closed.

[exequy]

WHO: Beleth Ashara, Kit Gandir, Kostos Averesch, and Nikos Averesch.
WHAT: Mopping up a spill
WHEN: Firstfall 10
WHERE: Antiva City
NOTES: Violence cw! OOC post! Private plurk! And if anyone wants to do their own errands/exploring in Antiva City before or after the main event, feel free to make your own threads here or in separate logs.

Several days ago, a wealthy merchant in Antiva and rumored lover of one of King Fulgeno's sons, Brianda de Trueva, was killed in her home. An Inquisition banner was left pointedly stabbed into the wall above her body. At the same time, an Inquisition agent embedded in Antiva City stopped responding to communication attempts.

The agent, known as Vintner, is an elven woman and trained assassin originally from Orlais, though she's known to be skilled at masking her accent. She's also a sharp shot with a bow, capable of throwing knives with reasonable accuracy, and well-versed in poisons. She'd previously been tasked with monitoring a number of targets and gathering evidence to confirm theories of their involvement in red lyrium trade or slave trafficking. No such confirmation has been made, but the dead merchant was the one the Inquisition was closest to being able to outright accuse of committing a crime. Others on the list include two Merchant Princes and other prominent figures with close ties to the Princes or to the royal family.

Antiva maintains a tangle of of alliances and treaties sufficient to oblige most of Thedas to declare war against anyone who threatens it, and it could be disastrous for the Inquisition to be viewed as an aggressor. Accordingly, a team is being sent to intercept the agent—with deadly force if necessary—before she can do any further damage.