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Entry tags:
- ! open,
- { adelaide leblanc },
- { alayre sauveterre },
- { anders },
- { araceli bonaventura },
- { benevenuta thevenet },
- { bruce banner },
- { christine delacroix },
- { cullen rutherford },
- { dorian pavus },
- { ellana ashara },
- { fenris },
- { garris vakrie },
- { gavin ashara },
- { james norrington },
- { jamie mccrimmon },
- { kallian endris },
- { kas },
- { katniss everdeen },
- { korrin ataash },
- { leonard church },
- { maria hill },
- { martel },
- { maxwell trevean },
- { mia rutherford },
- { morrigan },
- { nerva lecuyer },
- { rachette dakal },
- { sabine },
- { salvatore },
- { samouel gareth },
- { samwise gamgee },
- { siuona dahlasanor },
- { taashath },
- { twisted fate },
- { zevran arainai }
OPEN: this will be a better year
WHO: Everyone
WHAT: First Day
WHEN: Wintermarch 1 (forward-dated)
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Scouts from both the Western Approach and Emprise du Lion are welcome (but not required) to have returned to Skyhold in time for this event.
WHAT: First Day
WHEN: Wintermarch 1 (forward-dated)
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Scouts from both the Western Approach and Emprise du Lion are welcome (but not required) to have returned to Skyhold in time for this event.

There have been better First Day feasts, and less crowded ones, and cheerier ones. It isn't a good year for many to look back on, and this one isn't starting any better. Reports from both Eastern and Western Orlais are grim. Many in the Inquisition can't afford to take more than a few hours away from their work, if that.
But for those who can, the ambassador does her best. At lunchtime some tables, hot food, and finery are reserved for visiting nobility and wealthy pilgrims--cause for grumbling in some quarters, perhaps, but they're the people filling the Inquisition's coffers, and allowances must be made--but there's plenty of stew, bread, and ale for everyone, even with the soldiers and refugees who stay outside the fortress invited inside for the holiday. The recently repaired garden and its carefully tended plants aren't off limits, but anyone noisy and holding a drink will be stopped at the door; the battlements, with their potential for deadly falls, are blocked by Inquisition guards. But the courtyards brim with people, most of them happy despite the possibility that the world might end before another First Day arrives.
If the courtyards are too full of tipsy visitors for comfort, there's also the valley beyond the fortress, expansive, barren, and covered in snow. By the river the soldiers help the refugees make a bonfire larger than would ever be allowed inside Skyhold's walls, and some lend their shields to use as sleds down the embankments. A group of scouts start the most intense game of hide and seek Thedas has ever seen, with snowballs to the face for whoever is found first. In the camp, a refugee girl with her hand wrapped in a green scarf chases other children around the tents, shouting raaar, I'm from the rifts!
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"Korrin! Andaran atish’an, it's good to see you well. How was your mission?" She tried to remember where it was that Korrin had been placed--Emprise du Lion, she was pretty sure. All that she'd heard from there had not been particularly pleasant (not that the other option was much better).
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"Shanedan, Beleth. It's good to see you, too, after all this time." It's been...weeks? Something like that. Much of the past month has blurred together, giving her a skewed perspective of time. "The mission was awful, but we made a good case for the Inquisition heading out there en masse. I wouldn't be surprised if that announcement comes any day not. The area's a damned mess, and we can't begin to fix it soon enough."
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But Korrin's arrival prompted a memory from Beleth, and she reached her hand out. It would be better to speak to her privately. Or as privately as they could get, in the middle of a party. "Well, we're all here for now, and we should celebrate! Would you like to dance with me?"
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The offer of a dance is a pleasant surprise and Korrin takes the hand with a smile, that tension leaving her for now. "I would love to dance with you, of course. And I hope you don't mind my asking for news on what I've missed." Not necessarily the abomination; she knows about that, but other things."
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Though her previous partners had been...shorter.
