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PLOT IDEAS & REQUESTS (DEFUNCT)

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The world of Dragon Age is big and open and many of our players know at least as much about it as the mods. We hope that Fade Rift will be a collaborative effort where players feel free to contribute and to take ownership of the setting and of the game's direction. To that end, we strongly encourage player plots, quests, missions, adventures, and so on. We are also always open to ideas if players have something in mind but feel for some reason that they can't run a prospective plot themselves.

Plot suggestions can take two forms:

Player Plots: Plots that a player runs, which includes posting OOC sign-ups, posting logs and info, and GMing for other players as needed or desired. These plots can involve the plot-runner's character or not, and they can either be personal in nature ("let's go rescue my brother!") or relevant to the war effort and mot plot. Mod involvement will generally be to supply information to the player running the plot as necessary, signal boost, and otherwise provide support.
Plot Suggestions: If there's some aspect of Thedas you think we should explore or some conflict or plot element you want to see but don't want to run yourself, let us know! No promises, but we'll try.
Info Requests: If your character is looking into something—reading books, conducting experiments, writing to ask NPCs for information, etc.—that doesn't warrant a full plot request, let us know here and we'll tell you what they'll discover. Please keep in mind that these requests must be specific. "My character is reading about the Fade; what will they learn?" is too broad. "My character is researching previous instances of individuals physically entering the Fade; beyond those in canon, are there any in FR's universe I should know about?" is specific.

If you have an idea please fill out the appropriate form below and post it here. We'll get back to you as soon as we're able. Not every idea will be viable as written, or necessarily at all, but we will do our best to help find ways to fit the things players want to do in around setting constraints or behind-the-scenes plot considerations whenever we can. All comments are screened.

Player Plots

WHO: Which characters (if any) are definitely going to be involved?
HOW MANY: How many characters total do you envision this involving?
OPEN/CLOSED: Will this be open to sign-ups from any character in the game, or is it closed to particular group?
WHERE: Where do you plan for this to take place?
WHEN: When, ICly and OOCly, are you hoping this will run?
WHAT: Briefly—in a few sentences—what are characters going to go do? You don't have to give us details or explain the OOC plot mechanics. Just give us the general idea/elevator pitch. If we need more details, we'll follow up to ask you for them.

GOAL: What's your ultimate goal for this? To explore a particular area? Acquire a special object? Trigger some sort of character development? Highlight a particular aspect of the setting/theme? Get characters talking about X or Y? Again, you don't need to provide extensive details of everything you plan to happen, just give us a high-level overview of what you want to accomplish so that we know what's most important to you about it.

IMPACT & CONSEQUENCES: Will this have an impact on PCs other than those that sign up to participate, or on a large number of NPCs? Could it impact the standing of a particular group of PCs (i.e. changing local opinions of Rifters, or creating ill-will toward dwarves in Ansburg, etc.)? What impact do you foresee this having on the Inquisition as a whole? Is it something you think could impact the Inquisition's goals, reputation, or security? What (if any) IC consequences do you foresee for involved characters? Are there limits on the consequences you're willing to accept? If you've already discussed permission for this endeavor with the relevant IC leaders, please also mention that and let us know what they said (but it's not required that you have done so; it can also come after).

MOD INVOLVEMENT: What do you need from us to make this happen? 'Nothing' is an acceptable answer! Please note that as a general rule we won't be GMing or NPCing in player plots, but we can provide information, intel, etc. to you OOC.

If you need additional information in order to run your plot, please ask specific questions. We will no longer be answering general requests like 'let me know what they can learn about X'. These are difficult and very time-consuming for us to answer because they require us to guess what steps your characters would take to investigate what is usually a very broad subject before we can determine what they might learn about it. When asking for additional info/intel, please provide us with context about what your characters will be attempting, how they'll go about it, what theories you/they want to test, and some ideas about potential outcomes. You don't need to have every detail 100% fleshed out, but you do at the very least need to bring us specific ideas about how your character would try to learn the information that you want or what could happen as a result of the experiment you want to try.

