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[incaenstrix]

Mm. Because they're - more about the traditions?

[inkindled]

Yeah, I s'ppose. Horrible traditions.

Did you say with or-- Andraste wasn't a mage. She was, y'know, the Maker's Chosen or whatever, and she had those dreams of hers and all, but she wasn't a mage, not properly.

[incaenstrix]

[ question mark bird dot gif ]

Yeeees she was. She was a mage. Very properly.

[inkindled]

She was not!

[incaenstrix]

[ Laughing, confused, unsure if Matthias is messing with her - ]

Yes she was. It's right in the Chant.

[inkindled]

Where in the Chant, read it to me.

[incaenstrix]

Well -

[ Hmm - ]

If it's not in the Chant, it's something everyone knows. Come on, stop joking around!

[inkindled]

I'm not joking around, you are! If it's not in the Chant and it's something everyone knows, why is it I don't know it--or anyone I know?

Or I don't think they do, leastways. No one's ever said it to me.

[incaenstrix]

You’re really not…?

[ Well, this is super weird. ]

Maybe it’s - because you’re from the South? Maybe they’ve covered it up down here? But honestly, how could she have done the things she did if she was just a soporata?

[inkindled]

Well--the Maker, I s'ppose. Hang on, covered up--so everyone in Tevinter thinks Andraste was a mage?

[incaenstrix]

Mm-hmm.

[inkindled]

Get out of it. I never thought of it that way before. Her, I mean. Andraste. And there's a whole country out there what thinks it. Mad.

[Thinking, processing, thinking.]

Why didn't she stop herself from being captured if she were a mage? 'Cos she could have burnt them all before she was burnt. Or at least she could've fought more. They didn't have Templars back then.

[incaenstrix]

Well, she was betrayed, wasn't she? [ Wisely: ] They had to take her by surprise.

[inkindled]

Oh. Yeah. Maybe.

[Thinking more, thinking more...]

Maker's balls. Maybe. I'd think mages would know more about it--mages outside of Tevinter--'cos that'd be a big feather in our cap, wouldn't it, if Andraste were a mage. The Chantry couldn't say anything to us if she was.

[incaenstrix]

Yeah. I'm surprised you didn't know about it. It was one of the things that made it more okay that I was a mage - I felt a lot closer to Andraste.

[inkindled]

Sort of the opposite for me. Andraste sounded a massive clag. I never liked her, even before I knew I was a mage.

[incaenstrix]

[ This sounds INSANE to Tertia. ]

You never liked - How could you not like her? She's Andraste!

[inkindled]

I didn't dislike her, or anything, it's only--I dunno. Everyone was always going on and on and on about her. Bored me nearly dead. I was small, though--and then I learnt I was a mage--so maybe if I'd heard more I'd've felt differently.

[incaenstrix]

[ Boy you need to wise up. ]

I would think so. She was a slave, you know, who freed herself. And then you'd think, being free, she'd just go home - only she didn't, she raised up an army and marched on the worshippers of the Old Gods to punish them. That's as un-boring as you can get. Can you even imagine?

[inkindled]

No, [honest answer,] I can't. Never really thought about any of it all that much, 'cos it always seemed like there was something more important happening.

[incaenstrix]

Well -

[ Her voice gentling. ]

It does seem like you've had so much happening in your life. I can see why you didn't think about it. I can't even imagine everything you did have to think about.

[inkindled]

[More suspicious (friendly-like suspicious) than annoyed--]

Are you having me on?

[incaenstrix]

[ Hey man. ]

You mean am I making fun of you? No. What, are you saying you haven't done a lot in your life?

[inkindled]

Oh. Well--yeah, I have, I s'ppose. Sort of. Not that much, maybe. Only so have you. More, I expect. So I didn't know if you weren't being sarcastic, like.

[incaenstrix]

Oh - I really haven't. [ Shaking her head - but this is wry rather than miserable or self-pitying - ] Most of my life, until just a few years ago - it was all spent in the same square in Minrathous. I only left it to sleep and eat, and our quarters were only a thousand paces away. You traveled across Thedas.