Who: Dolain, (NPC)Bish.
When 9:33 Kingsway [Parvulis]
Where Denerim Alienage
Summary: Before Dolain was a pimping gang leader, he had to seek help with the ladies from his role model, former gang leader, Bish.
Rating: PG

( Go to her, tell her she’s pretty... the rest should be easy. )

Who: Ser Jonathan Vardic, Ser Patrick "Paddy" Gaines
Others: Ser Maddock (Flashback)
Where: Kinloch Hold, Ferelden
When: Morning, 19 Molioris, 9:45 Dragon
Rating: PG-13
Summary: It has been a few days since the Joining, the ashes of the unlucky finally returned to where they should be. Ser Maddock's ashes are returned to his protege.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
-- Dylan Thomas

(Prologue to The Dying of the Light, Team Chantry et al's storyline)


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( His interrogations were never physical -- despite popular opinion, he not once lifted a hand against a lawbreaking magic user when one was in a holding chamber. In many ways, to have a reputation for being that effective without any known application of force made his hair stand on end. )

Who: Aelric Adricsn, Albrecht Aelricsn, Hilda Aelricsdottr
Where: The home-village in the Anderfels
When: Nubilis 9:37 Dragon
Summary: The jarl of the villages of Brandr muses on his family, and what will become of his children. (A short piece written to calm myself down before my interview. T_T)
Rating: PG
( His son is already lost to him, and Aelric has no one to blame for it but himself. )

Who: Branwyn Sheehy
NPCs: Ser Ualan Crewe
When: 9:43 Dragon
Where: Redcliffe
What: Making a drop
Rating: K

( Well, we'll be positively ruined for anything less than this. )

Who: Lucressia Peron.
NPCs: Arturo Capaciella, Giorgio Trovato, Lord Anker
Where: Tantervale, the Free Marches.
When: 28 Firstfall, 9:38 Dragon.
Summary: Lucressia spent nearly a year living in Tantervale, in a beautiful house made of red brick, with windows that looked out onto the Minanter; coincidentally, she also murdered several people. Her first target in Tantervale was poisoned in his own home and found dead the next morning.
Rating: Mature. Warnings for depictions of sex, choking/strangling, murder.

( Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. (Ambrose Bierce). )

Who: Faer Arandil
NPCs: Aera Arandil, Valan Arandil, Merrill Irisor
When: Eluviesta, 9:32 Dragon
Where: Somewhere in the Brecilian Forest
Summary: She dies at the hands of a shemlen and suddenly the world crashes down for you.
Rating: T
Status: Complete
Notes: Dedicated especially to valan_arandil. Warning! Written in second person, present tense so may be a little hard to read through. I wrote the narrative this way not only because I wanted to convey the feeling a little more through the writing, but also to challenge myself to see if I could pull it off.

( You stare at the moving bushes, it’s rustled leaves floating to the ground, landing neatly on the grass before two men step into your view, they are both human. You frown. )

Who: Imenry Barras
Where: A little ways outside camp
When: Sometime between 16-21 Molioris
Summary: Contemplation. Who am I? An introspective piece on why Imenry wants to change her life.
Rating: Should be fine for all


( Here alone in the darkness, she could admit things to herself without fear... )

Who: Mathieu Ledaal
Where: The Ledaal boys' camp between the Bannorn and Denerim
When: 9:45 (between the time of the Joining and when the Wardens go on their new assignments)
Summary: During camp, Mathieu reflects on the past and the mission at hand.
Rating: PG-13

( If the boy could believe it, so could the man.  )

Who: Viara Tremaine; Darek Tremaine (her twin brother, NPC), random pirates aboard The Siren's Call (NPCs)
Where: The Docks of Denerim
When: 9:37 Dragon, Funalis (All Soul's Day)
Summary: The bond between twins is made before they are born; it's only fitting that it's severed on a Day for the Dead.
Rating: A for Angst, S for very Sad, V for Violence (Overall: T)