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As a final note, if you run a plot that pertains to the war effort/larger plot, please file a report using the form on

therookery and tagging the post with the relevant divisions and projects. This is to help everyone keep up with plot developments and is required to get AC bonus points for running a plot.

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If your character is independently researching something, testing theories, listening for rumors, etc., and you need to know what they would learn without necessarily creating an entire plot about it, you can make a request for information by replying here. Comments are initially screened, but we'll unscreen those with information that would be good for everyone to have access to.

Please note that we won't be able to answer requests that are too general. For example, "My character is researching rifts; what will they learn?" is too broad. "What will happen if my character exposes Fade rocks to lyrium?" is... not something we have an answer to, yet, but specific enough that we could provide one.

Since this report, Pel will try scrying with the Lights of Arlathan and the retrieved eluvian shards to confirm whether the lines on the map indicate the locations of eluvians--either where they cross each other on the map, or at the ends of the lines.

MS is going to be all over the actual haunting since that's p much what he does. Obviously he's going to be going over legit anything that seems suspicious, but he tends to look for odd behaviours in spirits - for example, what people or objects to they pay particular attention to? Are there other individuals in the house that the spirit(s) are particularly malicious to? Or the opposite - are they making an effort to protect someone? Are there rooms that are locked/sealed that may hold significance? I'm assuming the haunted house is abandoned and kind of shabby - is there anything that looks as though it's been cared for or out of place? He'll be setting up the scales to track the spirit(s) movement - will there be rooms they seem particularly attached to? (idk I'm trying to cover all the bases with what he'd generally pay attention to and look for)

Since being able to scry the location of every existing eluvian in Thedas could stifle other plots, we'd like to limit the range of the Lights of Arlathan to approximately the distance shown in canon, so between the Cadash Thaig and/or Brecilian Forest ruins and the Dragonbone Wastes. We're not sure how many miles that is, but you can draw a line between their approximate locations on the map and use that to estimate a geographic range from other points. Remember that scrying also attracts "unwanted attention" in the form of shades, at minimum, so it shouldn't be done lightly or easily.

Bearing that in mind, as well as the extreme rarity of intact eluvians and the incompleteness of the mural and therefore the map, there will be one eluvian located outside Wildervale near one of the lines depicted on the map, but not on an intersection, as well as one to the east that isn't particularly close to any line at all.

From Kirkwall Pel also may be able to scry the location of the eluvian in the Dragonbone Wastes. The southern half of the mural had crumbled and won't be depicted on the map, but there are lines beginning in the Waking Sea that look like they might intersect in that region of Ferelden if the map were complete.

Note that this shouldn't be taken as an exhaustive list of potential eluvians within range of Kirkwall. It's just three samples that will hopefully allow Pel to draw some conclusions and thus stop scrying/attracting demons for the time being. Additionally, at this point, actually retrieving any of the eluvians is impossible: one is underground with no clear way to reach it, another is in a large library and presumably part of a private collection, and the third, in the Dragonbone Wastes, would require a sea journey and fighting through cultists.

You're right that the warehouse is abandoned and shabby. Nothing looks especially non-shabby our out of place.
The spirits will not pay more attention to any people in particular or be more or less malicious toward anyone as a rule. For the most part, they'll seem unaware that anyone else is there, unless you manage to get very close and speak to them directly and to their faces, at which point most of them will vanish.
The exception will be a back room. The room isn't locked, but the spirits and movement will be more concentrated and more aggressive there, including objects being used as projectiles at anyone who comes too close and spirits that, while unable to do any physical harm, will shriek and get in the faces of people who don't back away.
Ignoring this and examining the room despite them (or dispatching them, alternatively) will reveal nothing immediately amiss, other than the strong scent of decay, but moving crates and furniture aside will eventually reveal a trapdoor on the floor, previously blocked by a heavy crate full of scrap metal.
The space in the floor beneath the crate will hold seven bodies in the late stages of decomposition, six of them slight, likely undernourished denizens of darktown, and one clearly an adult human man. All of them are in shackles and clothing that was bare and tattered even before they died. There are also scratch marks on the underside of the trapdoor.
Opening the trapdoor will also bring out two demons—a despair demon and a rage demon, specifically—that cannot be reasoned with and will attack anyone present until defeated, along with an increase in objects being jerked about or used as projectiles. People may be jerked around physically by unseen forces as well.
Defeating the demons will end the violence but not make the spirit leave. Accomplishing that will require both seeing to the bodies and strengthening the Veil, which may require assistance from native Templars.

