EMERGENCY POST RIFT IN SKYHOLD MEETING ( BACKDATED )

[frmagecouncil]

WHAT: Emergency Meeting about The Rift Incident
WHEN: Two days after the Rift Incident, Guardian 2 (Backdated)
WHERE: The Vault / Sending Crystals
NOTES: Voting Required

Points to discuss:

Shards, how they work, how to learn how they work.
Demons, training against battling them on this side of the fade.
How to avoid this in the future.
Will Sina need supervision in the future to keep this from happening?
Will other Rifters that have magical inclinations need supervision as well?
Can the Council coax the Inquisition to throwing some coin into research?
And anything else that is an IC concern for the Councilors/Mages of Skyhold, list suggestions in the subthread below.

Form for Voting:

<b>Supervision for Sina?</b> Yea/Nay/Other <b>Supervision for Magic Rifters?</b> Yea/Nay/Other <b>Petition the Inquisition for funds for research?</b> Yea/Nay/Other <b>Train with (or without) Templars to learn to battle demons?</b> Yea/Nay/Other

Comments

Councilor LeBlanc

[fleurdesel]

Adelaide is going to push for formalized research on the shards, how they effect the bodies they're in (seeing as Sina's almost killed her, and how they effect rifts beyond closing them as being able to open them wasn't thought to be something they needed to worry about. Now? It is a concern. Sorting out how it happened is part one, sorting out how to keep it from happening is part two, and maybe looking for a way to remove them without killing the rifters/other people stuck with them could be a goal down the line.

Demons are awful, Adelaide is all for thorough training to fight them on this side of the fade. They're nasty and anything they can do to prepare mages/rifters/anyone for dealing with them? Is for the good of the Inquisition.

The best recommendation she can make against preventing this ties into the next two points on the Agenda: Supervision. Step one: Having every mage with any kind of skill learn how to dispell magic, dispell it well, and dispell it quickly. Magic is what twisted the rifts open, either by overuse or by pulling on the fade; preventing a spell from being cast might not be the neatest solution nor the most effective but it COULD work. Not having to lean on Templars for this is a benefit for those uncomfortable around templars, and keeping explosions, burning cooks, and other things from getting out of control is another obvious benefit.

Step two is keeping mages skilled in dispelling magic and nipping this shit at the bud around Sina in particular as this was thoroughly inadvertent on her part; and on hand whenever rifters with magical aptitudes start pulling on the fade. Some research into how their individual magic works with the fade in particular wouldn't be remiss either. This is their problem, they need to work on fixing it, and preventing something like this from happening in the future. The key to that is understanding what happened and how it works. TO THAT END:

She's very behind petitioning for funds for the research, so they have a safe space to do it in, resources that'll keep things contained if anything goes wrong, and a tea/coffee allowance. Seriously has anyone tried to do research without coffee? It's awful.

TL;DR, yes to all the above with a hard NO on templar involvement for supervision/training. They're supposed to be learning to work on their own. Let them work it out on their own. Involving them now would be taking five steps back into the system they're trying to break away from. She cannot be swayed on this.