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faderift2016-04-03 10:14 am
fightingale) wrote in faderift2016-04-03 10:14 am
(open-ish) out of the slumbers of my head
WHO: Leliana & open-ish - see notes
WHAT: FREEDOM. talks about freedom/the Chantry/wherever it takes us.
WHEN: throughout late-late-late Drakonis and early/mid Cloudreach, can be after hearing some rumours.
WHERE: Default setting will be the Rookery, others possible on request.
NOTES:
1. Likely referral to imprisonment and torture in narrative, others to be added if they come up.
2. It's not exactly open-open because I'd like to be able to keep the different threads unique and avoid burn out on the topic, but if you are interested then just shoot me a pm or talk to me on plurk and we can figure it out!
tldr I am flexible with who/when/where and such, but hammering out some info first would be greatly appreciated.
3. Prose or brackets are totally fine, I'll match style :]b
WHAT: FREEDOM. talks about freedom/the Chantry/wherever it takes us.
WHEN: throughout late-late-late Drakonis and early/mid Cloudreach, can be after hearing some rumours.
WHERE: Default setting will be the Rookery, others possible on request.
NOTES:
1. Likely referral to imprisonment and torture in narrative, others to be added if they come up.
2. It's not exactly open-open because I'd like to be able to keep the different threads unique and avoid burn out on the topic, but if you are interested then just shoot me a pm or talk to me on plurk and we can figure it out!
tldr I am flexible with who/when/where and such, but hammering out some info first would be greatly appreciated.
3. Prose or brackets are totally fine, I'll match style :]b
Too long has she stayed her hand. First it was her ignorance that silenced her, and then it was loyalty, the belief that Justinia wished to make the world better, stronger. A more just world, where all would benefit rather than a rare few. As time has passed, though, and as the Inquisition grows, Leliana has realised more and more that Justinia's peace and her vision for the Chantry were not enough. For all that Justinia had once been a worldly woman she had not fought in the Blight, had not fought side by side with mage and elf alike. She had moved as a player of the Grand Game must, small moves, small changes, and stability had always been her first thought. It was Justinia who had threatened to deny aid to Celene in the settling of mage and Templar if Celene did not cease the elf rebellion simmering in Orlais before the burning of Halamshiral. Justinia was a good woman, a good friend and teacher and mother, and she had great vision. Even so she had been blinkered by the prejudices that ran rife throughout Thedas, the small mindedness that seemed to define each country in different ways. No one should be enslaved or punished simply for being; no one's personhood should be compromised by the simple facts and circumstances of their birth.
Most often she is in the Rookery and must be sort out between scouts and ravens bringing reports, or meetings with the other Advisors. The tower is cold, and candles flicker from a shrine to Andraste and make shadows dance. (And, if visitors come late in Drakonis and early in Cloudreach, they may find evidence of Dorian's prank, for which there will be dire consequences.)
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"Speak plainly. I have little time and less inclination to talk around issues," Leliana replies, a little sharply. Whether this involves Anders or another matter she does not know, but the appreciation for the Wardens is at something of an all time low, on a personal level. Professionally is a different matter, but Leliana has always been a little petty, has always held onto things.
"There are myriad prejudices that need to be addressed. If you expect me to guess at which particular one vexes you we may be here until the next Age."
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"The treatment of elves here is as good a place to start as any. I've seen just as many of us here as there are humans, and yet the segregation is still obvious." She knows that isn't something so easily changed, but still. "The humans are attacking elves, there are elves sitting in your jail, and it seems that those of you in charge are content to let that continue to be the state of things."
wrote "danish" like five times before I got it right ngl
Leliana shakes her head. "The Templar responsible for the attack has been disciplined. As for Galadriel's imprisonment, that I assume you are referring to, I agree. It is unacceptable, and I am putting pressure on my fellow Advisors to see the situation changed. I would ask," she continues, crisply, "that you do not presume to know my opinions, Warden, nor my beliefs."
;fdlasjf jfc this tag got lost in my inbox sorry
"I... apologize. I am accustomed to sh-humans being more dismissive of what those different from them face. Especially those in power." Jonas even often made a joke about Velanna's enduring passion to see the elves elevated beyond slaves and beggars.
no apologies are ever necessary with me tbh C:
"I am not innocent of ignorance," Leliana states, quietly. "Nor have those to whom I have promised my service in the past been without fault in that regard."
Without fault sounds bitter on her tongue, as if it were not Justinia who had done so many wrongs and Leliana who had stood by.
"But the Inquisition's very purpose is to ensure change, is it not? To make things better than what they have been."
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"At the very least we should be working together to save our home."
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Walking towards the centre of the room, where light filters in from above and she can look down to the levels below, Leliana sets her hand on the railing.
"Change is not so easily implemented when so many cling to the small-mindedness that runs so rife in Thedas." The line of her mouth is stern and unhappy in the same moment. "That the Chantry teaches."