Meaningful eyebrows, [ is not objection, just a minor underscoring of the phrase before: ] Yes, I have some recollection of it. Why? Has someone popped their head up?
( does he? he must. they were very meaningful eyebrows, she's standing by it. )
Anyway— maybe. I have some thoughts, I don't know if anything's going to come of them. Do you think it would be strategically useful, long term, to know exactly who a phylactery can be bound to? And, in certain cases, if unbinding it would be possible. Beyond breaking the fucking thing, obviously.
Phylacteries were created by specific mages, trusted with the knowledge by the Templars and the Chantry. We need one, or we need access to whatever instructional they had access to.
Poppell de Fonce is a rifter without an anchor-shard, and I'm a native Thedosian with one as powerful as Trevelyan had. It's already been proven, quietly, that rifters can be bound to a phylactery. I want to know what happens if we try it with me or her.
The Provost told me to talk to Julius first, which I did, but I didn't promise not to talk to you afterwards.
( so he's not the first person she's come to with this, and it is being done quietly. )
[ The only way to do this is quietly. John can already hear the aggrieved uproar, were this to be put out more broadly among their number. ]
I understand.
[ Both the need for a quiet approach and what's required to make it happen. ]
Julius was a good recommendation. And Madame Poppell de Fonce has never met a thing she doesn't care to prod at, so I assume she'll be easy to convince. Any others, beyond myself and the Provost?
[ Does he have to explicitly ask if he can tell his partner or ]
Thranduil's the fucking imbecile who had a phylactery made for himself, so I had to talk to him because I wanted to know who did it. No one useful — Shivana's been gone for ages, and I think he fancied the Circles.
( she considers, for a moment, and: )
Stark decided it should be "need to know" until he's ready to put it on record, I told him who I'd already talked to and that I planned to speak with you and Julius. He didn't actually sound worried about the idea you'd talk to the Commander.
I just might have been supposed to not do it if I didn't officially need to, so don't get me in trouble. I just want to be able to use his resources without it being a ballache for everyone involved.
( she likes and respects tony, but he's not her real dad, she'll creatively interpret instructions to suit herself within what she views as reason. )
[ It's near impossible not to marvel at Gwen: so forthright. Who gives such a straight answer with alternative approaches to the question on the table? ]
I'm still trying to get a read on Stark. This might be helpful for that.
[ an aside. Back to the important things— ]
You needn't worry about it going father than him. [ surely not a real concern, but still, a reassurance. ] What do you need from me?
The other thing is, if the Chantry controls phylacteries and the making thereof, they must also have the resources required to teach someone how to do it. The Chantry isn't made up of mages. It can't be only handed down directly, mentor to student; anything could happen.
If resources exist, resources can be acquired. Maker, we might even have them already, if we start looking. The Inquisition has thrown everything it could at the war effort — we were part of it for years. Riftwatch's earliest supplies all came from there. We had things from Circles, I'm sure. There was that clusterfuck with the phylacteries that had been found — what else was just lying around?
( she's only speculating, but it's promising speculation. )
We might take the time to discreetly begin checking any abandoned or destroyed Circles. I'm aware that the valuables have walked away, but if there are papers, books, those might still be for the taking.
[ speaking of— ]
Ask Julius what he recalls of the process. It might be we can parse how to replicate it from his memory of it, even if he never learned officially.
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( does he? he must. they were very meaningful eyebrows, she's standing by it. )
Anyway— maybe. I have some thoughts, I don't know if anything's going to come of them. Do you think it would be strategically useful, long term, to know exactly who a phylactery can be bound to? And, in certain cases, if unbinding it would be possible. Beyond breaking the fucking thing, obviously.
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[ without a single moment of hesitation. ]
Do you have an idea of how to go about testing it?
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Poppell de Fonce is a rifter without an anchor-shard, and I'm a native Thedosian with one as powerful as Trevelyan had. It's already been proven, quietly, that rifters can be bound to a phylactery. I want to know what happens if we try it with me or her.
The Provost told me to talk to Julius first, which I did, but I didn't promise not to talk to you afterwards.
( so he's not the first person she's come to with this, and it is being done quietly. )
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I understand.
[ Both the need for a quiet approach and what's required to make it happen. ]
Julius was a good recommendation. And Madame Poppell de Fonce has never met a thing she doesn't care to prod at, so I assume she'll be easy to convince. Any others, beyond myself and the Provost?
[ Does he have to explicitly ask if he can tell his partner or ]
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( she considers, for a moment, and: )
Stark decided it should be "need to know" until he's ready to put it on record, I told him who I'd already talked to and that I planned to speak with you and Julius. He didn't actually sound worried about the idea you'd talk to the Commander.
I just might have been supposed to not do it if I didn't officially need to, so don't get me in trouble. I just want to be able to use his resources without it being a ballache for everyone involved.
( she likes and respects tony, but he's not her real dad, she'll creatively interpret instructions to suit herself within what she views as reason. )
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I'm still trying to get a read on Stark. This might be helpful for that.
[ an aside. Back to the important things— ]
You needn't worry about it going father than him. [ surely not a real concern, but still, a reassurance. ] What do you need from me?
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I don't think Stark is very mysterious.
( —that's probably because they're very alike, which perhaps explains why he is to silver. anyway, )
From you — I'm not sure, yet. If we hit dead ends trying to find the kind of mage we need, we might need to get creative.
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[ understatement. But that being said— ]
Though that may mean they're unfamiliar with the concept. I'll have to make a list, see who might be of use if you have need for it.
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If resources exist, resources can be acquired. Maker, we might even have them already, if we start looking. The Inquisition has thrown everything it could at the war effort — we were part of it for years. Riftwatch's earliest supplies all came from there. We had things from Circles, I'm sure. There was that clusterfuck with the phylacteries that had been found — what else was just lying around?
( she's only speculating, but it's promising speculation. )
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[ speaking of— ]
Ask Julius what he recalls of the process. It might be we can parse how to replicate it from his memory of it, even if he never learned officially.