[There's a lot to be said for anyone a good couple of years removed from where they came from, forced to live by another set of rules or not at all (or, that should be how it goes, clearly there's the great grey gulf of a third option so many fall into or this conversation needn't happen.)
Whatever comes of it, comes of it, and if Araceli doesn't walk away as just a well-spoken thief doing well for herself to another then she can live with that.]
The advisors in Skyhold are those who still lead the Inquisition, and two of them were hands of the late Divine, Justinia. Sister Nightingale's lessons is someone unafraid to move when she must [Efficiency is crucial in a war, Araceli and Silencing them is the most effective option. The quiet severity of Leliana's voice in that moment, a lesson imparted to a girl under instruction.]
Right now, we swallow whatever there is. Let go of the anger and outrage in public. All of us compare to what we knew, but we can't draw lines down it unless it's together, for us as an Inquisition to say that conditions are unacceptable. Without a united front they'll find a way to set us all arguing amongst ourselves or making concessions within concessions; it goes hand-in-hand, the birthplace of the Game and the Chantry, growing up side by side, holding hands.
For starters: we aren't entitled to being treated differently, I was angry when I arrived, I didn't appreciate the suspicion, the hostility, but this is it for us. We show that we understand we are part of this world, beneath the banner of the Inquisition that follows a mandate set out by the late Divine. That the laws of Thedas won't be ignored by us because we think ourselves above them, inconvenient, not subject to them, or whatever reason someone might come up with.
[Araceli's still thinking this through so it's not as considered an answer, some of it too emotional than it should be but that's the point of something like this. Thrash out the argument to the bare bones. See what works. What doesn't. Have someone else give an opinion who'll be honest.]
Our argument can't be the same as a native mage for the destruction of a phylactery that don't exist yet. There's the idea perhaps that we might be serving the Maker's will by our existence, I mean to put that by Herian. What happens if the enemy were to take hold of our phylacteries as opposed to those of any other mage doesn't bear thinking about. I saw what they did firsthand, if we were found, made to open rifts...it's an idea.
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Whatever comes of it, comes of it, and if Araceli doesn't walk away as just a well-spoken thief doing well for herself to another then she can live with that.]
The advisors in Skyhold are those who still lead the Inquisition, and two of them were hands of the late Divine, Justinia. Sister Nightingale's lessons is someone unafraid to move when she must [Efficiency is crucial in a war, Araceli and Silencing them is the most effective option. The quiet severity of Leliana's voice in that moment, a lesson imparted to a girl under instruction.]
Right now, we swallow whatever there is. Let go of the anger and outrage in public. All of us compare to what we knew, but we can't draw lines down it unless it's together, for us as an Inquisition to say that conditions are unacceptable. Without a united front they'll find a way to set us all arguing amongst ourselves or making concessions within concessions; it goes hand-in-hand, the birthplace of the Game and the Chantry, growing up side by side, holding hands.
For starters: we aren't entitled to being treated differently, I was angry when I arrived, I didn't appreciate the suspicion, the hostility, but this is it for us. We show that we understand we are part of this world, beneath the banner of the Inquisition that follows a mandate set out by the late Divine. That the laws of Thedas won't be ignored by us because we think ourselves above them, inconvenient, not subject to them, or whatever reason someone might come up with.
[Araceli's still thinking this through so it's not as considered an answer, some of it too emotional than it should be but that's the point of something like this. Thrash out the argument to the bare bones. See what works. What doesn't. Have someone else give an opinion who'll be honest.]
Our argument can't be the same as a native mage for the destruction of a phylactery that don't exist yet. There's the idea perhaps that we might be serving the Maker's will by our existence, I mean to put that by Herian. What happens if the enemy were to take hold of our phylacteries as opposed to those of any other mage doesn't bear thinking about. I saw what they did firsthand, if we were found, made to open rifts...it's an idea.