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[exequy]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Nell Voss & Kostos Averesch
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Helpful advice
WHEN: On the way to Nevarra City
NOTES: Necrophilia mention

Hello, Inquisition. Since we are now on our way to Nevarra, we--your friendly [ accompanied by a quiet snort in the background ] local Nevarrans--thought it would be helpful to provide some basic information about our homeland.

Specifically, questions you should refrain from asking when we get to Nevarra City.

[ They do sound Nevarran, more or less. (Him more, her less.) They also sound like they're probably sharing a bottle in addition to sharing the crystal.

Nell begins: ] Does everyone have sex with corpses?

Do the Mortalitasi have sex with corpses?

Can I have sex with corpses?

Are there dead people in this tavern?

Are there dead people beneath this tavern?

Can I talk to the dead people?

Can you talk to the dead people? Are you a dead person?

If Andrastians elsewhere burn their dead to honor Andraste, because she was likewise burned, does that mean Nevarrans believe she was mummified and stashed somewhere?

Can I see mummified Andraste?

Can I see a mummified dragon?

Are there dragons at court? Does the king have a pet dragon?

Did the king kill his pet dragon?

Isn't the king a dragonslayer? Aren't all Pentaghasts dragonslayers?

Isn't everyone in Nevarra a Pentaghast?

What about necromancers, aren't you all necromancers?

Is the king a necromancer?

Is the king a dead person? And isn't Nevarra basically just Tevinter Junior?

The answer to all of these questions is no. Whatever obvious question we didn't include that you now want to ask us, the answer is also no. If you think it would be clever to make your question a negative so the answer will have to be yes, you are both wrong and obnoxious.

Comments

[thunderproof]

❰ as usual when someone is explaining something thedosian to her, adalia has her quill to the pages of the book inessa gave her and she takes notes without thinking about what she's hearing, so that she may write it all down as quickly as possible and avoid having to ask for any repetition. even the things she already knows of — tevinter and its slave-owning magocracy — get written down, because who knows if myrobalan will have given her any new information? when he finally stops, the scratching of her quill sounds over the crystal for a few moments more before she sets it down. ❱

So, to sum up: A big bad evil from the country of big bad evil wanted a thing, and you wanted him to not have that thing, so you booted his forces out of the thing?

❰ another one of those things she knows is more complicated than she's giving it credit for, and it's not as though myr explained it poorly, or even that she doesn't appreciate the extra information, but it was a lot of words to explain "it was a place the enemy wanted we couldn't let them have". ❱

I appreciate the advice, ❰ she says to the last, and she does, even as you deserve better makes her stomach turn in a strange way. with a thoughtful hum, there's the sound of rustling, then of footsteps. ❱

Do many people on this plane fly, Myrobalan? ❰ adalia asks speculatively. a strange question for anyone who doesn't know she has a flying broomstick, probably, and yet... adalia feels no need to explain. if nothing else, it will be a way to get a leg up on anyone who supposes her bound to terrestrial transportation. ❱

[faithlikeaseed]

[For a moment, he's caught in the very strange position of wanting to leap to Tevinter's defense--because whatever else they're responsible for, Corypheus' modern manifestation isn't precisely the Imperium's fault. (There's something beneath that, too; something he won't quite confront head-on. Half his blood is Tevinter; if it's all unmitigated evil--)

File that one away for later thought and prayer; keep going.

Wryly,] Got it in one.

[He'll cop to be prolix when he gets going; it's hard not to want to share everything at once out of sheer enthusiasm for a subject.]

Ah-- [That is a strange question, though he's accustomed enough to thinking practicalities that he's a hint of why she's asking.] --not many. Shapeshifters and the Wardens if they're out with their griffons. Is it more common where you're from?

And what's a "plane", beyond a flat spot with a lot of grass?

[thunderproof]

❰ it's not as though adalia's above being wordy when she gets going either, and she won't ever mind more information. there's just a time and a place for such things, and this is maybe not the time. she has made a mental note, though, that myr is to be called upon any time she has a question she wants a detailed answer to. ❱

It's... not uncommon, precisely, there are spells that can manage it, and items, if you can't do magic yourself. Not many people can just fly whenever they feel like, though, not without some kind of assistance. You're more likely to see birds in the air than a person.

Oh, a plane... Well, it's like this world and the Fade! Different planes of existence, interwoven and impossible to separate, but they rarely overlap and they're difficult to move between. I'd never heard of Thedas or the Fade before I fell through the rift, but I imagine they're just two more planes attached to Toril that no one's managed to come to or from yet.