arlathvhen: (55)
Beleth Lavellan ([personal profile] arlathvhen) wrote in [community profile] therookery2018-08-16 03:43 pm

tevinter action news @ 11

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Beleth Ashara
RECIPIENT: Everyone with a crystal
WHAT: extra extra, everything is on fire, read hear all about it
WHEN: Dated to between the Minrathous folks fleeing and the rescuers catching up to them
WHERE: evvvverywhere
NOTES: tevinter: not even once.


[ Beleth's voice is weary, tired but determined. This is a whole lot of shit going on at once, but it's her job to deal with information, and that's what she's doing. ]

Greetings, agents of the Inquisition. I know that current events have been...very chaotic, and especially dangerous. There are many things happening all at once, and information has been scattered, when it's available at all.

I understand that these events can feel overwhelming, and out of our control. I want to help by trying to shed as much light on what has happened as possible, in an attempt to help everyone understand and to cease any false rumors.

Several days ago, something happened in Minrathous. We're still trying to figure out how it happened, but the Venatori appear to have seized control of the city. Citizens were urged to remain in their homes--with violence used to coerce them, if necessary. City guards were seen searching for members of the Inquisition, and tried to apprehend anyone that they found.

On top of this, Corypheus came flying in on--on his dragon. [ Is it an archdemon? Did that get decided?? Who cares, it's big, ugly, and dangerous. ] And, um. Raised the palace significantly, before landing there. It seems that he's claimed it for himself at the moment, though he hasn't officially been declared leader.

Luckily, our contacts were able to set up three locations for members of the Inquisition to flee the city, and most of our agents have done so successfully. There are currently three groups from outside the city that are moving to meet up with them, and help them make their way back to the Gallows. I would like to thank everyone who has helped make this possible, and volunteered to aid in whatever way they could.

As of this moment, there are five people that have not been accounted for.

[ There are a few moments of papers shuffling. ]

The five people in question are:
Warden Kain Ventfort
Warden Inessa Serra
Adalia
Max
and...Gareth.
[ who sounds like a loser tbqh ]

This doesn't mean that we should expect the worst, of course. It just means that I haven't been able to confirm their current status. If anyone else has heard from them recently, please let me know as soon as possible, and I'll mark them down.

I would like to note that Ambassador Amsel, Provost Thrandul, and Duke de Coucy have been confirmed to have successfully fled Tevinter, as their status was unknown until recently.

[ Unfortunately they seem to have brought some kind of native tevinter pest along with them. ]
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[personal profile] degenere 2018-08-21 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Surprised, pleased, he makes a quiet little ah!]

Beleth. That was nearly very correctly pronounced. I am impressed! And for what it is worth, I would have guessed, if pressed, that you are the only Beleth. You are certainly the first that I have ever met.

[And he says that like a compliment, so it must be a compliment, right.]

Now, tell me. Why would your mother give you a name more common, now. As a joke? An insult? A demonstration of 'hind-sight'?
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[personal profile] degenere 2018-09-06 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, you would always be alpha Beleth to me, of course. No matter how many others of your kind I met.

[Your kind could mean a variety of things, here, but Val says it so smoothly and so warmly that it at least sounds kindly meant.]

I had no idea the name of Beleth carried such a weight of meaning to it. It is a title, then? Akin perhaps to lady or duchess? Does it confuse, when others of your kind come into your path? I will confess, of course, to knowing little of the Dalish... what would the correct word be? The primitive nature of... inheritance is not quite it. Tradition, but with the rudimentary edge. Ah, you take my meaning, I am sure.

Now, why was it thought that you would be a mage? Such a mistake seems not easy to make.
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[personal profile] degenere 2018-09-12 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah! I see. About the strength of a name, at least, the superstition of eye color is new to me. What a strange thought!

[But in a charming way. Man, the Dalish are quaint and weird.]

You know, Valentine is known to be a strong name in Orlais. It carries great weight to it. I have upheld it mightily, I think, and added to its renown.

And well do I know the deeply cloying and uncomfortable weight of expectation of a parent. Did your brother possess any of the magic you were suspected of, or did you both frustrate?
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[personal profile] degenere 2018-09-17 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
An honor, to be so favored.

[And he does mean it. Whatever rude thoughts he might have of the Dalish, however bemused he is by them as a whole: Val genuinely likes Beleth.

So there's that at least.]


So, my brother is an unrepentant boil of a person. And more or less serves as an apprentice to the comte and his lady wife. I would love to tell him as much, except I would have to write him a letter to do so, and I would not be caught dead near him, so I would miss the expression that he would wear when he read such a thing of himself. What then would be the point?

The point I make in even speaking of him is that we are alike. Though I will assume your brother to be pleasant, at least. Less of a boil. Certainly in relation to you, he cannot be so pleasant. But for me, you are a high standard of measuring.
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[personal profile] degenere 2018-09-20 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
A picture might suffice. It would loose some of its life, of course--but certainly it would be better than nothing. Perhaps the writing books, that can send messages? Illustrations can appear, but a portrait...

[Hang on. Val is distracted from his musings a moment later.]

I have spoken to your brother? On what occasion?
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[personal profile] degenere 2018-10-08 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! I did not know he was your true brother. I thought it was an-- [you can hear the quotes] --"elf thing". A title of some sort.

Really? Him?
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[personal profile] degenere 2018-10-14 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Val, picturing two babies joined at the hip, in the horrible sensational fashion that is documented in textbook illustrations, gives a sharp intake of breath.]

Truly?
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[personal profile] degenere 2018-10-24 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Joined at the brain, how curious.]

How difficult that must have been to do. And how cruel, really. Surely it caused pain.
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[personal profile] degenere 2018-10-29 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I can imagine that it would have been difficult, to be standing before the separation. Your mother was right to do so.