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

ADDITIONAL CONCERNS / PETITIONS

[frmagecouncil]

Anything else that should be brought to the Council's attention, either from the other Council Members OR any of the observing members of the public.

If your character has a concern for the Mage Council and want it addressed during the meeting, fill out the form below

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Concern/Request:</b> <b>Is it urgent?:</b> <b>Suggested course of action, if any:</b> <textarea>

[arlathvhen]

Character Name: Beleth Ashara
Concern/Request: Beleth would, politely, request if there was some way that ordinary people who weren't mages or templars learn how to dispel magic, or maybe some way of enchanting items for ordinary people to contain something similar to dispel? If an item could be enchanted, then someone who needs supervision could pick their own person, and the person could get the enchanted item. It might help people who are neither templars nor mages feel more safe, and the supervised person feel more secure with someone they trust.
Is it urgent?: Not really. She just wants to know if it's possible / worth looking into.
Suggested course of action, if any: Maybe doing some research? Or, you know, whatever you want, she's just throwing ideas out there.

[fleurdesel]

Dispelling requires either skill in magic or the system of skills templars employ; there is unfortunately not any way she knows of for the average person to dispel magic. Looking into that manner of enchantment is something they could gear research towards.

[laurenande]

Character Name: Galadriel
Concern/Request: Supervision - Objection
Is it urgent?: Yes
Suggested course of action, if any: Supervision of Rifters is a pointless endeavor that assumes much about the power and skills of other realms. If our skills are not quantifiable by your measure, as most are, why then should we be assigned your variety of supervision? It is a needless waste of resources allocated to police a skillset you cannot account for, nor claim knowledge of. If native mages are to have their freedom, grant the same to those not of this world. After all, was it not a native mage who opened the recent rift? Why then should those from other lands be monitored? What if we are not more skilled to deal with these marks than yourselves? To cast suspicion on Rifters, thusly, is to all but assume we will spontaneously suffer the same fate as Sina. It is a theory that has no foundation beyond fear and suspicion, a vicious sort of prediction, and it is a concept that Galadriel refuses entertain.

[ungovernable]

Benny's thoughts on it may interest her! She and Korrin are both "team don't alienate the rifters by acting thoughtlessly".

Change of Opinion

[fleurdesel]

The suggestion was a knee jerk reaction meant to cover the council's ass- but Gaadriel's points are more than valid enough for her to amend it to include native mages with shards as not enough is known of Rifter magic to make the point or suggestion relevant.

That said, research into how rifter magic might interact is something she'll make a point of discussion at a later date.

[fleurdesel]

Character Name: Adelaide LeBlanc
Concern/Request: Fundraising
Is it urgent?: Relatively
Suggested course of action, if any: Dedicate a portion of the meeting after the initial vote is cast to discuss possible means of raising funds.