Would they find anything out by comparing it to a map of modern Thedas? And geographic things, any specific places the lines cross at/near?

Comparing it to modern Thedas wouldn’t show any particular pattern--the lines cross over land, over bodies of water, in populated areas and in remote ones. They’re thick enough that the points where they cross on the map would encompass the entire island that was visited in the plot, or cover a whole city-dot on a map. Whether that’s genuinely the size and breadth of what’s been recorded or just a coincidence caused by the limitations of mosaic as an artform would need further investigation.

So, I intend to have Korrin seek a certain Tranquil out to research the possibility of adapting cleansing runes to work as armor runes as well, as a protection against red lyrium. Is that a possibility?

That's fine!

Since they have Berenike, one of the enraged undead from the Necropolis, and are gonna be trying to figure out what's wrong with her:

What would Kostos (who can read spirit minds etc.) be able to pick up from her, either in terms of memories of The Event or the current state of the spirit possessing her?

Would putting a new wisp into the corpse cause the new wisp to go bad as well? Similar vein, would removing the wisp from her entirely/binding it into something else cause the original wisp to chill out? (Basically looking for whether the problem is with the corpse or with the spirit, if not both.)

So I have two items to ask about here:

1) Fiona's amulet from Jonas' corpse - did it help him fight off the Blight at all? Can whatever enchantments are on it be figured out and possibly duplicated?

2) The blade found in Weisshaupt during the coup - what relevance does it have in regard to the Blight? If it's enchanted, can it also be figured out and perhaps duplicated?

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1. Since the spirit in the body is weak and doesn't have much of a sense of time, etc., there won't be much to glean from its memories. He can pick up on the fact that something was wrong prior to the attack in the Necropolis, and to the extent he can hear lyrium, he may be able to hear something faintly similar to red lyrium.

2. Removing the spirit from the corpse will make the spirit chill out somewhat over time, if it can be contained, while any new spirit put into the corpse will freak out.

1. The amulet actually speeds up the taint's progress, rather than slowing or reversing it, so it should be handled with care! Additional information about it can probably be handwaved as acquired from Fiona, but essentially it was given to her and other Wardens in a plot by the Architect to accelerate the progression of the taint, leading them to all nearly die, except:

2. Duncan had the blade found in Weisshaupt, which was enchanted in a way that stopped the amulet from working on him. It will also prevent Corypheus' influence from affecting a Warden.

The enchantments on the amulet require blight magic, as cast by darkspawn, so duplicating them would probably be both difficult and sort of controversial, but not completely impossible for a Warden mage with enough research. (Avernus' research could help.) Obviously the amulets are also dangerous, so the real usefulness is probably just the knowledge that Fiona was nearly corrupted beyond saving before she was cured.

The blade can be partially duplicated, but if tested on corrupted samples/animals/etc., it will appear to only counteract the accelerated spread of the taint caused by the amulet. Putting both the blade and the amulet in a cage with a corrupted nug will cause the nug's taint to progress at a normal rate, not to stop entirely, and leaving the blade but not amulet in a cage with a corrupted nug will have no effect. In other words, the blade's enchantments counteract the amulet's enchantments, but don't counteract the Blight itself. The duplicates' ability to prevent Corypheus from influencing Wardens will obviously be difficult to test and confirm, but there wouldn't be any harm in making some amulets or something just in case it does work.

If someone got a ladder or jumped into the air or otherwise tried to stick a limb and/or their whole body into a Rift, what would happen?

