I’ve said places that Kostos got harrowed earlier than normal and more as a prerequisite to Mortalitasi training than as a capstone, but I’m totes fine with that being unusual—it was more “this kid is potentially a timebomb and how the heck do spirit mediums even work, let’s make sure he isn’t going to embarrass us in this specific way before we get in too deep” than anything good, and he knew it, so he could have like quadruply resented Ilias later when people were starry eyed.
And in any case he never made it to full-fledged Mortalitasi so they wouldn’t have been seeing much of each other after Ilias left—I think real Mortalitasi actually live in the Necropolis? or immediately adjacent maybe? since Cassandra and her brother were raised by their uncle there... anyway your theory makes sense. But if you want a witness to some of Ilias’ bad decisions Kostos could have come on field trips as part of apprenticing and been like “oh wow I like you way better as a disaster,” and I’ve also said places that he didn’t really sleep with men until he went to Orlais, since Orlais is The Most Cool with it, but they could totally have made out, and then we could both have “in the a literal necropolis” as an answer for “what’s the weirdest place your character has made out with anyone” memes.
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I’ve said places that Kostos got harrowed earlier than normal and more as a prerequisite to Mortalitasi training than as a capstone, but I’m totes fine with that being unusual—it was more “this kid is potentially a timebomb and how the heck do spirit mediums even work, let’s make sure he isn’t going to embarrass us in this specific way before we get in too deep” than anything good, and he knew it, so he could have like quadruply resented Ilias later when people were starry eyed.
And in any case he never made it to full-fledged Mortalitasi so they wouldn’t have been seeing much of each other after Ilias left—I think real Mortalitasi actually live in the Necropolis? or immediately adjacent maybe? since Cassandra and her brother were raised by their uncle there... anyway your theory makes sense. But if you want a witness to some of Ilias’ bad decisions Kostos could have come on field trips as part of apprenticing and been like “oh wow I like you way better as a disaster,” and I’ve also said places that he didn’t really sleep with men until he went to Orlais, since Orlais is The Most Cool with it, but they could totally have made out, and then we could both have “in the a literal necropolis” as an answer for “what’s the weirdest place your character has made out with anyone” memes.