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On Grey Warden Rose Lalonde
Got bitten by the DAO bug again in defiance of all sense and to the surprise of absolutely nobody, the first character I made was a human mage based on Rose Lalonde. Some RP/characterization rambles under the cut.
Rose resented the restrictions the Chantry and the Circle placed on mages' freedoms, but unlike my Suranna, who was more of a table-flipping "I'll punch a chantry, I don't give a fuck" ~REVOLUTIONARY~ about it, Rose was planning on playing the long game, working her way up to First Enchanter and eventually Grand Enchanter so she can fuck shit up from the inside. That plan got derailed pretty quickly once she got conscripted, obviously, but after all the wardens in Ferelden beefed it and left her and Alistair in charge by default, she got to thinking pretty hard about how to fill the ensuing MASSIVE POWER VACUUM and lever it to her advantage, especially once Alistair told her that the Circle would likely defer to them over the Chantry in a crisis.
Rose has pretty much always been fascinated by the Forbidden Magics, and it really chapped her ass that she wasn't even allowed to study theory. She mostly kept her mouth shut about it because complaining loudly that Dumbledor took all the Horcrux Manuals out of the library is a good way to get wizard-lobotomized before you even have a chance to do the Harrowing, but you'd better believe she had some choice snark about how for an alleged institution of learning the Circle was pretty damn anti-intellectual, if you know what I mean. But despite her natural curiosity she was inclined to believe the broad truths of what the Circle teaches regarding demons, the fade, blood magic, etc, and the whole business with Jowan didn't exactly do much do dispel her perception of all maleficarum as untrustworthy lunatics, though she also suspected that there was more to these subjects than what her mentors were willing to teach her. Those suspicions were only strengthened by finding the Circle's Sooper Sekrit stash of confiscated Tevinter artifacts in the repository, and meeting Morrigan with her shapeshifting magic and tales of Flemeth being a "stable" abomination really busted the door open on the whole "holy shit there are entire schools of magic that the Circle doesn't even TALK about" thing, and ever since then she just. dove in feet-first. She's now thoroughly convinced that her old mentors were completely full of shit and the real reason mages who deal with demons tend to go insane or turn into monsters is because they were too stupid or weak or close-minded, not like her, she's figured out The Truth and is much too clever to fall and fail the way they did. She made a deal with the demon in Honnleath and it went fine! Alistair disapproved a lot but nobody died or got possessed! She totally knows what she's doing u gaise! I can't wait for this to blow up in her face.
But the key thing is all of this is just reinforcing her feeling that the Circle needs to be changed, which is rapidly turning into a feeling that the Circle ought to burn. She didn't really have a concept of how small a cage she was being kept in until she was out of it, and now she's determined to destroy the bars from the outside. We're about to head into Redcliffe now, so that's going to be an interesting situation for her to walk in on. I can't wait for her to run into Wynne again.
Rose resented the restrictions the Chantry and the Circle placed on mages' freedoms, but unlike my Suranna, who was more of a table-flipping "I'll punch a chantry, I don't give a fuck" ~REVOLUTIONARY~ about it, Rose was planning on playing the long game, working her way up to First Enchanter and eventually Grand Enchanter so she can fuck shit up from the inside. That plan got derailed pretty quickly once she got conscripted, obviously, but after all the wardens in Ferelden beefed it and left her and Alistair in charge by default, she got to thinking pretty hard about how to fill the ensuing MASSIVE POWER VACUUM and lever it to her advantage, especially once Alistair told her that the Circle would likely defer to them over the Chantry in a crisis.
Rose has pretty much always been fascinated by the Forbidden Magics, and it really chapped her ass that she wasn't even allowed to study theory. She mostly kept her mouth shut about it because complaining loudly that Dumbledor took all the Horcrux Manuals out of the library is a good way to get wizard-lobotomized before you even have a chance to do the Harrowing, but you'd better believe she had some choice snark about how for an alleged institution of learning the Circle was pretty damn anti-intellectual, if you know what I mean. But despite her natural curiosity she was inclined to believe the broad truths of what the Circle teaches regarding demons, the fade, blood magic, etc, and the whole business with Jowan didn't exactly do much do dispel her perception of all maleficarum as untrustworthy lunatics, though she also suspected that there was more to these subjects than what her mentors were willing to teach her. Those suspicions were only strengthened by finding the Circle's Sooper Sekrit stash of confiscated Tevinter artifacts in the repository, and meeting Morrigan with her shapeshifting magic and tales of Flemeth being a "stable" abomination really busted the door open on the whole "holy shit there are entire schools of magic that the Circle doesn't even TALK about" thing, and ever since then she just. dove in feet-first. She's now thoroughly convinced that her old mentors were completely full of shit and the real reason mages who deal with demons tend to go insane or turn into monsters is because they were too stupid or weak or close-minded, not like her, she's figured out The Truth and is much too clever to fall and fail the way they did. She made a deal with the demon in Honnleath and it went fine! Alistair disapproved a lot but nobody died or got possessed! She totally knows what she's doing u gaise! I can't wait for this to blow up in her face.
But the key thing is all of this is just reinforcing her feeling that the Circle needs to be changed, which is rapidly turning into a feeling that the Circle ought to burn. She didn't really have a concept of how small a cage she was being kept in until she was out of it, and now she's determined to destroy the bars from the outside. We're about to head into Redcliffe now, so that's going to be an interesting situation for her to walk in on. I can't wait for her to run into Wynne again.