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[katabasis]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Flint
RECIPIENT: Riftwatch
NOTES: World State Update; with thanks to our benevolent overlords, threads on this post count for April AC because March is fake.

We've just received word from the Orlesian front line.

As I'm sure we're all aware, barring the fall of the Val Chevin blockade, there has been little movement from the front over the winter. Overland, the Orlesians have been dug in around Val Royeaux, and the same can said of the enemy force's occupation in Val Chevin, evacuated Montfort, and beyond. That said, it appears [a little arch; Riftwatch has been informed of the fact, not consulted] that with Spring approaching, the bulk of the allied army - including the Orlesian force, the Inquisition, and the scores Divine Beatrix has managed to train over the winter - has begun to make their move.

They mean to retake Montfort then proceed to recapture Ghislain, with the aim being to divide the Tevinter-Ander army and interrupt supply lines between Perendale and Val Chevin. Unsurprsingly, Corypheus' forces have responded in kind and the fighting has presently come to a head southwest of Montfort.

[Dry as kindling:]

If anyone else has exciting new plans for the Spring they'd like to share - re-papering your parlor, or the deployment of the half legion of foot soldiers you've been keeping in your back pocket -, I'm sure we'd all be delighted to hear them.

Comments

crystal

[justashotaway]

Is that why the Inquisition mages were taken by Templars?

[sarcophage]

Taken? How do you mean?

[justashotaway]

Templars dislike it when mages leave without permission.

[sarcophage]

[Ah.]

It sounds like you're saying the Circles in Orlais have been reinstituted.

[justashotaway]

They left the Inquisition. Not a Circle.

[sarcophage]

All right. So the mages were only trying to leave the Inquisition when they were taken away. Do you know why?

[justashotaway]

To go to Tevinter.

[sarcophage]

Why were they going to Tevinter? And where are they now—conscripted to the March?

[justashotaway]

...You ask a lot of questions.

[sarcophage]

Because it's important to know. I'll ask fewer of them if you share everything at once, instead of little pieces.

[justashotaway]

Some things might not matter. You would not want to hear everything they said.

[galvanising]

We definitely want to hear everything they said.

[inkindled]

That's how she talks.

[sarcophage]

Then she ought to be accustomed to questions by now.

[galvanising]

Is there a good reason to be going to Tevinter right now?

[sarcophage]

Mm, doubtful. Perhaps it sounded good to them at the time. All the Inquisition's mages, though—that is very strange.

[galvanising]

What? There's no way it's all the Inquisition's mages. Anything big enough to make that happen I'd have heard about myself.

Hey kid [ presumably this is directed at Laura ] how many mages? Did you hear who?

[tender]

[ urgently— ]

Where were they taken? Where did you hear this?

[justashotaway]

Wherever Templars go. They did not say where.

[tender]

Not back to Skyhold?

[justashotaway]

[A silence, and then, a little abashed, as if she's very disappointed in herself for having to give this answer--]

I am not sure.

[tender]

It's alright.

[ reassuring, in spite of her own deep concern. ]

Do you think it's only because they were trying to leave Skyhold?

[justashotaway]

No. Because they wished to go to Tevinter.

...Who is Calpernia?

[tender]

She's a mage, one who's loyal to Corypheus. I think she is one of the people who controls the Archon in Tevinter for him.

[ a beat ]

Why? Were the people who took those mages talking about her?

[justashotaway]

...Yes. Her.

She wants mages to join her.