[closed] player plot: the making of a villain

[ebeje]

WHO: Max, Kitty, Nikos, Loki, Hanzo
WHAT: Breaking and entering
WHEN: Now
WHERE: Minrathous
NOTES: Slavery cw, blood magic likely. Top-levels to be added as we go.

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[ebeje]

Max, of Nascere. [ No house. No rank. Not even truly from Nascere, nor Tevene at all if her accent is anything to go by. And yet, she comports herself as if none of those things are sufficient to stand in her way. Sometimes the truth is as interesting as any fiction — and she would like to interest him. ] Not so strange, I think. I had only just arrived in Kirkwall before the Inquisition turned us northward again.

But it has been some time since I have been back to Minrathous. [ the words are a note wistful, the shadow of a secret held just out of view. ] It is not so unwelcome, to see again the things one once loved — even at the risk of getting a little singed.

[hwaaaitsme]

Hmmm, and you love Minrathous?

[He would not have taken her for a mage but, in truth, mages outside of Tevinter baffle him a bit. They are hard to identify and harder still to identify with--but if she is not a mage, then there are more questions about her being back in Minrathous. Questions about her wistfulness.

Color him curious.]

Tell me, did you come for the diplomacy? I know many came because the thought of seeing the forbidden Capitol of the evil empire is, for lack of a better word, alluring...but if you know it already?

Nostalgia, perhaps, brings you back? It is a very long walk for nostalgia's sake.

[ebeje]

I am not so sentimental, [ she says, in that tone that says she might well be, but at least won't be admitting it. There's sentimental, and then there's walking all the way to Tevinter for a social call. ] Our mission here is important. Success could change all of our fortunes.

[ ...That said. She takes a sip of her wine. ]

But there are those here who were dear to me, when last I was here, who I might wish to see again. [ A slight, sad shrug. ] Unfortunately, it seems she was not graced with an invitation tonight.