Would the results be any different if they had an anchor shard?

If they were a Rifter?

Relatedly: Is it okay to use small Rift closures in unimportant locations for solo logs, or would you prefer these be group affairs?

If a character digs into non-Inq apostates in Kirkwall, what generally will they find?

Not like "please give me a list of NPCs and names" but like "there are zero apostates in Kirkwall" or "they're crawling out of the walls" or "there are one or two and they won't be pleased to see you", etc.

Generally, passing through rifts into the Fade is possible, but it requires using anchors to stabilize the rift's activity and hold it open—similar to how in the game, disrupting a rift will make it go briefly still and non-crystalline. With some practice, people with anchors may be able to hold the rift stable enough to pass through (it will require at least a couple of them working together, depending on how long it needs to be held open). Rifters and natives with anchors can both do this, and they and anyone with them at the time can all get into the Fade the same way. Rifters will be a little bit brighter in the Fade—not glowing or anything, but sort of like someone's turned up their saturation a few tics, but otherwise it will be the same for them as everyone else. Getting back out would require holding a rift stable in the same way, either from the outside or the inside.

Using rift closures for independent/non-open logs is fine—there are rifts all over Thedas, including creeping steadily northward, other than just those that are used in arrival logs! But keep in mind that it still takes multiple anchors to close a rift.

Mages mostly deserted Kirkwall following the rebellion, since there were rumors of an Exalted March credible enough to make Hawke leave and so on. But some have wandered back in the years since, in particular those who have family in the area, and others—especially those who disappeared into Darktown and/or criminal enterprises—never left in the first place. So one way or another, those here are mainly keeping their heads down: either they're trying to live quiet lives with their families and wouldn't want to be outed, or they're underground and wouldn't want attention from the establishment at all. But they are possible to find and wouldn't all be unwilling to speak to someone, as long as it was done quietly.

What, if anything, can/should spirit mediums pick up on with regard to rifters?

If it helps, they’re able to sense the presence of spirits, communicate with them better than most people, read their minds, etc. They also hear lyrium’s song very loudly when exposed to it, but not processed lyrium—like they don’t hear humming from Templars or anything like that. Obviously to whatever extent rifters are spirits, reading their minds and being able to tell them what to do would be OP, so I’m mainly wondering if there’s a faint spirit sense tingling-in-the-back-of-your-neck thing going on or not.

They might experience a very faint spirit tingling, but only when rifters are within a few feet of them, which will make it difficult to distinguish between sensing them via spirit sense or sensing them via all the usual senses unless someone sets out deliberately to test it.

Post-Pascal questions:

Theological papers, recorded sermons, or rumour about which translation of the Chant Revered Mother Benedetta of Rialto favours? Has she said anything accessible about the Dissonant Verses (with focus to Justinia reinserting the Canticle of Shartan)?

Grand Cleric Clorentine of Montsimmard's financial backers: Are there any major known players, and any rumours of their involvement in the Game more specific than 'yes it's Orlais they probably do stuff'?

Who are the clergy of public note in Ayseleigh, other than Grand Cleric Elise?

Hello! A follow-up:

What happens if people with anchors try to open a rift while they're physically in the Fade? Does it just open back onto reality?

With the caveat that opening a rift at all should remain difficult as we've described previously and not something that those with anchors can just do when they feel like it, opening a rift while in the Fade would open one back into reality. However, because the Fade's landscape doesn't precisely match reality's—distances are different, a long journey in the Fade might be only a few feet in the real world or a few feet in the Fade might be miles in reality—where that opening opened up to would be anyone's guess. It would also attract demons fairly quickly.

Jumping off Kostos's findings about Berenike's body being the source of her undead anger problem, Ilias and Sidony are taking a closer look at the mummy while the spirit is temporarily housed elsewhere. They'd be dissecting the body as thoroughly as is feasible given they do need to put her back together again afterward.

Specifically, Ilias is looking for irregularities with previous repair work, signs of anything having been done to the body that isn't part of the mummification process as he knows it, or subtler changes to the corpse (discoloration, etc.) that might indicate it's been exposed to something unusual. Would that kind of investigation turn up anything suspicious?

