What would you think a creature who’d been living in a cave for forty years would want to know about you that he couldn’t deduce from speaking with you?
If you’re forcing me to choose, let’s say this particular cave is in Tevinter.
[ Of the nations here, they seem the most inclined to flirt with slavery, blood magic and world domination. ]
He [ a gentle correction ] has encouraged me to assist in an effort to save my home from destruction, against the wishes of my people. Not entirely unlike what we’re expected to do here.
If I met a Vint in a cave I was likely hired to kill him, but I think I have your meaning. [She... she thinks she gets it. She's better with big words than philosophy, or the shape of thoughts over time. Word games, riddles... you can't buy cleverness, she'd learned that quickly, talking to folk who could buy everything else.] I'd tell him I were from the poorest of families. And though the years may seem to match up, I am not a survivor of Ferelden's greatest tragedy since the Occupation; I simply chose a lucky time to leave.
Shhhh- [Course correction-- It only makes sense to her, for a god that actually cares about their followers, should be female.] he seems like a keen God to have. He wants you to save the land for knowledge's sake?
[ Again, there’s a ripple of quiet. Dick opens his mouth. He closes it. He pulls the crystal closer to him at the edge of the bath, as if to lower the volume. ]
It seems disrespectful to ask him for anything under the circumstances.
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Date: 2021-02-07 12:30 am (UTC)You needn't. Be sorry, that is. Unless you'd like to be.
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Date: 2021-02-07 07:51 am (UTC)I'll tell you the story sometime over ale. It involved one of our mages burning down a stable.
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Date: 2021-02-07 06:32 pm (UTC)I'd like that. Maker knows I could use more varied company than Barrow, bless his soul.
Could you weather more questions about your Oghma? I'll not poke fun.
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Date: 2021-02-09 07:10 am (UTC)[ Hypothetically. ]
You’re welcome to ask me whatever you like.
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Date: 2021-02-09 07:28 pm (UTC)[A sigh, a breath, preparing to delve into potentially sensitive and fascinating waters-]
What's she ask of you?
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Date: 2021-02-09 11:33 pm (UTC)[ Of the nations here, they seem the most inclined to flirt with slavery, blood magic and world domination. ]
He [ a gentle correction ] has encouraged me to assist in an effort to save my home from destruction, against the wishes of my people. Not entirely unlike what we’re expected to do here.
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Date: 2021-02-10 06:27 pm (UTC)Shhhh- [Course correction-- It only makes sense to her, for a god that actually cares about their followers, should be female.] he seems like a keen God to have. He wants you to save the land for knowledge's sake?
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Date: 2021-02-14 12:49 am (UTC)Some gods are more invested in the welfare of mortals than others.
[ Wherever he is, there’s a faint echo to his voice. ]
He’s been kind to me.
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Date: 2021-02-14 03:20 am (UTC)[This justification brought to you by poorly remembered religious education.]
If I've to pray for you, it ought to be to Him, innit?
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Date: 2021-02-14 06:55 am (UTC)The moment you realize you’ve done a better job preaching on a plane where your god doesn’t exist than the one you’re from. Also pray for him?? ]
If you’d like. I confess I tend to eschew formality in that regard. But there is comfort in knowing someone cares for you as you are.
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Date: 2021-02-14 07:19 pm (UTC)Or... blimey, you're chosen by a god and you don't pray to Him?
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Date: 2021-02-14 07:56 pm (UTC)It seems disrespectful to ask him for anything under the circumstances.
[ Apart from that one time on the ship -- ]
Which are complicated. [ To clarify. ]
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