sending crystal;

[inagutterson]

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Yngvi
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Dwarf stuff
WHEN: Nowish
WHERE: Kirkwall; lurking about some dark corner
NOTES: possible tw for questionable child-rearing and discussions of violence

Right, gotta ask since it's been nigglin' me like a loose tooth for a bit now Inquisition, what d'you all know about dwarves? Rifters you don't get a free pass unless you fell out the skies yesterday, s'not like we're a rare sight but, y'know, 'specially since we've been here a while now and-- [there's a little edge to his voice, he coughs to clear that, can't sound like he gives a shit, just the damp and the smoke lingering yeah?] you've been with lots of dwarves. Lot of my family even!

Might get invited to Sunday dinner if you play your cards right but word to the wise, maybe don't? Politely decline. But not too polite yeah? [Don't know what you'll be served on a Darktown dinner table do you now?]

Comments

[circleprodigy]

I'm mostly aware of dwarven lore as it pertains to the Grey Wardens; hence, the Legion of the Dead. They accept those from any caste and hold their own funerals before dedicating the rest of their lives toward fighting darkspawn.

[inagutterson]

Yeah. Yeah let's accept the Casteless because what a good way to just slide the problem under a mat. Get rid of the Darkspawn and get rid of some Casteless at the same time.

[Do people ever sort of stop and think, maybe substitute some words about how if maybe it was a thing accepting elves to go off and fight monsters and tell the whole world they were dead first? Tastes like hot coppery acid when he thinks that, right down in the marrow of him.]

[circleprodigy]

And anyone else who is inconvenient to dwarven society, I assume. I can certainly see casteless bearing the brunt of it, though. Those without resources or respect always do.

[It doesn't escape her how many have joined the Grey Wardens out of desperation, as well. That a doomed life of hunting darkspawn can be seen as better than what came before is too depressing for words.]

Have you met any of their order?

[inagutterson]

If the nobility fuck one another over and end up there, that's their problem, don't think they cared too much 'bout anyone 'cept themselves when they were busy with all that do you? Some of the rest? It's a bad deal but don't ever say they accept them. A pretty word, that's all that one is. Say that enough and you get people doin' things.

[Plenty of places 'accept' elves. Accept them doing their laundry. Scrubbing their floors. Looking after their kids. Mending and sewing. But it doesn't mean they accept them either when they'll go burn down an alienage that rises up.]

Think I'd remember if I ever met anyone that deluded. I'm from Kirkwall. Not Orzammar. Dwarves got rules for each other same as humans got rules for elves and Dalish got rules for alienage folks.

[circleprodigy]

I didn't mean for it to sound 'pretty' but...point taken. [She doesn't want to speak over a dwarf regarding other dwarves, especially since she's never been to Orzammar or had much contact with dwarves outside the odd Grey Warden or Legionnaire. If he tries to speak over her about elves, though, then they'll have issues.]

Legionnaires aside, what do you think others need to know about dwarves? Surfacers especially, given that the Inquisition as a hole is more likely to interact with them.

[inagutterson]

[You know Yngvi didn't actually plan for this question to be asked. He was angry, foolhardy, a reckless sort of stupid where he wanted to just lash out a bit but picking a fight seemed a bad idea so just rambling away at a sending crystal? Fine. People could just ignore him.

No one needed to talk back. Or ask questions.

Why would people ask?

(This is why Yngvi doesn't actually lead anything into anything.)]

Maybe that we don't begin and end with lyrium. Considering who helped make the Gallows habitable. And as buggered as nobility and everything is for humans, believe me, it only gets worse where you can't see it.

[circleprodigy]

That I can believe.

[Inessa sighs, prompting some canine grumbling from her end as Garahel leans against her.]

It's rather annoying when others assume every member of your race behaves a certain way or believe in the same things, isn't it? I've lost count of the times I've been lectured at about my own race, what we are and what we ought to be. Even when it's not active bigotry it's just...laziness.

[inagutterson]

Used to be more elves lived in the Undercity but ran around with some once I made my way up here. Or the ones that look more human but stay here anyways. Worse than laziness. Turns into something.

[There's a demon of sloth yeah? Close enough.]