"Well, the most interesting news--" She glanced around, but the people around them were busy in their own dances. "--You didn't hear this from me, mind, but you remember how we talked about if the templars were going to have a meeting, someone would need to eavesdrop on them? Well, guess who just recently had a very secret meeting, no one but templars allowed?"
Pause. "It wasn't the Dalish, if it helps."
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That particular news has Korrin raising her eyebrows; so the Templars finally got off their asses and organized. She'd bet anything it has to do with that new Knight-Commander. A slow grin forms as that idle discussion from earlier has apparently borne fruit. "No, never. And what happened during this very secret meeting? Aside from Nerva complaining about the mages, that's a given."
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"The new Knight-Commander, Norrington. He's got a pretty good head on his shoulders, too. He seemed downright reasonable. I think the biggest things of note were that..." She frowned a little, glancing off to the side. "They don't like the new version of Harrowings. They're going to ask for Templars to be present, at least. And they want the mage council to be punished if another abomination happens. Some suggested that they be dissolved, but it was pointed out that it would be impossible for the Inquisition to do that. But they feel like another incident would be the fault of the mage council for not taking enough measure to avoid it."
That was, at least, as much as Korrin would probably be worried about. And that wouldn't get revealed before too long.
"I'm only telling a few people what I heard. The bulk of the decisions, they'll probably announce soon enough. But I think that a few people should know what's going on behind the scenes. You can use it as leverage, if you want." Not that Korrin seemed interested in the politics of the Inquisition, but a few extra secrets never hurt.
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She sighs, trying to continue the dance and not raise her voice while ranting. "Adelaide should be made aware of this. If you haven't told her, I can do it. I'd rather not have her be unprepared when the Templars try to steamroll us with their demands."
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She waits a few moments, debating whether or not to reveal another piece of information, more personal to her. "And, ah. Don't bring me into it, okay? The Templars are already mad enough at me. One of them caught me, and ended up dragging me out of bed to go work in the stables. Can you believe that?" She frowns, rubbing the back of her neck. "Although, I guess they'll know it was me, no matter what. Maybe I'll start sleeping on the roof."
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For Korrin's part, she's just venting to vent. Her ire stays directed at the Templars, though she realizes that might be ruining the spirit of celebration and -tries- to do down a bit. That last part brings forth a concerned frown.
"Dragged you? They have no right! They don't have sanction to deal with anyone but their own, or so I thought. I promised I wouldn't start anything, but if they target you? I'm not letting you face their crap alone."
What, it's a perfectly valid loophole.
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"I don't--I mean. I just wanted you to know, so you can make plans. So no one can catch you surprised. I wasn't planning on it being a...thing." She takes a moment from the dance to slide a hand through her hair, looking worried. "Just be careful, alright? The mage and Templar war just ended. We don't need another one, and we don't need it to start here."
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"I know, and I'm not planning on starting anything. If they do, though, I want to be prepared. So I appreciate whatever you tell me, Beleth. I'll be careful, but Nerva still had no right to do what she did. Don't expect me to be happy about that. You deserve better."
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"Thank you, Korrin. I just feel like--" She hesitated, then decided that Korrin was probably okay to talk about with it. Hopefully she didn't mind a feelings dump. "--Everyone thinks it's my fault. Either for spying, or getting caught spying. And I mean. I guess it is." It usually is her fault, when things go wrong. If she'd worked harder, they wouldn't have gone wrong, would they? "It just worries me. Everyone thinks it's just silly now, but Nerva told me that I'm lucky she didn't throw me in the dungeons. What about next time? What about the next time the Templars get mad and think it's okay to put their hands all over a Dalish because they did something they don't like?"
She isn't helping that whole calming down thing, but it's hard when she starts letting herself think about What if.
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She shrugged when Korrin reminded her of the qunari's involvement. "You hardly twisted my arm. I wanted to know, too, and it would've been a right mess if a mage had done it and gotten caught, could you imagine? I don't regret the eavesdropping, I just regret getting caught." Hopefully moving where she slept would stop that from happening. Zevran had taken care of that, too.