crystal.

[indocile]

FORM: Sending crystal!
SENDER: Margaux
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: An observation
WHEN: Current
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Warnings TBA if necessary.

( the voice that comes through the crystals is young, light, high lilting orlesian; educated, but after the fact, someone whose speech is influenced by time spent around the upper-classes rather than someone who is identifiably one of them. the tone is thoughtful; )

There are an awful lot of Dalish, aren't there?

( like, any. )

Are they all one clan?

( gosh, they can probably hear this. )

Comments

[glandival]

There is one good one.

[ A beat. ]

Another is alright.

[ Hi friend. ]

[indocile]

( HELLO FRIEND )

Sabine--

( wait wait wait. )

How do I know which is the good one, please. Also the so-so.

[judgemewhole]

[James is trying to figure out if she is trying to start something - or just offering an observation. She's Orlesian so ... it could honestly go either way. Tone was impossible to figure out with Orlesians.]

They have offered their services freely - and not all of them are from the same clan. Just ... a number of them.

[chainlightning]

Not at all! [ The most chipper. The most. ]

Some of us are without a clan. I don't think you're still considered part of the clan if you go to be a Grey Warden, either? But maybe that depends on the clan?

[ There's a thoughtful hum. ]

There are a lot from clan Ashara, though. A lot.

[blessedmaiden]

Yes, there a lot of wonderful elves around here, isn't it wonderful?

[It's her discreet way to say 'you're not bothered by this, aren't you?']

I have no idea, honestly...

[alankazam]

They're all from the north.

[ pause ]

I think.

[gatheringstorm]

Why, are you looking to join?

[circleprodigy]

[Hi, have an obvious Fereldan accent.]

I believe one clan dominates, though there are others. The Inquisition requires aid from many sources and they have provided. That or as with others, the presence of rift shards has given them further reason to remain.

[arlathvhen]

Andaran atish’an. Currently, there are only three clanned Dalish working with the Inquisition. [ She resists saying 'proper' Dalish, since its public and all. ]

Two are from Clan Dahlasanor, and I am currently the only member of Clan Ashara that is here. [ She says it with a smoothness of some who's been practicing, and definitely doesn't care about this or anything. ]

All the others are outclan.

[failedfirst]

There are many more city-dwelling elves here. Are they all from the same dirt hovels?

[samahl]

That's funny because I was about to comment on how many humans were around here. [His voice is very light, he means it as a joke more than anything.]

[nadasharillen]

[if you could hear 'ohdamn' faces...]

[indocile]

I've only heard stories, before. Are they very friendly?

[indocile]

Is it very easy not to have a clan? I mean to say, to lose? It just be not easy to go without.

( maybe that explains why they came here...? )

[indocile]

Thank you! I'm glad you think so.

( an indiscreet way of saying she's one of them. )

[indocile]

Maybe that explains it.

[indocile]

( a laugh; )

When I was small!

[indocile]

Oh, the shards!

( now it makes sense )

[indocile]

( interesting. )

Not real Dalish?

[indocile]

( there's a long silence and them; )

Fuck you,

( very pleasantly. )

[indocile]

( laughing- )

You must be one then. The rest of us are not surprised!

[failedfirst]

Ah, you are an elf from the city. Maybe you've learned in the future not to ask stupid questions where the people they relate to can hear them.

[samahl]

Well considering it is a human organization I should have been prepared.

[arlathvhen]

[ There's a hesitation, not because Margaux is wrong, but because Beleth knows agreeing could...allow people to take offense. Even if she's right. ]

They are Dalish, in a cultural sense. But. They wouldn't be allowed in an Arlathvhen, for instance.

[ So, yes. Fakey fake fakers. ]

[alankazam]

Does it? It says little of why they're here.

[ Not that he's complaining, but most people don't pack up whole villages to Skyhold — and near as he can tell, that's what the Dalish are to each other. ]