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bakerstreet2016-10-21 09:11 pm
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The Random Scenario Meme 3.0
- Post your character, name, and series in the subject. Include any preferences as well.
- Go to RNG and enter 1-6 for a scene type, and 1-20 for a scene to play out.
TYPE OF SCENE.
① Action → Gun fights, bar brawls, fights to the death are all possible scenarios.
② Angst → Characters suffer emotionally or physically from relationships breaking up, death, injury, etc. Hurt and comfort themes are included.
③ Crack → Genderswaps, super powers, sudden compulsions are all possible outcomes.
④ Fluff → Something that is devoid of angst. It's light-hearted and might have the overtone of romance.
⑤ Gen → General fun, things that didn't fit in the other categories.
⑥ Sex → First times, kinks, even dubcon are all possible themes of sex related scenarios.
⑦ Your choice → Think of your own scenario, choose one of the above or make a combo even!
ACTION.
① Zombies → It's the zombie apocalypse, lock and load!
② Bar brawl → You had one too many drinks, said something wrong, and now you're being asked to take it outside.
③ Chase → You're caught in a high speed chase.
④ Gun fight → You're caught in a big shoot-out.
⑤ Fight with a friend → You're fighting with a friend, all out.
⑥ Interrogation → You're being interrogated for some offense you've done.
⑦ Aliens → Aliens are attacking and you're not going to take your probe laying down!
⑧ Final battle → This is it. The battle that will end all the fighting for you. Will you win? Will you get that peace you want?
⑨ Training → You're not actually fighting, just training for the inevitable.
⑩ No hope → You know this fight has no hope. It's not going to end well for anyone involved, but you can't turn away.
⑪ Sneaking in → You're stealing a diamond or sneaking in to kick some bad guy butt, but whatever it is, you have to practice stealth.
⑫ Blue wire → You're faced with a bomb that needs to be disarmed.
⑬ Fight for honor → You've been disgraced or someone you care about has, so it's time to fight for honour.
⑭ Showdown → Time for a cowboy-style showdown. Whoever draws the fastest wins.
⑮ War → You're caught in the middle of a war here. Remember to keep your chin up and keeping fighting.
⑯ Apocalypse → The apocalypse finally happened and now you're left to scavenge and fight for whatever is left.
⑰ Sabotage → It's time to sabotage someone's plan! How is entirely up to you. Do you set up a bomb in their toilet? Do you double cross them at the last minute?
⑱ Big damn hero → You know you have to handle this one alone, so that means disarming or knocking unconscious the person who wants to join you.
⑲ Fight club → You know the rules... you're in an underground fighting ring and you're fighting with all you've got.
⑳ Threaten → You've just been sent here to rough them up a little, threaten them into behaving.
ANGST.
① Injury / illness → Your character has become injured or ill! To what extent is the mun's choice.
② Last moments → You character has been gravely injured and this is their last chance to say their last words.
③ Depression → Your character is depressed, what actions they take is up to the mun.
④ Betrayed → You character has been betrayed by the other. How do they react?
⑤ Tortured → Your character is being tortured and needs rescuing or at least a sympathetic ear to help him through it.
⑥ Jealousy → Your character is feeling jealous and must deal with it, how will they do it?
⑦ Breakup! → This relationship has gone as far as it can, it's time to breakup.
⑧ Broken → For whatever reason, the character is broken, mentally or or physically.
⑨ Fight → You can't even be in the same room as your friend or lover without arguing anymore.
⑩ Lost → You lost the biggest fight of your life and now all you can do is try to pick up the pieces.
⑪ Worst nightmare → Whatever you fear the most is now real or maybe you're just trapped in a dream together, but whatever it is, it feels too real.
⑫ Addicted → You're addicted to something, alcohol, drugs, sex, whatever. It's destroying your life and you can't do anything to stop it.
⑬ Hurt you → You're being forced to hurt someone you love either by betraying them or even being forced to shout things you don't mean. It's for their own good in the end though.
⑭ Separation → You were forced to leave this person for their own safety and while you've been miserable without them, you really didn't mean to run into them again... maybe it was by accident or you were watching them from afar this whole time.
⑮ Becoming a monster → You are slowly changing, becoming a monster: vampire, zombie, demon, something you can't recover from and no-one can help you.
⑯ Frozen → You are entirely helpless, frozen, to stop some kind of disaster.
