therookery | REPORT: Don't Go Breaking My South

SUBJECT: Don't Go Breaking My South
PARTICIPANTS: Adrasteia, Edgard, Ellis, Matthias + Bastien
CLASSIFICATION: Private to Division Heads + Project Sashamiri
DATE FILED: Early Kingsway
STATUS: Complete
SUMMARY: Investigating attacks in in Fereldan and Orlais during the August siege of the Marches. Assorted odds and ends were dealt with, including but not limited to: dragons, rock slides, eluvians, and darkspawn. More below.

REPORT:

Commander, Scoutmaster, Provost, Ambassador & Enchanter Julius,

I must apologize for the length of this report. I've attempted be thorough as to our findings.

As I reported to Monsieur Bastien, Furness can be dismissed. There was no sign of activity we need be concerned with.

Matthias and Edgard both procured eluvians in Wanborne and Sarvers respectively. They are transporting them to Kirkwall to be relocated as you see fit.

Edgard reported a dragon near Cafort. We may consider sending a team to deal with this sooner rather than later. I anticipate a request will be made of us to help regardless.

A tunnel up from the Deep Roads was discovered in Courciennes by Warden Adrasteia, which allowed darkspawn to emerge and attack. She advised the villagers as to how it might be reinforced and blocked off to prevent spillover of darkspawn in the future. It should be noted, in comparison to existing maps, the pathway beneath in the Deep Roads leads from the Marshes towards the Silent Plains. She dealt with the blighted remains, as well as what had spread along the land.

Matthias received an account of someone on the cliffs in Alnwick prior to the rockslide. A camp was found, abandoned, along with several empty bottles. They had once contained lyrium. There were tracks, but not enough of a trail to pursue.

Vitroluçon is already well on the way to repair. Their people were unwilling to speak and professed to have seen nothing suspicious prior to the attack. Warden Adrasteia was able to discover a letter left behind in the area, after being advised by a local elven servant who directed her to a camp in the hills. It reads as follows:
HIS NAME IS EBURNUS

HIS FRIEND IN VAL CHEVIN HAS A GREEN HOUSE

THERE ARE OTHERS

THE DARKSPAWN FOLLOW THE WARDENS

IM SORRY FOR YOUR PEOPLE
She has provided the original letter to be filed along with this report. Please be advised, Adrasteia gave assurances to the elf who spoke with her that this would be kept quiet. Any further questions should be put to him very carefully.

Holmfirth is no more. There were few corpses, and what darkspawn had managed to be killed were infected with red lyrium. I assisted with the disposal and destruction of these things. Only three children survived, and two are too young to speak with me. The eldest was a girl of ten, who reported seeing a Warden in the area. From what she was able to communicate to me, there is reason to believe the Warden was working alongside the darkspawn, though it must also be said: she was a child who had undergone a terrible thing. I couldn't press her far enough for her recounting of events to become clear.

It must also be related, in the interest of explaining the two newest occupants of the dungeon: Warden Adrasteia and I were attacked on the road back to Kirkwall. There was a small fire started in the midst of the fight, though the structure was still standing when we left the inn come morning. We have secured the mage accordingly in the dungeon, alongside his partner. They were not forthcoming with us, save to argue over the cause of their failure.

There is much here to consider. It is my belief that we start with the eluvians, and the two captives Warden Adrasteia and I brought back with us, before pursuing the rest. I do, however, defer to your collective judgement.

— Warden Ellis

NEXT STEPS: Riftwatch is now two Venatori and two eluvian richer. Both eluvian will likely need to be placed in the field at strategic points to enhance Riftwatch's travel options, and the two Venatori will need to be interrogated by someone with reliable skill at it. Further follow up on strange darkspawn behavior obviously a must.

Less urgently, maybe someone wants to go out to Cafort to hunt a dragon or drive it away from the village.

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