Old Elven Stuff
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Personal Conversation
Rook finds Taash at the library in the Lighthouse.
Taash: Usually have to dodge traps and fight spiders to see this much old elven stuff. Talk to Isabela if you want to sell any of it. She’ll get you a good deal.
Origin dependent dialogue:
Rook: For gold and glory.
Taash: Right. You were one of us. How’d you end up here?
Dialogue options:
- I’m exploring, by necessity. [1]
- Politics. [2]
- Job went bad. [3]
+ Taash Approves
1 - I’m exploring, by necessity.
Rook: Isabela thought I would benefit from seeing the world a little bit.
Taash: You got kicked out?
Rook: I kept an artifact out of the wrong hands, but those hands have a lot of pull in Rivain. Isabela sent me with Varric until things cooled down.
2 - Politics.
Rook: I upset the wrong nobles in Rivain.
Taash: Ugh. Those assholes.
Rook: That’s what I said when I kept one of them from running off with a dangerous artifact. Isabela sent me with Varric until things cooled down.
3 - Job went bad.
Rook: Dangerous artifact. Light-fingered noble. Isabela needed me gone. Varric needed help.
Taash: Oof. Sorry.
Rook: Same thing just happened to you, right?
4 - Scene continues.
Return to previous tree.Taash: Ugh. Politics. The Lords don’t take me on political jobs.
Rook: Lucky you.
Taash: Traps and dragons. That’s what I’m good with. Traps and dragons are simple.
Dialogue options:
- Investigate: Tell me about the traps. [5]
- Investigate: Why do the Lords need you? [6]
- Affable: Ah, the good old days. [7]
- Sarcastic: It’s simpler, at least. [8]
- Stoic: And treasure. [9]
5 - Investigate: Tell me about the traps.
Rook: What’s the most interesting trap you’ve run into?
Taash: Old elven armory. Had letters on tiles. Probably supposed to spell out the name of a god or something. Rook: Probably?
Taash: I don’t read elven. Found handholds in the ceiling and swung across.
Rook: That sounds more like a puzzle than a trap.
Taash: Ugh. Puzzles.
Dialogue options:
- I like puzzles. [10]
- I hate random puzzles. [11]
- I cheat at puzzles. [12]
+Taash Approves
10 - I like puzzles.
Rook: But puzzles give you a chance to test your wits, to prove you’re smart enough to beat whoever designed it!
Taash: Ugh.
Rook: I ran into one while traveling with Varric. It had these three poles, with sets of different-sized rings on two of the poles…
Taash: And you had to move the rings over to the third pole? And the rings had to be sized right and crap?
Rook: Yes! You’ve seen it?
Taash: That thing is vashedan.
11 - I hate random puzzles.
Rook: See, I like some puzzles, but not when they’re just thrown in.
Taash: Right?
Rook: I ran into one while traveling with Varric. It was one of those “who sits in which seat” things?
Taash: Ugh. Where the guy with an axe has to sit to the left of the guy who likes brandy?
Rook: Exactly! Who cares that much about seating arrangements? Why is that controlling the lock on an ancient treasure chest?
Taash: It’s vashedan. Just pick a chair!
12 - I cheat at puzzles.
Rook: You’ve got the right idea, going across the ceiling. Varric and I ran into an old elven puzzle once while hunting for Solas. There were these talking statues.
Taash: Riddles?
Rook: One only lied, one only told the truth, I think?
Taash: Ugh. What’d you do?
Rook: Varric gave them an autographed copy of his book. Turns out he’s really popular in the Fade.
Taash: (Laughs) Nice.
6 - Investigate: Why do the Lords need you?
Rook: We didn’t have a dragon hunter when I was with the Lords. Why do they care about dragons now?
Taash: Lots of great old crap ends up in dragon hoards.
Rook: Why do dragons care about gathering treasure? It’s not like they go to the market.
Taash: Dragons like metals and gems. Anything glittery catches their eye.
Rook: So they’re like really large magpies?
Taash: (Grunts indecisively) Kinda? And they live for centuries. Lots of time to gather a bunch of shiny crap. Plus all the gear carried by idiots who thought they could kill a dragon.
7 - Affable: Ah, the good old days.
Rook: I miss the days of dodging traps and stealing treasure.
8 - Sarcastic: It’s simpler, at least.
Rook: These days, everything is elven gods this and blight that. Give me a stolen idol in a trap-filled dungeon any day.
9 - Stoic: And treasure.
Rook: Don’t forget the loot. Stolen treasure in your hand, traps snapping shut all around you…
13 - Scene continues.
Return to previous tree.Taash: Hey. We’re not thieves. We don’t steal.
Rook: Bharv’s team literally stole the big prize sword from the Grand Tourney of Starkhaven.
Taash: Starkhaven is full of assholes. It doesn’t count as stealing from them. You don’t screw over anyone who can’t afford it.
Rook: If the Lords of Fortune ever get a coat of arms, we should print that on the bottom in Old Tevene.
