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driftfleet2015-04-07 07:56 pm
twocomplex) wrote in driftfleet2015-04-07 07:56 pm
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Waystation Mingle Log!
Who: GAME-WIDE MINGLE aka everyone
Broadcast: If you want
Action: The Stations!
When: From 04/05 through the month of April.
[Well, that all sure happened. But at least you have the waystations! Whether you want to stock up on supplies, work, trade, or visit the very fancy Virtual Reality Dome, it's bound to be a nice break from the attacks of the 5th.
Make your own prompts, set up your own Virtual Realities, etc! For reference, the OOC post with info is over here!]
Broadcast: If you want
Action: The Stations!
When: From 04/05 through the month of April.
[Well, that all sure happened. But at least you have the waystations! Whether you want to stock up on supplies, work, trade, or visit the very fancy Virtual Reality Dome, it's bound to be a nice break from the attacks of the 5th.
Make your own prompts, set up your own Virtual Realities, etc! For reference, the OOC post with info is over here!]
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[Seated as she is on the throne, she shouldn't feel as uncomfortable with this as she does. Maybe it's the fact that she failed so spectacularly when it came to Tek, that someone that's supposed to be leading the fight for good would lead fight directly to an innocent party. One day the guilt from what she did to Tek will fade, but it hasn't yet. It may take months.]
If you have any questions...
[He's got an open invitation to ask whatever he might want to.]
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What exactly is it that you're ruling?
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[But she can't really deny it. Politics are certainly something she's been forced to handle.]
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And I have been accused of being excellent for politics, so take it as you will.
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[Maybe she's exaggerating, or maybe it really is the sort of tale that requires comfortable seating and perhaps a snack or two. It's hard to tell with the mild look she's giving him.]
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[shrugging his makeshift robe up more comfortably around his shoulders, he wanders closer to the throne.]
How much do you enjoy telling stories? Because, I love listening to them.
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The Dalish are led by our Keeper, who, as the name might suggest, keeps the stories of our people in their heart so that the rest of our culture isn't lost. They know the creation stories and the stories of our history, and they pass the knowledge on to the children of the clan so none of us forget. Telling stories is, in part, there duty to their clan.
Before I became the Inquisitor, I was going to be a Keeper of my own clan. Telling stories is something I've been raised to do.
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We might get along better.
[he's just going to go right out and throw that out there, with an odd, sharp-toothed little smile.]
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There are many Dalish clans, and few of them act in the same way. Some make more permanent camps, but some travel constantly for fear of humans catching them. They're rarely kind to our people, as you know.
[She's made that clear enough with him in the past, the way she doesn't think very highly of humans and the way they treat those they view as lesser.]
Some clans are curious about the things humans have planned, however. In our world there was a war between mages and the group that had been charged to keep watch over them, the Templars. The shemlen [humans, his augment will tell him.] keep their mages in towers to keep them safe, or to keep the world safe from them, and the Templars watch them at all times.
As you can probably imagine, living their entire lives in a tower with the threat of being murdered in cold blood should they lose control of their power, it wasn't a pleasant life for many mages. Some tried to escape, some tried to bring down their towers. The Templars responded by killing any who resisted them. This went on for years, and mage rights was a topic heavily on the minds of the humans of Thedas.
Eventually, it was too much for them and the mages rebelled. The war started in earnest then with them openly attacking and killing each other, so a holy woman called for a meeting of mages and Templars to end the killing.
[But she had started with the Dalish, and now she makes her way back to them, bringing this portion of the story full circle.]
One Dalish clan saw the importance of this meeting, knowing it would be the turning point for all people in Thedas, not just humans. It was a war that could bring the world to its knees, and there would be no way for the elven people to avoid the conflict. So, the Keeper of this clan sent her First, her apprentice, to spy on the conclave.
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he seems for all the world to be a patient and perfect audience.]
...Is this where I am to guess that you enter the story?
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No one expected an attack on this meeting of peace, of course, but every story must have a turning point. There was a holy woman there, you see, that the entire realm looked to for answers. If anyone could bring the fighting to a stop, it would be her.
[Now the smile fades, and Jove turns her attention to one of the wall hangings instead of watching Tek.]
She was murdered in cold blood to power an old Elven artifact at that meeting. The villain of our story sacrificed her hoping to gain the power to rip open the heavens and become a god in his own right, but his plan was ruined when the spy was the one to claim the power of the artifact first. The explosion when she touched it killed everyone present except for her and left a tear in the sky that let all the demons and monsters held out of the world poor in.
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he's simply listening to the story, and watching her tell it.]
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In my world there's a place called the Fade, and the only time a person goes there is if they're dreaming... or they've died. And still the spy found herself there, only escaped when a woman made of light reached out her hand and pushed her back into the world of the living. She should have died with the rest of the Conclave, but a human holy figure saved her.
No one believed her at first, of course. Surely a wild Dalish mage who had survived such a terrible explosion was the cause of it, even if she was slowly being killed by the mark the artifact had left on her hand. It pulsed in time with the hole in the sky and it was slowly draining her. The pain was incredible, but it was nothing when compared with the fear she felt when she was paraded in chains in front of humans who only wanted her to die to pay for their losses.
She was certain that if the mark didn't kill her, the humans would. That was, of course, until she saved them all. When she was dragged to the rift she was able to seal it, to stop the flood of demons, and from then on she was no longer just a heathen elf from the woods. Now she was chosen by their holy woman Andraste, their savior. The Herald of Andraste, they called her.
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[and he lifts his chin in her direction, maybe toward the throne specifically, and her place on it.]
Is that where the story ends?
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Not even close. That was the very beginning. And technically, the ending hasn't been written yet.