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[historicals]

hawke but a dudebro this time

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[historicals]

Oh, no....

[ he looks sympathetic immediately... poor guy. ]

I'm so sorry, Ser Hawke. Do you want to talk about it...?

[nonmagicuser]

[ looks over whatever textbook he's pulled out to be incredibly absorbed in ]

Whatever you do, don't accept the chocolates.

[historicals]

[ i hope it's upside down ]

Duly noted... at least we know where it came from, now.

[nonmagicuser]

[ absolutely. he's learning a lot on.......... astrophysics. yeah! just don't ask him to repeat anything he's learned ]

T'is a cruel and unjust punishment to use one's sweet tooth against them. At least books are nice and simple........ and have the potential to swindle your mind and sell your soul- but that's not here anyway.

[historicals]

Oh, I'm sure it could be. [ here. why wouldn't there be books that could swindle your mind and sell your soul. ]

Information is an incredibly powerful tool. How a nation or state wields it makes it a weapon -whether that information is truth, or lies. Without context and corroboration, books can be published full of lies, and people who do not look further will never even know.

[ a pause because

that's kind of a weird thing to say. ]

Not - that I partake in those or anything! It is moreso just an area of interest of mine. The elimination of such things as opposed to the creation of them.

[nonmagicuser]

[ just blinks ever so bemusedly at taair ]

I couldn't tell.

[historicals]

[ stressed

great human person interaction taair ]

...haha...

[nonmagicuser]

[ you're doing great, kid ]

Keeping that information... well, "accurate" is half the struggle I'd think. One can write whatever they will and say it's simply from their point of view. Say, to make one a hero- or a villain of their story.

[ wryly, mostly to himself ]

And somehow it's always the tallest of tales that spread the farthest.

[historicals]

[ unfortunately this is his special interest ]

Mm. You're precisely right. Especially if there are only so many actors who can write or read - if the populace does not have access to the written word, they only have the word of those with enough wealth or power to afford tutors to rely on. Some have good intentions, but many others do not.

[ there's a graveness in his words, as he looks out on the festival for a moment. ]

It is what makes learning so important - and what makes it imperative for those stories that aggrandize one side or erase another to be contested. Propaganda is a foul tool.

[ there's a beat. ]

It sounds as if perhaps you might have some personal experience with tall tales, ser...?

[nonmagicuser]

[ haaaaaaaa ]

A friend of mine is a writer. His most well known series is based on my life.