I think it not the only possibility,( is measured, )but I have not heard yet a resolution to what drove the bloodshed, nor, in truth, have I seen much evidence the Chantry entertains much willingness to negotiate one meaningfully.
Do you really imagine the Chantry would be required to do so much? It would seem to me that we're ten years removed from what started that war and all of the South fatigued with fighting. The Divine would need only to make the barest of concessions to win a wide margin of support from the free mages.
If the idea hasn't occurred to her already, someone will eventually think to suggest it.
I think the Divine could easily win support if she were to make certain concessions, but I wonder at the appetite for it. The same argument might be made in the other direction; the south is tired of fighting, so why not hold fast and expect that fatigue to weaken resistance? And what benefit will she see in relinquishing Circles, versus what she might lose?
Each concession the Chantry has made thus far has been reluctant, at knife-point, and because they saw no ready alternative. A bloodless end to it would be preferable, even ideal; I think it would be shortsighted to presume it would be so simply because it would be preferred. I would rather be prepared for the worse outcome and pleasantly surprised than caught off-guard that I took my better day for granted.
In the years that I have been with the Inquisition and with Riftwatch, the most commonly held presumption outside of mage company has always been that the Chantry will insist upon Circles— that mages, one way or another, will be returned to them. Perhaps that it would be sad; but that it will be. There is more than one way to view the fatigue of war.
( in the inquisition, she remembers the way it was spoken of as nearly a foregone conclusion that mages had had their moment, but surely, they would meekly return when all was said and done. )
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I would be glad to be wrong.
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If the idea hasn't occurred to her already, someone will eventually think to suggest it.
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Each concession the Chantry has made thus far has been reluctant, at knife-point, and because they saw no ready alternative. A bloodless end to it would be preferable, even ideal; I think it would be shortsighted to presume it would be so simply because it would be preferred. I would rather be prepared for the worse outcome and pleasantly surprised than caught off-guard that I took my better day for granted.
In the years that I have been with the Inquisition and with Riftwatch, the most commonly held presumption outside of mage company has always been that the Chantry will insist upon Circles— that mages, one way or another, will be returned to them. Perhaps that it would be sad; but that it will be. There is more than one way to view the fatigue of war.
( in the inquisition, she remembers the way it was spoken of as nearly a foregone conclusion that mages had had their moment, but surely, they would meekly return when all was said and done. )