[semi-open] Solas Returns

[singularwill]

WHO: Solas, open to: the Advisors, the Inner Circle, and peeps who want CR that have checked with me first. Hit me up here if you aren't sure
WHAT: Solace returns to Skyhold
WHEN: Drakonis 25 and onward
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: general warning for eggheads

Advisors

He brought the Rifters to the castle, but spent little time getting them acquainted, other than introducing them to a few of the scouts, who then were told to show them around the castle and find out who they were supposed to report to.

Solas had his own reports to make. And his own questions.

So when he burst into the War Room, mid-meeting, he was already starting on them before anyone had the chance to question him.

"Exactly how many shard bearers does the Inquisition have? I have just brought four with me, and I have heard rumours of the others, but--"


Inner Circle/Previous CR

He also made careful note to visit the others of the Inner Circle, whether or not he was personally fond of him. He needed to be brought fully up to date with the workings of the Inquisition, and the Herald's original Inner Circle were the best way to ascertain that.

So he sought each out, wherever they could be found, and offered a greeting. Some more formal than others.


[ooc: just go ahead and set up where they are and I'll have Solas approach them individually. Cass: you can have a post-advisor thread for one-on-one if you like!]


For Everyone Else

[Contact me OOC and I can set you up an individual starter.]

Comments

[fleurdesel]

"It takes anywhere from three to five shard-bearers working in tandem to close a rift. This much I have seen." Whereas the Herald had been able to do so on her own- or so she has been told. Adelaide flipped through her notes again, frowning down on what little she had on the Herald and her mark. Her anchor. "I feared they might make rifters susceptible to possession or demonic influence but found little to support that fear."

Thank the Maker for small blessings.

"But they still offer a physical danger. The shard, when active, stopped Sina's heart. She could not breathe. Most may only be on hands but how long until it does more than simply ache? None have reported lingering discomfort or numbness." If he could, and did, handle the abstract, she might handle the physical. Look at this with a physician's eyes first and foremost. Gently- as much as she was capable of speaking kindly to someone she did not know well or of a woman she never met, Adelaide murmured. "Evelyn."

[singularwill]

"Yes."

Evelyn.

A grief he had never expected, or wanted, but that slotted along with so many others that he had carried for so long.

He finally pulled her notes toward himself, glancing over them with a small frown.

"It is impossible to say, when or how they will flare up, but I would not suggest complacency on the matter. The Anchor itself was incredibly volatile, but seemed to calm, once the Breach was quieted. I am afraid we will simply have to wait and see, what damage these will do to their hosts."

[fleurdesel]

"...My condolences." She couldn't think of anyone in the Herald's inner circle that hadn't been cut deeply to hear of her death. As much as the night of the Wake ended violently for her in particular-

Many grieved and yet carried that pain.

"Around rifts or around veilfire. I have attempted to keep notes of the size and shape of the shards- those that have used them to close rifts and those that have not seem to show no true difference. But for some it has only been a few weeks, others? Months. There is too much here that I do not know."

[singularwill]

"Thank you."

It was a simple acceptance, and given with nothing more than a slight nod. But it was a recognition all the same.

He had forgotten, how he would have to deal with her memory on his return. The fact that something so fresh could bite so deep never failed to surprise him. But there were wounds far older, and far deeper, that it only scratched the surface.

"It is a magic that is far older than anything we know, and with almost no record of its existence, let alone its use. It will take time, to compile the knowledge necessary. We will simply have to work with what we have, while we do."

[fleurdesel]

"Which more than likely means Tevinter, some manner of antiquated Elven magic, Avvar, Dwarven though that is terribly unlikely, or something else that has been lost to time or deliberately erased out of idiocy - and probably why there are no records. 'Declare a group heretic', says the chantry, 'destroy all their books, it cannot possibly bite us in the future.'" The control and compartmentalization of relevant information when by all rights it ought to have been spread and preserved was an old bone with the Chantry Adelaide had picked time and again.

Of course now it may or may not be connected to the ending of the world, so whatever dregs of smug satisfaction she might have felt for being right were short-lived. "I could say I have done more with less, but that would be a lie."