If...if it was an elf who did it, I would have understood immediately. Wouldn't have been surprised or even blamed them. But I've been a free mage all my life. I never felt like I had to hide from shems for being a mage, just for being an elf. And Sam makes Circles sound like ivory towers where you can gorge yourself on knowledge and take hot baths every day and have food delivered to your door and cooked for you. I can't...I don't know what it was like for mages, so I can't dictate whether you were oppressed enough to murder a cleric. I just know shems are capable of that level of oppression, and they do worse things than you did every day. But nobody's calling for their heads.
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If...if it was an elf who did it, I would have understood immediately. Wouldn't have been surprised or even blamed them. But I've been a free mage all my life. I never felt like I had to hide from shems for being a mage, just for being an elf. And Sam makes Circles sound like ivory towers where you can gorge yourself on knowledge and take hot baths every day and have food delivered to your door and cooked for you. I can't...I don't know what it was like for mages, so I can't dictate whether you were oppressed enough to murder a cleric. I just know shems are capable of that level of oppression, and they do worse things than you did every day. But nobody's calling for their heads.