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[Gervaise]

I am interested to hear what other people feel about the promise he made to Fenris's sister.  To my mind it was an empty promise that she was a fool to believe, if indeed she hadn't had her mind manipulated along the way.   She claimed he promised to make her a Magister.   Now codexes make it quite clear that in Tevinter, the title Magister only applies to the ruling elite, the top rung of Mages that Fenris tells us come almost exclusively old established families with mage bloodlines that can be traced back generations.   Now it is possible that Danarius would be willing to use any talents that she possessed to further his own schemes but "hell would freeze over" before he or his Magister cronies would allow a former elven slave to join their ranks.  If, on the other hand, she is just referring to him making her a mage (as some people seem to use the term magister and mage interchangeably), then that would be nonsense as mages are born, not made and in fact it seems unlikely that he would have allowed a mage of any talent her freedom in the first place.   So my theory is that it was just a deception, designed to undermine Fenris and that if you give him back to Danarius, the first thing he would have ordered him to do, would have been to kill his sister.

To my mind, outside of Corypheus, Danarius is one of the most chilling mages we meet because he is so sane and in control of himself, yet so self satisfied in his evil.   When Fenris says he used him to terrify his dinner guests, I imagine a scene like in the "Untouchables" when Al Capone is walking around behind his dinner guests talking pleasantly about teamwork and then suddenly turns round and cracks a guy's head open with a baseball bat.  In the case of Danarius he would have nodded to Fenris and the fist goes through one of his rivals.   Danarius is the reason why I don't want the Freemarches or anywhere else to become another Tevinter.

[whykikyouwhy]

I think being a mage or having some control over magicks is indeed a requirement to become a magister. Which then implies that Varania is a mage, or that somehow the Tevinters can emulate the mage-trait (ooking at how Fenris's lyrium tattoos function).

I don't think that Danarius intended to make Varania a magister though - or at least not one that would work independently of him. If anything, she would be a puppet of his, someone he could nuture, train, and hone the skills of, but ultimately control and put to his own use. That's the type of person he strikes me to be - everything is done to further serve his cause/purpose. I think he uttered some promises, yes, but never intended to deliver in the manner that Vanaria probably had hoped for.

[Dave of Canada]

I saw him as using her to replace Hadriana.

Modifié par Dave of Canada, 10 octobre 2011 - 09:36 .

[NugWrangler]

I think he would have kept her on out of amusement, just to see how long she would last. Kind of like a very sinister "My Fair Lady" scenario. Varania couldn't have had much training and probably was illiterate like her brother. I can't see her functioning in mage high society. Eventually she would be challenged a duel and killed.

[dragonflight288]

I honestly think he MAY have kept his promise to make her his apprentice, because for all we knew she could easily have been a mage and we simply not see it. But I honestly don't think he would have allowed her to rise to a level where she could stand as an equal.

[naledgeborn]

Dave of Canada wrote...

I saw him as using her to replace Hadriana.

This. Hadriana died. He needed a new apprentice to do his dirty work. Varenia is/was a mage.

[Cobra's_back]

I think the sick puppy would have used her for as long as he needed, then discarded her like trash. Didn’t Fenris say this guy drained all the blood of a little boy for amusement?

[Carmen_Willow]

Yep, he would have used her and thrown her away, or used her to make a point at his next party. If she wre a powerful enough mage (genetically) to be a threat, he'd kill her anyway once she got close to being able to take him. There was nothing good about that creep and she was a fool to believe anything he said.