"Because I needed you to know the severity of what we face,"  Lana said, looking first at Korbin and then at Ellion.  She had missed him in the time she had been away, but now that part of her ached more than ever.  Here he was just a few feet from her and it was clear they had re-indoctrinated him to a point that he did not really remember what they were to each other.  She expected no less from Greagoir, he likely would have done it to others for simply looking kindly at a mage, but she had hoped maybe Ellion had somehow avoided that sort of punishment.<br/><br/>"If I sent a courier, you might have been more concerned with tracing them back to me than the contents of the scrolls.  Your predecessor would have been.  He would have made catching me his life's work and considered the courier a way of taunting him."  She said, hoping that Korbin was a reasonable man who understood the gravity of the situation they faced.<br/><br/>Lana's features shifted from slight defiance to slight defeat.  "You don't have to let me go.  I am not asking that.  If you wish to have another phylactery made, I won't fight you...so long as you let me figure out this puzzle and stop the person who is trying to turn Thedas into a world of nightmares.  I know you will be tempted to send only Templars but once Irving looks those scrolls over he will come to the same conclusion I did...."  She sucked in a breath and blew it out again.<br/><br/>"Neither you nor I can fight this alone.  To stop this threat, we will need both the power of the Templars and the power of mages. "  She looked to Ellion and then back to Korbin.  "I think it would be unwise to send a large hunting party right now...but we could send a smaller force, a mage, a Templar.  I can take one of your Templars back to where I found these artifacts near Starkhaven.  You can notify Prince Sebastian that we will be in his lands on Chantry business.  He was once a brother in Kirkwall, I am sure he will help us with whatever we need to see this done. "  Unlike King Alistair, Prince Sebastian of Starkhaven was not a friend to mages.  In fact, she heard he held a particular grudge against the mage Anders and Lana was not sure she could blame him.  Anders had blown up the Chantry in Kirkwall and worsened everyone's lives for it.<br/><br/>"And this may be pushing it, but I would ask that perhaps you consider sending Ellion.  If your Templars believe me to be a blood mage, they will likely kill me if they even so much as think I'm about to be trouble...He is the only one I trust to stay his hand."