she can muster. "It shall be about creating circumstances such that the Chantry, or the nobility, or the Crown, believe it is in their own best interest to sacrifice him. To give them something tangible to gain by it that outweighs any loss.

"Perhaps no-one would see your case on its own merit. As you say, justice does not work that way for mages, and they are not alone in that. No-one cares if the son of a Duke rapes a servant-girl. No-one cares if he kills her in the process. Unless you give them reason; threaten them with loss, or reward them with gain. The latter is better.

"The gain in the end, for you and those like you, is that those who are not privy to those dealings will, perhaps, begin to believe the Chantry does care. And that is, thread by thread, how you weave new truths."