#v:da.

the hidden ones should go and infiltrate skyhold to monitor/possibly kill the inquisitor and by hidden ones i mean basim

dragon age crows techniques are in fact not exclusives to the crows who are neither the only nor the first assassin guild in thedas—the hidden ones employ similar tactics with some structural differences, namely the fact that they are not for hire (their cause is purely ideological, they fight for the liberation of people across the continent and they preach a form of self-government that is closer to anarchy), they do not buy children (but they DO exploit situations of deep vulnerability and manipulate them so that recruitment is presented as the only, at times the safest, option), they use signature weapons and perform almost ritualistic killings, they have an apical structure where there is a mentor who takes decisions for all and, in most cases, you have not heard of them—they developed in tevinter, where their main stronghold is located, although they branched out far beyond its borders. basim himself is from the tevinter branch, although he traveled extensively as an agent in foreign countries

as a rivaini, jack does not believe possession to be an intrinsically bad thing—there were some mages among the pirates he knew growing up, he heard they would sometimes let themselves be possessed and it seemed fun to him rather than dangerous. it's why he wasn't particularly fazed when the demon he made a deal with offered to save his life with the sole condition of jack surrendering his bodily autonomy after fifteen years, it seemed quite beneficial until it started dawning on him what that entailed. still, the notion of 'abomination' does not exist in his book and if you call him that he'd laugh in your face