history has its eyes on you.

[elegiaque]

FORM: A published work, and a letter.
SENDER: Gwenaëlle Vauquelin.
RECIPIENT: Anyone who purchases a copy.
WHAT: On the Inquisition: A Lady's Observations, by Lady Gwenaëlle Vauquelin, part seven.
WHEN: Published the end of Wintermarch.
WHERE: You know, around.
NOTES:

• Previously.
  
• This publication is always fronted by the title and a bust sketch of the author, making her easily recognisable around Skyhold to any characters who want to talk to her about it.
  
• There continue to be no references to the Grey Wardens.
  
• There is no letter home.
  
  
  
  Unusually, considering the timing of publication (the long hiatus between publications; the recent events of the Winter Palace), this edition contains no direct reference to the new ruler of Orlais. Gwenaëlle expresses no political leanings one way or the other, but the entire first page is a remarkably complete list of names that even before her subsequent explanation will become apparent to those who were present in Halamshiral: it is the dead. She's done her research, includes even many of the servants who were caught in the slaughter, though ultimately a lack of records and a lack of anyone with the knowledge willing to speak to her mean that it does end with an estimated number of dead elves rather than the satisfyingly complete list of dead individuals she'd hoped for.
  
  The subsequent page is a brief explanation of what she's managed to discover about the Freemen of the Dales; that they are deserters of both sides, that they have betrayed Thedas by aligning with Corypheus, and, finally, that perhaps in this civil war they are a blade Orlais unsheathed upon herself. Her only remark on Orlais' newly secured leadership is to hope that it will prove to have been worth the bloodshed, which might be the boldest explicit statement she's made in her publication to date.
  
  She ends her editorial thusly:
  
  It is my intention to be proud of where I stood, when history remembers these events. I hope that it is yours, as well, that you see as I do the clear necessity for the Inquisition, founded by the Right and Left Hands of the Divine, and that you will join me in supporting them as they have unhesitatingly and continuously acted to support you.