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

[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?