War Table

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THE WAR TABLE

Operations

• Characters may not participate in more than one war table operation at a time. 
• Sign-ups are first come, first served. After the minimum number of characters is reached, we'll wait approximately 48 hours to allow additional sign-ups before closing the operation and giving participants the necessary information.
• Travel time for operations outside of Skyhold can and should be OOCly condensed/handwaved for the sake of not RPing weeks upon weeks of roadside camping, but you're welcome to set scenes along the way as well. 
• Operations will not be GMed, but we're always happy to answer questions or provide additional details as requested.
• If you would like to suggest a war table operation--if your character is doing something other people should probably notice and investigate, their relatives are causing trouble, etc.--let us know on the Plot Request page.

Ferelden

The Secrets of Andraste: The team that investigated the ruins beneath and beyond the Temple of Sacred Ashes returned with ancient texts and artifacts. Adequately cataloging and translating these finds could help the Inquisition recover some of the political ground it has lost with the Chantry since the Herald's death. The texts, unfortunately, are written in an ancient runic script that no one in the Inquisition can fully translate. One scholar suggests that they are Alamarri, and the closest links are likely to be found among the Chasind Wilders. This operation requires four to six characters who will be absent from Skyhold for at least ten days. Those chosen will be told to equip for a fight but to try not to start one.

Orlais

The Chantry Remains: The Chantry's scattered condemnations of the Inquisition ceased--or at least ceased being publicly trumpeted--for a respectful period after the Herald's death, but the accusations of heresy and calls for the organization's disbandment have renewed. This operation requires three to five characters, with preference given to those who will not be immediately branded heretics as soon as they show their faces or open their mouths, who will be absent from Skyhold for at least five days.

Skyhold

Investigate Lyrium Theft: Small amounts of lyrium have been disappearing from the Inquisition's stores with enough regularity that it can no longer be considered a coincidence, and the Inquisition is looking into the problem. Those asked to help will need to be capable of discretion. This operation requires three to four characters who will need to remain in Skyhold for the seven days during the investigation.
 

INFO REQUESTS

If your character is investigating, experimenting, researching, normal-searching, organizing, exploring, polling, or anything along those general lines and you'd like mod input about what the results would be, ask us here! There's no form for this, just let us know what they're up to and what your question is and we'll get back to you. While requests and replies will generally be unscreened, please make sure to check whether results are IC public knowledge before assuming that your character is aware of them.

PLOT REQUESTS & IDEAS

We strongly encourage player plots, quests, missions, adventures and so on, especially ones that grow out of PC action. 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. So that requests and answers can be screened, please use the form on the Plot Request page.

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Comments

[mythalenaste]

Pel's continued research into veilfire runes was approved by Cullen, and now she needs to find other known locations of these runes around Ferelden and Orlais. She'll be requesting information, obscure sources including anything about elven ruins and veilfire runes, and asking about word-of-mouth from other areas of the map, writing to other Dalish clans. She's hoping to lead an excursion when she has some leads on locations.

[faderifting]

Pel will be able to discover that elven glyphs made in a manner similar to those found in the Fallow Mire (which are not elven in design or message, only in technique) have been sighted throughout Thedas.

Should she write to Keeper Hawen, currently in the Exalted Plains, he may be willing to send her sketches of glyphs from the region, which his clan has examined but been unable to translate. However, due to the danger caused by the Orlesian war, she would not currently receive Inquisition support to travel there personally to investigate.

We would suggest having Pel talk to members of Skyhold's Tevinter contingent about securing books from the Imperium that have been banned by the Chantry elsewhere, such as Veilfire: A Beginner's Primer with Numerous Teachings, Exercises, and Applications by Magister Pendictus. The book includes an appendix of various partially-translated pieces of veilfire writing that may aid her in translating new glyphs.

Fully translating the runes provided by Hawen or discovered elsewhere will require the cooperation of numerous Dalish clans. Pel may wish to talk to other Dalish in Skyhold about whether or not their Keepers would be cooperative or willing to send their ancient texts to her for comparison. She'll also need to contact fully-NPC clans; after she's spoken with everyone and had time to send letters, we can provide their responses.

[mythalenaste]

She'll definitely be pulling strings among the Dalish, contacting as many of the Keepers as she can remember, and getting Tevinter acquaintances to pull other strings. I'm hoping most of this can be threaded rather than handwaved, but I'll keep you posted on progress there regardless.

If she cannot receive Inquisition support to investigate the runes Keeper Hawen writes about, how might things go if she requested leave, rather than support?

[faderifting]

Pel wouldn't be prevented from leaving Skyhold but would be strongly cautioned against it, since the Exalted Plains are not presently the half-deserted, quiet ruin seen in the game, but the fully active primary front in the War of the Lions. Keeper Hawen's goal in sending her his clan's sketches of the runes would be to prevent the need for her to travel there in person; if she insists, the Dalish clan will allow her to stay with them but will not risk its members providing her with protection when she leaves the camp to explore.

She may be able to convince Hawen to remove one or two stone segments containing the runes that are safest to reach and send them to Skyhold with merchants, but they'll likely require some form of payment/trade for the effort, and the runes may be damaged in the process.

OOCly, we would recommend against it at this time because of the length of time it would require Pel to be away from other player characters. However, if you focus on other avenues of investigation for now--characters are always welcome to travel to the Hinterlands, for example, and she may be able to find veilfire runes and some ancient elven ruins there if she would like to take a team exploring--we'd be happy to see it run as a war table operation or player plot in the future. But our aim is to let Pel eventually get what she needs to translate the runes, uncover the location of one or more elven temples, and lead expeditions there (if you would like), with or without first visiting the Exalted Plains, since it may be some time before that area is fully available.

[mythalenaste]

No that's all excellent, Salem-mun and I were just chatting about a small expedition in the near future. I feel like you've given more than enough avenues and I'm very excited about this pursuit of elven history that Pel is able to engage in. I'll keep you updated, and thank you so much for your help!

[liberalum]

hello. is the codex you refer to something Dorian will be able to secure via letters to former colleagues and known scholars in the Imperium? they can either trade some of their own books for it, or if the Inquisition is willing to part with some wealth as a token of gratitude.

[faderifting]

Dorian can secure it through letters and so on, as easily or with as much difficulty as you'd like.

Being horribly human-centric and currently unaware that ancient elven history has any connection to Corypheus or future dangers, the Inquisition leadership on the whole isn't going to be willing to devote much time or any money to this endeavor. That said, no one but the ex-Circle archivist will fuss if Dorian trades some of the more useless books in the library for others, and Dorian may be able to charm and/or annoy a small amount of money out of Josephine in the name of building the Inquisition's library into an impressive and unique collection that will impress visitors and attract scholars etc. etc. etc. as long as no one mentions that any of the books at issue are banned.