LobselVith8 wrote...
Who is going to know what happened behind closed doors?
You mean behind the closed doors of Gamlen Amell, who just happened to be harboring an apostate and ohbytheway two Templars are missing or found dead, one of which just happens to be the Knight-Captain, who more than one member of Lowtown saw either on his way to Gamlen's hovel or entering it, and that just happens to be the last time he was seen alive. Yes, who could
possibly come to the conclusion that Hawke was responsible?
Come on. You're making Meredith's RoA look sane by comparison.
Which is why I'd imagine Ser Thrask could easily provide an explanation that didn't involve the Amell family.
Why would Thrask have a reason to help Hawke cover up the murder of his Knight Captain?
How does Leandra suffer if Bethany is protected from being raped or made tranquil? How does Leandra suffer if two templars are killed and Hawke has a templar ally who could mislead the investigation from hurting Leandra while Hawke gets Bethany out of Kirkwall? Why should Bethany be sacrificed?
Leandra has made it quite clear (as has Bethany) that she has no desire to leave Kirkwall. You're making her suffer simply because your actions put her at risk. If you take her with you you're requiring your 50-something mother to live life on the run.
And why do you assume rape and tranquility? You do realize there are a lot of mages in the Circle who aren't raped and aren't tranquiled, right? Again, you've met Thrask, you've helped Cullen. You can get them on your side. You are treating this situation as if it's unavoidable that Bethany will be raped and tranquiled, nevermind the fact that
it doesn't happen.Leandra doesn't pale, she simply doesn't want to go because Kirkwall is her home. There's no mention of Leandra not being physically able to go to another city. Even Hawke's sibling makes no such claim if Hawke suggests leaving the city to attempt to find sanctuary elsewhere.
Right.
She doesn't want to go. So you're going to kill a few Templars because everyone in that house is breaking the law by harboring Bethany and you're going to either take Bethany on the run with you, which she also doesn't want, and leave your mother in poverty. All because you refuse to see that you have the means to keep Bethany safe in the Circle.
There's no difference in Hawke protecting random strangers and Hawke protecting his sister, so you don't know that Thrask won't settle for this.
What Thrask won't do is stand by while you kill his superior.
So you assume. Gamlen didn't sell Hawke or Bethany out, and apostate Hawke remains free in a mansion while Gamlen remains in his shack for years.
Don't jump ahead to Act 2 or pull in a different situation. We don't know why Gamlen stays in Lowtown after Act 1 and it's not relevant. Gamlen didn't have a reason to sell out Bethany in Act 1. If he'd gone to the Templars and attempted to blackmail them into getting his mansion back he'd be much more likely to be jailed rather than getting anything. He may have a terrible poker face but he's not stupid.
I'm not going to risk my sister getting raped or made tranquil simply because she feels bad that people have looked out for her all her life. I care more about my sister's humanity remaining intact than seeing it permanently gone.
How are you keeping your sister's humanity intact by forcing her to run again? Where can she simply be a mage? There's nowhere but the Circle. Even in the Wardens she's Bethany the Warden. She doesn't have to hide anymore and she doesn't have to pretend she's something other than what she is. The Circle is the only place she can simply be Bethany the Mage instead of Bethany the Fugitive.
Mages are being made tranquil against Chantry law, so it doesn't matter that Bethany isn't a troublemaker. A mage was made tranquil because she feel in love with another mage, so that now Ser Alrik commands her. Another mage says she's being made tranquil for no reason by Ser Alrik. I'd never abandon my sister to the Circle of Kirkwall, given what the story reveals to Hawke by the end of Act I.
I really don't know how many times I have to tell you this, but you are not abandoning her. You live in the same city. You have constant contact with the Templars. You have constant contact with the Knight Captain. There is no reason to think that those people will refuse to help you. If nothing else, a word from Cullen would be enough to scare any Boogeyman Templar into staying away from Bethany.
Your fears are irrational, inconsistent, and not based in any semblance of reason or logic.
Modifié par Monica21, 24 septembre 2011 - 03:47 .
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go on the run with Hawke, and c) continue to feel exactly the way she's always felt, like it's all her fault the family suffers so much. She denies their agency in accepting the risk of protecting her every bit as much as they deny her agency in wanting to chuck herself at the brainwiping rape pen, so I'd say it's a wash in the end.
