MOD PLOT ↠ SECRET STEEP'D ROOTS: WHERE THE HELL ARE WE?

[faderifting]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Various
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: A catch-all for trying to figure out how to get the jungleteers back home. If you signed up for a mini jungle adventure or a research assignment and we gave you some info that contained clues to the jungle's location, please share them here! Everyone else is also welcome to participate and try to sort out where they are and what to do about it.

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[justashotaway]

[ After a long pause. ]

Why do Nevarrans keep bodies?

[sarcophage]

Please tell me you're setting up for a punchline. I would love a joke.

[justashotaway]

I want to know.

[sarcophage]

[He sighs. Alas.]

Out of reverence. Out of love. To give homes to spirits displaced from the Fade when the dead cross over.

[justashotaway]

You let spirits live in corpses?

[ Full of a peculiarly Nevarran disgust despite the outsider's question. To quote Cassandra Pentaghast, ugh. ]

[sarcophage]

Wisps, mostly—or similar. Simple spirits, content to experience this side of the Veil. There's one in the horse, too.

[He's never been quick to correct anyone who mistakes him for a Nevarran; it's a fine compliment.]

It isn't always the simple ones that come... but mostly.

[justashotaway]

And it will live in you. And do what it wants.

[sarcophage]

That's the tradition.

[justashotaway]

It is a bad tradition.

[sarcophage]

You're not the only one to say so—many people find the death mages and their customs unsettling. Fereldans, especially.

[justashotaway]

I am not Fereldan.

[sarcophage]

No, you aren't. Tell me, do you consider yourself Nevarran?

[justashotaway]

I do not consider myself anything. Do you?

[sarcophage]

Think of myself as Nevarran?

No.

[justashotaway]

Care about that. Countries.

[sarcophage]

Well, I like that they exist. They can be interesting to visit—the different customs and so on.

[justashotaway]

Not like that. The way people do.

[sarcophage]

That's quite a deep question for a conversation that began with abnormally sized ants.

[justashotaway]

Do you wish to talk about the ants?

[sarcophage]

Not especially. Actually, I think I'd like to have a little rest. Perhaps I'll consider your question whilst I do that.