SUBJECT: Dragon Rage: Origins.
PARTICIPANTS: Aziraphale, Julius, Val, Mhavos
CLASSIFICATION: Public.
DATE FILED: Harvestmere.
STATUS: Ongoing.
SUMMARY: Riftwatch agents traveled to the Storm Coast to find more information about Corypheus' dragon, revealing it to be a high dragon that was tainted by red lyrium.

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Hello, it’s Alistair. I’m helping Enchanter Julius with Project Sashamiri now. We’re working on redecorating the office. Fur and leather, some dog statues, you know. We need some volunteers to help haul up a few barrels of mud—just for the smell, you know. We won’t spread it around the floor or anything. Maybe smear on the walls behind the dog tapestries…

[ Has he worn the joke completely out yet? Yes? Okay. ]

There’s also Corypheus. Not smeared on the walls, I mean—we’re working on him, too. If anyone doesn’t already know, he seems to be able to control darkspawn through the taint, and ah—the Red Templars, and lyrium being blighted solves that mystery—and us. Grey Wardens. I don’t think it’s a secret among anyone here that we’re tainted, too.

Maybe don't spread that around.

But—well, first of all, if anyone ever notices any of us acting strangely, you probably shouldn’t give us the benefit of the doubt. Don’t kill us right away, maybe. Keep in mind that we’re all already sort of strange. All of you, too, not just the Wardens. But if we’re unusually strange, let someone important know.

And second, I think we would prefer not to have to cut our way through our friends to get to Corypheus, if it’s avoidable. Not to mention it will be easier to get to him if he doesn’t have so much help. So if anyone has ideas for ways we might be able to counteract his control, I might have a way to try them out.

SUBJECT: There's a red lyrium in my mummy
PARTICIPANTS: Ilias Fabria, Kostos Averesch, Berenike Averesch (deceased). Sidony Venaras, Nikos Averesch, and Caspar Perakis were involved previously.
CLASSIFICATION: Private for the Division Heads and the head of Project Sashamiri
DATE FILED: Time is a flat circle. (This was logged out in April but no one involved would have ICly sat on the info for this long so OOCly we've decided to just ignore that fact as much as is feasible. Please assume the report is recent enough that it's still open to follow-up and Ilias & Kostos’s discussion of his findings occurred a few days to a week before its filing.)
STATUS: Complete
SUMMARY: Riftwatch members examined Berenike, an unusually aggressive mummy borrowed from the Grand Necropolis after the attack on the Inquisition there. They eventually found red lyrium hidden in the mummy, which seems to have caused her aggression and may provide further evidence of Venatori involvement with the Mortalitasi.

REPORT: ( na na na na, na na, na na )

Hello. For those of you I don't know personally, this is Julius. Since the project reorganization, I've been heading up Project Sashamiri, which has meant playing a lot of catch up with the work everyone has been doing on red lyrium.

If you're among those who were part of the red lyrium project when it was separate, or whose work now focuses in that direction, I'd be interested in talking with you more about your findings. Intelligence from Emprise du Lion suggests, for example, that cold actively facilitates red lyrium growth. Do we have any idea whether warm conditions can hamper it? If not, is there a way to test that?

In short... what do you think I need to know to do my job? And what do you want resources for? I can't make promises, but I can argue better if I know where to direct whatever I can secure.

If you'd prefer to talk in person or privately, I'm happy to make the time.

Good day, all. This is Enchanter Julius, if we've not met. I've tried to speak with as many of you as practical individually first, but this will serve as official notice that I've been appointed leader of the project focusing on Corypheus' history. Obviously we all know the potential significance of this work. What I don't yet know is which existing leads or avenues of research you feel are most immediately pressing. If, now or in the future, you feel strongly about a particular direction we should pursue with this project, I encourage you to tell me right away. While I can't promise to always act on every suggestion immediately, we will not succeed without clear and frank communication at every level, and I intend to facilitate that as best I'm able.

To that end, I also would like to meet with my fellow project leaders, as your schedules permit. Without stepping on anyone else's authority, I think there is a great deal to be gained in open collaboration, and I hope we can help each other make progress. We all know what's at stake, after all.

If you wish to speak in person, rather than via crystal, I can usually be found in my workspace in the Gallows during the day, or we can make arrangements to meet at a time you find convenient.

[ 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!