Despatches from Griffon Wing Keep
Disclaimer: Hunter. S. Trevelyan belongs to @solas-you-nerd and is used with permission in this dialogue.
In relation to the number of Venatori spotted near the keep. The inquisitor is on his way there now, with his companions. If you can hold out a few more days he can also bring with him a number of soldiers. His presence may be be enough to scare some of the Venatori away.
The arrival of Lord Trevelyan has been not quite what we expected. A handful of soldiers and a motley crew of companions that came with him has done little to quell the onslaught of Venatori from the North. Lord Trevelyan himself asked to lie in the trebuchet and for our soldiers to launch him towards the north because he said he disliked walking through the desert. ‘Too many bad vibes’ he said, I would like to add that I advised against it. The boy with the strange hat kept poking the cook and asking about pies, and she is getting mighty agitated. Although the large horned man seems thirsty for a fight he’s also managed to ingratiate himself with one of the merchants, and more than a number of my soldiers, meanwhile the Venatori are still coming.
I hardly think it fitting to call the Inquisitor’s companions a ‘motley crew’. The people Lord Trevelyan has gathered around him are skilled fighters and warriors, strategically chosen to take up the fight against Corypheus and his allies. I shall remind you that you must address the Inquisitor with respect and defer to his choices in this instance; his strategies have never failed in the past.
I am corrected, Commander, Lord Trevelyan and his, er, companions went out 2 days ago and have somehow miraculously restrained further assaults by the Venatori. When I asked him about what happened he told me that ‘a gurn took his place’. We need more supplies of elfroot as Lord Trevelyan has taken most of the Keeps own supplies to treat his and his companions ‘injuries’ - just until we can send someone out to collect more. Your urgency in the matter would be appreciated. A supply of cooking oil is also needed as a large amount of that seems to have gone missing.
I told you the Inquisitor has his ways, unconventional they may be. I think the inquisitor will now have time to investigate the Darkspawn that you mentioned in an earlier report.
Lord Trevelyan attempted to investigate the source of Darkspawn but claims to have been stopped by a noxious green gas that reminded him of his time that he spent swimming with mermaids off Rialto Bay. We’ve completed initial estimates of the area and an elevated bridge will need to be built. Please send supplies and soldiers to help with the construction. Are there really mermaids off the coast of Rivain??
No there are no such things as mermaids. Certainly not off any coast I am familiar with. I ask for your discretion in discussing this matter further with the Inquisitor.
The inquisitor has returned and sealed the area where the darkspawn were emerging. He has also bought back one of the Venatori leaders, a Tevinter Mage. My troops are a little unsettled by the mages presence due to Lord Trevelyan’s insistence that the man be allowed to roam free in the keep. I asked him why let a dangerous Venatori mage have open access, he replied that the man’s beauty would inspire us and lift us from the banal and not to worry about punishment because he was about to suffer ‘Solas in excess’ on their return to Skyhold. I asked whether he meant ‘solace’ and he answered ‘no, I mean Solas’. The bald elf mage with him didn’t look too pleased about that. Lord Trevelyan has started drinking the medicinal alcohols as the keep is now dry. Also, I’m serious about that elfroot.
The inquisitor wishes me to relay his immense thanks for your company in the Keep. Servis is now an agent of the Inquisition and you are, ‘to use his pretty face as you see fit’ when he travels to the Northern Approach. Also that if any of your soldiers have fallen pregnant, it is not his doing. Finally he understands that his presence may have been unsettling but he wishes you well and if you ever decided to run for some sort of office in Starkhaven he’ll have your back if only to remove ‘that dark, venal, and incurably violent side of the Marcher character from your city’.
Oh, and a delivery of elfroot, oil, medicinal alcohol, oil and several barrels of the Free Marches finest ale is on its way.
PS For the love of the Maker, I told you not to mention the thing I said about the mermaids to the Inquisitor.
