[Open] Drinks with a King

[conqueredhearts]

WHO: Iskandar and whoever joins him
WHAT: Iskandar has been matching Thedas months to Earth months and is guessing this is around a certain time of year. So he's hear to hold a memorial of sorts.
WHEN: Beginning of Justinian
WHERE: The docks
NOTES: Talk of death and dying. Note this is not a suicide content warning.

This wasn't the Okeanos of his dreams but he felt it would satisfy the time. That was to say he'd been figuring out how the months of this world might line up with those of his own world and had come up with the fact that his might be around Earth's June. The very same month historians had figured out he'd died at the age of thirty-two. Much had happened since that time but he felt that this was a day to honor something. Not him, of course, he had plenty of that already. No today was for those who had died living under his rule.

So he sat at the edge of the docks with a number of wine bottles around him. A couple were empty already to mark how much time had passed since he'd come out here. Around his neck was a small cat who had decided this was his favorite location to sleep even when Iskandar wasn't wearing his cloak. It was just nice to have a solid place to snooze apparently. Also there was a mabari pup next to him, sitting there as if trying to mimic the man in being calm. Not well though considering he kept wiggling about.

Iskandar chuckled and looked over his shoulder, having become aware that he wasn't alone. "Hello there. Would you care to join me? I am honoring the dead with a little memorial of sorts. You are welcome to think of your own lost ones if you like."

Comments

[gatheringstorm]

"That you did! Almost qunari-like." She chuckles, more at ease than she's been in a while. It won't last, but...it's nice to have the burden lifted temporarily. "I had early growth spurts. It lead to people thinking I was older than I was, which was fun, except that merc groups tried to recruit me and my parents turned them down. I was so pissed. I was so ready to get in on the action, why did I have to wait?"

[conqueredhearts]

"Mm. I understand. But at least you can fight now! It lets you make up for lost times." That had to count for something in his mind. Then again he was so easy going that this made perfect sense to him. "You know, I should find a way to meet more Qunari. I get compared to them quite often with my size."

[gatheringstorm]

"You know Taas, right? He counts. As for others, there aren't a lot of qunari in the Inquisition, especially stationed here, but you'll find some Tal-Vashoth in the city. Mostly they stick to Lowtown or the docks. Nobles will bitch up a storm if they go past the Hightown markets, nothing new there." Korrin shrugs her shoulders, rolling her eyes a little as she reaches for the wine again.

[conqueredhearts]

"The nobles could use a shake up honestly. Much could be accomplished if they looked beyond their noses towards problems that are current rather than past. Then again, I could say that about much that I see." He shook his head slowly then sighed. "But I am not King nor do I have plans of conquering this place now."

With that he smiled. "But I can do my best to get them to change their minds by befriending them!"

[gatheringstorm]

"I'm being completely serious when I say this; if anyone could make that happen, it'd be you." Or Josephine, but it'd be even better if it were Iskandar himself. They could see for their own eyes that rifters aren't demons to be feared.

[conqueredhearts]

"Well I shall know that if there is a call for another vote of some kind I may have one in your favor." He gave her a wink then enjoyed a long drink from his bottle. When he set it down, he was sighing. "For now my focus is to just enjoy this world. To know it. To learn from it. To help it. In any way I can."