closed | project meeting

[misdirection_hex]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Vandelin Elris
RECIPIENT: Members of the Hostile Powers project who are not currently imprisoned
WHAT: Conference call to discuss recent events
WHEN: After people have returned from Tevinter
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: None

Enchanter Averesch and I-- [Because damned if Vandelin is going to dispense with formalities and titles just because he was told to.] --thought it best that we all confer about our collective priorities in the aftermath of Corypheus' assault. Priorities, strategies, suggestions for what we can each individually do.

Are we all met?

Comments

[eruit]

Venatori allies. They have chosen to support Corypheus.

[exequy]

How well connected are they?

[eruit]

They are not connected to much of the the central politics of Tevinter any longer - they have been more involved in underground crime and human trade.

[ It's difficult to be connected to the Magisterium without your Magister, after all. ]

[exequy]

Could you get back on good terms with them if you had to?

1/2

[eruit]

[ UUUUGHHHHH.......... ]

[eruit]

I could.

[exequy]

You could start making overtures now.

[ This is possibly the most hypocritical thing Kostos has ever asked anyone to do, beginning with the word overtures and ending with contacting an estranged family. ]

We may not know we need them until we do.

private.

[eruit]

[ The very idea of this is causing Hanzo a kind of misery he had not imagined for himself. It had been ten years since he abandoned his post and his family - for good reason, he thinks - and now... ]

It will take time. Some would welcome me, others would not. I would have to regain trust to retake my position, if that is necessary.

[ No one knew what his position was before now, but this might just give it away. ]

∞

[exequy]

[ Without much care for anyone's misery: ]

What position?

[eruit]

[ Quietly: ]

Magister.

[exequy]

Oh.

[ He doesn't often sound surprised, out of sheer willpower, but he'll make an exception for this. ]

Fuck.

[eruit]

No one knows. [ Clearly. ] I left Tevinter ten years ago.

[exequy]

Why?

[eruit]

The death of my brother.

[ Which isn't a lie, but it's hardly the entire truth. ]

[exequy]

Mm.

[ He's not curious enough to press. It sounds personal, is what matters, not because Kostos cares, but because personal rifts can be mended more easily than legal ones. ]

I cannot say whether or not we need you to retake anything, right now, but if you reach out now, you will be in a better position if we do.

[eruit]

Then I will contact them. Do you request an alliance or simply information on their status?