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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]

[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.