#she doesn't take the tevinter slaver's offer though; shady blood magic ritual at the expense of elves didn't sound ... safe.

[vstiges]

on blood magic.

Amell’s view of blood magic has always been pretty nuanced, as much as she wants to know the full capabilities of a mage’s powers, she’s superstitious of ever practicing it on herself. After Broken Circle, she keeps the Litany of Adralla always hidden in the fabric of her clothing, paranoid, the horrors of what happened to the mages and templars alike within the tower still fresh in her mind. It becomes more habit than fear as the years go by, but she keeps the litany nonetheless and it becomes a major staple to her gear. 

    But on the other side, in the cases of Zathrian and Avernus, with their prolonged life and power, she feels it’d be too much of a waste to let that knowledge die with them. They obviously haven’t gone possessed from their exposure, not like Uldred, and she’s ready to put them down if they do later on. She keeps tabs on Zathrian after the Blight, even after he’s left his clan, and with Avernus she always has the Litany in case he decides to ‘nudge her’ to take more risks with his work … Now their work.

   There’s a lot of unpredictability in the results with who she allows to live, but she’ll never put her life or control on the line. She’d rather Avernus or the Blood Mage in question take the fall to demons if it comes that. Magic, for what it is, is a deeply repressed tool in Ferelden, and she feels the better it is to preserve some of that talent, the more growth eventual research can sustain.

The relentless pursuit of knowledge is a temptation many mages fall victim to, only she’s too proud to admit it once the blight ends.