Casting down bad memories

[arlathvhen]

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Beleth Ashara
RECIPIENT: Everyone who's part of the first group to Kirkwall
WHAT: Discussing what's to be done about the statues
WHEN: Sometime between Cloudreach 14th and 20th
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: This isn't an Official Poll that's going to decide things but it's a good way for people to throw out suggestions for voting on and discuss ideas

Good day, to every member of the Inquisition currently helping take care of the Gallows. We've been making some amazing progress, and I'm sure that our contributions will give this place the overhaul that it desperately needs. With time, the Gallows will become a symbol of hope, rather than despair.

If I may, I'd like to take time to discuss ideas for one of those symbols. Specifically, those horrid statues that are strewn about. Now that they will...probably no longer attempt to kill us.

I've been informed that there are artisans willing to melt down the statues and create new ones to be put in their place. Additionally, our group has been given permission to choose what kind of statues would be put up there. Suffice to say, whatever we go with will make a statement about our goals here. The Inquisition is trusting us to make sure that statement is positive.

So, I would like to discuss possibilities with everyone, and see if we can get some good ideas going.

To start the ball rolling, if it's alright, I'd like to share my own proposal. Of course, this is only a suggestion, and I welcome any other voices.

I propose that we have the statues remade to represent the diverse groups within the Inquisition. Have a statue of a dwarf, another of a Dalish, another of a mage, etc, etc. It would send a message of cooperation and coexistence, and hopefully promote such in our new home.

The floor is open for further suggestions.

Comments

[degenere]

Perhaps if the Inquisition had a more appealing sigil, this would be a more appealing suggestion. To be fair, it is not the worst sigil that they could have created. But the longer that I look at it, the more I find that I dislike it.

For example: what are the tentacles?

[judgemewhole]

[Oh ho ho.]

Are you telling me that someone who is such good friends with a Chantry Brother doesn't know that the 'tentacles' are actually the rays of the Maker's sun? For shame, serah.

[degenere]

Monsieur. I have spent a great deal of time staring at the rays of the Maker's sun. You might try it sometime. It is the large orb of light that shines above us, in the sky. And I assure you: the rays of the sun look nothing like those squiggles. The squiggles of the sigil are clearly meant to be tentacles.

I believe there is more to this design, and to claim only that the artist--whoever he might be--intended only to represent the sun's rays is too simplistic.

[judgemewhole]

If you're really going to blame an artist from hundreds of years ago for his inability to properly capture the sun for you, please, do offer to make us a better sigil.

[degenere]

Oh, no, my friend. I have not the skill for such designs. My gift is in the design of the building. Structures, these are an art of themselves. Now, if the Inquisition would like a building as their sigil: I am their man.

Perhaps we simply elect the Maker's true sun as our symbol. And when anyone asks, 'what is the sigil of the Inquisition?' we simply point up, at the sun. And when they look, they are blinded, and we are able to overcome them easily.

[judgemewhole]

Well, perhaps that's what we need outside of the statues. Make us a beautiful building that represents all of Thedas and the Inquisition, if you are that insistent.

[A pause, because he is going to consider that.]

You ... have never been on a battlefield in your life, have you?

[degenere]

Monsieur. Please. Of course I have.

I won a cold ring.

[judgemewhole]

What in the Maker's name is a cold ring?

[degenere]

It is precisely what it sounds like: a ring that is very cold, no matter the day, no matter the season. It was granted to me for achievements upon the battlefield.

[judgemewhole]

I see ... does it, say, freeze your sword or your shield or is it just cold upon your finger?

[He has two very much like that - but those were an especially made gift.]

[degenere]

Mostly I have used it to chill my drinks.

I suppose it could be put to other uses...