Spirit Research: Adelaide will encounter a frustrating lack of specificity when it comes to texts dealing with spirits vs demons. Many don't recognize a different between the two at all, and the majority of those that do are interested only in the theoretical and/or philosophical distinctions. There are plenty of texts purporting to reveal ways to remove spirits from people, animals, objects, homes, etc. but very few that claim to be able to cleanse a tainted spirit (though none contemplate that spirit still being within a living being when the cleansing is attempted).
Several she will immediately recognize as hogwash but a couple will provide suggestions worth trying. They will require trial and error and the collection of several rare herbs and minerals (which you are free to make up), as well as the deciphering of at least one complexly encoded formula. Of the rituals worth trying, they range from merely embarrassing to highly dangerous to both caster and subject.
Rift Research: Nobody really knows what happened with the Herald, but if she interviews enough people present at the Conclave she will find one who (convincingly) claims to have seen the Herald emerge from the Fade. What happened when the Herald died sealing the Breach is even more a mystery: the massive hole in the sky sealed, but then there was a flare of blinding light and the Herald was struck down. Corypheus's army attacked in the next moment, and so her body was not examined until it was found and returned to Skyhold for the funeral several weeks later, missing the hand that had held the Anchor. Reports conflict about whether she still had that hand after the flash of light or not.
Experimentation: With the caveat that fear of blood magic and mages' discomfort about the use of phylactery-like objects should keep these from entering common use and potentially stymying plots that are reliant on not being able to find people, we're find with Adelaide developing this device and having one for personal use.
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Several she will immediately recognize as hogwash but a couple will provide suggestions worth trying. They will require trial and error and the collection of several rare herbs and minerals (which you are free to make up), as well as the deciphering of at least one complexly encoded formula. Of the rituals worth trying, they range from merely embarrassing to highly dangerous to both caster and subject.
Rift Research: Nobody really knows what happened with the Herald, but if she interviews enough people present at the Conclave she will find one who (convincingly) claims to have seen the Herald emerge from the Fade. What happened when the Herald died sealing the Breach is even more a mystery: the massive hole in the sky sealed, but then there was a flare of blinding light and the Herald was struck down. Corypheus's army attacked in the next moment, and so her body was not examined until it was found and returned to Skyhold for the funeral several weeks later, missing the hand that had held the Anchor. Reports conflict about whether she still had that hand after the flash of light or not.
Experimentation: With the caveat that fear of blood magic and mages' discomfort about the use of phylactery-like objects should keep these from entering common use and potentially stymying plots that are reliant on not being able to find people, we're find with Adelaide developing this device and having one for personal use.