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FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Ignis
RECIPIENT: Open
WHAT: Summary of content
WHEN: Day-time.
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: None yet

[Ignis clears his throat before he starts, almost as a polite acknowledgment that he's there -
despite it being through crystal communication.]

I would like to start by extending my gratitude in all that the Inquisition has done to protect and bring comfort to me and my friend. You have all been very encouraging and a credit to Thedas as a whole - which helps to bring me to the request I had in mind now.

I want to learn more about Thedas. I'd love to discuss your history, countries, customs, and all of those little things that help make your world unique and interesting. As it stands, so many of you have come forward to share your views and stories already. For that, I am very appreciative.

I was hoping I might take a stab at your library as well, but for obvious reasons, I cannot read the volumes housed there on my own. Of course, I would simply rope Prompto into helping me, but he has his own duties and desires to tend to. I was thinking that we might be able to find some volunteers willing to help me. To, uh, read to me.

[He pauses then, letting the request stand by itself.]

That failing, I always want to hear more stories. If you are willing to share, please tell me what are some of your favorite holidays or other cultural cornerstones of your country? Or even traditions your family had? Or historical stories? Anything that you'd like. I wish to have a broader sense of your world.

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D'you have objections to animals being around for the reading bit, if not, you good for trade because a dwarf doesn't do things out of the goodness of his heart because dwarves don't have hearts which is the first thing you won't learn in any books.

[Yngvi why are you like this, it's been too long since he played with the rifters.]

I know a lot of shit from all my travels. And dwarf stuff. Real dwarf stuff. Because there are so many lies, lies that'd break the soft squishy hearts of folk with hearts. But not dwarves 'cause like I said, we don't got those.

I've no problem with animals. [At least none he's going to share right now.]

I would love to hear about dwarves. I am not certain how much of what I know now is colored by propaganda and it important to understand the truth of the matter.

What types of services would you be willing to take as for trade the information?

Good, I'll have about four nugs on me at any given moment.

If it's written then it was by a dwarf from Orzammar who like to dictate the proper way for dwarves to be dwarves down to the length and thickness of beards, as well as how many beads or decorations might be braided into them.

Depends on what you can or do or what you do y'know?

I'm not certain how my skills will translate here, I'm afraid. Unless you need a man to organize your house and put your schedule in order.

Don't have a house, just a room here and I doubt Foie Gras would let you try organising them. [One day he's going to try tipping the goose to find out what Foie Gras is.] Why would I need a schedule put in order? I mean, lazy nobles need someone to do everything for them but I mean do folk really need to have that done? 'Ah, good sir, an hour past noon it's time to collect tithes from the peasantry?'

[Ignis is going to try to pretend that he's not terribly amused by the whole talk of 'lazy nobles' because he is a man who stays collected. But there might be a slight smile in his voice now.]

You see, that's exactly what my skills tend towards. Taking care of the affairs of nobles. Though Eos is very different from Thedas. We hardly have to collect anything door to door these days.

[He can count the non-lazy ones on his fingers with room to spare.]

That's a thriving industry for little 'uns that is, when I fist got let out the dark I was running messages for my elders and I'm about as far from the upper crust as it gets.

It does make me earn for a mobile phone.

[A pause] A term I've realized you likely don't recognize.

You wot mate?

[Even a phone wouldn't help with that.]

Ah, pay it no mind. The main point was to find a payment acceptable to learn more of your people. What would you be willing to trade for that knowledge?

You tell me about the mobile phone.

[The hard bargaining savage business brain at work.]

It's a device that is similar to these crystals in that they enable us to communicate over distance. There are other features as well... You can use them to track your schedule, tell time, write memos to yourself, and access a bountiful amount of information.