#other tidbits: juniper doesnt care about marraige but softie lucanis finally admits to wanting a big fancy wedding like 5 years in

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The World, for the Rook asks!!

Thank you!! From this tarot themed ask game 😊 For my Juniper Aldwir rook!

The World: What does happily-ever-after look like for Rook? Is it attainable, or just wishful thinking?

Juniper is 100% keeping the Lighthouse/Eluvian network. For one I think it'd be kind of irresponsible to just... leave all that open and unregulated???? People besides the Veilguard are just wandering through now with faction leaders visiting here and there according to the codex (and in the patch you even meet a designated crossroads messenger), plus Venatori & Antaam & demons kept kept getting zapped inside it by the gods. I mean we killed a lot of those but presumably some got tumbled in without us there yknow? So I think she would recognize that 1. this is an incredibly valuable resource in terms of movement of people/goods around the continent (ok well Lucanis comprehends this and impresses it on her) and 2. it would be very easy for people to misuse this system and 3. it's a very dangerous place for untrained people to be wandering around, since from letters/etc you can find people do seem to get sucked in unwillingly and unable to get out.

SO I think she'd put some sort of group together for stricter monitoring on Eluvian travel--probably through the Veiljumpers (her faction)/other volunteers. But they DO GET PAID (thanks Lucanis he also came up with this one) by incorporating currier or escorted travel service with this to keep everyone fed/armed/etc. Since that sort of thing pays (Rook argues that picking the pockets of Venatori/Antaam ALSO pays since that's how she made most of her money in Veilguard but Lucanis says this is impractical or whateeverrrrr).

Juniper specifically though is working on mapping the Crossroads. She's going to bully the Caretaker into bringing her to the other islands that are out there eventually it's fine. And figuring out how exactly the crossroads function separately from the Fade. Due to her pre-game fallout with Strife she wouldn't ever feel comfortable rejoining the Veil Jumpers fully but this is a similar sort of magic-science she was doing before anyway. Probably, the wishful thinking here is that this all goes smoothly, and in reality it will become a political mire as various countries leadership will probably start trying to stake claims on parts of the crossroads or argue about access or whatnot--another reason to lock them down asap before they can start warring with each other about it.

Lucanis... I wish I could get him out of the Crows but realistically I don't think it'd happen for a while. So he'd be doing First Talon stuff while Juniper is busy with all the above, but beyond each of their occasional work travel they get back together at either the Lighthouse or Dellamorte Estates most nights. The perks of owning the magic fast transit system is even when you're working in different countries by day you still get to come home for dinner yknow? I do think Juniper grows more and more wary/exasperated with the whole Crows deal once she gets more exposure to Caterina and finding out more about Lucanis' childhood. Also because that's pretty much the worst MIL situation you can ask for. I think in Juniper's wishful thinking version, she & Lucanis would just run away from it together/he'd join her fun romps through unexplored lands, but she recognizes he's tied too much of his idenity to his job and it probably will take 10-15 years to get him less brainwashed about it.

Before all that though they are taking that vacation to whatever is left of Orlais to go wyvern sightseeing of course, though 😌 And dear Sluge the electric aqueous tadpole has beautiful mudpits at both the Lighthouse and Dellamorte mansion (to Caterina's annoyance).