So Beleth made this crystal post asking people for suggestions on how to hide anchors on hands, and will be testing (most of) the ideas that were given. This includes:

Wearing makeup thick enough to cover the mark, using makeup setting powder to make sure it doesn't easily smear off (if it exists in thedas? i mean if winged eyeliner and lip liner exists i would think that the stuff to set it would as well).

Wrapping hands with bandages.
This is less of a 'would this work' and more of a 'would this get too obvious as long as they try not to have too many people doing it'.

Invisible gloves.
Jester has been tasked with attempting to locate this (because Beleth doesn't want to waste time on it), and I think can be assumed doesn't actually exist, BUT JUST IN CASE.

A glove modified to resemble a human hand.
Wysteria has been tasked with attempting to commission this from a leatherworker (because like with above Beleth is pretty sure it's nonsense).

A glove modified to resemble a wooden prosthetic.
Beleth has more faith in this idea, so she'll be commissioning attempts from several woodworkers to see who can best create this, and having several rifters test it through a trial period.

Sticking a patch over the anchor, both to resemble a scar, or a tattoo.
Bonus points to consider: sticking a fake tattoo of a ship anchor over the fade anchor.

Jewelry that covers the hand.
Like so but with a thicker make that could actually hide an anchor. Note: this would probably only be used for occasions when people need to look fancy, IE sneaking into a ball.

Attempt to dye the back of the hand with ink.
Either with a green that would closely match the color of the anchor, or something darker that would hide it entirely. Similar to the patch, but applying the ink directly to the skin.

Some kind of enchantment that could hide the hand??
I (and Beleth) assume that if it were possible, it would already be done, but she'll ask around the mages in the Gallows anyway.

Have everyone in the Inquisition wear gloves so it's less suspicious.
On one hand, this wouldn't really do much for clandestine missions. On the other hand, all of the armor the Inquisition wears in DA:I already has gloves in it, so. Not a stretch. Though I guess it'd also be tricky to make everyone have to wear gloves. I'm not even sure how Beleth would test this. BUT here it is anyway, just in case anything useful can be done with it.

SORRY ABOUT ALL OF THIS but I didn't want to assume anything and it'd be cool to have more options besides 'wear gloves and pray you don't need to remove them'.

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Yes it would! It can be hidden as ingeniously as necessary to justify the length of time spent looking for it—for example, tucked inside a preserved organ and detectable only on very close examination, or require recognition that the stitching technique used to sew something up is one taught to younger initiates now but was out of fashion when Berenike actually died, or whatever other detective-y nonsense you'd like to incorporate to make it clever—but Ilias will ultimately be able to find something similar in design to a phylactery that appears to contain red lyrium embedded in the corpse. Breaking it open would obviously be unwise.

Hi! Sorry for the delay.

Makeup would require a great deal of thick makeup to completely cover the anchor—similar to how just putting some foundation on a lightbulb isn't going to completely block out the glow without a lot of layers—and would have the usual issues makeup has in terms of wearing off, being vulnerable to sweat or moisture, feeling tacky or dry to the touch during handshakes, etc. But it would be possible for someone to temporarily disguise an anchor that way.

Handwraps would probably not be too obvious if both hands were wrapped and it appeared to be for utilitarian purposes, like preventing blisters while handling weapons or shovels/rakes/other farming equipment, rather than "oh no I injured both of my palms somehow" injury bandages. Walking around that way all the time for no apparent reason would probably become obvious! But they would be good for, for example, making people actually be looking for rifters or paying attention to their hands in order to think about it, without the glowy green stuff drawing attention to anyone.

As far as we know invisible gloves are a joke and don't exist in Thedas.

Gloves resembling hands will look strange, as they'd presumably have seams along all of the fingers and so on, but in situations where no one is going to be looking at or touching someone's hands, they may help.

Fake prosthetics will work, but obviously come with limitations that make them unsuitable for certain kinds of work, and can't be used for more than one person at a time without drawing questions.

