#or just... to any vashoth or apostate mage in general. it's not what she'd have expected from the Herald of Andraste

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10 for dinara & the new mercar

10. Does Rook know their history? Do they know of the HoF, Hawke, the Inquisitor?

(i think? i've been extremely slow at working through my inbox so please correct me if i’m mixing up the set of 50 questions!)

dinara de riva:

in general? she knows a little. less than most crows when it comes to internal politics in antiva (bc she mostly takes contracts on kossith) but she still knows who's at war with who/for how long, which side the major crow houses are backing, etc.

she was only 4 during the blight, so all her info comes from her circle education. she knows the HoF was from denerim's alienage and that he died ending the blight (does NOT know abt him & zevran or that zevran's the guy who's been taking out crows)

she knows even less about hawke than the hof. she's heard more about anders from varric than she has about hawke, it's that dire.

varric signed it on his behalf, but this is still an inquisition contract, so she gathers a decent amount of intel on lord trevelyan. from that + the comments varric & harding made about him when they thought she was out of earshot, she's concluded that andraste's herald is probably a bit of a prick. this is an accurate assessment.*

tavian mercar:

military families get pretty good education as far as soporati go, but the history curriculum is very tevene. he knows all the major wars/rebellions and knows his archons and black divines better than he'd like, but not nearly as much about the rest of thedas

warden commander mahariel's name is known as far away as minrathous, and often spoken in derogatory terms. it's common knowledge that the major southern port of amaranthine should be avoided by any slavers who want to keep their lives and cargo

varric doesn't talk about hawke much in this worldstate either, but that's because it's better for people to keep thinking she's stuck in the fade so they don't ask questions about how her apostate girlfriend got her out of there. as far as tavian knows, isabela's semi-retired merc gf is just another lord of fortune

inquisitor lavellan is a big deal. tavian's only been with the shadow dragons for about 4 years, but he's heard enough from his colleagues to know that she played a pretty big role in bringing magister pavus and the lucerni into their network, and that she's helped them form diplomatic ties with the northern dalish clans. he's a bit awed by her, even after he meets her

50 questions for rook