⑰ Prison → You were very bad and now it's time to pay the price by turning yourself in or maybe the law just finally caught up to you.
⑱ Fear → You're not sure why, but you are suddenly terrified and you can't deal with it. You need help.
⑲ Hated → You are now hated by the person you loved the most.
⑳ Down and out → You're living on the streets, you've hit rock bottom, and you don't know what to do.
CRACK.
① Sexswap → Uh-oh, you're suddenly the opposite sex!
② Forced confessions → No matter what it is and no matter how hard you resist, you're going to be compelled to spill some deep dark secret!
③ Mind-reading → You've suddenly got the ability to read minds!
④ Animal → You're suddenly part animal or transformed into an animal!
⑤ Awkward pick-up lines → You're compelled to use bad pickup lines on whoever is closest!
⑥ Back in School / Graduated → You're suddenly back in school! Or if you were already in it, you've aged and long since graduated!
⑦ Vampires, werewolves, and zombies, oh my! → You're suddenly a vampire, werewolf, or zombie! Maybe even a demon or a devil, whatever creepy crawly you can think of. What do you do now?
⑧ Ghost → You're suddenly a ghost or at least invisible. What are you going to do with this new ability?
⑨ Awkward conversations → So did you just fart or what? Any conversation goes, as long as it's embarrassing and awkward.
⑩ Crossdressing → For whatever reason, you're suddenly dressed in clothes of the opposite sex.
⑪ Suddenly naked → Oops! Your clothes are suddenly gone.
⑫ Suddenly a kid → You're a kid again! Have fun with that second childhood.
⑬ Fortune cookie → You've suddenly received a note with something that will happen in the future, either precise or vague.
⑭ Super power → And suddenly you're like Superman! Any power goes.
⑮ Bodyswap → Somehow you've changed bodies with the other person.
⑯ Back in time → Somehow, you wound up in the past again. Do you try to correct something or just sit and wait for time to jump? Maybe it jumps to various points in your life or maybe you actually think you're back in the day. Have fun, run wild with the idea!
⑰ To the future → Is it everything you've dreamed? Is it horrible? Whatever happens, you're here to witness what happens to you in the future. Either you take the place of your future self or you're just there to watch. Might cause some confusion if people start seeing double though...
⑱ Angels, mermaids, and fairies! → You're not necessary something dark or evil. You're just something different. How do you deal?
⑲ Locked in a closet → For some reason, you're locked up in a closet with someone else. Do you make nice and try to figure your way out or what?
⑳ Finger trap → You're caught in a Chinese finger trap... with somebody else! You can't figure out how to get loose either... have fun with that.
FLUFF.
① Cuddling → For whatever reason, characters feel like being close and cuddling.
② Pillow talk → After the main event, characters are up for some pillow talk.
③ Celebration → Anniversary or some other big event is taking place and characters want to celebrate!
④ Love confession → Someone has finally decided to confess their love and today is the day!
⑤ Appreciation → You feel the need to show appreciation for that person closest to you, even if it's just a pat on the back.
⑥ Apologies → You made a mistake and now it's time to make it up in some way you know the other can't refuse!
⑦ Get back together → Why did you break up again exactly? Whatever the reason, it was a huge mistake and you both know you can work through it.
⑧ Date night → You've planned for a wonderful night together and you can't wait to get it started.
⑨ Family → You've either found out you're pregnant or you've already got that addition to your family.
⑩ Marriage → You're just about to get hitched or maybe you're enjoying your honeymoon. Maybe you've been together for years now! Whatever the case, it's time for that next big step.
⑪ Meeting again → It's time for that happy reunion finally!
⑫ Love at first sight → For whatever reason, you are now insanely in love with the first person you set eyes on.
⑬ Flirtation → You can't resist to do a little bit of harmless flirtation all of a sudden.
⑭ In the snow → Look outside! It's a winter wonderland, so why not go out and play in it?
⑮ Engagement → You've planned it all out and now it's time to finally pop the question.
⑯ Friendly games → You've set up the game station or board games for a friendly competition!
⑰ Gift → Time to give that special someone a gift just because.
⑱ Recovery → You're taking care of someone who's just recovered from some illness or injury.
⑲ Healing → Time to help mend that someone who's been through hell and back.
⑳ Better than ever → You've finally got everything you've ever wanted here. What is your ideal life and who does it include?
GEN.
① Nice meeting you → It's your first time meeting this person! You bumped into each other on the street, in a bar, at work... whatever!
