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driftfleet2015-02-20 05:59 pm
lord_wizard) wrote in driftfleet2015-02-20 05:59 pm
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first labyrinth
Who: Felix Harrowgate
Broadcast: Fleet-wide
Action: Marsiva
When: 2/20, evening
[The fact that Felix remembers the past four years when he wakes up is the first indication he has that something has gone wrong. Normally the lack of memory loss would be a good thing, but he'd expected, given everything he'd learned, that life would resume as it had been the moment he'd left his own world. Of course, things had been a bit irregular near the end, and he'd had a strange hope that maybe he wouldn't forget.
The network station first records him sitting up in his cot, a man dressed in a rich burgundy coat reminiscent of eighteenth century nobility, his slightly curly red hair tied back with a ribbon. Fingers clad in gold and garnet rings brush first against his forehead, then at his chest where the necklace Ashura had given him still lay, then patting against his pocket where the Sibylline decidedly still wasn't.
As he takes in the open space and the void outside the sweeping windows, the expression on his face shifts smoothly from confusion, to shock, to a vivid anger. He sits up from his bed so quickly that it upends with a clatter]
No! No! [his shout is shrill, edging on hysterical, and much higher than might be expected out of him at first glance. He turns in place, as if looking for something or someone to direct this at instead of thin air, then settles at shouting at nothing]
Damn you, Paradisa! Is is really going to be one last trick? Haven't I served my time? Haven't I done enough?
[His eyes, vivid yellow and pale blue, find his communicator sitting on cot next to his, and he stalks over to pick it up a rather obvious air of contempt. His brows knit together in slight puzzlement amidst the storming anger]
What is this? [The fact that he actually knows the answer to that raises more questions] Is the journal not good enough for you any longer?
Broadcast: Fleet-wide
Action: Marsiva
When: 2/20, evening
[The fact that Felix remembers the past four years when he wakes up is the first indication he has that something has gone wrong. Normally the lack of memory loss would be a good thing, but he'd expected, given everything he'd learned, that life would resume as it had been the moment he'd left his own world. Of course, things had been a bit irregular near the end, and he'd had a strange hope that maybe he wouldn't forget.
The network station first records him sitting up in his cot, a man dressed in a rich burgundy coat reminiscent of eighteenth century nobility, his slightly curly red hair tied back with a ribbon. Fingers clad in gold and garnet rings brush first against his forehead, then at his chest where the necklace Ashura had given him still lay, then patting against his pocket where the Sibylline decidedly still wasn't.
As he takes in the open space and the void outside the sweeping windows, the expression on his face shifts smoothly from confusion, to shock, to a vivid anger. He sits up from his bed so quickly that it upends with a clatter]
No! No! [his shout is shrill, edging on hysterical, and much higher than might be expected out of him at first glance. He turns in place, as if looking for something or someone to direct this at instead of thin air, then settles at shouting at nothing]
Damn you, Paradisa! Is is really going to be one last trick? Haven't I served my time? Haven't I done enough?
[His eyes, vivid yellow and pale blue, find his communicator sitting on cot next to his, and he stalks over to pick it up a rather obvious air of contempt. His brows knit together in slight puzzlement amidst the storming anger]
What is this? [The fact that he actually knows the answer to that raises more questions] Is the journal not good enough for you any longer?
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[What he wouldn't give to unleash Fenris on the Venatori.]
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So, what is your take on this fleet situation?
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Regardless, there's magic to study, and study it I will.
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Oh? What magic have you witnessed since you've been here? The air doesn't seem thick with it on my end thus far.
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Instead, he smirks]
Oh, I don't know about that part. If there was one thing I discovered during my time in that other world, it is that science is capable of tremendous things beyond our very imagining, but they are not magic. Though that isn't to say magic exists completely separate from such concepts, as some people may insist.
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[He considers that for a moment.]
And what of you, then- you said that you could sense magic?
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I see! Curious. What sort of magic do you specialize in, then?
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That's not such a simple question to answer, I'm afraid. Magic where I come from isn't so neatly sorted into disciplines, though such things do exist. They're somewhat secondary to doctrine. Though for the sake of brevity you could say I'm mostly trained in wards, as that's the strong-point of my particular school.
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[Dorian considers that for a moment.]
In our Circles, in Tevinter, we were encouraged to pursue different avenues of magic. My father...
[He almost hesitates. How easily it all came back to him, as if he had never left Tevinter at all. For just a moment, that sea of bitterness and anger is forgotten, and Dorian is young again, looking to appease someone else.
In agreeable company, a man named Felix who was not the Felix he adored, and with agreeable conversation, it almost felt that he had slipped back in time. To a time before Halward Pavus all but disowned him. And true, had had patched up what he could with his father- but there was too much anger, a gulf of resentment and hurt that stretched between them.
Dorian catches himself.]
I was encouraged to go a more...political avenue. Thankfully, I showed an aptitude for it, but I excel in Necromancy.
[Hopefully this Felix will be more agreeable than the weak-hearted Anders was.]
