A warning

[justice_is_blond]

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Anders, Oghren
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: People are being warned
WHEN: Current!
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Oghren. Blue is Oghren, bold is Anders.

[There's a heavy sigh before he speaks; the first speaker, Anders, might be having some serious regrets.]

We've a new Warden, or rather an old Warden returned to the group, and I've a warning to issue: if you're challenged to a drinking contest with a particularly smelly dwarf, do not take it. The Wardens are not responsible for what happens if you decide to ignore this advice. Honestly, your best bet is to steer clear altoge--what are you drinking now?

[There's some bottles clinking together followed by a loud belch before Oghren speaks up.]

You need some better alcohol. This tastes worst than actual piss. Funny color to it too.

That's not... Maker's breath, Oghren, that's not for gulping down! Put the remnants of the potions down and stop messing with them! If you puke or you die, you better do it outside this tent. I'm not responsible for that either.

[There's more clinking as Anders gathers up what remnants he can.]

What are you going on about? That wasn't ale? [There's a pause.] My ancestors fat tits, what was that, sparkle fingers?

Who would keep ale in the healing tents? That was twenty doses of emetic. Now step outside, because you are not going to get sick in here.

[There's now a grumble and some rustling.] Never heard of keeping something good around for pain. Got to have those potions instead. Can't just have a good ale or something stronger. Got to be... [The sound trails off as he heads outside.]

[There's another heavy sigh. Anders sounds like he's already exhausted when he continues.]

Don't challenge him. Just don't. And if anyone listening cares to bring additional ghoul's beard to the healing tents, I'm in need of it.

Comments

[issala]

Really? [Did it count when you were married twice, or was that proof of the opposite?] I didn't know Wardens could marry.

...and yeah, I think his hearing is bad or something.

[wardeneructate]

Didn't you know? We have mass weddings every year. All the Wardens find someone and they go out in the wilderness then strip naked as a nug. You go and you hammer anvils for awhile. Then a year later it happens all again.

Seen more than my fair sure of things way.

[Kas. He's full of shit.]

[issala]

[He snorts, trying to hold back a laugh.]

Good to know.

[wardeneructate]

Besides, Cousland married. That would void that Wardens can't marry business. No idea where that sodding rumor started.

[issala]

True. I just... sounds like it would end in heartbreak.

[wardeneructate]

So would lots of stuff in this world. Doesn't mean people are going to stop doing things though. Would be a piss poor world if we decided to give up all the good stuff just because it might end badly.

[issala]

That makes sense. Still, it's a little sad to leave someone behind, right?

[wardeneructate]

Can't say I remember past all the ale.

[That's a damn lie.]

[issala]

[He seems able to take a hint, lies or no lies.]

So what's your favorite kind of booze?

[wardeneructate]

[Good kid. He likes you. You can stick around.]

Favorite? Ha! I'll drink anything. Even got my own collection going on.

[Er...]

But not here. Going to have to start building that up again.

[issala]

Really? That's pretty cool. I'm not good at collecting things.

[Street kid problems. If it's in your stomach, nobody can steal it.]

...I'd probably drink it before saving anything.

[wardeneructate]

Street kid, huh?

[Honestly he's just thinking back to the ones in Orzammar. He figures that's probably what that means because basically everyone who is a something can totally collect something.]

[issala]

That obvious?

[He sounds a little embarrassed.]

[justice_is_blond]

I'm wed to Nate.

[issala]

OH. I forgot that! Sorry!

[justice_is_blond]

I forgive you.

[It's a big thing to him, but he doesn't know that anyone else really grasps why.]

[issala]

[Oh, it wasn't the marriage part he forgot!]

I keep forgetting you're a Grey Warden too. The hero thing kinda comes first.

[justice_is_blond]

...I didn't realize that was the part you were forgetting.

[He sounds a bit surprised, and it's not just the hero thing.]

I... Thank you, Kas.

[issala]

Are you okay?

Private

[justice_is_blond]

I am. I'm simply not used to anyone thinking of me as a hero anymore.

[Other than Nate, really.]

Private

[issala]

Well... you are. To a lot of people.

Private

[justice_is_blond]

I don't know that I am a hero anymore, but I appreciate hearing it. It's nice to hear faith in me.

Do the Tal-vashoth talk about mages being free among the humans, much?

Private

[issala]

[He sounds thoughtful.]

...I didn't really meet any other qunari until I joined the Inquisition, so I'm not sure outside of the people I know here.

I know Korrin talks about it a lot and feels very strongly about it in a good way, but she's Vashoth. Not sure about the other ones, I think just the huge warrior guy and some of the kitchen staff are Tal-Vashoth.

Private

[justice_is_blond]

[He realizes, now, that he knows nothing of Kas' past. He'd just assumed Kas had left the qun and come here, but it doesn't sound like that.]

I see. You weren't raised with qunari? Forgive me if the question is too personal. I'd assumed you were Tal-Vashoth, or Vashoth, and never asked, which I apologize for.

Private

[issala]

No, I was. I was born in a Tal-Vashoth kith, but I was around eight when the Chantry happened and things took off - then I left the kith at twelve so I never really discussed anything with them about the mage thing. I was too little to understand, probably.

After that, I lived on the streets. There I heard loads of people talk about it, I heard every story of freed mages, and I knew the entire adventure of the Champion and more. The uprising and the hope for freedom. Some of the kids running on the streets even dared to go home again.

...but no, I never talked about it with my own people. They're dead or in Rivain.