report | book hunt

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SUBJECT: Book hunt!
PARTICIPANTS: Octavius Vedici, Bastien
CLASSIFICATION: Public
DATE FILED: Cloudreach 9:50
STATUS: Complete
SUMMARY: To assist with the hunt for additional gates to the Black City, Octavius and Bastien went to Orlais to track down a text pertaining to Razikale that had been covertly passed between Southern academics. They recovered the book from the home of the late Col Thiers, who'd passed away with it in his possession.

REPORT: The report is tucked inside the front cover of the book in question–a first edition Caecilius on Razikale–when it's handed over.

Provost,

All fairly simple! We spoke to Mlle Fioranati and Mlle Lucrèce Langlois first. Both were helpful but had limited information. Mlle Langlois pointed us to Lord Chiquart Boisselot, who gave up Mm Regina Azaïs, who was able to point us to her friend M Col Thiers. M Thiers has unfortunately passed away and left his estate in some kind of legal tangle, so there was no way for us to ask politely for the book without involving solicitors. But since he should never have had such a heretical scandalous book in the first place, his heirs (whoever they are when the dust settles) probably will not notice it missing. If anyone does notice it will only be after they have sorted through his library, so we should have, let's say, a year before it might become an issue. The library was very full and very disorganizd. Lucky for us our new friend has such a nose for sniffing out ancient Tevinter texts.

I also picked up some letters exchanged between M Thiers and various contacts in the time after the book came into his possession. Nothing jumped out to me as useful, but I brought them along anyway, in case someone better versed in the subject at hand might notice something I didn't.

— Bastien

NEXT STEPS: Someone ought to read the book probably.

NOTES & LINKS: Log, original assignment.