② Drinks → You're out for drinks! Or just chilling at home with some beers. Wherever!
③ Lost → You're lost and you kind of need help finding your way to where you're going. A little help with directions?
④ Costume party → You're at a costume party, both of you are wearing masks. Do you keep the anonymity or take it off and see whose company you've been enjoying?
⑤ Wrong number → Oops, actually you didn't mean to call that person...
⑥ Drunk → You're already drunk! Drunk dialing, stumbling into someone, showing up unexpected... what type of drunk are you anyway? Aggressive, loving, happy? How does the other react?
⑦ Old friends → you haven't seen this person in a long time!
⑧ Rivals → you're suddenly rivals! Or maybe you have been all along...
⑨ Problems → you've got a problem with each other, just got in a huge fight, whatever. Try to work it out!
⑩ What are your intentions... → This person? They're dating a close friend, family member, etc. You need to find out if they're going to hurt them! Or you need to discuss your friend/family's dating choice.
⑪ I saw you → you saw the other person doing something bad and you need to confront them about it.
⑫ Sorry but no → the other person has feelings that you just don't share. They don't necessarily have to be romantic... maybe you just don't agree with their sudden desire to quit their job and start a business making tiny, fuzzy teddy bears.
⑬ My hero → you need to tell this person how much they mean to you. They've been your best friend or your role model your whole life and they need to know.
⑭ Enabler → you're enabling the other (or each other) to do something bad, really bad. Addiction, stealing, killing, or just any other self-destructive behavior.
⑮ Cooking → Time for an impromptu cooking lesson!
⑯ Oh, sure, I remember you... → It's that awkward moment when someone comes up and seems to know you, but you have no idea who they even are!
⑰ Rescue! → One of you was in trouble, but you came to the rescue!
⑱ Boss → One of you works under the other. Is your relationship good? Are you scheming things? Or do you hate each other?
⑲ Perfect crime → You and the other person have just pulled off the perfect crime... or you're planning to! What are you doing? The heist of the century, an assassination?
⑳ Movies → movie night! Maybe it's a sleepover. Whichever the case, it's time to eat a lot and have fun.
SEX.
① First time → it's your first time together or your first time ever! Enjoy the awkward times!
② Bondage → You and your partner decide to experiment a little with ropes or handcuffs or whatever you'd like to tie your partner up with.
③ Rough / Aggressive → Your characters want it rough.
④ Romantic → Slow and gentle, meaningful, that's how characters want it.
⑤ Dubcon → Character A wants Character B and it doesn't really matter if Character B wants it as bad or not.
⑥ In public → Characters feel like taking a risk and doing it in a public place.
⑦ Roleplay → Naughty nurse fetish? Pirate kink? You and your partner decide to try it out now!
⑧ Healing → You've both fought hard or gone through a rough time and it's time to get some R&R in.
⑨ Last time → This is the last time you're going to this because you're breaking up or maybe your lover is running off to sacrifice their lives in some heroic way. The possibilities are endless, but you better make this one count.
⑩ No strings attached → You're just friends with benefits. Nothing wrong with that, right?
⑪ Anonymous → You met in a restroom or bar, any location of your choosing, but you don't even know each other's names.
⑫ Toys → You're eager to try something new, so why not toys?
⑬ Aphrodisiacs → You've been slipped a strong aphrodisiac somehow and now you absolutely cannot control yourself.
⑭ Show → You're putting on a show by either doing it right in the club or filming it for a bunch of people.
⑮ Ménage à trois → It's time for that threesome you've always dreamed of.
⑯ Non-penetrative → Frottage, handjobs, whatever you want to try out.
⑰ Controlled → You are under mind control and must do whatever your lover asks of you.
⑱ Hate sex → It's not just rough or aggressive, you absolutely cannot stand each other.
⑲ Extreme → Fisting, knife play, whatever you can think of so long as it tests the boundaries.
⑳ Fantasy → This is just a fantasy, a dream, and you know it, but what is your ideal fantasy and how willing is your partner?
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"I think that's enough for now. You'll just have to read the rest of it yourself, find out what happens to his uh..." He looks down at the book for reference, "Tempered shaft and her moist flower." He makes a face, unsure whether he appreciates Varric's purple prose, but it at least doesn't detract from the precious man before him.
"If you turn any more red you'll make the fire jealous, Inquisitor."
