No one who has a strong opinion on Kirkwall who wasn't there, who didn't try to help, gets to ask me that. You've all placed plenty on me with no grasp of what was going on. Which we'll not agree on, likely, so yes. We will agree on very little.
As far as Harriman goes...
[A beat.]
This is not an actual solution. We agree on that, it seems. But while we might even find something together that could be ideal, this is a done thing, is it not? He is stripped of his rank, they are stripped of responsibility, and the next time he harms a mage it's the Inquisition that suffers the appearance blow. And there will doubtlessly be a next time.
I can make no claims about knowing what it is that drives him, nor can I pretend I can cure whatever madness lurks in his head when I'll not have opportunity to examine him. What I can guess at, however, is that this gives him nothing left to lose. And I speak from personal experience when I say that someone who has nothing left to lose is at their most dangerous.
Someone needs to give him a goal or it's likely that next time the mage will suffer serious harm at the least.
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No one who has a strong opinion on Kirkwall who wasn't there, who didn't try to help, gets to ask me that. You've all placed plenty on me with no grasp of what was going on. Which we'll not agree on, likely, so yes. We will agree on very little.
As far as Harriman goes...
[A beat.]
This is not an actual solution. We agree on that, it seems. But while we might even find something together that could be ideal, this is a done thing, is it not? He is stripped of his rank, they are stripped of responsibility, and the next time he harms a mage it's the Inquisition that suffers the appearance blow. And there will doubtlessly be a next time.
I can make no claims about knowing what it is that drives him, nor can I pretend I can cure whatever madness lurks in his head when I'll not have opportunity to examine him. What I can guess at, however, is that this gives him nothing left to lose. And I speak from personal experience when I say that someone who has nothing left to lose is at their most dangerous.
Someone needs to give him a goal or it's likely that next time the mage will suffer serious harm at the least.