I have moved and I've kept on moving, proved the points that I needed proving

[mythalenaste]

WHO: Pel Ashara, Morrigan, Salem Ghilain, Katniss Everdeen, Mal Reynolds, Sam Gareth, Merrill, Sina Dahlasanor (via sending crystals)
WHAT: Studying elven ruins in the Hinterlands
WHEN: End of Wintermarch
WHERE: The Hinterlands
NOTES: Some fighting, altogether Indiana Joneslike archaeology. Meaning it's not really archaeology, it's just fighting and mystical weird ancient places.

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[el_tybs]

So him just touching it was not going to set the thing off, not unless he used a bit of magic and encouraged it? Well that was good to know. Even so the vibes he was getting from the device don't sit very well with him, and for that Sam doesn't try to touch it until he's told to.

At the mention that all magic would be blood magic, Sam stands goes to say something, though stops short and quickly closes it. She... had a point. If he really thought about it there were plenty of things that probably was blood magic in a way - like when they took their blood for phylacteries. Still, even though Morrigan had a point and had valid arguments, the idea still left a sour taste on his tongue. Even so, he was curious to what else she had to say.

Not exactly the time or place though - perhaps later. "We should see what the others have found and decide what we're doing with the stuff."

[arcaneadvisor]

One major concern that she does have is what it might attract when the distance between here and Skyhold is hardly inconsiderable, and she would prefer not to do as she would with Celene. To appear past the guards in Orlais and to the side of the Empress was to leave them all gaping, to flummox them utterly. Skyhold has old friends and those who know her, know the truth behind the tales, it is not so easy to slip between spaces.

Glancing up, she watches him carefully before slipping paper from a pouch at her waist, beginning to copy the design lest it slip from her mind. "Magic is magic, much is down to superstition - they say washing your feet in winter will make you catch cold in the head. So much of the Chantry comes from long after Andraste was dead. Tevinter practiced blood magic and so that made it evil, I would never condone what they have done but death but burning a person alive, boiling the blood in their veins? Always the distinctions."

And never for the benefit of mages, once they're old enough then they become aware of the redundancy. Or outside they do, but the Chantry will continue to put names on things for their own comfort and to stop anything developing organically.

"As you wish, I shall make a sketch of this if you wish to call others over or investigate yourself."

[el_tybs]

Her reasoning, statements and questions were sound and there is little that Sam has to say against it. Perhaps blood magic had been something different at one point, maybe it had been Tevinters or the Chantry that made it what it was now, but even so Sam cannot see it being something to openly accept.

"I'll leave you to your sketch then." Nodding his head to Morrigan, Sam goes to see what the others are doing and get some of them to come help.