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[arcaneadvisor]

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[limier]

We've some distance for a dinner invitation,

[ what's the difference between a wolf and a dog, at the end of the day? what stands between them, save that door? ]

But if you wish, I might inquire. No; word has not spread so far. [ it will. her people, they'll help it along the way, without doubt. no one is immune to gossip — least of all ambitious young chantry sisters. still, ] It is my aim that the Inquisition have grip of it before then.

My experience of Dalish magic has been limited, but the effort involved cannot have been light. I hoped to ask your opinion of a power source.

[ blood on the ground, and the simplest answer cuts the sharpest. it doesn't mean that others might be ruled out: lyrium, multiple participants (only ever so many mages to a dalish clan, but that isn't the case of the inquisition, is it?), some stranger method —

the arcane advisor would own a better guess than most. ]

[arcaneadvisor]

Are you certain you would wish for the people to talk so?

[Don't even joke about offers you aren't willing to accept the consequences of Ser Coupe, and Morrigan has to pay you back in coin of the same kind for a certain young lady. It's just looking out for her, you understand.]

Will the Inquisition keep that grip of it? Or will it slip loose and run into the night, shrieking and shouting or creep out as the thief, ready to whisper in any willing ear? [This is the Inquisition with as many (or more) doubters as it has allies and backers, even those Morrigan doesn't know if they can trust when the true hardship comes now Celene has what she wants; what position are they in to make a demand of her and hers that she'd be obliged to honour?] You ask me of Dalish, any tale and lie of elf sets itself aflame and those of the Dalish are far more incendiary than most.

I know much of their ancient lore but the strongest magic is taught to only a few: Keeper to a First as is their way. Once there was a keeper who summoned a spirit and bound her to the body of a wolf to exact vengeance, such is the power that might be passed down. [Morrigan can think of two elves then with Merrill absent. Two who might have been taught such powerful magic once in their lives.] One would imagine they are accustomed to performing rituals without lyrium, such things would hard to come by for the Dalish.

[She's helping.]

[limier]

I imagine that a few would appreciate the moment's levity.

[ because this is a joke. they're joking. right? they're on the same page here and no one is literally going to show up as a fucking wolf. right? right. totally. ]

We've no choice but to try; to cut them loose is to court the same disaster. [ after orlais, the inquisition is bound into the image of elven reforms; if they are not all very careful, they will sink together — but to swim apart is a losing proposition, a quicker way to drown. ] I thank you your counsel.

[ because it is helping, however......... morrigan about it. time to track down the inquisition's firsts. ]

[arcaneadvisor]

'Twould be one way to rid ourselves of the easily scandalised and irritating.

[A vaste swathe of the Chantry biddies, a great many of the most traditional Templars, Orlesian nobility if they do it where there's a flight of stairs for them to fall down--

She's getting ahead o herself.]

They are not all one clan, but they are the People. The last of the elvhen. Never again shall they submit. [One has not long had a child, another does not keep well with her unstable unknown magic.] I wish you well. For Gwenaëlle's sake.

[Yes she actually means that, a girl needs a knife as much as a voice. You are the least objectionable Templar she has ever met.]