#just how small and unprotected surana is in that room of armoured men always make me feel some type of way. leave her the fuck alone

[vigilskeep]

okay so let’s talk about the logistics of the harrowing for a second. a student is retrieved from a crowded dormitory in the dead of night and no-one ever notices them go; they wake up to find them returned, unconscious or not at all. is spellcasting involved to maintain silence? it must be, if templars collect them in heavy armour, and it is a templar who brings surana/amell to the harrowing chamber in the opening cutscene. there’s always been something uniquely skin-crawling to me about the fact that apprentices are expected to be woken in the middle of the night and go along with these summons without question or protest, and that they do