Given the nature of the People's activities in Tevinter, news directly related to their escapades is thin on the ground, unconfirmed at best, and unlikely to travel as far as Kirkwall. That said, word from allied scouts and field intelligence collected from Hasmal and its surrounding regions suggest that, in the months following Riftwatch's visit to the People's camp, the Tevinter military force has been either searching out alternative, less ideal routes over which to run supplies and loot in and out of the occupied Marches, or has been more robustly arming those required to travel along roads previously considered reliable.

It seems something—perhaps a temporarily more well-armed force, in possession of an artifact helpful to staging random attacks in open terrain heretofore unfriendly to the getting the jump on enemies traveling in superior numbers—might presently be slightly inconveniencing the ordinary flow of equipment, supplies, looted spoils of war, and captured persons ordinarily bound for the Imperium's slave trade across the border.

Taken on it's own, it amounts to what appears to be a largely administrative inconvenience to the invasion force. But wars, particularly ones as protracted as this one, are won and lost by a series of annoying cuts. And who's to say what the future might bring?

More to come.