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Polar Opposites, Tuesday
"Welcome back!" Alistair called. "I'm sure you'll all be happy to hear that we've, ah, gone through the topic jar just to make sure that... everything is as it should be."
And/or that they hadn't put in anything they didn't know anything about themselves.
Morrigan was still rather convinced that the gremlins were tampering with their subjects, but she had yet to catch one in the act. Yet.
"Today we debate something near and dear to my heart," she said crisply. "Which, supposedly, you have in this country. Separation of religion and matters of state."
"Also known as 'keeping the Chantry's apostate-hating fingers away from the king'," Alistair said cheerfully. "Not that I don't feel Andraste's teachings should advise our leadership, but there is such a thing as taking it too far."
"Such as allowing the Chantry dominion over your citizenry upon mere suspicion of magic?" Morrigan asked, raising an eyebrow at him. "If one would be king, be king, and give not over your sovereignty to men who claim to speak for a divinity they can never understand."
"Nobody's talking about giving up sovereignty," Alistair muttered. "I just mean - Andraste's teachings are good. It's the Chantry that likes to twist it from time to time."
"So the Chantry ruling the mages, and the king rules everyone else, and that is not a problem of sovereignty?" Morrigan retorted. "Aye, for I cannot see how so much influence into how the realm works is not interference and not keeping separate laws of state and Chantry."
"But why keep Andraste's teachings out if they could do some good, outside the Chantry?" Alistair asked.
"If they are that good, why must they be thought of as Andraste's teachings and not common sense?" Morrigan countered. "I cannot think of a single woman - Andraste herself included - who would countenance the removal of a mage-child from its parents by force." Beat. "Save perhaps for that Templar-harridan in Kirkwall, but I suspect she be more demon than woman."
"In either event," she continued, not allowing Alistair a chance to speak, "let us hear you debate it. For 'tis certain a refrain you will hear the warden and I sing again."
And/or that they hadn't put in anything they didn't know anything about themselves.
Morrigan was still rather convinced that the gremlins were tampering with their subjects, but she had yet to catch one in the act. Yet.
"Today we debate something near and dear to my heart," she said crisply. "Which, supposedly, you have in this country. Separation of religion and matters of state."
"Also known as 'keeping the Chantry's apostate-hating fingers away from the king'," Alistair said cheerfully. "Not that I don't feel Andraste's teachings should advise our leadership, but there is such a thing as taking it too far."
"Such as allowing the Chantry dominion over your citizenry upon mere suspicion of magic?" Morrigan asked, raising an eyebrow at him. "If one would be king, be king, and give not over your sovereignty to men who claim to speak for a divinity they can never understand."
"Nobody's talking about giving up sovereignty," Alistair muttered. "I just mean - Andraste's teachings are good. It's the Chantry that likes to twist it from time to time."
"So the Chantry ruling the mages, and the king rules everyone else, and that is not a problem of sovereignty?" Morrigan retorted. "Aye, for I cannot see how so much influence into how the realm works is not interference and not keeping separate laws of state and Chantry."
"But why keep Andraste's teachings out if they could do some good, outside the Chantry?" Alistair asked.
"If they are that good, why must they be thought of as Andraste's teachings and not common sense?" Morrigan countered. "I cannot think of a single woman - Andraste herself included - who would countenance the removal of a mage-child from its parents by force." Beat. "Save perhaps for that Templar-harridan in Kirkwall, but I suspect she be more demon than woman."
"In either event," she continued, not allowing Alistair a chance to speak, "let us hear you debate it. For 'tis certain a refrain you will hear the warden and I sing again."