Riftwatch then-- I'd wonder if you'd do me the great honour or the courtesy or however you deem fit to judge it, that's not for me to decide to tell me about the most interesting creatures you've come across in your travels.

Not your fellows. They're hardly interesting, not to me at any rate.

And it doesn't have to be with Riftwatch though before and after the appearance of the rifts helps greatly! Their behaviours, appearance, anything you'd care to share would be tremendously appreciated. Also if it was around the time of the last Blight would help too or if they were close to Darkspawn or the Deep Roads, I mean if you give me an accurate enough date and place I can narrow that down but I'm interested in your tellings of it!

Oh and I'm Octavian Nestor Sokolov, but do please just call me Tavin I'll be-- well I'll probably be in the library if you've anything that's better in person. Sketches, samples, oh or any injuries inflicted that sort of thing, some of those are best seen rather than heard.

Right, so. Mostly this is for mages but I figured I'd ask on the off-chance anyone had, I dunno, a mage cousin they wrote to every now and then. If they were in one of the nice Circles that allowed cousins to write.

I want to know what sort of Circles are out there. Were out there, as they're mostly gone, and good riddance. I was in Tantervale, which was shit, and only shit, right--up until we left it for living in bloody fields and bloody snow and fighting a bloody war--which was preferable to shit, so you can imagine what sort of shit we were leaving behind in Tantervale.

Only now people keep going on about how some of their Circles were actually sort of brilliant. And as I can't imagine that, I'd like someone to tell me more. Please. Like, some of them-- [And he lets a little bit of his hayseed Free Marcher creep in here, broadening his vowels some, but in a way that doesn't maybe seem like he's doing it deliberately.] --rich ones, I mean--they had stuff. Real stuff. Books, and artifacts and stuff. Which is a whole load more than Tantervale had. Cupboards and thumbscrews and kneeling on gravel. Books someone wiped their arse with.

Anyway, that's all. Sorry-- [not sorry, but] --if you're well sick of hearing about mages, but as it's important, I can't say we'll be stopping anytime soon, so shove it.