Ideologically, I cannot abide Rhea and Seteth's censorship. They have acted to keep not only secrets about the Church from the people, but also have prevented scientific and medical progress. If something is made of which they do not approve, they attempt to erase its existence, even if that information could help people. For example, their forbidding of a faster printing press prevented us from being able to deliver literacy education and basic healing primers to the villages, and studying anatomy they've forbidden and combining it with the lens work they censored has allowed for more efficient healing and new techniques. How many people could have been saved over the past 1000 years?
[If people did not need to come to Garreg Mach or selected city centers such as Morghuz to train in healing, more people would have been saved in the far reaches of Fodlan. And times of plague wouldn't have had healers spread so thin.]
Personally, the fact that they charged my family with caring for Fodlan's people and then removed tools and knowledge that would help us do so makes me wonder if there was ever any actual affection between the saints and Adrestia's founders. If you care for someone, you do not set them up for failure. You want to help them.
[Linhardt's words become shorter and more clipped as he speaks. He is angry. He realizes he is becoming emotional and quickly clamps the anger down, shoving it into the 'feelings' box. Hilda has no interest in his feelings. He should stick with important information.]
Which is why I hold no ill-will towards Flayn: I did not find any indications of her having participated. She seems only to want to protect her family, and nobody can fault her for that.
[Linhardt judges actions, not who or what people are. Rhea and Seteth have acted in ways he doesn't agree with, but them being not-human is irrelevant. Edelgard is...less than rational on that topic, so Linhardt has kept Indech's location and existence to himself. That man hasn't done anything. He has the right to be left alone.]
I see. Thank you for letting me know. I will consider that Claude is still being Claude despite the circumstances.
[He wouldn't be the only one. Whatever Edelgard had been in Abraxas would have likely still been very...Edelgard. Some people are like that. Claude. Edelgard. Ferdinand. Lorenz Gloucester. Dimitri. Rhea and Seteth. 'Flexibility' is not a trait Linhardt would ascribe to any of them.
That means it would be wise to test Claude and figure out how much the other man is willing to share - the information and records he gathers may need to be corrected to account for people's egos. It would not do to derive some conclusion about Fodlan's timelines from false information.]
It is somewhat comforting that Edelgard is not the only leader who withholds things.
[As does Linhardt. They argue frequently.]
Why would I want to bake?
[Why would he ever want to actually make the food if he could will it into existence? Will is so much easier than physical effort. Just as Warping something closer to him is far easier than getting up to go get it.]
Even the meals with the cheese from Gautier?
[Mmm...cheese. And that cheese is delightful; it's much sharper and pungent than most cheeses.
In truth, Linhardt is a little distracted by thinking of cheese. The war has made getting food from Faerghus near impossible. It's terrible. No Daphnel dishes. No Gautier cheese. The deprivation is real. Still, it seems Abraxas is determined to kill his joy and make him think of logistics.]
Are they frightened of us or do they view us as resources to be controlled? Thus far I have encountered no problems, but I have also avoided people. Most of my time has been spent studying the Singularity and magic in the libraries.
[Linhardt pauses, considering how to word what he wants to say.]
Are you certain they cannot track you? Magic does not require sight and if time is malleable in the same way space is - which the pulling of people from different times and some math might suggest - then the question of whether or not everywhere can be watched all the time might have a different answer.
No worries I have tools I just can't be arsed to search for fancy fonts myself lol
[If people did not need to come to Garreg Mach or selected city centers such as Morghuz to train in healing, more people would have been saved in the far reaches of Fodlan. And times of plague wouldn't have had healers spread so thin.]
Personally, the fact that they charged my family with caring for Fodlan's people and then removed tools and knowledge that would help us do so makes me wonder if there was ever any actual affection between the saints and Adrestia's founders. If you care for someone, you do not set them up for failure. You want to help them.
[Linhardt's words become shorter and more clipped as he speaks. He is angry. He realizes he is becoming emotional and quickly clamps the anger down, shoving it into the 'feelings' box. Hilda has no interest in his feelings. He should stick with important information.]
Which is why I hold no ill-will towards Flayn: I did not find any indications of her having participated. She seems only to want to protect her family, and nobody can fault her for that.
[Linhardt judges actions, not who or what people are. Rhea and Seteth have acted in ways he doesn't agree with, but them being not-human is irrelevant. Edelgard is...less than rational on that topic, so Linhardt has kept Indech's location and existence to himself. That man hasn't done anything. He has the right to be left alone.]
I see. Thank you for letting me know. I will consider that Claude is still being Claude despite the circumstances.
[He wouldn't be the only one. Whatever Edelgard had been in Abraxas would have likely still been very...Edelgard. Some people are like that. Claude. Edelgard. Ferdinand. Lorenz Gloucester. Dimitri. Rhea and Seteth. 'Flexibility' is not a trait Linhardt would ascribe to any of them.
That means it would be wise to test Claude and figure out how much the other man is willing to share - the information and records he gathers may need to be corrected to account for people's egos. It would not do to derive some conclusion about Fodlan's timelines from false information.]
It is somewhat comforting that Edelgard is not the only leader who withholds things.
[As does Linhardt. They argue frequently.]
Why would I want to bake?
[Why would he ever want to actually make the food if he could will it into existence? Will is so much easier than physical effort. Just as Warping something closer to him is far easier than getting up to go get it.]
Even the meals with the cheese from Gautier?
[Mmm...cheese. And that cheese is delightful; it's much sharper and pungent than most cheeses.
In truth, Linhardt is a little distracted by thinking of cheese. The war has made getting food from Faerghus near impossible. It's terrible. No Daphnel dishes. No Gautier cheese. The deprivation is real. Still, it seems Abraxas is determined to kill his joy and make him think of logistics.]
Are they frightened of us or do they view us as resources to be controlled? Thus far I have encountered no problems, but I have also avoided people. Most of my time has been spent studying the Singularity and magic in the libraries.
[Linhardt pauses, considering how to word what he wants to say.]
Are you certain they cannot track you? Magic does not require sight and if time is malleable in the same way space is - which the pulling of people from different times and some math might suggest - then the question of whether or not everywhere can be watched all the time might have a different answer.