Trees are jerks

[unbrokenoath]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Kaisa
RECIPIENT: People in the Chantry Relations project
WHAT: There's BLOOD MAGIC AFOOT. And it's GROWING PLANTS.
WHEN: Right after this
WHERE: Right smack dab next to what was once the chantry memorial garden
NOTES: Elthina would be rolling in her grave. If she had a grave. And a body that wasn't a fine ash.

Hey guys! Kaisa here. So, uh. Remember how we all agreed on how we ought to work on getting that Chantry memorial garden back up and running? Well, I'm there right now, and we've got a pretty big problem here.

[ A pause, and then helpfully: ]

It's not my fault.

[ Just putting that out there. ]

The entire area where the garden used to be is a forest. Like. A real, honest-to-Andraste forest. It's...actually really pretty? Everything is flowering and it smells really nice. But still. There's a forest here. Right in the middle of Hightown and everything.

I guess it wouldn't be a huge issue, aside from maybe squirrels attacking random nobles--that'd actually be pretty funny--but forests don't just sprout up. I may be a city-slicker, but I can tell you that much. So I poked around, and I believe I found evidence of blood magic being involved.

[ There was a bunch of blood in the middle of a magically created forest. Kaisa does, admittedly, share her religion's intolerant view of blood magic (Warden bullshit aside, that's different), but she's pretty sure that's a solid cause for suspicion. ]

I don't know why someone would use blood magic to grow a forest, but they used blood magic on holy ground--is it still holy ground? I'm not sure about that, but still. You guys get why this might be more of an issue than a few extra trees, right?

Oh, and don't worry, I destroyed the evidence of the blood magic. Figured that's the last thing people around here need.

[ Well, she is a Warden. Suppression of sketchy facts is their MO. ]

Comments

[tactical_alert]

In the future, I ask that you refrain from destroying evidence. [BY ANDRASTE'S GREAT BOUNCING TITS WHAT WERE YOU THINKING] If there might be concern for public panic, guards placed around the area might do some good. [FOR FUCK'S SAKE]

An entire forest can't, of course, be hidden away, but the more we're able to quash the inevitable and immediate rumors of ransacking the alienage and chasing out and burning all the Dalish mages, the better off we will all be.

All that work for a garden, and now we'll have to cut down a bunch of magic-grown trees. A shame, it almost livens up the place.

[unbrokenoath]

I'm sorry, what was that? You want me to hide the forest, too? Burn it all down, that's what you said, right? Whatever you say, ser. Give me a minute to get the oil.

[ She makes absolutely no move to do anything of the sort, and instead grabs an apple. For a blood magic apple with possible baby sacrifices, it sure does taste good. ]