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TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE
There have been a lot of riftfarers arriving lately. It seems like there have been more arriving than usual. So many different kinds of people from different kinds of worlds with stories to tell and experiences to give.
A little game has appeared on the shellphone network in hopes of getting to know just a little more about these otherworlders. You might find it on your shellphone as you’re scrolling through one day.
Tell the world two truths and one lie about yourself. And let others try and decipher which of the three is your lie. If they can guess right, perhaps you’ve been able to make a new acquaintance. Or in the least learn more about someone from another walk of life.
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I would be happy to explain, but.. would volunteering more information not defeat the purpose of this game?
[He’s not exactly connecting that ‘death match’ may be concerning.]
I did not assume that would need clarification.
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And I'm really hoping it doesn't mean what I think it does.
[LIKE. SIR?????]
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Nor was Fenris’ life, to be fair.]
I suppose that is fair. It was a fight to the death, agreed upon by all parties as part of a deal.
[There’s a pause.]
Does that suffice?
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I am very concerned about your wellbeing if any of these are true and two of them have to be.
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I can assure you I’m fine. I have lived in much worse situations than the one I’m in currently, and before I arrived here.
[Thank Andraste he didn’t have one of his lines be that he can stick his limbs through other people’s bodies.]
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[Ironically the hand would bother him least. That's just a weird vision power, that's fine, his husband can teleport by turning himself into a beam of light and refracting it off mirrors, nothing weird about the glowy hand thing.]
Is three the lie?
[Given what the man said about death matches, Kaveh suspects that's probably true, and amnesia isn't really unheard of, even if it's rare, so...]
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[Fenris tenses. He doesn’t particularly like the probing from somebody he doesn’t know. It’s also not a normal thing for him to experience, either- someone caring about his wellbeing. Why does he care?]
Even if I am not, I can’t do anything about it now. I’m not home anymore.
[He pauses, the look on his face returning to a hard, solemn frown.]
Yes, three is the lie.
[Another beat of a pause.]
There had only been sightings of one.
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Oh, only sightings, much better. [Kaveh's tone is so, so dry.] Are dragon sightings common in the--Free Marches, I think you said.
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Still, he’s trying to be nicer. Even if it looks like he wants to hang up.]
Dragon sightings have become increasingly common in Thedas since the most recent age began. Nobody knows why- they were hunted to extinction long before I was alive. For being dangerous.
[A beat.]
The Free Marches dragon was just the most recent one.
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[Obviously Kaveh's never met an actual dragon, but the Saurians in Natlan are supposed to be related, and they coexist fairly peacefully with those people...]
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[Actually, Fenris doesn’t know how big they are exactly. He’s not really ever seen one in person that wasn’t some sort of hacked up trophy mount. But the ones he had seen were big.]
One man whose Estate I visited had a skull of one in a room. It was bigger than his banquet table, and it hung from the ceiling. He had bragged that they could not fit the whole dragon in.
[His tone is apathetic. He was never impressed by the magisters.]
I doubt he actually killed the dragon. There are people who can catch and kill them, obviously, but their numbers are not large.
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[Don't mind Kaveh, he's idly contemplating building Dragon Defense Systems. He doesn't even go here. Kaveh, please.]
Hanging the head up like that seems a bit grotesque.
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[The thought of dealing with everything else and the high dragons? Exhausting.]
Magisters have more money than they know what to do with. Their tastes were always opulent and… Grotesque? Macabre?
[If Fenris was any indication of the things they liked to keep for show. Not that he would disclose that.]
Not everybody had dragon heads dangling from their ceiling but. Most people in Tevinter, let alone Thedas cannot afford what they do.
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[Please do not stab Ocard, Fenris.]
And asking about that last point seemed a bit personal.
[The talk of the magisters...Kaveh visibly wrinkles his nose a bit.] Too wealthy to have any human decency and morbid, what a fantastic combination.
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[Hey, the dragons won’t be a problem to him unless they start burning villages down and eating people. He doesn’t just hunt dragons for no reason.]
Probing me on my wellbeing was not..?
[Meh, he doesn’t really care. It’s more important he talks about how much he hates the mages that rule Tevinter.]
They are corrupted by their own power. Mages all often suffer the same temptation and greed, but the magisters have wealth and power to wield alongside it.
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[Fenris what kind of life have you been living?
But Kaveh pauses for a second. And then tilts his head.]
Mages?
cw: slavery mention
[It’s technically a lie. There are people who would, but he can count them on one hand.]
Mages are people from my realm that are born with the ability to do magic. But magic here does not work the way that it does at home.
It is far more likely to corrupt the user. Most mages cannot resist the temptation of a demon or the power blood magic grants.
[He pauses. The distance doesn’t exactly quell his anger towards them, and it’s showing more than he’d like.]
The magisters are all mages. Blood magic, and using slaves as fodder for demons or experiments is particularly popular among them. They have enough coin where they can just purchase a new one if they die, or become possessed.