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[sorcerised]

FORM: Crystal! Or action, if you happen to be around Kirkwall's Lowtown.
SENDER: Arohaerd
RECIPIENT: Everyone with a crystal
WHAT: Aro has itchy feet and wants some advice.
WHEN: Today, mid-morning
WHERE: Lowtown, Kirkwall
NOTES: Crystal or action welcome! Please add any warnings to thread headers.

Hello, everyone. I'm Aro. I know some of you already, I'm sure, from the unfortunate snowbound arrival last month, and then the...incident with that mine, and now some more new faces have arrived too! Anyway.

I'm sure there's many more of you that I don't know. I know that some of you are from this world, and some of you are from others, as I am, but...we're all here, in this city, which is ruled by something called the Inquisition, as far as I can tell, and. Well.

[ A deep breath, while he thinks very carefully about how to word this. ]

While I'm grateful for the hospitality, and please don't think I'm not. There must be more to this place, this world, than Kirkwall. Getting out to see Amaranthine was brilliant, even though we were there to bring the others back. Don't any of the rest of you want to explore? We can go together, make a quest out of it!

And those of you who live here, or who've been here for a while, tell me of the other lands, and cities, and places of this world. Tell me where you like, tell me where I should visit. I just need to know where to start.

[ If you happen to be in Kirkwall to hear this in person, Aro will be the young half-elf sitting on a wall by the side of the road, with a flute dangling from his fingertips. He's very pale and blond, hair short enough for the slightly pointed tips of his ears to show.

Both before and after the broadcast, he'll be seen playing the flute, sounding out a variety of folk songs from his own world. They're strange to people here, but it all sounds like home to Aro. ]

Comments

[utulien_aure]

Nevarra's burial practices are...unique in Thedas.

[And this is one instance where Fingon is siding firmly with this world's mainstream opinion, because necromancy, this is madness.]

They invite spirits to inhabit the bodies of their dead, and bury them together in family crypts. We were invited to tour the great crypt in Nevarra City, but someone unfriendly to the Inquisition enchanted the corpses inside to kill everyone in the party.

A win-win situation for the one behind the plot. Either we all died, or the Nevarrans were offended by what we had to do to the corpses of their kin.

[sorcerised]

Necromancy.

[ Well, that explains a lot, including the venue of choice. Aro isn't unfamiliar with that kind of magic. He wishes he was. ]

It's a shameful abuse of a mage's gift. I'm sorry you were subject to it. Generally you'd want to be targeting the one who cast it. Did you find them?

[ Someone must have, given that Maedhros had survived to tell the tale, and all. ]

[utulien_aure]

[Fingon shakes his head, half in contempt, half in irritation]

Not at the time. Our guide made himself scarce just before the corpses woke, if the perpetrator was even him. And then we were shortly invited to leave Nevarra, considering the insult we had offered their honored dead.

I found the experience more curious than anything. There are few beings in my world who could raise the dead in such a way, and fewer still who would.

i'm so sorry for confusing his name!

[sorcerised]

[ Aro smiles, though wryly. ]

It sounds like whoever did this didn't care much for your diplomacy. Maybe that was the point.

[ Because honestly, it's a very involved way to try and kill anyone, unless that's not the only goal in mind. ]

In my world, it's not exactly like that. Lots of mages can use necrotic arts, but it doesn't always involve raising the dead. And not everyone would, anyway, like you said. That branch of magic goes somewhat wider than just animating a corpse. Not that...it's a small thing to animate a corpse, obviously.