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[arcaneadvisor]

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[champions]

Do you think you know yourself better, for having been in other skins? Or... does it make the reading of others more insightful?

( To see them as might their hunter, their prey, as something else that slips between skins and is simultaneously themselves and not themselves at all. )

[arcaneadvisor]

I am still myself when a wolf. I am no bard [a quiet scoff, a woman glad to be mostly rid of them] and that is not where my talents lie but there are things a wolf might hear or smell that I can relay to a person.

[Perhaps if there were mage bards or rogue shapeshifters, but such is life, and Morrigan grew up alone in the Wilds. She reads animals better than many people until later in her life. A deliberate act of Flemeth's. It doesn't do to be bitter about it now in the house of a stranger.]

[champions]

Of course. ( She sips the wine, thinking on that for a few moments before speaking further. Morrigan does not strike her a woman to suffer fools, and Marisol has no interest in appearing foolish. )

I apologise if any of my questions are nonsensical in some way. This is simply a wondrous form of magic. I can only imagine the things that could be done with it. To be able to view the sea from beneath the waves rather than riding over them, or to have eyes that can watch in the dark. There are so many secrets that could be uncovered.

[arcaneadvisor]

After sailing to and from Nevarra, and given I made my own way from Skyhold to Kirkwall by land? The freedom it offers is gift enough to those who use it well. Too many see it in parts and pieces. Of those I have taught in my time, some have used it as little more than parlour tricks to entertain friends from what I have heard. As if this is not old magic. Near lost.

[Marisol strikes her as being less of a disappointment in that arena.]

[champions]

( Cheerfully, )

I could arrange for them to be stabbed, if you like?

( She's joking!


Maybe. )

[arcaneadvisor]

Tempting as that offer is, there are few enough bodies to fill posts.

[Do you hear the conviction it's there.

Somewhere.]