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A moan slips out, exasperated and embarrassed. Really, if he'd realised it was that... that lewd, he would've suggested Krem just borrow it after he was finished. The elf shakes his head against his knees.
"I suppose it's my own fault," he says, and finally lifts his head; although he can't quite bring himself to make eye contact. "I don't suppose I'll ever live this down." The fact that he liked the first one enough to borrow the following two and--
"Please don't tell Bull."
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Not the best judge when it comes to works of fiction. "And I won't. I'm not that mean. You tell Bull anything not strictly in confidence and it's through the chargers and Skyhold within the day." He knows their mercenary group was rabid for gossip and drank it in as easily as they threw back pints.
He set the book down between the both of them and instead turned his gaze to the fire, smiling at it and the warmth it gave. He was barely cold any more, even with the open ceiling. "It's still a wonder to me how easily that comes to you. If it were me I'd be sitting here for ten minutes with a flint and some tinder, hoping the draft doesn't blow out what little sparks I've got going."
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"Oh, I've learned that," he says with a little chuckle. "Thankfully, not at my expense."
He looks to the fire too, and shakes his head. "It took me years to be able to do even that much," he says. "I was lucky that spirit magics came fairly easy to me, but I'm awful with anything else. It wasn't until the Mage-Templar war began that Keeper Istimaethoriel insist I push myself to learn more offensive magic."
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The keeper's name gets him to laugh though, not at all at the name itself, but the length of it. "Sorry- Your keeper, their name sounds almost Tevene. It's long...you don't get that often outside of the country. It's a mouthful, like mine." He tries to explain so as not to sound disrespectful, but truly is curious. Lasulahn's name was long in itself as well, but not quite like the keeper's.
"What sort of people are in your clan anyways? I've never really heard you talk of them. If you don't mind me asking."
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Not that his own full name was much shorter. The question gives him a thoughtful pause, and he considers as his gaze turns back towards the fireplace. His expression softens into something tender, and decidedly longing. "All sorts, I suppose. Our clan wasn't very large, but large enough. Our Keeper, she's very wise, and very patient, but firm when need be. She's always done well by our clan. She kept us safe through the war, without having to isolate ourselves completely."
He's quiet for a brief moment. "The hunters are the brash ones, for the most part. They stay at the camp when we trade with humans, most of them tend to be a bit...argumentative with them." He chuckles at the memory. "Our hahren-- the clan elder, I mean, he's a cranky, impatient man. I think I'm responsible for half the white hairs on his head. Our master craftsman is much more patient. And then there's our hearthmistress. I've never known a gentler woman."
Oh, how he missed them.
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Race wasn't so much an issue in the Chargers, or homeland, and so it was easier he thought, for him to be more comfortable, most respectful, but at the same time, being Tevene, there wasn't much room for assumptions after the long history between their people.
He feels like he's being honored with the conversation about the small Dalish clan, nodding as he listens. Some words are foreign, some he wonders about the history of necessity that goes with a nomadic lifestyle in each mention, and he practically snorts when he mentions their elder. "You don't seem the type to have been a rambunctious child. Though I suppose perhaps you could have gotten to mischief. Did you leave behind many friends and family when you came here?" He himself had left Tevinter as a fugitive, and not so willingly and organized, but at times, even if he didn't agree with her, he missed his mother. There wasn't much talk of his father either, and at times he wondered how life was treating him. Of the two, he missed him more.
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Lasulahn shakes his head slightly. "Not rambunctious, no, but I was constantly at his heels, begging him to tell me legends of our gods, or teach me more of the elvhen language." His expression becomes thoughtful, a little more sad. "My clan is my family," he says wistfully, but then adds: "My father died when I was young, and I have no brothers or sisters. My mother remains with the clan, and my two close friends. It has been... many months, now, since I have seen them."
He wraps his arms around his legs, tucking into a small ball almost, resting his chin on his knee. "What about you, Krem? You mentioned your father before, but what about your town? Friends?"
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"You were more of a studious child then. Ah...I was always at my fathers heels when I could be, I know how that is. When you're a child, being near them is such a privilege, so you consume as much of their time as you can." He nods as he speaks though, feeling for his loss. He only comments when asked though, piecing his thoughts together.
