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arcane_arts (
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signy of dagna
Here. Drink this.
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signyature
2011-03-26 07:54 pm UTC
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This? … what is it?
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arcane_arts
2011-03-26 07:59 pm UTC
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Do you want the truth?
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arcane_arts
2011-03-26 07:59 pm UTC
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Or what I'm going to tell the Chantry if something goes horribly wrong?
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signyature
2011-03-26 08:03 pm UTC
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Why would the
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arcane_arts
2011-03-26 08:08 pm UTC
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Because I'm a mage and I'm playing with highly volatile potions and you're a Dwarf who shouldn't be a mage - and if for some reason you display magic in their presence, they're going to need an excuse for why... Which returns their attention to me and the potion I want you to drink.
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signyature
2011-03-26 08:10 pm UTC
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Actually, I think the excuse for why I display magic can be attributed to a potion several potions ago. Or, several of them, actually, but.
Highly volatile? What's in it? I don't like things that explode, for instance, I'm not
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arcane_arts
2011-03-26 08:12 pm UTC
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But the Chantry doesn't know that, do they? And it's not something they need to look into... unless you like the idea of being dragged off in the middle of the night by Templars to be studied like an animal...
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arcane_arts
2011-03-26 08:13 pm UTC
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It's sugar water with blue berries for coloring and flavor.
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signyature
2011-03-26 08:16 pm UTC
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Blue… berries…?
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arcane_arts
2011-03-26 08:19 pm UTC
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Blue. Berries. They're small, round, and blue. And very tasty. And difficult to come by in this season. I had to scrounge together a whole sovereign to buy the batch I used to make this. There's only a handful left over. Have you not been introduced them before?
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signyature
2011-03-26 08:23 pm UTC
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They don't grow underground, so no. I've heard of berries, generally, but I always thought they were red.
I still fail to see how this is going to keep Templars away.
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arcane_arts
2011-03-26 08:35 pm UTC
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Not all of them are red. Some are black, too.
And it gives you and everyone here plausible deniablity. I, a mage known for experimenting with highly dangerous substances for the greater war against Darkspawn, give you, a valient and honorable Dwarf Warden, a potion with "unknown" qualities with no true way of telling what will happen or when...
Should you happen to display magic in front of a Templar or Mage or some bumbling idiot who would race off to tell such a tale... well, I can always say it was side effect of the potion reacting with your "mystical Warden connection to the Fade" or whatever that occurred in the Joining and thus... they look to me for study of the potion rather to you as a victim whom they cannot guarantee will ever display such qualities again and most certainly could not be repeated due to your unique circumstances as a Warden.
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signyature
2011-03-26 08:46 pm UTC
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Oh, I.... Well.
That's considerate. Thank you, but I don't want plausible deniability. Not for something that was the work of a Paragon.
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arcane_arts
2011-03-26 08:57 pm UTC
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You would rather risk bringing an Exalted March upon Orzammar?
What is a Paragon anyway? I've heard the term before, but the only Dwarf I had any extended conversation with - admittedly for a very limited window of time - only cared about expounding on every treatise on magic in existence. She was not a very good source of information about the Dwarves as a whole.
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signyature
2011-03-26 09:18 pm UTC
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It'd be difficult to exaltedly march underground, I should think. And damaging to the lyrium trade.
And a Paragon? A Paragon is a dwarf whose actions or achievements are so exemplary that they're made an Ancestor before they die. It seems kind of like this Andraste you have up here, a bit, except we have lots of Paragons.
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arcane_arts
2011-03-26 09:24 pm UTC
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Possibly, but the Chantry has not been known to make the most logistically sound decisions in the past. Add the world has not always been the better for it...
You should tell that to the next Sister you meet. Make sure I'm around to watch.
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signyature
2011-03-26 09:30 pm UTC
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Also, Andraste wasn't elected, which I think somewhat dampens her legitimacy.
So, where did you meet a dwarf who quoted magic treatises?
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signyature
2011-03-26 09:31 pm UTC
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.... it wasn't the Fortikum Kadab, was it?
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arcane_arts
2011-03-26 09:33 pm UTC
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Andraste had a good heart and meant well... But the Chantry... it's best to drop it, I suppose.
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arcane_arts
2011-03-26 09:36 pm UTC
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Constantly. You've read it?
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signyature
2011-03-26 10:03 pm UTC
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It feels like I read it constantly. At least eight times, and some parts even more.
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arcane_arts
2011-03-26 10:19 pm UTC
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We had to study it at the Tower along with several other historical texts that were considered standard jumping points for advanced studies. That's where I met that Dwarf... she came to study magic shortly before the final battle in Denerim. Had an interest in the books on the Fade and Tranquility and the theories about what connected us to the realm of Dreams. Not completely unsurprising... I suppose something so foreign would be fascinating.
You can still drink that, if you like. I have enough blueberries to make another if you find you enjoy the flavor.
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signyature
2011-03-26 10:29 pm UTC
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At the Circle Tower? Studying Tranquility?
[A laugh.]
It's ironic you don't know much about Paragons, because I'm pretty sure you've met one.
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arcane_arts
2011-03-26 10:43 pm UTC
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Please don't tell me you're talking about that little red-head with the too bubbly outlook on life.
(a soft laugh, clearly teasing) It would destroy all respect I have for your culture.
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signyature
2011-03-27 04:38 pm UTC
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She's only little because you're too tall.
If you don't know enough about my culture to know what a Paragon is, have you really got all that much respect to begin with?
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arcane_arts
2011-03-27 04:44 pm UTC
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Its rather difficult to find any information on your culture when your only real contact with it would rather discuss the same elementary texts you read at age 9. But the answer is yes. If not for the culture specifically, then for your people in general. I fought alongside many of them...
I just never had much of an opportunity to learn much.
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arcane_arts
2011-03-27 04:44 pm UTC
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Would you give me the opportunity?
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signyature
2011-03-27 11:02 pm UTC
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Dwarven culture doesn't survive to the surface very well, even if she'd explained it to you. And… well, there's only so much I can tell you, that you can't see for yourself.
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signyature
2011-03-27 11:03 pm UTC
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But of course, I'd be honored to give you that opportunity, as much as I can.
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