"Oh yeah ... that's right. You're a genius too." One corner of his mouth tilted up.
Which was the whole reason he had created the generator - allow armor to power itself without lyrium, to save Templars from becoming addicted, to give mages access to something that would not require blood magic. Yet the level of skill it would take to ride that lightening.
"I thought all that ... and I was wrong. Faith is not enough, Addy. I put the work into metal and magic for the Chantry. Now I have to put that in for our people. The mages who survive, the templars who still stand for that damned name. We have to rebuild, we have to unite ... really unite. Not only that ... you know how many innocent lives I've cost the world? Not just mages, but just ... innocent every day people, who were caught up in this war?"
He shook his head, "No. I've got to make amends -- and that starts with the Inquisition."
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Which was the whole reason he had created the generator - allow armor to power itself without lyrium, to save Templars from becoming addicted, to give mages access to something that would not require blood magic. Yet the level of skill it would take to ride that lightening.
"I thought all that ... and I was wrong. Faith is not enough, Addy. I put the work into metal and magic for the Chantry. Now I have to put that in for our people. The mages who survive, the templars who still stand for that damned name. We have to rebuild, we have to unite ... really unite. Not only that ... you know how many innocent lives I've cost the world? Not just mages, but just ... innocent every day people, who were caught up in this war?"
He shook his head, "No. I've got to make amends -- and that starts with the Inquisition."