There's a word in the alienage, I'm not so good at elven but it's an alienage word about when people get pushed too far. Reminding humans. Something to do with a short blade being respected. [Fact: Yngvi absolutely does know the word, but if he won't admit basic Orlesian to friends of over a year, he won't admit elven to a stranger. Fact the second: having an Orlesian elf teach him it has probably not helped his pronunciation but then again, elfblooded Kirkwaller wouldn't have done him any favours either.] But after Halamshiral and Celene I reckon they'd be a bit more cautious 'bout doing things. Burnt the tree down and everything and the new one there was...weird.
[At least they had a tree again so that was that, even if it wasn't the sort of tree they'd had before. They wouldn't have the same people. The same homes. Everything would have to be rebuilt again and when he looks around at Kirkwall now it's built itself up again from one disaster and another, nothing is ever the same. So maybe it's okay. Or you just get used to telling yourself that enough times over the years.]
What the fuck are you? Don't think even the wildest Dalish'd do that and no city elves would have the equipment for it - d'you have to steal stuff? Or are elves where you come from allowed whatever weapons they want? [Well he's...impressed? Maybe? A little too shocked to say for sure because who comes out and just says 'by the way beheaded five people, before or after death, dead eyes just watching me walk away before the crows came' because that's one of the wilder things he's heard in a while.
They'd done things in the Boneflayers that had left a trail of carnage but it had always been people no one would care about or people they were paid to deal with so the mess wouldn't be a problem. Harder to get used to for him. The Carta had instilled messages with it. Don't be sloppy. Leave only what you need to for the right person. Don't have the guards come looking. Or worse, don't have the merchants have reason to come sniffing about.]
My entire family. [Said without hesitation but not the easy swaggering confidence he might've had a few months back. Brittle but without being able to see his face, Iorveth probably won't be able to tell what's going on there.] Merchants definitely, can trust that lot of crooks and a lot of them are Orzammar stock that ended up here for one reason or another. And Orzammar? Maybe it's the only thing that stuck in us. Maybe that's the one thing bred in the bone that we can't get rid of.
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[At least they had a tree again so that was that, even if it wasn't the sort of tree they'd had before. They wouldn't have the same people. The same homes. Everything would have to be rebuilt again and when he looks around at Kirkwall now it's built itself up again from one disaster and another, nothing is ever the same. So maybe it's okay. Or you just get used to telling yourself that enough times over the years.]
What the fuck are you? Don't think even the wildest Dalish'd do that and no city elves would have the equipment for it - d'you have to steal stuff? Or are elves where you come from allowed whatever weapons they want? [Well he's...impressed? Maybe? A little too shocked to say for sure because who comes out and just says 'by the way beheaded five people, before or after death, dead eyes just watching me walk away before the crows came' because that's one of the wilder things he's heard in a while.
They'd done things in the Boneflayers that had left a trail of carnage but it had always been people no one would care about or people they were paid to deal with so the mess wouldn't be a problem. Harder to get used to for him. The Carta had instilled messages with it. Don't be sloppy. Leave only what you need to for the right person. Don't have the guards come looking. Or worse, don't have the merchants have reason to come sniffing about.]
My entire family. [Said without hesitation but not the easy swaggering confidence he might've had a few months back. Brittle but without being able to see his face, Iorveth probably won't be able to tell what's going on there.] Merchants definitely, can trust that lot of crooks and a lot of them are Orzammar stock that ended up here for one reason or another. And Orzammar? Maybe it's the only thing that stuck in us. Maybe that's the one thing bred in the bone that we can't get rid of.