[OOC] The Sky is Falling!

[eolasemah]

Recently a rift opened in Skyhold itself. Although nobody saw it happen, it was rumored to have been opened by a mage native to Thedas and not one of the rifters.

There are damages to the courtyard from where buildings and vegetation have been singed and frozen and dented from the resulting demon battle. It looks a mess. This is a mess.

The purpose of this post is for general opinion gathering, rumormongering, and plotting for the fallout from this fiasco. If people can just open rifts wherever they want, what does this mean for the Inquisition? Can rifters do it, can regular mages do it? Why would someone within Skyhold and ostensibly part of the Inquisition do this in the first place? Why weren't snacks provided?

If you feel so inclined, reply with your character's reaction to the news (or the sight, or the battle) and what action they might want to take, if any. Plot, make CR, do the thing!

Comments

[arcaneadvisor]

Of course Morrigan has an opinion though she was rather more concerned with Kieran at the time.

She will be vocally against increased mage supervision seeing as this was not actually a normal mage related incident so it cannot be blamed on the mages. Bad enough this whole mage training thing in her opinion.

Though she has less of a personal stake in the rifters, she wouldn't be up for any increased supervision of them. Remember that time Loghain wanted to kill the only two Wardens left in Ferelden? Remember how well that would have gone? How do you expect your only actual hopes of wanting to help you if you supervise them and place heavier restrictions on them when, she would guess, plenty of them would much rather not be here in the first place?

Actual research into the shards she'd be fine with (since she has some theories she might like to float anyway) but yes, let's just increase the paranoia with supervision because it always works out so well for people.

[eolasemah]

racist

[justice_is_blond]

you mean lazy. >.>

[mythalenaste]

Pel quietly backs this up with "regular mages cannot open rifts, please do not enforce consequences mages as a whole" and goes back to fussing over Sina.

REVISING LELIANA'S RESPONSE SLIGHTLY

[fightingale]

Although I think she will still say shardholders will need some help/support/research into the shards/more efforts made on that front, Leliana is intensely pro mage, so I feel like she'd also be intensely pro shardholder freedom and their rights. This is going to be fun to figure out oh gawd

[fightingale]

pirates

[fightingale]

just sliding in because I realised I needed to tweak Leliana's response a bit, because she is so passionately pro-mages and their rights, that I think the same would apply to shardholders :|a so her struggle is going to be protecting them and making sure research is done AND protecting skyhold and the inquisition but... basically she is going to agree with Anders :|b

[fightingale]

after a billion hours of agonising about it, I realised Leliana would be as pro-shardholders and rifters as she is pro-mages so she is going to be yelling about things!!! emotionally!!! in that controlled and contained Leliana way.

lol Leliana and Morrigan agreeing on things, what has happened

[justice_is_blond]

I don't mind in the least! It'll probably be really good, actually. He could use the checks and balances so he doesn't risk going blue.

[justice_is_blond]

Leliana, you're the best.

Also they need to have CR, but I think she'd see through him pretty fast so I don't know how to navigate that...

[fightingale]

she knows

(no, she doesn't)

and yes, I would love that! I was speaking with Bubbles about this potentially dilemma due to Varric helping Anders with his fake identity and I think Leliana is going to be extra prickly about wanting info on people following the rift thing and the Zevran thing... 8|a


gets him a fake moustache and some glasses???

[justice_is_blond]

Yes. A fake mustache will fool everyone.

Or maybe it won't. /ponders