set your heart against the scales, keep your head above the tide

[dashing]

WHO: Ambassador Amsel & others
WHAT: a Herian catch-all
WHEN: through the month
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: closed and open starters to be added through the month, I have a hideous cold atm and am even more forgetful than usual, so if we have discussed something and I've neglected to follow up or set something up, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Comments

[dashing]

Yes.

( Okay, good, this isn't going disastrously. )

Brother Jehan is looking to the questions, but I am sure he would be glad of input from both of us in developing the questions to be asked, and there will be room to branch away from it and learn from people and let them feel confident to be open. The Inquisition has much to learn.

[rathercommon]

[ Kitty actually lets loose a small smile - an uncommon look for her - and shakes her head. ]

I'd gladly do it. Though - [ A little more seriously - ] I'm going to say something if the questions seem - you know - leading, or invasive. Sometimes these questions, they can be used to try to change people's minds or abuse 'em into agreeing. And I won't stand for something like that.

[dashing]

Good. We need to learn about people, not... invade, as you say. Their comfort and security is important.

[rathercommon]

[ Of course, "don't be invasive" is a little rich, coming from Little Miss What Are Boundaries over here. ]

Brilliant. Than I'm absolutely in. Who's the other one, the one you mentioned? John?

[dashing]

Jehan. A Chantry brother who works with the Inquisition. I requested he take the assignment as part of the Chantry Relations project. We are not yet greatly familiar with one another, but he is a man in good standing with the Chantry and with a sharp mind. His views are not conservative by the standards of Thedas... from what I have learned from rifters, though, is that many from other worlds consider those with views in keeping with much of Thedas as backwards and... small minded.

( A little shake of her head. )

I do not wish to see any made more wary by this. Thedas and rifters need to come together, not... alienate one another.

[rathercommon]

[ With a wrinkle of her nose: ]

Never mind that everyone has their share of views that are backwards and small-minded.

Anyway - I'm definitely all for something like this. I'm tired of things getting set on fire just because people won't listen to other people. It's stupid and frustrating. So yeah, show me how to help.

[dashing]

Certainly.

( And then there's how condescending and invasive she finds it that some rifters think themselves more one with the elves of this world than a human with elven lineage.

And old injury, but one she cannot easily forget. )

I will introduce you to Brother Jehan later today, if that is to your convenience.

[rathercommon]

Sure. Erm - how...prickly is he?

[ Translation: how diplomatic does she have to be, because it's not exactly one of her skills. ]

[dashing]

He is...

( . . . )

Classically Orlesian. ( For better and worse. ) I would not say prickly so much as conservative. He is friends with some bold and playful personalities.

[rathercommon]

What does "Orlesian" mean?

[dashing]

Ah.

( Hmm. )

Orlais is a country here, unfortunately stereotyped based on the attitudes of its human nobility. Arrogant and... narrow minded, and often absurd or concerned with things that do not matter to common folk.

[rathercommon]

So - he's narrow-minded himself?