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Hououji Fuu ([personal profile] monster_san) wrote in [community profile] downtheroots2015-05-29 07:30 pm
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IC Questions Meme!



  1. Post your character!
  2. Other characters will come along and ask them QUESTIONS.
  3. Ask questions back in an infinite loop of queries or until you run out.
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circleprodigy: (listening)

[personal profile] circleprodigy 2015-05-31 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
I envy the elves of your world, then. It used to be worse, with my people being kept as slaves after the fall of their empire. That still happens in Tevinter, though from my understanding they have slaves from other races as well. Still, the elves of Thedas have lost much. I won't spend my life in mourning, there's too much to do, but would like to see better treatment for elves as a whole. They're in dire need of it.

The Circle is for mages, yes. When mages manifest their power - usually among puberty though it happened when I was six- they're taken to a Circle tower for training. That's their life from then on, and they're watched over closely by the templars, warriors who have the power to negate magic should mages prove dangerous.
stormcalling: (And the circle starts again)

[personal profile] stormcalling 2015-05-31 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
If we're fortunate one of the kinds of elves from Azeroth may show themselves. I'm sure they could explain their history. I'd attempt but honestly I know very little. It is still strange to think someone would think so little of the people.

They need another source of people watching over them? I'm going to guess these templar aren't say...family and friends watching someone they know?
circleprodigy: (alert)

[personal profile] circleprodigy 2015-05-31 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I suspect that the elves of millenia ago would agree with you on that. How far we've fallen....

No, they're not. Templars are a military order of the Chantry that hunt apostates -mages who don't join or escape the Circle- and watch over those within it. If we become possessed and turn into abominations, they're to kill us. It's possible for demons to possess others, but it's a lot easier done with mages, because of our ties to the Fade, where demons and spirits dwell.
stormcalling: (How the lights die down)

[personal profile] stormcalling 2015-06-01 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It seems a common fate for many races.

[Okay give her a minute. That sounds...questionable at best. Also wait she heard the fade and that argument before (Thanks Fenris).] Yet your demons have no affiliation with the Burning Legion, right? I also fail to see why a military would think they need to oversee mages. Many mages I know are a bit...up-tight but generally have a good sense of morals.
circleprodigy: (side-eye)

[personal profile] circleprodigy 2015-06-01 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
The Burning Legion? I've never heard of that, so I doubt it. They've never seemed that organized, just in it for themselves.

[She smiles, pleasantly surprised at such an opinion of mages.]

Much of it has to do with events in the past and their connection to the Chantry, the dominant religion in Thedas. 'Magic exists to serve man, and never to rule over him.' That's one of their sayings, a way of rebelling against the mage-ruled Tevinter empire which enslaved and oppressed so many--and still do, though it's power has declined. Distrust of mages partly stems from that past, and fear of blood magic, which can be used to control others. I can't blame the latter, for I've seen what it can do. But many other mages never delve into such vile practices.

[Yes, Thedas really sucks when it comes to moderation. It's one extreme or the other.]
stormcalling: (Telling us who we are)

[personal profile] stormcalling 2015-06-01 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad that your world hasn't had to encounter them. I hope that you never do.

[Seriously what is with that world. Light help her she never wants the Draenei to land there. She likes her relative freedom.]

There's no considering that mages might be skilled enough to handle themselves? Because that sounds like some awful logic, personally. Although I don't know of any of our mages who can do anything like "blood magic". That sounds like some sort of fel magic.
circleprodigy: (irked)

[personal profile] circleprodigy 2015-06-02 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Likewise, though I would be interested in hearing about it nonetheless.

Oh, some think so, but they don't have the influence needed to make true change. Even I don't, as my boon for ending the Fifth Blight was freedom for my Circle tower. The Chantry refused, though Queen Anora does her best to give them some breathing room. I could recruit other mages into the Grey Wardens, but that would only get them out of the tower. It's not true freedom, and it's a hard life that many Circle mages wouldn't be suited for.

From my understanding, blood magic is usually a talent acquired through a deal with a demon, which is never a wise thing for a mage to do anyway. It also seems to require sacrifices for the more powerful spells. One slaver mage I encountered was willing to sacrifice a roomful of slaves just to save his skin. I didn't let that happen.
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