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[personal profile] samahl 2019-03-22 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
I do. A friend of mine writes some of the most popular books in Thedas. He even wrote one about me, though he took quite a bit of liberties.
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[personal profile] samahl 2019-03-23 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.

He kept most of the overall story intact, but the details.... I'm saying if you read it, most of the details are changed.
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[personal profile] samahl 2019-03-23 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Varric would probably say a little of both.

I would say that the book is mostly story, and it tells the facts of my life with the Inquisition in a colorful, embellished way.
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[personal profile] samahl 2019-03-24 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
And you can believe the general events.

For example, when the story says I went to a ball, exposed a traitor, and forced all parties to form a treaty - That really happened. When it says that part of me doing that was seducing all of the elven servants and then dueling a highly trained spy... That's some exaggeration. There were fights, but very few of them were difficult.

And most of the elven servants were too traumatized by all of the murder to be interested in my charms.
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[personal profile] samahl 2019-03-24 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Elf is what I am.

The Dalish part is a type of elf. There are also elves who live in cities. They are sectioned off into poorer parts of the city and only really find work as servants or such.

[He pressed his lips together for a moment. Clearly, he had a lot of feelings on the subject.]

The Dalish live in the wilderness instead. We say it is because we revere the old ways and refuse to bow to the humans, but it also means that most Clans are isolationist and look down on those who are stuck in the city.

I was never really comfortable with that line of thinking.
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[personal profile] samahl 2019-03-27 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Correct.

An elf who lives in the city is called a 'city elf' and other far less flattering idioms, but we don't have to worry about them.
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[personal profile] samahl 2019-03-28 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Of course you wouldn't, because you are a good man.

If you hear anyone call an elf a 'knife-ear' then you know they really don't like us and they're likely an arse.
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[personal profile] samahl 2019-03-28 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
And anything I should be on the look out for your people? There are more from your reality than mine, after all.
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[personal profile] samahl 2019-03-31 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[He nods at that, thoughtful.

After a moment he scoots closer and wraps his arm around Kolvian's arm, it's almost like a half cuddle embrace.
]

Well, I don't hate you.
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[personal profile] samahl 2019-04-03 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
While we are stuck here... If you find that you need a place to go to think and process. I'll be here too.