Patches would need to be thick (due to the painting a lightbulb issue) and have strong adhesive, and would be subject to the usual problems with handshakes and so on giving them away as Not Skin. If they were like bandaids they would probably retain dirt and so on and need to be changed. Leather might be unaffected longer.

Jewelry will work in fancy situations if it's large enough to cover the anchor on both sides of the hand and tight enough that bits of green light don't sneak out around the edges.

Dye won't work—at most it might alter the color of the light anchors give off a little bit, but it's magic and the luminescence can't be dyed.

There won't be any enchantments to hide them, but she's welcome to ask!

And incorporating gloves as a standard part of the Inquisition uniform would be fine, to the extent that isn't already the case, and emphasizing the importance of non-rifters wearing their gloves when on assignment with rifters so they don't stand out is a good idea.

This special comment section is here to consolidate plot requests and point collection associated with the Divine Election mod plot.

If you want to propose a plot to influence the Divine election, use the following form and reply to this comment! The deadline to submit plot requests that impact the selection is the end of the day (U.S. Eastern time) on March 31, 2019.

GOAL: Other than affecting the Divine selection, obviously, is there anything about this plot that's especially important to you, like making your character visit their hometown or forcing them to choose whether or not to kill someone? It's fine if you don't, but if you do, let us know—it will help us preserve what's most important to you if we need to suggest changes.

IMPACT LEVEL: Low/Medium/High/Other
CANDIDATES AFFECTED: Let us know up to two candidates you want your points to affect.
OTHER CONSEQUENCES: Do you foresee other consequences, such as characters needing to be disciplined or the Inquisition's reputation suffering?

If you've run a player plot to influence the Divine election and want to make sure your points count, use the following form and reply to this comment! The deadline to submit your points is the day before the mod log goes up—so currently the deadline is April 19, but if we reschedule the log, it may move.

1. Our understanding of Justinia reintroducing the Dissonant Verses is that that was primarily a one-line throwaway explanation for those canticles being included in the fake copy of the Chant of Light in World of Thedas, rather than her actually introducing any of them into the canon again in a way that's otherwise reflected in the game lore. That would have been a more serious event. Additionally, if Leliana is chosen as Divine, she does actually canonically reintroduce the Canticle of Shartan to the formal canon after DAI—so Justinia couldn't have already done it—and it's a very controversial decision.

Since we know people have referenced the New Cumberland version IC, we're totally fine with the version of the Chant that includes the Dissonant Verses existing, but we would say it's more of an academic reference. Justinia was probably daringly liberal to permit its existence at all, but it doesn't reflect what's taught in the Chantry as the "true" Chant. No one is singing the Canticle of Shartan at services in the Grand Cathedral in Val Royeaux or anywhere else.

But, all of that established, Benedetta would be on record as opposing the publication of New Cumberland edition, and more specifically expressing concern that it would confuse the populace as to what the Chantry considered legitimate and opining that the Dissonant Verses, if they had to be published at all, should be published in a separate volume.

2. Without inventing specific NPCs, Clorentine's financial backers consist primarily of nobles and merchants whose main commonality is investment in the status quo and Orlesian stability/prosperity. A handful supported Gaspard in the War of the Lions, more supported Celene, and a sizable fraction avoided taking sides at all. It wouldn't be impossible to find corruption or ties to the enemy among them, but we'd leave the specifics of that up to players who wanted to do the discovering.

3. The two other most prominent Chantry Mothers in Ayesleigh are Mother Caesulena and Mother Dolce. Mother Caesulena is middle-aged and a first-generation convert to the Chant of Light and has the sort of fervor you'd expect from someone who believed in something enough to leave behind her parents' belief system. She takes pains to avoid giving anyone ammunition to say she's still tied to Rivaini traditions, but she did notably break her characteristic silence to condemn the Annulment at Dairsmuid. Mother Dolce has only recently been elevated from Sisterhood and is most known for her work with Tal-Vashoth—there are rumors that her siblings joined the Qun and disappeared—and vocal concern about the Qun's encroachment on Rivain.

