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Name: Entrapta
Date: oct 16th
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HELLO! I WANT TO COLLECT SOME DATA.

IF YOU HAVE OPINIONS ABOUT ETHICS, PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1] ARE THERE ACTIONS YOU CONSIDER UNACCEPTABLE REGARDLESS OF CONTEXT? IF SO, PLEASE PROVIDE EXAMPLES

2] ARE THERE SOME MITIGATING CONTEXTS THAT RENDER OTHERWISE UNACCEPTABLE ACTIONS ACCEPTABLE TO YOU? IF SO, PLEASE PROVIDE EXAMPLES

3] IF A PERSON HAS PERFORMED AN UNACCEPTABLE ACTION, WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER AN APPROPRIATE PUNISHMENT?

THANKS! 8)

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The sacrifice - is worth the outcome. [ well, that much is painfully apparent that he would think that!!!!! ] And, some of the distaste others harbor for it is rooted in fallacy.

[ his tone had lightened considerably when he spoke of dark magic; with myr's response, there's now irritation to it. he shouldn't have expected an elven mage to find it as something awe-worthy, he thinks with some bitterness. there's a click of fangs coming together. ]

... Magic-users are quite rare, among humans. It wouldn't be surprising that there would be be sets out there that view all magic as suspicious. But, no - that is generally not the case.

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[myr's is not a suspicious heart; his mind does not leap to the kind of sacrifice that involves another being. instead, he's trying to imagine what odious thing viren must have done to himself that would win that sort of opprobrium and warrant this much caution.

maybe they really are still talking about blood magic and it's only on thedas it's such a disaster. he's not sure he likes that thought, but he is trying to see this through someone else's eyes ~~easier to do when you don't have any of your own~~.]

And it means a great deal to you, [he did catch that change in tone!] to have been among them. I can understand why, with the power to save those you've charge over at your disposal. [is that admiration? probably!]

It's rare, you've said--is it inborn, among humans? Or something you learn? I recall that magic comes from natural sources in Xadia, but not whether you'd ever mentioned that.

[ subtle as the admiration be, and that he's shown understanding - even as shallow as that understanding may be, as it's a truth ridden with holes, viren feels a bit of a glow at that. it even gets something of a smile returned to his voice (though, the reminder of have been among them does still rankle, slightly). ]

It is something one must learn... And like most subjects, some have more of a knack for it than others.

[ accurate to both primal magic and dark magic, viren supposes. just... a touch different when applied to humans. his smile's faded, and he thinks he favors changing the topic at this point. ]

[ because, even if he would generally love to elaborate, he already feels as if he's shared too much. ]

[ with more bitterness entering into his tone -- ]

Always a shame, that we're reduced to mere talk about magic.

[he gets the sense--not suddenly, more as the slow creep of the tide up a beach--that there are things he will never be told here.

it's less overt (confrontational, fun) than when linden does it and thus invokes his circle-bred instincts not to pry. lightly,]

That it is, and while I'd love to hear more of the shape it took for you, it is rather like swallowing ashes, isn't it?

Have you had any more success pressing the Coven's scholars on the whys and hows of that loss?

I have not, thus far.

[ that's easier to answer. ]

And yourself? Any success to your own digging? [ yes, just gonna make the wild presumption here that myr has maybe inquired a few times. ]

[wow how rude, to think myr would be passionately interested in why his magic had vanished to the point he'd keep bothering the coven about it.

(he totally had.)]

Not a word, [he says through a sigh,] or rather not any new words. There's certainly interest in how we came to be here but it's--understandably--not the most pressing thing on their minds right now.

What I'd not give to avail myself of their library, [with the barest note of bitter sadness.] Even if it's not yielded much to anyone yet on why we're here.

[he'd at least feel like research into his own fate was more in his hands, rather than having to rely on people who rarely had time to spare.]

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