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I see.
[His answer is mild as he considers the declaration, though it's certainly not anger or disgust. It's a complicated subject given that the Cabaline school was established by necromancers more or less on the premise to eradicate the practice of such magics as necromancy and blood magic. Between his training by a blood wizard and the unpleasant sequence of events following the shattering of the Virtu, he had a unique perspective that told him the Cabaline school was walking about life with blinders on, magically speaking. Magic was not a black and white matter, and his own practices had strayed into that territory from time to time. He had also had plenty of exposure to such magic in Paradisa, but even so, the doctrine of his school stuck fast in his mind. Healing magic still made him vaguely uncomfotrable to this day. In short, this was a matter of context, and he was hardly in the position to throw stones.]
What sort of necromancy?
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[Dorian chuckles softly.]
Which I am aware likely means little to you. Despite our mutual friend, Fenris doesn't take much of an interest in politics or magic, and I doubt he'd have spoken on it with you.
[Odd, he thinks, that he would consider Fenris a "friend", but there it was. A friend that would possibly kill him one day, but wasn't that just Tevinter in a nutshell?]
The Mortalitasi are the trusted advisors of the throne of Nevarra. They hold condierable power, but were started by a mage from Tevinter ages ago. I am from Tevinter, you see, and it was thought to be politically advantageous to have a tie to the Mortalitasi, and certainly if I was to be Archon.
[It seems almost like someone else's life, to consider things so plainly.]
The actually spell work itself is...well, we use spirits, infict terror, curse, that sort of thing. I was fortunate to show an aptitude for it.
[Said blithely, as if it were the most mundane thing in the world.]
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[The bulk of the explanation passes over his head, though the basic idea isn't all that strange to him. Ties to ancient Cymellune was also something families and wizards liked to claim, though it never amounted to that much in terms of actual power and status.
His easy, smiling demeanor drains away, however, at the mention of the specifics, and brings with it a slight visible tension.]
Fortunate? How so?
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[He shrugs a bit. Most, even here, don't understand Tevinter. If Dorian was to try and explain it, even he would fall short. To an outsider, he's certain that Tevinter seems like a tyrannical nation, where differences are ground out in favor of perfection, and where assassination is something done over dinner.
He can't explain, either, that he loves his homeland so dearly, despite its faults. Tevinter was, and always would be, home. A heavily flawed home in desperate need of reapir, but home nonetheless.
Nor can he explain how he feels that he, the descendent of the reformer Gideon Pavus, is the one destined to redeem it.]
Nor am I the type of necromancer to keep about dead bodies. As far as the Mortalitasi go, I'm quite boring. I've never cursed anyone who didn't entirely deserve it.
[The last is a bit of a quip, but true. The Venatori deserved anything he did to them.]
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But that doesn't change the fact that it doesn't sit that well with him. It's the fact that Dorian speaks so casually about that kind of magic. He'd been tormented personally by magic in order to mold him into an obedient student. He'd used the binding by forms on his brother and nearly got him killed as a result. He ripped apart Isaac Garamond's mind out of sheer rage and the aftermath left him sick with himself.]
I certainly hope so, but let me make this clear, darling -- where I come from that kind of magic would have you executed on principle. Now, that isn't to say you're bound by the doctrine and laws of my school, but I would ask that you not take such things so lightly. I don't care what discipline you file it under - necromancy, enchantment, blood magic -- if you ever use a spell on a living person where I can witness it, we will have words.
[He smiles, brighter and more intense, but there's a hardness to the gleam]
Not that we can't be civil.
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[Dorian feels distinctly homesick. Not simply because Tevinter is home, but because at least, for his magic, he was accepted. He was prided. It has been some time since he's found a peer to discuss magic with- Magister Alexius was the last one, and his son Felix with hm.
For a moment, he remembers Anders. There's a pang of regret that each mage that he has spoken with has been adverse to his magic. In Thedas, he could brush it off as Southern ignorance and misunderstanding, but here...most aren't even from Thedas, and here is a mage telling him that is magic is unacceptable.
Dorian nods softly, though he feels as if a distance that he can't control has come between them before they even knew each other.]
I suppose my reaction would be much the same if you declared yourself a user of blood magic.
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[Some of what he knew skirted the bounds of it. He knew how the obligation de sang was cast, of example, from personal experience. But it was one thing to know and another to practice.
It isn't the necromancy the offends but what he does with it. Felix himself has been shown there's more than one way to approach his own magic. Maybe Dorian can benefit from a similar change in viewpoint.
Or they'll end up being enemies, but honestly that such a waste on a great many levels.]
I'm sure there is quite a bit we can learn from each other.
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Indeed. I look forward to it, Felix.
Until then, do stay well. There is a shortage of attractive men where I would hate it if something were to take one from us.
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That would be shame, wouldn't it?
I thank you for the welcome, regardless. I presume we'll have a chance to speak face to face at some point. [Hopefully when he's had a chance to lay his hackles. It's been a rough day]