You and anyone else can invent other NPCs relevant to Answers 2 and 3 if needed for plots, too—we're just offering these in case it's more helpful for brainstorming than a vacuum would be.

1) Does the Magisterial Senate look like it's going to turn toward Corypheus (or has it already, or has most of it, etc)?
1a) What happens to the Magisters who are vocally against him?
1b) How about non-Magisters?
1c) How mad is the general populace?

2) Has trade been choked off/what is that doing to the region's economy, among both the wealthy and the poorer classes?

3) Are things generally limited to Minrathous, or have they begun to spread outward?

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1a) The Magisterium has approved the Archon, and the Venatori faction, now working openly, has snowballed into the most powerful faction in the Magisterium. Some are true believers, some are converts of convenience or cowardice, but its influence is very real and still growing. Power begets power, after all.

1a & b) It depends. Those who oppose the Venatori through normal channels at normal volumes—voting against their policies in the Magisterium, making the occasional speech, talking at home or among friends and such—are generally allowed to continue doing so. Opposition political factions in the Magisterium are allowed to continue existing and working. However, those who work more directly against the regime—actively fighting its forces, plotting treason, communicating/working with the Inquisition/Orlais, etc.—will be dealt with harshly. Whether or not they're dealt with publicly depends on how prominent and/or popular they are. The bad guys are smart enough not to create martyrs if they can avoid it.

1c) In general, not mad. Some people are just trying to keep their heads down and not attract any powerful attention, of course, but the general populace loves their country as much as the upper classes do and are just as eager to see the Imperium restored to glory. If anything, support among the middle and lower classes is even greater, given how the war has invigorated some areas of the economy and the influence of Calpernia and her efforts to raise up the slave classes. There’s a general belief that when Tevinter throws off its shackles and gets its vengeance on the rest of Thedas—which has been unfairly limiting and maligning the entire country for ages now, clearly—they will all share in the benefits that will follow. Plus, in the meantime they’ll get to kick some jumped-up southern ass.

There may be signs or whispers of underground resistance, but from Benedict’s vantage point this would be mainly in the form of discussions about rooting it out or (very few, not a constant stream of and, as mentioned above, nobody too conspicuous) individuals disappearing and the gossip attributing those disappearances to arrests or treason and so on. There are no open demonstrations in the street.

2) Legal trade with Orlais, Ferelden, and some of the Free Marches has stopped, but Orlais and Ferelden in particular were always collectively hesitant to trade with Tevinter at all anyway. Antiva in its neutrality continues to trade with both sides, and Nevarra is too scrambled to have instituted a consistent policy, so the effective difference isn't huge. Specifically-Orlesian goods will be more difficult and expensive to come by, but this consists primarily of luxury items. The one major staple export that's no longer available is Orlesian grain, but while prices have risen, so far the Antivan and Marcher farmers are still keeping everyone tolerably stocked so it's not to a dangerous point yet.

3) Minrathous is a stronghold—very difficult to get in and out of, 100% under the control of Corypheus and the Venatori—but their looser control has stretched much further, including all the way south to the front. Things in the eastern end of the country remain less clear/more unsettled just by virtue of distance, but for the most part Tevinter as a whole is aligning under the control of Corypheus, the Venatori, and their puppet Archon.

What do we suppose happens to fade-touched animals after the rift is dealt with? Do they remain Fade-touched, or do they revert to normal once the source of their contamination is cut off? Example: would the ice-breathing rats that Darras and Athessa are about to deal with continue breathing ice after the rift is dealt with, and thus be able to be used for makeshift air conditioning at the Gallows?

They'll remain Fade-touched! Their ice-breath is potentially harmful if they can breathe on people directly, but if someone got creative with caging them in a way that didn't allow that then they could be kept around for a little while, but unless people purchase specific rats as weird pets via AC rewards, they'll need to die off (due to Fade complications) or otherwise Go Away Forever within a month or so.

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