Who: Branwyn Sheehy
NPCs: Epona Sheehy
When: 9:27, 9:37, 9:40 & 9:45 Dragon
Where: Rivain ➝ Ferelden ➝ Somewhere between Denerim & South Reach
What: Over the years, Branwyn learns to be enchanting & adaptable
Rating: K

( Branwyn knew that what she'd just done was risky... )

Who: Bethen Avilla & Mona Seward (NPC)
Where: Vigil's Keep, Amaranthine
When: 15 Molioris, 9:45 Dragon. Early evening.
Summary: Bethen discovers what happened to Desiderio and tries to deal with the consequences.
Rating: G.

( I can't have you distracted when you need to put everything you have into your duty. Your powers, your wits, your heart. Everything. )

Who: Lucressia Peron, Giorgio Trovato (NPC)
Where: The Yard of Vigil's Keep, Amaranthine
When: Early morning, just before this. Molioris, 9:45 Dragon, etc etc.
Summary: Where did the muffins come from, anyway?
Rating: Swearing in multiple (well, two) languages.

( well, DO you know the muffin man? )

(Part II of II)
Who: Constans and Desiderio Ledaal.
Where Vigil's Keep.
When: Evening of 13 Molioris, 9:45. Concurrent to the Joining.
Summary: Desiderio and Constans have a falling out.
Rating: Mostly harmless?

Who: Deidre "Dee" Aisli
NPCs: Ser Casiah Castell, Ser Mark Abernathy, Sister Justine
Where: The Northern Fortress-Prison of Aeonar, in an undisclosed location in Ferelden
When: 9:42 Dragon; From 29th of Umbralis to 30th of Solis 9:43
Rating: Safe
Summary: Part 2 of Deidre's stay in Aeonar at twenty years of age. Encouraged to finish her book, the archaeologist uses her research to keep her mind intact under a period of near-continuous isolation from the outside world. Ser Jonathan Vardic is replaced by Ser Casiah Castell as commander of the fortress, who proves to be a much more amiable man than his predecessor.

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( She found herself drawing back from the edge her mattress, the curvature of her spine pressing against the cold surface of the stone wall behind her. The feeling that assailed her now wasn't just the sense that she was being watched, but rather something infinitely more disturbing. )

Who: Deidre "Dee" Aisli
NPCs: Ser Jonathan Vardic, Sister Justine
Where: The Northern Fortress-Prison of Aeonar, in an undisclosed location in Ferelden
When: 9:42 Dragon; From 27th of Solis to 14th of Parvulis
Rating: Safe
Summary:

A Chantry investigation reveals that Deidre has withheld information from her superiors, namely encountering the Keeper's First, Faer Arandil, in the Brecilian Forest and not reporting his whereabouts to the templars. She is suspended from Chantry expeditions for a year. For 365 days, her usual haunts are bereft of her presence, most of those close to her unaware as to where she had gone.

Some say her official sentence was too light, her punishment too lenient.

The followers of Andraste, however, are not so forgiving when one is suspected of being an apostate-sympathizer.

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( Regardless of the careful arrangement of patrician lines that made up his face, enough to give him the look that most aristocrats favored, dressing him in anything other than what he wore now would not have been enough to hide what he was. )

Who: Viara Tremaine; Darek Tremaine (her twin brother, NPC)
Where: Outside of Llomerryn, Rivain
When: 9:27 Dragon, 14 Nubulis
Summary: An 8-year old Viara and her twin brother attempt to conquer The Log of Death and Doom in the forests of Rivain.
Rating: G, safe for all (and C, for Chibi Captain)

Who: Azabeth Kordura (age 7), Lelahai Kordura (age 7)
Where: The country estate of Arlessa Valeré Kordura
When: 2nd week Frumentum, 9:28 Dragon
Summary: Azabeth meets her new sister for the first time.
Rating: G. Also C for Cute.
( Azabeth had never seen the Bannorn before, and it was so wide and open that she felt very small indeed )