And in Orlais, and in Tevinter, and every other fucking place, probably. Corypheus is doing it right now. Celene sitting on her throne handing out new rights to elves that she's never going to enforce like everyone's just forgotten that fisting Briala didn't stop her from slaughtering half of Halamshiral.
( OH MY GOD, GWEN. )
Telling stories isn't inherently good or bad, it's just...natural. And like anything, it can be twisted and abused, and that it is, constantly, is my point. It's hard to fight that if you don't understand how it's happening, if you've got nothing to say instead. That's why I started writing about the Inquisition in the first place, when I was doing that—the Inquisition isn't a super power, it doesn't have the kind of influence it needs to do its job, that's why it makes all of these bullshit concessions and compromises. Because it doesn't have a choice. It's one thing to bravely die for your own convictions, but it's a different thing entirely to consign the entire world to death for them—it had the Herald and she fucking died, it could have all fallen apart right then. There was no symbol, it had to become its own myth.
People...need to be shown something can be done, in order to do it. Not everyone, or no one would ever show them anything, but en masse. Someone has to be brave. Someone has to have a different idea. The idea that wins isn't always the best or the rightest, so it's sort of useful if the best or rightest ideas have a fighting chance.
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Date: 2018-11-23 08:21 am (UTC)( OH MY GOD, GWEN. )
Telling stories isn't inherently good or bad, it's just...natural. And like anything, it can be twisted and abused, and that it is, constantly, is my point. It's hard to fight that if you don't understand how it's happening, if you've got nothing to say instead. That's why I started writing about the Inquisition in the first place, when I was doing that—the Inquisition isn't a super power, it doesn't have the kind of influence it needs to do its job, that's why it makes all of these bullshit concessions and compromises. Because it doesn't have a choice. It's one thing to bravely die for your own convictions, but it's a different thing entirely to consign the entire world to death for them—it had the Herald and she fucking died, it could have all fallen apart right then. There was no symbol, it had to become its own myth.
People...need to be shown something can be done, in order to do it. Not everyone, or no one would ever show them anything, but en masse. Someone has to be brave. Someone has to have a different idea. The idea that wins isn't always the best or the rightest, so it's sort of useful if the best or rightest ideas have a fighting chance.