No, you didn't. You partook in a mutually beneficial exchange of services and then you parted ways. That does not make you an ally of mages. What it makes you is a woman who's happy to avail herself of an apostate's talents outside the Circle when she needs one, and equally happy to let all mages rot inside the Circle when she doesn't need one.
You've got as rosy and false a picture of your precious Wynne as you do of the Grand Cleric. Worked hard to be where she is? I grew up in the Fereldan Circle. Everyone knows about everyone. Do you really want her dirty laundry aired? I could say a few things about how hard she worked. And for whom.
Quite frankly, Sister, you're full of shit. You know nothing of what goes on in a Circle. Wynne's part and parcel of the problem. The mages who manage to thrive under Circle discipline spend the prime of their lives bickering with one another about whether it might be nice to have some freedoms, and if so, what sorts of freedoms might be safe. It's makework masquerading as politics.
It would continue to go on, because those enchanters and First Enchanters are comfortable where they are, thank you, sitting on their arses and pretending to be important. And do you know what else would continue to go on? The deaths of innocent mages.
Innocent mages have always died under Chantry law. Many of them die before or just after the age of majority, facing that barbaric ritual called a Harrowing. Others die falsely accused of blood magic. And then there are the mages who aren't innocent, the ones who do turn to blood magic -- driven to it, in desperation, lacking any other recourse.
All these deaths, all this despoiled innocence, engineered entirely by the Chantry and abetted by their pet enchanters. That's what your Wynne was. The Chantry's pet, permitted privileges most mages couldn't dream of, as long as she'd speak loudly in favor of keeping all mages on a tight leash. That's the hard work Wynne did for the Chantry.
Freedom is costly. Some of us will be called upon to lay down our lives. I'd sooner see mages spill blood fighting for their rights than yield their throats to the sword in the Harrowing, or their souls to the brand of Tranquility.
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You've got as rosy and false a picture of your precious Wynne as you do of the Grand Cleric. Worked hard to be where she is? I grew up in the Fereldan Circle. Everyone knows about everyone. Do you really want her dirty laundry aired? I could say a few things about how hard she worked. And for whom.
Quite frankly, Sister, you're full of shit. You know nothing of what goes on in a Circle. Wynne's part and parcel of the problem. The mages who manage to thrive under Circle discipline spend the prime of their lives bickering with one another about whether it might be nice to have some freedoms, and if so, what sorts of freedoms might be safe. It's makework masquerading as politics.
It would continue to go on, because those enchanters and First Enchanters are comfortable where they are, thank you, sitting on their arses and pretending to be important. And do you know what else would continue to go on? The deaths of innocent mages.
Innocent mages have always died under Chantry law. Many of them die before or just after the age of majority, facing that barbaric ritual called a Harrowing. Others die falsely accused of blood magic. And then there are the mages who aren't innocent, the ones who do turn to blood magic -- driven to it, in desperation, lacking any other recourse.
All these deaths, all this despoiled innocence, engineered entirely by the Chantry and abetted by their pet enchanters. That's what your Wynne was. The Chantry's pet, permitted privileges most mages couldn't dream of, as long as she'd speak loudly in favor of keeping all mages on a tight leash. That's the hard work Wynne did for the Chantry.
Freedom is costly. Some of us will be called upon to lay down our lives. I'd sooner see mages spill blood fighting for their rights than yield their throats to the sword in the Harrowing, or their souls to the brand of Tranquility.