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- { christine delacroix },
- { clarke griffin },
- { freddie durfort-lacapalette },
- { inessa serra },
- { james norrington },
- { jamie mccrimmon },
- { jim kirk },
- { korrin ataash },
- { leonard church },
- { luwenna coupe },
- { malcolm reed },
- { merrill },
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- { rachette dakal },
- { samouel gareth },
- { the medicine seller },
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- { tyrion lannister },
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OPEN LOG: Establishing a Base in Kirkwall
WHO: Many People
WHAT: Cleaning up Kirkwall
WHEN: Cloudreach 1-21
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: This log post is for characters who go early to Kirkwall to assist in preparing it for the rest of those assigned there. We strongly encourage IC discussion of things left to character discretion—someone should definitely do a crystal post to discuss what to do with the personal belongings left behind in the Gallows or what new form the statues should take!
WHAT: Cleaning up Kirkwall
WHEN: Cloudreach 1-21
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: This log post is for characters who go early to Kirkwall to assist in preparing it for the rest of those assigned there. We strongly encourage IC discussion of things left to character discretion—someone should definitely do a crystal post to discuss what to do with the personal belongings left behind in the Gallows or what new form the statues should take!

The city's complicated past is not easy to forget, history having earmarked many corners of the stone city. A ship approaching the harbor spots the city's namesake: an imposing black wall. It is visible for miles, and carved into the cliff side are a pantheon of vile guardians representing the Old Gods. Over the years, the Chantry has effaced many of these profane sentinels, but it will take many more years to erase them all.
Also carved into the cliff is a channel that permits ships into the city's interior. Flanking the channel are two massive bronze statues—the Twins of Kirkwall. The statues have a practical use. Kirkwall sits next to the narrowest point of the Waking Sea, and a massive chain net can be erected between the statues and the lighthouse, closing off the only narrow navigable lane. This stranglehold on sea traffic is jealously guarded by the ever-changing rulers of the city as the net trolls taxes, tolls, and extortions in from the sea.
—From In Pursuit of Knowledge: The Travels of a Chantry Scholar, by Brother Genitivi
Establishing a presence in Kirkwall is a delicate matter. First, there's Provisional Viscount Bran Cavin—a man so used to batting back friendly offers of entirely harmless occupation of the battered city-state that his first three responses to the Inquisition's leadership appeared to be slightly personalized form letters. Proving that the Inquisition is here to work and not to conquer will be a process. The first step in that process is the second reason the move is delicate: the only building the Provisional Viscount is willing to part with is the Gallows, left quarantined and unoccupied since Knight-Commander Meredith Stannard's famous crystallization into red lyrium in the courtyard. The Gallows have since overgrown with red lyrium. If anyone is going to live and work there, there's a lot of work to do.
↠ Cloudreach 1-3: The Journey There
↠ Cloudreach 3-4: Arrival
↠ Cloudreach 4-14: Haunted
↠ Cloudreach 14-21: Spring Cleaning
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Glancing over briefly, Inessa looks back with a smile and nod. "Yes, that's right. There is no danger, however. He knows to be gentle with those smaller than himself; if he didn't, I would have suffocated long ago." There's no point in being sensitive about her not-at-all impressive height, so she might as well find humor in it. "I'm Inessa. Was I right in hearing that you are Avvar?"
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"Word travels fast in this place for I have not been here. But a short time after the Inquisition arrived it would seem." Honestly she thanked the gods for aiding her with that particular timing so she could help with this transition as best as she could.
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"You aren't unwelcome, though. Far from it, your healing skills have been mentioned and we are always in need, in that respect." Her gaze shifts to the fennec, fond and curious. "What is the fennec's name?"
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"He has guided me to where I am but we are still learning how our paths cross."
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Not just for the fennec, either. Inessa remembers just enough for it not to be completely alien to her, but an Avvar woman likely has no such context. It's worth noting, so that her and others in her position don't fall through the cracks.
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"I had always heard of lowlander approaches to matters but to see them is perhaps more confusing that having heard of it." Part of the reason why she'd limited herself for a bit. To allow herself to adapt. She'd already thrown herself into a big enough change not that long ago just by exiling herself.
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It seemed fair to explain where her confusion had come from in the first place. "You have my thanks for making things clear as you did."
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That's said a little apologetically, hoping the woman doesn't feel too lonely for it.
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She could only imagine the awkwardness that would be bred from such a talk. If a talk would even start.
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And in all honesty she really had nowhere else to go.
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As for the fennec, he was far from tame so he shied away at first from Inessa before cautiously leaning forward to sniff at her hand. Kattrin explained the reaction. "He is still wild for I have never tamed him. He is my guide in all of this now but still in the body of an animal. If you give him a moment to get used to you being near he will allow touch."
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Not that she truly wants to be called either, but if she had to pick, fennecs seem more charming to her.
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"They do call elves terrible things in the lowlands." She frowned at the fact. Why they would decide to single out elves in such a manner was beyond her. Beyond her former people as well. "They have less than favorable views of the Avvar too though."
Not that her own former people were always much better when it came to lowlanders, of course. Nor would she ever claim them to be.
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"With any luck, the necessity of the Inquisition in Kirkwall will keep tensions to a minimum."
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"How long have the Wardens been with the Inquisition?"
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Her tone is mild, as is her demeanor, though there's a spark of...something in her eyes as she recalls all that.
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