Taash: My mother works with them. That’s how I met the Lords in the first place.
Dialogue options:
- Investigate: What does Rivain think of us? [14]
- Investigate: What does your mother do? [15]
- Affable: Thanks for the talk. [16]
- Sarcastic: I’ll leave you with the gold. [17]
- Stoic: Rest up. [18]
14 - Investigate: What does Rivain think of us?
Rook: When I left, Rivain was trying to figure out whether to arrest us or ignore us. How do they feel these days?
Taash: They were angry for a while. Then the Antaam invaded.
15 - Investigate: What does your mother do?
Rook: I don’t remember meeting your mother when I ran with the Lords. What does she do? Appraisals?
Taash: Yeah. She tells them how rare something is. How much it might be worth. Also tells them if they found something cultural.
Rook: Cultural?
Taash: You know. Important. Stuff you don’t want going to some rich noble’s collection. The Lords send that stuff back to the Qunari in Par Vollen. They pay the Lords a finder’s fee.
Dialogue options:
- That’s generous. [19]
- There’s no corruption? [20]
+ Taash Approves- It’s a good system [21]
19 - That’s generous.
Rook: Interesting. The Lords do all this out of the goodness of their hearts?
Taash: We do get paid.
Taash: Name another job where you get danger pay for killing giant spiders.
Rook: Right. For gold and glory.
20 - There’s no corruption?
Rook: Just a finder’s fee?
Taash: Yep.
Rook: But the Lords at the top could be charging anything for these artifacts, and you wouldn’t know.
Taash: I know what happened to the last Lord who bled a contact. That’s enough.
21 - It’s a good system
Rook: They’ve put a lot of thought into it. Probably more than I did when I collected relics.
Taash: Just thinking about the gold?
Rook: And the glory, too. Can’t forget the glory. Though if I defeat these gods, I’ll have cornered the market there.
22 - Scene continues.
Return to previous tree.Taash: The Lords are good people. They helped my mother when she came here from Kont-aar. She got here with nothing but me and the clothes on her back. Only skill she had was Qunari history. The Lords gave her work.
16 - Affable: Thanks for the talk.
Rook: We should do this again. Grab a drink, share our tallest tales…
17 - Sarcastic: I’ll leave you with the gold.
Rook: All right. I guess I’ll just leave you here… a treasure hunter… with all the priceless artifacts.
18 - Stoic: Rest up.
Rook: Get some rest. We’ll be in the thick of it soon enough.
23 - Scene continues.
Return to previous tree.Rook: Spoken like a veteran treasure hunter.
Taash: Yep. For gold and glory. The Lords make runs no one else can. Isabela’s undies would catch fire if she saw all this.
Dialogue options:
- Investigate: You must find lots of traps. [1]
- Investigate: So what do you do? [2]
- Affable: Please be careful looting. [3]
- Sarcastic: Have fun. No stealing, okay? [4]
- Stoic: No sticky fingers. [5]
1 - Investigate: You must find lots of traps.
Rook: Bet you deal with a lot of nasty traps during those treasure hunts.
Taash: Yep.
Rook: What’s the most complicated one you’ve dealt with?
Taash: Old elven armory. Had letters on tiles. Probably supposed to spell out the name of a god or something.
Rook: Probably?
Taash: I don’t read elven. Found handholds in the ceiling and swung across.
Rook: That sounds more like a puzzle than a trap.
Taash: Ugh. Puzzles.
Dialogue options:
- I like puzzles. [6]
- I hate random puzzles. [7]
- I cheat at puzzles. [8]
+Taash Approves
6 - I like puzzles.
Rook: But puzzles give you a chance to test your wits, to prove you’re smart enough to beat whoever designed it!
Taash: Ugh.
Rook: I ran into one while traveling with Varric. It had these three poles, with sets of different-sized rings on two of the poles…
Taash: And you had to move the rings over to the third pole? And the rings had to be sized right and crap?
Rook: Yes! You’ve seen it?
Taash: That thing is vashedan.
7 - I hate random puzzles.
Rook: See, I like some puzzles, but not when they’re just thrown in.
Taash: Right?
Rook: I ran into one while traveling with Varric. It was one of those “who sits in which seat” things?
Taash: Ugh. Where the guy with an axe has to sit to the left of the guy who likes brandy?
Rook: Exactly! Who cares that much about seating arrangements? Why is that controlling the lock on an ancient treasure chest?
Taash: It’s vashedan. Just pick a chair!
8 - I cheat at puzzles.
Rook: You’ve got the right idea, going across the ceiling. Varric and I ran into an old elven puzzle once while hunting for Solas. There were these talking statues.
Taash: Riddles?
Rook: One only lied, one only told the truth, I think?
Taash: Ugh. What’d you do?
Rook: Varric gave them an autographed copy of his book. Turns out he’s really popular in the Fade.
Taash: (Laughs) Nice.
2 - Investigate: So what do you do?
Rook: So why do the Lords of Fortune care enough about dragons to have a dedicated dragon hunter?