"My father isn't dead, but he sold himself into slavery before I was able to join the army, so I understand that loss, if only a little. My mother wanted me to marry up good, and I suppose if I had, perhaps then he would be free, but...I don't think he would have wanted that life for me, even in the way that he's living now. He understood more than my mother did, even if he never said anything." His fingers play with one of the many leather straps of his armor as he talks, distracting himself from the subject matter. "I send money back still, but even if I wanted to see my mother, see any friends I had made in the army, it wouldn't be easy. My crime wasn't the most serious, but it still wouldn't be safe to travel back to Tevinter any time soon. And it's already been years..."
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Bewilderment crosses the Inquisitor's face. "Sold-- himself into slavery? Wh-" But then he frowns, and realises that perhaps he broached a sensitive topic.
"Krem, if I've overstepped myself- I'm sorry." His expressions softens into something sort of doleful, but also admiring. "You've been through a lot to get where you are."
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Still, at the other man's shock, he sits up, not wanting him to distress himself. "He- Yes. He's a part of the Servus Publicus now, owned by the state for the people. It's the choice of the poor in Tevinter rather than the slums you might see here. You're either on the edge of slavery or slaves. It's...much different. At the very least citizens have the choice. I feel for the ones sold to private owners. There are laws in place to keep them treated well, but...I can't speak much about it. A Tailor's son doesn't see the high life."
Still, he shakes his head, not too bothered. It was his life, and while he did miss his father, hated the decision he had to make so his family wouldn't starve, it wasn't something he couldn't talk about. "It is probably good for you to learn about it anyways, and you can only get the noble view from Dorian. He wouldn't know much of the lower class. You can ask me more if you'd like, I don't mind."
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"Right. That might help me. Andruil knows nothing else would."
The Inquisitor considers Krem's words with a visible sort of discomfort. "It's not a choice if you're giving up your freedom, is it?" He frowns. He and Dorian had their discussion about slaves, and it was perhaps the one thing they'd genuinely argued about. "Yes, we've... spoken about it," he says carefully, but there's a touch of bitterness in his tone he can't quite hide. "I have a hard time seeing his view. He is in a position to own slaves, and I am one that has had to fight off those that would sell me into slavery." But then the Inquisitor smiles. "Whatever you'd like to tell me. I wouldn't know what to ask, really."
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"It isn't a choice for yourself, but for the freedom of your family," He returns. "I suppose if you didn't have one, then it wouldn't be a choice, if you were so desperate, but I would assume most that are by themselves would have no ties and could easily pick up and find more work if they needed to." He shrugs, it's a fact of life that people down in the dirt couldn't change.
"The ability to create on just the cost of sheltering your workers creates much more profit...I couldn't see the magisterium giving it up in the long run, despite how much it demonizes our country for doing so." He isn't quite so sure his opinions have much basis, just what he's seen in life. He was no scholar.
"There is so much else that the world demonizes Tevinter for, what's one more thing."
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Lasulahn shakes his head. "I cannot imagine that. Slavery for the elves is not a choice." Slavery for the elvhen meant midnight raids, fighting slavers with stronger weapons or more men or more mages, losing hunters every time they came.
"Our Clan kept to the borders of the Free Marches, but we always avoided the Imperium. It... was never really about what people said of the country, though, but our experience." Lasulahn smiles. "You and Dorian have shown me that not all the rumours are right, either way. I'm grateful for that."
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As a Tevinter citizen, those things that came to mind weren't a reality for him, but it was something he was aware of. "Traders only get paid for what they catch, what they sell. It's greed that fuels that and I suppose if you have the stomach for trading in flesh, there isn't much left to find offensive." And yet, he felt like apologizing. There was so much that his country did wrong, so much that even Dorian could recognize the flaws, even if not all of them, from his high seat.
"Unfortunately the few you find does not change the workings of a nation. At the very least Dorian might have the ability to invoke change. I'm useless in the face of social change in Tevinter." But he doesn't seem all that bothered, recognizing that. It wasn't his place to imagine changing the world in that way.
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Lasulahn gives a weary sigh. He'd spent too much time in the great hall lately, listening to Fereldens grumble and Orlesians uselessly posture between fretting about whether the Skyhold baths had the right sort of soap. "Forgive me. Our clans are not so different, when we meet for our arlathvhen. It is a blessing we only meet every ten years. I cannot know if we would come together as I feel we should, because we don't have that opportunity." That was sorrowful in its own right. Supposedly the elvhen nation was once peaceful and harmonious, and now they were splinters from the same branch that all thought they belonged to different trees of the same forest. They could never agree on many things, and it pains him.
