Question!!

[arainai_girl]

Hi swoopers!!

Kk, I don't know if yous guys would know this or not, but I can't find the answer anywhere!!

I know that the Templars use the phlacteries to track down mages that escape the Circle, but i don't know the actual process. Do they take the phlacteries with them when they hunt down a mage, or do they leave them in Denerim?

Thank you!!

Comments

[tersa]

Based solely on Awakenings, I think the templars take the phylacteries out of storage in Denarim with them.

*** AWAKENINGS SPOILERS ***

It may be an 'area of proximity' thing, since the templars have Anders's phylactery with them in Amaranthine City, but he was with a bunch of templars when he was found in Vigil's Keep. I think if the templars needed to have his phylactery actually with them to find him, it would've been with the dead templars at the Keep.

My $0.02 interpretation. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a more definitive answer out there. :)

[kalihira]

So his phylactery is ACTUALLY in Ameranthine? I just killed Ser Rylock and I thought the rumor of his phylactery was just a ploy to get him into that warehouse to get him back to the Tower...

[thessalian]

Actually, they had no intention of taking him back to the Tower. Rylock made no secret of the fact that she was going to just outright hang Anders because she blamed him for the death of all the Templars that were guarding him, despite the fact that they were actually slaughtered by darkspawn.

[kalihira]

Er...right. What she said.

O_o

[tersa]

thessalian corrected me: it's been a few months since I finished Awakenings, and misremembered that the phylactery wasn't actually found (just remembered Anders saying "let's go look for it!" :).

[thessalian]

As akari_hoshi says, the phylactery isn't in Amaranthine when you go to try to track it down; one imagines we would have found it in the secret room or looted it off her corpse if it were actually there, and Anders never gloats about how we actually succeeded in his phylactery-destroying mission; just "You stood with me and that's the important thing". One imagines that either whatserface the elf got pissed off and was willing to sell Anders out, or the Templars just fed her false information

[tersa]

It's been a while since I've played Awakenings, so I forgot that the phylactery wasn't *actually* there. Thanks for correcting me. :)

But still. I think that just puts it back to the original question. Just because they might *want* to develop a system that doesn't require them taking the phylacteries with them, doesn't mean they've managed to. And as a storyteller, personally, I'd make it one of the drawbacks/dangers to the system, that they can't simply do it remotely.

And yes, they use blood magic. I'd argue that so does the Grey Warden Joining ritual. :)

[thessalian]

Ah, but the Grey Wardens don't actually care about blood magic. Alistair does, but that's because of Templar training rather than anything Grey Warden-related. :)