The Archives · Recovered Records
Primary Documents
Correspondence, dispatches, and administrative notices. Read at your own peril; some of these caused incidents.
Run I · Personal Correspondence
Filed under the Commander's designation. Not, strictly speaking, Inquisition business.
E
✹ Hand Delivery · Unfiled ✹
Origin: Skyhold, the Commander's office
Left: Before dawn, on the desk
Enclosure: One glass jar
Clerk's note: Recipient was at the stables. Sender was at the office. Both parties were looking for each other.
“I'm sorry I missed you. I was hoping we could talk. I also wanted you to have this.
Use it twice a day, or whenever the pain flares up.
I'll miss you.
— E”
Chapter 7
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C
✹ Official Dispatch · Routing ✹
Origin: Skyhold, Office of the Commander
Destination: Crestwood encampment
Classification: Routine — troop movements, supply
Clerk's note: Content unremarkable. Tone noticeably more jovial than the Commander's standard. Postscript reproduced below.
“P.S. As Commander of the Inquisition, I cannot condone or participate in any form of spying or gambling.”
Chapter 8
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C
✹ Enclosure · Unofficial ✹
Origin: Skyhold
Addressed to: ‘E’
Seal: Not the Commander's. A flattened blob of wax, pressed with something round — the bottom of a rod, or a game piece.
Clerk's note: Found tucked inside an official report. No record of it in the dispatch ledger.
“Embers,
Fifty percent and an ongoing supply of your elderflower balm. Take it or leave it.
Curly”
Chapter 8
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E
✹ Crow · Rookery Log ✹
Origin: Crestwood
Carrier: Requisitioned from the Spymaster's rookery
Length: One word
Clerk's note: The Spymaster has not asked what her birds are being used for. This is not the same as not knowing.
“Deal.
— Embers”
Chapter 8
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E
✹ Crow · Constable Murrow ✹
Origin: The Inquisitor's quarters
Carrier: White-breasted crow, designation disputed
Fee: One sweet-bun, payable on delivery
Clerk's note: Carrier declined to depart until paid. Carrier also declined to depart after being paid.
“Curly,
We have a serious problem. You haven't briefed me on our joint project yet. This needs to be rectified immediately.
xo
Embers”
Chapter 10
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C
✹ Crow · Reply ✹
Origin: Office of the Commander
Written: On a scrap
Sign-off: Retained
Clerk's note: No project by this name appears in any Inquisition ledger.
“Embers,
A drastic oversight on my part. Project Backgammon is proceeding as planned.
xo
Curly”
Chapter 10
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Run II · Field Dispatches
Operational reporting. Filed properly, for once.
P
✹ Field Report · Routing ✹
Origin: Crestwood
Filed by: The Seeker
Classification: Urgent
Clerk's note: A second letter accompanied this one, addressed to the Commander in a different hand. It is not in this run.
“Ella was injured fighting through their stronghold doing, and I quote, ‘some of Joachim's fancy footwork.’
Did you give her that book? Surely you are aware of how terrible the diagrams are.”
Chapter 13
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Run III · Domestic Correspondence
Family. Delayed in transit, which did not improve it.
B
✹ Inquisition Correspondence · Routing ✹
Origin: Ostwick, the Free Marches
Dispatched: 20th of Justinian, 9:41 Dragon
Received at Skyhold: 25th of Solace, 9:41 Dragon
Conveyed with: Diplomatic correspondence, Madame de Fer
Clerk's note: Delayed four weeks. Waking Sea route closed — pirate blockade.
“Try to keep yourself presentable up there. While you may be a mage, you still carry the Trevelyan name. Especially now that your ‘Inquisition’ is gaining more support. Surely you are not actually at the head of it, though. Perish the thought of a group managed by our clumsy little Ella.”
Chapter 12
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Run IV · Notices & Reviews
Published criticism, administrative postings, and other things pinned to walls.
RD
✹ Published Review · Clipping ✹
Subject: Obeying Her Order, by G.R. Etta
Reviewer: The Randy Dowager
Rating: Five scarves of five
Clerk's note: The Seeker concurs.
“Such an assault to modesty that I publicly swooned lest my own honor be impugned. Twice. Five scarves fluttered in shock out of five.”
Chapter 4
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