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therookery2017-05-22 10:05 pm
aventuriere) wrote in therookery2017-05-22 10:05 pm
Coryphriends } Closed
FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Freddie Durfort-Lacapalette
RECIPIENT: Members of the Corypheus' History project
WHAT: Intro + brainstorming sesh
WHEN: Right now
WHERE: In your ears
NOTES: Threadjacking encouraged! And with this group, probably some kind of terminal sass overdose warning
SENDER: Freddie Durfort-Lacapalette
RECIPIENT: Members of the Corypheus' History project
WHAT: Intro + brainstorming sesh
WHEN: Right now
WHERE: In your ears
NOTES: Threadjacking encouraged! And with this group, probably some kind of terminal sass overdose warning
[ The message begins with the genteel clearing of a throat and then a voice, lightly accented but unmistakably Orlesian. ]
Good evening, all. I do not believe any of us has met in the past, but my name is Frédérique Durfort-Lacapalette, Baroness Haut-Brion, but you may simply call me Freddie, or Lady Freddie if you are the type to insist upon formalities. [ Which would be an absurd thing to say to this particular group, if she'd ever knowingly met any of them before. But she has not, so enjoy laughing behind your hands at the notion. ]
I will be leading this effort to uncover more information regarding our adversary Corypheus, and I am pleased to have your assistance in this endeavor. To begin, I would like you each to introduce yourself, and to share how you came to be assigned to this project, and if you have any particular expertise you believe will be useful to achieving our ends.
And of course, ideas! Should you have any suggestions for how we ought to begin, I would like to hear them. While my research skills are of course formidable, I freely confess to knowing little about our foe in specific, and even were that not so, I believe an open exchange and discussion of ideas is essential to the development and transmission of knowledge.
I look forward to hearing from each of you!
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—anyway, in this case a Warden did help, at least. Anders was there. But I've wondered if he couldn't do the same trick. Maybe even do it better.
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[Also a disconcerting one. Wardens know the basics of what has to happen to end an Archdemon (which does lead to questions about what exactly happened with the last one if the two Wardens there survived, but that's something he's not pressed.) While he's not the best of friends with every Warden here, there are none he'd be fine with them sacrificing.]
We didn't try to kill him the way one kills an Archdemon. We killed him, attempted to kill him, in the way one does a demon-possessed magister. We'd no real idea of how much more he would take.
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It wouldn't have mattered for me. Justice wouldn't have allowed me to die there. It would have been one of the guards.
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Right. There were other Wardens there. Do you remember any of their names? If any of them are still alive, they might know something we don't.
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[His voice is grim.]
Former Warden-Commander Larius, who was nearly gone even then. The rest died, intent on freeing Corypheus so they could supposedly control him with blood magic. I don't know that Larius could still be alive, quite frankly. What I do know is that we left everyone else dead. Or we thought we did.
[He takes a slow breath, thinking things through.]
I can only assume Corypheus was controlling Larius the way we thought he was influencing the others. That he was using them all as puppets and needed Hawke's blood to break fully free. If Larius is somehow still alive, he's likely near Corypheus. If we can lure him away somehow, maybe we can find out more about the blood seals and find a way to make them permanent.
But you never heard me suggest we research a form of blood magic, because I don't need that added to everything else.
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