After a moment of honest consideration, and recognising that she knows so little of organised religions outside of the flock of Andraste and — of course — everything she's learned against her will about the ancient elvhenan, she finally settles on:
“Probably,” because they've set a bad example and rifters never seem surprised enough to argue compellingly against a confident yeah, I reckon. “It's not ... I don't know what mere magical scrying entails, but a phylactery isn't.” She tips her hand, “Your thing sounds like,” stop her if she's getting it wrong, “you want to know where someone is, you do a new thing to find them. A phylactery is bound by blood to an individual and through that connection knows their location always. It also removes the... it's done in advance. A phylactery is created for a mage as soon as possible, right? Insurance against any attempts to escape. So you're dealing with a little child who's a stranger and the mage tasked with creating them has earned a certain amount of trust, presumably, in order to be let in on all this at all. So they've got buy in. They're protecting this stranger child. This is a good thing. Whereas if you were asked with a bit of hair to help la limier and her equally heavily armed colleagues hunt down an escapee you've spent twenty years living and studying alongside and developed rapport and familiarity and sympathy and you know what happens when they find them—”
no subject
“Probably,” because they've set a bad example and rifters never seem surprised enough to argue compellingly against a confident yeah, I reckon. “It's not ... I don't know what mere magical scrying entails, but a phylactery isn't.” She tips her hand, “Your thing sounds like,” stop her if she's getting it wrong, “you want to know where someone is, you do a new thing to find them. A phylactery is bound by blood to an individual and through that connection knows their location always. It also removes the... it's done in advance. A phylactery is created for a mage as soon as possible, right? Insurance against any attempts to escape. So you're dealing with a little child who's a stranger and the mage tasked with creating them has earned a certain amount of trust, presumably, in order to be let in on all this at all. So they've got buy in. They're protecting this stranger child. This is a good thing. Whereas if you were asked with a bit of hair to help la limier and her equally heavily armed colleagues hunt down an escapee you've spent twenty years living and studying alongside and developed rapport and familiarity and sympathy and you know what happens when they find them—”
A shrug.
“A phylactery has no heartstrings to pull.”