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At least one of the mages has responded to the confusion by unleashing wide area attacks, gouts of flame and sheets of crackling lighting, which might end up hitting her rise by accident. And some of the backline templars are equipped with bows, and cool-headed and sharp-eyed enough to spot her perch.

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Bows are why she's hiding behind tempered glass! That helps a tiny bit with the area of effects, too, but it isn't the best guarantee - she starts specifically targeting the mages unleashing those area spells, with jagged spears erupting from the ground (shepherding them to landmines she hasn't set off yet), and a dome rises over the archers just in case until she can get more room to deal with them. 

(She's going to exhaust herself if she keeps going like this; it's annoying she was advised not to just blow everything up...)

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She does have allies who might be able to help, if she can open the lanes for them.

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It'll reduce her ability to just kill everyone on the field indiscriminately - but, yeah, she's gotten their enemies nice and softened up.

She opens safe paths for her allies, and for her own retreat.

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And the Inquisition will handle the rest.

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It'll be a slaughter, pretty much, unless their opponents surrender. 

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Which they do not. So it goes.

Twenty minutes later, it's time to start the clean-up.

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Alchemy is helpful for that, too, though how helpful depends on if there's anything like funerary customs they want to observe for their enemies. 

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They'll just burn the bodies for now, so they don't rise again. A prayer for the souls can be said later.

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Alright. 

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And after things are physically more in hand, they'll need to set up to deal with the local inhabitants.

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She mostly rested and ate while they were dealing with the bodies - her appetite's unbothered by the smell of burning bodies or by the slaughter, apparently - and so she's ready to go with repairing the road and any structures that need work. 

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The road's the most critical in the broader scheme of things, but there are also some houses that could use a touch-up. Broken windows, collapsed roofs, cracked foundations, that sort of thing.

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All pretty easy for her to fix up. 

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And greatly appreciated by the locals.

As well as a woman in the red and white robes that Bellona has come to recognize as marking her as a Chantry official. She has been following in Bellona's wake, offering comfort and collecting impressions and now is making her way over to talk to Bellona herself.

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She pauses to let the woman catch up. 

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"Hello. You are the one they call Lionheart, yes?" She's an older woman, dark of skin and creased of face. Her accent is similar to Leliana's, but thicker, more flowing.

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"Yeah, that's me. What's your name?"

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"I am Mother Giselle. You have done incredible things, by all accounts."

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"You're the one who asked us to come here, right?"

"And - yeah, I've got abilities that are kinda orthogonal to what's normal in this world. It's been an advantage."

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"I am, yes. And it seems I was right to do so. Your... orthogonal abilities are impressive, both in destruction and creation. It is rare to see that balance."

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"They're both in a way an essential part of what I do - comprehension, deconstruction, reconstruction - though... We tend to say things can't be created or destroyed, only changed."

(She feels... Frazzled, buzzing like she always does after killing people. Talking alchemy and philosophy is a good distraction from it all.)

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"All things in this world are finite," Giselle says, in sort of a sing-song voice. "What one man gains, another has lost." Slight smile, and she continues in a more normal tone, "So it is said in the Canticle of Transfigurations, the lessons left for us by Andraste."

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"I've heard it as Equivalent Exchange, too - that the scales must be balanced on either side of the transmutation, or that 'in order for something to be gained, something of equivalent value must be lost.' Though that's more about... Personal loss and gain, when people apply it to philosophy and not just physics."

"Though ideas like that in general get weird as philosophy and not just physics."

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"Perhaps it is only your perspective on the matter. The Chant says that the Maker spoke the world into being, which would imply that philosophy preceded physics."

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