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[igetthatalot]

Varric had meant to enter the Hanged Man this evening, but if the odd magic bar decided to appear instead, who is he to argue? Although the note that appeared when he went to see about getting a pint was pretty well unexpected, he reads it and solemnly nods. "Far be it from me to cause trouble when there's magic involved," he says. "But I'm going to need a stepstool."

He gets one.

Specials Tonight:

Antivan Brandy
Ale
Wine

After some thought he adds:

Drink a pint of Orzammar dwarven brew without making a face, and your next drink is half off

He's a surfacer. He can get away with that.

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[igetthatalot]

"Sounds messy," says Varric, "but at least it seems to be working for your people. I take it the priests washed their hands of the whole thing?"

Because really, when you deal with politics among humans, sooner or later the Chantry enters into it.

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

YT chuckles. "Oh, no. Organized religions are corporations too. They're right in it. Although of course they pretend they aren't."

[igetthatalot]

"More than one," Varric notes. "If they're all in the same country I'm surprised they haven't gone to war with each other, frankly. I'm sorry, 'exalted marches', or whatever the term of the moment is."

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

"Crusades," YT says. "That doesn't happen anymore, at least not in my part of the world. I mean, they're businesses. You don't increase your slice of the pie by killing people you could convert to your brand, you know? Only crazy fringe cults do that." Pause. "Well, there was Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates, but he wasn't working alone and it was a really weird exception."

[igetthatalot]

"You know, you'd think that someone would've pointed that out to the Chantry, but if they did it doesn't seem to have sunk in," says Varric. "Not that there's been a March in a while, but the threats come up every so often. Despite it being pretty clear that that kind of thing almost never ends well."

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

"That's the other reason religions don't fight with each other anymore. It's messy and if someone doesn't draw the line somewhere, it goes on forever," YT says. "It took a while, but they figured out it just isn't worth the trouble."

[igetthatalot]

"From what I've seen of things? That must've only taken a few thousand years," says Varric. "The Chantry in most of Thedas is about at the point where they just pretend the Imperial Chantry in Tevinter doesn't exist, and while they make noises about the Qunari every so often, they haven't exactly gone out of their way lately to give them trouble over the Qun. Not that they wouldn't if they had the opportunity, but at least they're not suicidal about it."

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

"But if someone tried to start up a splinter religious group in their land, they'd come down on the 'heretics'" - yes, YT air-quotes it - "like a ton of bricks, wouldn't they? The big, established religions don't do that kind of thing anymore. Even most of their followers wouldn't stand for it."