Cadash Thaig and the Lights of Arlathan

[mythalenaste]

WHO: Sina, Velanna, Morrigan, Shale, Katniss, and Pel
WHAT: Finding an ancient elven magic and the history of a dwarven thaig.
WHEN: Forward-dated to the 17th
WHERE: Cadash Thaig
NOTES: Some violence, but only against darkspawn. Well. Darkspawn are a warning too.

The journey to the thaig provides few encounters with darkspawn, which are handily dealt with. That's the best thing to be said about it. Pel has never been in the Deep Roads before. It's actually sort of nice, she thinks. In the Deep Roads, there are usually only two directions from which you can be attacked. There's something reassuring and secure about that. It's also missing sounds of life, aside from life that wants to kill you. Fewer guessing games to be played about what caused that sound. Other than that, it's a bleak, dead place with occasional breathtaking architecture. Modern elves don't really have architecture. It's fascinating to see it, when she can.

They arrive at the thaig and it's...surprisingly green. How in the world a place that has never seen the sun can have this much green, she has no idea. There's no mistaking it for the surface, of course, but it's a comforting color to see.

Comments

[mythalenaste]

"And less...architecture. Though I suppose that was a foolish assumption, since. Dwarves."

[the_effect_she_has]

"Heh. I've only ever been in the outside of Orzammar before this. I knew they could build -- I just never knew they built like this." She looks around, wistful. "Do you know how long we could have held out against the darkspawn if we had these kind of constructions?"

[mythalenaste]

"You're well-travelled, for city folk."

Yes, Katniss is from the country. But everyone is city folk to Pel.

[the_effect_she_has]

Katniss is going to arch an eyebrow at that, but, well yeah. Dalish.

"I only went twice. Once as a birthday treat for myself and Prim, before my father passed. It allowed him to do a fair bit of trading as well - they pay a lot for furs in Orzammar. The other time ... well the other time was during the worst of the fighting in the mage and templar war in the Hinterlands. We had no food, no healing herbs. Orzammar was the only place you could trade without being attacked by either side."

No one was going to mess with the dwarves on their front step, after all.

[mythalenaste]

"I'd think surface dwarves might have been just as well. They'd've been selling lyrium to both sides anyway."

[the_effect_she_has]

"... that. Is an excellent point. Maker's breath, what war profiteers they are."