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Anders ([personal profile] justice_is_blond) wrote2016-01-15 11:45 am
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[personal profile] exequy 2018-09-02 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I do not tell jokes.

[ Sort of. Do snide comments count as jokes? ]

This is advice from our Knight-Commander.
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[personal profile] exequy 2018-09-03 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ They are curses though. Curses with feelings. ]

No. Nothing like that. But he did specify that four men in a compass point formation would work only for a single, normal, not overly monstrous abomination.
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[personal profile] exequy 2018-09-03 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know. I suppose it is possible he was lying, to tease me. Or because he is lying about being a Templar altogether.
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[personal profile] exequy 2018-09-03 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
I do not think the Chantry usually permitted people to leave, after they started taking lyrium.

[ That was half the point, Kostos The Loyalist will not say—a leash. But it doesn't completely rule anything out. ]

He is from somewhere in the Marches. Markham? Ostwick? Beleth would know.
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post-Tevinter

[personal profile] misdirection_hex 2018-09-04 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
[A brief message in a spidery but well-practiced hand has found its way into the hands of everyone in the newly-rechristened Hostile Powers project. None of this newfangled magical book business.]

In light of recent events abroad, their ongoing implications, and the necessary narrowing of our focus as a project, your input is requested at a project-wide conference that will be held via crystal at eight o'clock Tuesday evening.

Please let me know if you are unable to listen in. Minutes will be made available to those who cannot.

--Enchanter Vandelin, Assistant Project Leader
Edited 2018-09-04 01:29 (UTC)
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action; tea time~ ♪

[personal profile] nadasharillen 2018-09-25 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
They've been taking tea together periodically; Nari showing up with different blends she's been trying out, all variations on the kind Sina had liked best. Some are markedly better than others, some poor enough that they have to be dumped out and replaced with whatever it is Anders has a pot of going. Largely, they've been light visits. Innovation, throwing boulders off Sundermount, what magic feels like, what it might be like to have a Planasene mountain lion as a pet.

Today, however, she arrives bearing her latest mix (a black citrusy thing, not mixed with vanilla this time, thank goodness) in a more somber fashion.

"War's getting worse," she says with little preamble, going to sort through the mugs to find a couple of clean ones.
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[personal profile] nadasharillen 2018-09-27 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not sure we ever knew anything else," she replies dourly, pouring the ever-ready hot water over the leaves.

It's something she appreciates about their time together most. The both of them are simultaneously light-hearted and dire, ready to swap between silliness and gallows humor, bits of fun nothing and seriousness in an instant, and somehow the duality of it is never strange.

Nari brings the two mugs over to the table, placing one in front of him and sliding into the other chair. "Every time it seems like we're making strides in one place, here comes something on the other side."
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[personal profile] nadasharillen 2018-09-27 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
It had been unfortunate. It really, really had been. This one is nice though, if one likes a bit of zing. Amazing the things you can accomplish when you actually stick to complimentary flavor profiles.

Nari nods along with his thoughts. "I s'pose most of the common folk get a little happiness from 'at least I'm not an elf', or 'at least I'm not a mage'. It's fighting over scraps of dignity because that's all that're offered." She makes a face. "To their advantage to keep us sniping amongst ourselves." That was all old and chewed over, though, as much as it was cathartic to rehash just how infuriating shem'len society was. She slides her mug back and forth between her hands.

"As far as the thought? It's actually... my People don't do war." She huffs a wry laugh through her nose, "Well, not like this, at least. In lines, pressed up against each other. All the fighting I've done has always been using the land, making the most of small numbers by trying our best to never be seen, never be caught. This is all... it's so open. It's... the losses must be..."

He'd know. It was brutal. Lines and lines of men and women crashing into each other like waves, so many of them immediate casualties, so many downed to be trampled into the mud by ally and enemy alike. She'd not been to the front lines, of course, but she'd seen the maps. She'd read the books. She'd imagined.

"Is this... how it always is?"
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[personal profile] nadasharillen 2018-09-27 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"You don't have to be a scholar, you're a healer. You've seen what comes after it," Nari says, her lips thinning at the idea. The sheer loss of life is awful, but it's the way human warfare happens that makes her really upset.

"It's mostly that the idea of making stationary siege engines makes my skin crawl sometimes." True enough, but not all of it. Really it's mostly knowing that even though Cade's a better archer than foot soldier, he's trained to be a front line combatant, and if the need gets dire—when it gets dire... but Cade isn't really a good Anders subject, so she tries to distract from the nervous tapping of her fingers on the mug by continuing on with the first idea.

"The fact that your cities can't move makes my skin crawl. How is everyone so fine with knowing that your enemies know where you are all the time? With being so concentrated in places?" Kirkwall can't scatter to avoid a blow any more than Minrathous could.

She imagines Anders won't know these things any more than she knows why everything ended up so wrong.
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[personal profile] nadasharillen 2018-10-04 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Weary of being always on the move. Running for so much of your life. Risk in people knowing where you are.

Hearing that complaint--valid as it is--from a human, even a mage, even a fugitive mage, makes Nari thin her lips and look down into her tea, the lines of her vallaslin wrinkling as her brow pinches. But Anders is a friend, a good one, and she's sure it was simple carelessness. It's not as if they'd talked about it before, not really. So instead of being sharp, she just looks up with a wry half-smile to tap the tip of her ear, the darker line of her tattoo where it curves across her cheek.

"Fully sympathized with."

For generations.

"The hunting is always better in the next glen over, I suppose. I imagine the mages cooped up in towers would love to sail the grass seas," she says, pulling a knee up to set on one of the rungs of her chair and resting an arm on top of it, reaching for her mug with the other. "I reckon it's all about whether or not it's a choice you've made, or one that's been made for you."
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[personal profile] nadasharillen 2018-10-08 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not a cage to those who want it, I guess. I don't begrudge it so much as wish it didn't make it so easy to point at them and say 'see, they're fine with it, what's wrong with the rest of you'."

None of the Dalish are fine with it. Nari imagines that's why they're painted as a cautionary tale about savage isolationism instead. Can't cherry-pick them for examples, better just throw away the whole lot. She rests her chin on her hand and grins.

"Young mage seems like a troublemaker. He get up to anything else?"
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crystal.

[personal profile] indissection 2018-12-27 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ser Anders. Might I steal a word or two?
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[personal profile] indissection 2018-12-27 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Might we meet to speak in private?
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[personal profile] indissection 2018-12-27 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be wonderful. You have my sincerest thanks.

[ And, true to word, she is there by the door, hovering a little nervously. ]