[ The voice may be familiar to several, actually, depending on where — be it native to Thedas or a different world — one is from. He sounds smug yet bemused, somehow, and his accent either places him as from London, Asgard, or Tevinter. ]

Hello, Riftwatch. I did get that correct, yes? It is my understanding that there is a war on, involving a dragon^? and a mage from a northern country and that a city has been razed to the ground by said dragon.

Am I missing anything pertinent there?

Tell me more about this war. Or about magic, if the war is a topic on which you are tired of speaking. Or whatever is on your mind at the moment, I suppose, I won't be stopping you.

I, having just fell out of a dream several days ago, have been informed that I am not to leave this... charming island called the Gallows [ eugh ] for several weeks. Not even to see the city of Kirkwall proper. So if you have ideas on how one might best occupy their time in such constraints, I would also like to hear about that.

Before you, uh, all went out to fight a war, did any of you leave a couple cigarettes behind?

[ The voice on the crystal is impatient, with a Boston accent. ]

Help a guy out--they're trying to keep me penned in here. And it's not that I'm saying I'm gonna swim over to the mainland if I don't find some smokes soon, but I'm not not saying that, either.