A king? [He scoffs, lightly.] Not likely. Possible, I guess, but— [but, he's thinking about possibilities, now] I doubt it.
[There's an edge of something sharp under his tone. Mages, fine, that wouldn't bother him so much... but king gets at him, his closest equivalent being the Archon.
Blah blah blah, he's politically neutral, whatever... Tevinter mucking around willy nilly is still the last thing anyone needs right now.]
Did you hear anything else? A name?
[He hasn't discounted the idea that all of this is just the work of a sufficiently-powerful mage. Eliminating the possibility of blood magic would be nice.]
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[There's an edge of something sharp under his tone. Mages, fine, that wouldn't bother him so much... but king gets at him, his closest equivalent being the Archon.
Blah blah blah, he's politically neutral, whatever... Tevinter mucking around willy nilly is still the last thing anyone needs right now.]
Did you hear anything else? A name?
[He hasn't discounted the idea that all of this is just the work of a sufficiently-powerful mage. Eliminating the possibility of blood magic would be nice.]