therookery | 006.

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Herian
RECIPIENT: Everyone, part filtered to Chantry Relations
WHAT: the forest & Chantry Relations things
WHEN: once everyone is cured
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: There’s an OOC post regarding Chantry Relations and with a form to involved parties to fill in over here.

Members of the Inquisition, this is Knight Enchanter Amsel. I apologise for demanding your time once again, so soon after my last communication.

Now all are recovered from the sickness, there is an important matter to address. The Chantry Relations project was seeing to the matters regarding the forest grown over the Chantry ruin, and I have been engaging with local Chantry officials to determine its fate. Now it is almost gone in its entirety, we must take a different tact.

I well understand the attachment a number of Inquisition members had to the forest, especially in the wake of losing Dahlasanor, but this is a matter of some delicacy and importance to both locals and the Chantry, so I would beg your patience as we deal with the site and the few trees that remain.

( And for Chantry Relations Project Members only: )

Project members, I think it would be prudent to meet to refocus our efforts and consider what our areas of priority might be; though our particular political alignments and personal opinions differ, we are all of us bound to the Inquisition, and securing the favour of the Chantry will allow us to make use of an influential political ally, and leave our efforts unhampered by the repercussions of their poor opinions. With the sickness now passed, I think it best we press on with our duties.

If you would like to speak with me individually prior to our meeting as a group, that is entirely welcome. Gauging our respective talents and to what methods we are most suited is worth consideration, as well.

Before we get to that, however, I believe it is imperative that we address the matter of the forest that was growing in the ruins of the Chantry, and has since been burned down.

I— ( Where to start? This is a complex matter, contentious, by some counts, and incredibly straightforward for others. )

As stated before, with Knight-Lieutenant Coupe's approval I had taken initial steps to speaking with Chantry leaders in Kirkwall to see how the forest might be dealt with to best suit as a memorial, but now the forest has been largely destroyed we should move quickly before some other unexpected event come to pass. If this matter is of particular interest to you or you’ve suggestions on how we might work with the Chantry to create a fitting memorial and curry favour, I’d be glad of your time and insights.

Threaded | Flat

Apparently the citizenry has taken to the statue.

[That's a very level tone. Too level.]

I always intended to maintain it, and would be happy to tend to whatever memorial is decided on as well. My original hope was that it would be a simple quiet place to remember, but that may be less possible now.

[Beat.]

I imagine the Chantry might be less pleased to learn that a Dalish carved her rather than the statue growing miraculously from the ground. Recognition for my work isn't my concern, but if you let them think it is, we can use it as a bargaining chip.

The-- I'm sorry, I-- I've been assisting somewhat with the carved Andraste. If the people like her, I think it would be a mistake to remove her. Even if everything else is gone.

Sorry.

[There's a lot he wants to add to that, but for whatever reason, it seems wrong to out the artist and her intentions.]

I'm not convinced we shouldn't just leave well enough alone for a change, but if the Inquisition is determined to get involved again, then it should be immediately clear that this time it will be done properly and respectfully. Publicly consult with local Chantry leaders, the Viscount, and especially the families of the victims. Find out what they want done with the site, and then help make that happen instead of taking over something that has nothing to do with us.

Well! Fire is one way to solve a problem.

[ Thanks, fire. And no offense, Dalish, except for the offense inherent in thinking that your magic forest is scary and your opinions are irrelevant. ]

And perhaps we have all learned something, no? Any proposal must take into account how easy it would be for bandits and thugs to use the memorial to hide.

As a minor matter, I'll need some help relocating the beehive in the grove. It was well-enough hidden before now that no one tampered with it, but I'm afraid for what might happen if one of the pilgrims gets too close on a day I haven't had a chance to renew the spells.

[angry winter bees are not a joking matter, yikes]

With the forest gone, go back to the people of Kirkwall, ask them what they want as Enchanter Voss suggests. We've done enough to the people of Kirkwall to have them wary of us at best, and the Chantry forest was something they never asked for, nor did one of those who created it seem to give it much thought beyond her own desires from speaking with her.

Speak with the people of Kirkwall, go with what they suggest, let the memory of the damned forest fade away.

private to Herian

fully unaware of Nari's contribution 8V

private to chantry relations members

chantry relations lock

private to Chantry Relations;

private to Chantry Relations; scooting into the lecture hall like no one's gonna notice