pc: shadowheart

[spiritbalm]

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[sacredpath]

[kind of a serve actually, she's just wearing her camp clothes because i refuse to have her in heavy armor this whole game.]

...If you're worried about the reception, know that it is apparently a temple to some sort of bug-eyed salamander. It seemed welcoming.

[spiritbalm]

[ yeah its his cunty outfit for blowing up a church. speaking of: ]

Welcoming to salamanders or not, I don't have good experiences in the Chantry. And I imagine they feel the same about me in return. So perhaps for the best to avoid it.

[sacredpath]

[ahhh.]

You did mention heresies, yes. Well, never fear. The faith I follow would be considered heretical by most who worship in this sort of church. Salamander aside.

[spiritbalm]

Is it focused on worshipping frogs or something instead?

[ because the frogs would be jealous. ]

[sacredpath]

No.

[a little rudely, because she's always a bit sharp when discussing Shar.]

She promotes the acceptance of inconvenient and unpopular truths, and as such her worshippers are persecuted by those who would prefer to fixate on cheery gilded lies.

[spiritbalm]

Sounds like a reasonable take.

[ waving a hand like, calm down he's not gonna snap for liking other gods. ]

This is one of your elven gods?

[sacredpath]

[ew. what. ew.]

One of my elven gods? Hardly. Plenty of people of all races worship Lady Shar.

[she... thinks? she can remember like two of them and neither was an elf.]

Also, half elf.

[spiritbalm]

This is popular, your Lady Shar?

[ it makes perfect sense to him to ask! it's even an attempt at being respectful. it's not working but it's an attempt. ]

Half elf. Alright. That's ... rare. I've only ever met one before.

[sacredpath]

It's fairly common...?

[but okay.]

I would not say popular. I would say unpopular.

[spiritbalm]

I suppose that makes sense with the entire thing being focused on inconvenient truths and such. The popular convenient liars never really enjoy that so much.

It's not as if I don't understand, I hold more than a few unpopular truths myself.

[ so her not-elven god seems cool and good and probably fine. ]

[sacredpath]

I thought you might understand.

[a smile.]

Lady Shar removes all illusions. Most cling to the comforting promises offered them by other deities. But Lady Shar shows us that pain and hope alike are nothing but heavy cloaks that burden our hearts. We shed these cloaks and embrace the darkness, and in the dark, we do not cower and pray for relief, we act.

[spiritbalm]

[ uh huh.

look. he is not so dumb he does not realize he is getting the hard sell here. kirkwall is so full of blood magic cults. it is really distressing.

so. ]

Is that before or after the cloistering?

[sacredpath]

[frown.]

...Think what you will. I joined the cloister because I was an orphan with nowhere else to go. They cared for me.

[spiritbalm]

And if you wanted to leave the cloister? They would let you go?

[sacredpath]

Of course. I'm not a prisoner.

[she says, lyingly.]

[spiritbalm]

[ girl if you say so. well he has no way to know either way, so that's good then. ]

Then you're lucky.

[sacredpath]

...I know.

[she just doesn't want to be judged, or does she.]

That's why I can't take being sent here, away from all of it.

[spiritbalm]

[ well he's very good at being a judgy hypocrite, it's his favorite hobby. ]

You'll need to get used to it. There's no going back.

[sacredpath]

You're so certain of that. People are resurrected more often than you know.

[spiritbalm]

They aren't. It's one of the principle rules of magic. You cannot travel long distances, your body cannot physically enter the Fade, and the spirit cannot be returned to flesh after it has fled. A talented healer can bring you back from the very precipice, but beyond that is nothing but a spirit playacting. "Necromancy" has nothing truly to do with the dead beyond toying with corpses.

[sacredpath]

Alright. Except, no. The dead can be revived. It's not typical, it generally requires the intervention of a god, but it happens.