Taash: Lots of great old crap ends up in dragon hoards.
Rook: Why do dragons care about gathering treasure? It’s not like they go to the market.
Taash: Dragons like metals and gems. Anything glittery catches their eye.
Rook: So they’re like really large magpies?
Taash: (Grunts indecisively) Kinda? And they live for centuries. Lots of time to gather a bunch of shiny crap. Plus all the gear carried by idiots who thought they could kill a dragon.
3 - Affable: Please be careful looting.
Rook: I’d appreciate it if you avoided fencing any of the elven artifacts unless Bellara tells you it’s okay.
4 - Sarcastic: Have fun. No stealing, okay?
Rook: Feel free to use the ancient elven artifacts for weight training, but nothing leaves with you, okay?
5 - Stoic: No sticky fingers.
Rook: Glad to have a treasure hunter on the team. You’re stealing stuff for us, not from us, right?
9 - Scene continues.
Return to previous tree.Taash: Don’t worry about that. The Lords of Fortune aren’t thieves.
| Antivan Crow | Shadow Dragon | Other |
|---|---|---|
| Rook: As a Crow, I’m not the moral authority here. But if some Lords don’t think like you… | Rook: Most of us Shadow Dragons are wanted for worse than theft. But if some Lords are in it for themselves… | Rook: I mean, aren’t you, though? |
Taash: Nah. Anything we hunt is salvage. Old forgotten ruins and crap. And we make sure we’re not screwing over a culture that lost it. That’s what my mother does with the Qunari stuff.
Dialogue options:
- Investigate: Rivain is okay with you? [10]
- Investigate: What does your mother do? [11]
- Affable: Glad to get to know you. [12]
- Sarcastic: I’ll leave you with the gold. [13]
- Stoic: Rest up. [14]
10 - Investigate: Rivain is okay with you?
Rook: How does the Rivaini royal guard feel about the Lords of Fortune?
Taash: They used to complain about us. But that was before the Antaam invaded Rivain.
Rook: And now Rivain sees the benefits of having a bunch of heavily-armed people on their side.
Taash: Same for the pirate armada. S’bigger than Rivain’s official navy. But we’re also helping save old artifacts. The Antaam are burning ruins as they move south. We get artifacts out before the Antaam destroy them. Magical stuff. Cultural stuff. Stuff you don’t want to lose.
11 - Investigate: What does your mother do?
Rook: So your mother appraises Qunari artifacts the Lords of Fortune find?
Taash: Yeah. She tells them how rare something is. How much it might be worth. Also tells them if they found something cultural.
Rook: Cultural?
Taash: You know. Important. Stuff you don’t want going to some rich noble’s collection. The Lords send that stuff back to the Qunari in Par Vollen. They pay the Lords a finder’s fee.
Dialogue options:
- That’s generous. [15]
- That’s extortion. [16]
- Taash Disapproves- There’s no corruption? [17]
+ Taash Approves- Veil Jumper: And for the Dalish as well? [18]
12 - That’s generous.
Rook: Interesting. The Lords do all this out of the goodness of their hearts?
Taash: We do get paid.
Taash: Name another job where you get danger pay for killing giant spiders.
Rook: Right. For gold and glory.
13 - That’s extortion.
Rook: So the Lords of Fortune extort people who’ve been robbed?
Taash: No. We give them a chance to get back something they lost hundreds of years ago.
Rook: For a fee.
Taash: A small fee.
14 - There’s no corruption?
Rook: Just a finder’s fee?
Taash: Yep.
Rook: But the Lords at the top could be charging anything for these artifacts, and you wouldn’t know.
Taash: I know what happened to the last Lord who bled a contact. That’s enough.
15 - Veil Jumper: And for the Dalish as well?
Rook: I hope the Lords of Fortune have a similar arrangement with the Dalish.
Taash: Yep. Dalish guy named Shiv. He tells us what’s probably cursed and what’s important to his people.
Rook: And “Shiv” doesn’t mind your people robbing Dalish tombs?
Taash: We don’t rob tombs. Only assholes rob tombs. We rob old armories and crap. Sometimes the Dalish warn us off a ruin. Sometimes they ask us for help getting in.
19 - Scene continues.
Return to previous tree.Taash: The Lords are good people. They helped my mother when she came here from Kont-aar. She got here with nothing but me and the clothes on her back. Only skill she had was Qunari history. The Lords gave her work.
12 - Affable: Glad to get to know you.
Rook: We should do this again. Grab a drink, share our tallest tales…
13 - Sarcastic: I’ll leave you with the gold.
Rook: All right. I guess I’ll just leave you here… a treasure hunter… with all the priceless artifacts.
14 - Stoic: Rest up.
Rook: Get some rest. We’ll be in the thick of it soon enough.
20 - Scene continues.
Return to previous tree.Taash: Hey. I was gonna go back to Rivain later. Got a thing to do for my mother. You can come along if you want.
Rook: Do I need to be ready for combat? Or traps?
Taash: Nah.
Rook: All right. Just let me know when.
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