He spends his life on the defensive because he's been attacked regularly, frequently. He's lost everything before, repeatedly, had it stolen multiple times by the Templars. Almost all of them have attacked every chance they've had.
This doesn't mean he will trust her. He cannot. She still sees the Circles as a 'we.' As together. It's a naivete that is dangerous and over-trusting of the Chantry, eyes closed to how mages are people too, but at least it implies she may be one of the few who were not abusive.]
The Circles were always going to fall. It was just a matter of time.
[It's quiet.]
If you deny a people personhood, lock them away, some will accept it. For them, a cage is better than the lives they left behind. But there will always be many that suffer as well.
[His voice is calm throughout. She can listen or she can choose not to. All he can do is speak when someone might listen.]
For every Vivienne, every mage who thrives, there was a mage who said no to an assault and was made Tranquil for being too willful, and there was a mage who died, and there was a mage who could not find the strength to say no.
We are people, Ser Coupe. We want families and lives, not to have everything torn from us over and over. If the Circles rise again, they will fall again, and likely in a more bloody fashion. The cycle can be broken here and now, for good. The bloodshed can end.
It will take unprecedented cooperation and understanding from multiple sides. It will take work. But I believe it is worth it to spare my people another fifty, hundred years of suffering, and to spare Thedas yet another war at the end of that.
[She had faith in the Circles. In the Templars. Anyone still calling themselves one does. He can't completely fault her for trusting in something she's served for Maker knows how long, but he does have to wonder if she can be reached.]
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He spends his life on the defensive because he's been attacked regularly, frequently. He's lost everything before, repeatedly, had it stolen multiple times by the Templars. Almost all of them have attacked every chance they've had.
This doesn't mean he will trust her. He cannot. She still sees the Circles as a 'we.' As together. It's a naivete that is dangerous and over-trusting of the Chantry, eyes closed to how mages are people too, but at least it implies she may be one of the few who were not abusive.]
The Circles were always going to fall. It was just a matter of time.
[It's quiet.]
If you deny a people personhood, lock them away, some will accept it. For them, a cage is better than the lives they left behind. But there will always be many that suffer as well.
[His voice is calm throughout. She can listen or she can choose not to. All he can do is speak when someone might listen.]
For every Vivienne, every mage who thrives, there was a mage who said no to an assault and was made Tranquil for being too willful, and there was a mage who died, and there was a mage who could not find the strength to say no.
We are people, Ser Coupe. We want families and lives, not to have everything torn from us over and over. If the Circles rise again, they will fall again, and likely in a more bloody fashion. The cycle can be broken here and now, for good. The bloodshed can end.
It will take unprecedented cooperation and understanding from multiple sides. It will take work. But I believe it is worth it to spare my people another fifty, hundred years of suffering, and to spare Thedas yet another war at the end of that.
[She had faith in the Circles. In the Templars. Anyone still calling themselves one does. He can't completely fault her for trusting in something she's served for Maker knows how long, but he does have to wonder if she can be reached.]