But the elf smiles faintly then, and shakes his head. "It is good that you want things in your country to change - both of you. But even if you think you can't change Tevinter, you can change people's impressions of it. You're a good person, Krem. People notice that. If it can change someone's mind, 'maybe not all Tevinters are bad,' then perhaps that could be well enough?"
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"If the Chantry wasn't up it's own ass about how important it was to saving the world, I'm sure we'd all be better for it in this war." An unpopular opinion to be sure, but the Chantry hadn't ever done much for him in life, and in Tevinter it wasn't such a driving force as it was for many of the southern nations. "It might hold the nations together as a common ground, but it shattering should have made them much stronger for it, not leaving them all bickering at it's wake." He understands the frustration, sees it and can do nothing. It's why he convinced Bull to join in the first place. It was what they could do in this time of unrest, rather than fight still for hire by the bickering masses of men in high places with far too much money.
"I know little to nothing about Arlathvhen-" He pronounces the word slow, as foreign as it is to him, but it's obvious he's trying hard not to get it wrong, "People as a whole, it seems as if agreeing for the good of the world is like giving up, it makes it all the harder the more men you get in one room, one meet." Still, he isn't so sure he and Dorian are the shining lights of Tevinter, both being essential Pariah's in their home country, a testiment if anything that the supposedly good men of Tevinter were cast out, but he tries not to think too heavily on that.
"I suppose to me, and possibly to Dorian that idea seems like...settling for less, but you're very right. Even if Change is slow, or starts outside the country, it's still happening. As ground into tradition as Tevinter is, some day it will need to move forward, and I suppose I can hope the rest of the world helps move with it."
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Even if he hadn't had such an upbringing, when he travelled as he did, seeing the suffering in Thedas first hand, read the name of every soldier that died under his command, saw food shortages, and terrorised children, and people freezing to death because of rebels and bandits and rogue Templars... it was difficult to not quickly lose patience with the trivial whining of various nobles... or the self-important attitudes of Chantry sisters that had nerve to claim Leliana and Cassandra were "just two souls" for the Inquisition, but critically important for the next Divine to be decided, regardless of Corypheus still threatening them.
"Ah, there are some words that have no translation in the common tongue, I forget sometimes others don't know them. Arlathvhen is the meeting Dalish clans have once every ten years. It lasts for two days, and in that time, clans exchange artefacts we've found, and things we've learned. We also tell stories, to make sure we remember correctly, and do not lose what precious little history we still have."
Lasulahn smiles. "It perhaps does not seem like much, but it is." The idea of an allied Tevinter seemed far away, but perhaps not impossible.
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The idea of the existence of spoken word as the only way to preserve your history would be terrifying to any Tevinter citizen. Even being part of the Soporati, lacking the education the nobles did, he knew much of the past in Tevinter, the past glories and the fascination with bloodlines and local history. "I-" He goes to say, but isn't sure whether he should announce his grievance aloud. "If it isn't rude for me to say, I'm sorry. We have so many records...I could probably spout the names of my family going back generations, even for someone in my position, they have it all noted in books, hundreds of years worth of names. It would be too little to say that your loss is a shame...a tragedy."
He glances down at his hands, knows that it isn't anything he can apologize for, wasn't his fault, and yet there is guilt. He enjoys Lasulahn's company, and yet felt wrong about it at times when they spoke of their own people. Like perhaps he didn't deserve it, that the Lavellan's and his clan deserved more. "I was the one who talked the chief into joining the inquisition...I thought it was the right thing to do. And yet here you are, head of us all and you never asked for it. It wasn't a decision you could make, to leave, or even to join. It was forced upon you." He glances up, looking at the other man, a little unsure of his words, but feeling them heavy on his chest. "I hope that what ever happens, it's worth what you're giving up, and that your people are stronger for it. They deserve that. As do you, inquisitor."
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Lasulahn quietly considers Krem's words. The fault of the fall of the Dalish could be laid at the feet of many, not the least of all was the Imperium. "It is not your fault," is what he carefully, quietly settles on. "We have our books and our records, but they are precious and rare." He looks down sadly. "It is the nature of our existence now, and ever are we defined by it." He sighs quietly, shoulders slumping in a rare display.
"So it was you that convinced him to 'pick a side', was it?" he asks softly, with less humour than he intended. He still recalls their first conversation, months ago in Haven. "I am glad you did."
He smiles at Krem, but it is thin and strained. "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Whether I would have asked for it or not is of little use now. Ir suledin nadas."