https://dragonage.fandom.com/w...ssroads_(Hinterlands)

This may also help. If you look at the picture on the right, you'll see the Tevinter house on the left side of the image, and Owen's hut is the nearest hut you see on the right.

Apologies for the delay just posted

Just to clarify something, Brother Loran's healing capabilities are still being explained away as just being healing good at patching people up since he doesn't believe it is magic himself, right? I just reread Fost's speech and he called it your healing powers. Does this mean that people do recognize something unnatural about your abilities, or am I just overthinking things.

Loran, you have DEX+1, you forgot to add that to your Initiative roll.

Fost would call anything he is utterly incapable of as 'power', especially if it is a divine/holy/religious thing.
Still, I quite simply forgot about Loran's concept :/, apologies.

Where is Redcliffe supposed to be on that map?
This message was last edited by the player at 18:24, Wed 22 July 2020.

I don't know if we ever established if Brother Loran has shared with the rest of the party anything of his awareness of the nature of his gifts.

Of course, "healing powers" could also just colloquially mean his talent and skill as a mundane healer (as far as anyone else knows). No one would think a Chantry brother an apostate; that's just too far afield... ;)

That's why he has his maker signing his hand if he uses the arcane lance he will believe its the maker using him as a conduit for his powers.

I imagine your staff looks like the staff Malcom's Honor from DA2. My favorite staff, actually.

Your explanations make a bit more sense to me. Then again, it has yet to actually come up in game, so it's not like it's canon yet, so maybe no one has actually bore witness to one of your spells. I'm certainly going to say the Mikhail hasn't, but I do want to know if you want me to find out. Things like this can get taken in a completely wrong direction, and I'd like to know if and when you want this to become an issue. I can wave away and write that Mikhail doesn't notice your spells as you cast them, or I can write that he does start to take notice and confronts you eventually. Whatever you feel more comfortable with.

Heh, of course, given that Loran and Mikhail will be in the same general area, no one may notice that the brother is also throwing the Arcane Lance. :)

"Man, that Mikhail is fast with that spell!" :D

Expect Loran to be praying a lot to the maker in the combat holding his sign up like a shield of devine protection

Who's to say the maker didn't answer his prayers by shooting a bolt of devine retribution from it :)

As for healing its a natural part of being a healer I as a player knows the spell being cast but he wouldn't its more of a natural act

By the way he also has daze and weakness spells

Okay, just so I have this in one place:

Initiatives

This message was last edited by the GM at 16:33, Tue 28 July 2020.

Lol, I sure assumed it started already, i.e..during my sleeping cycle ^^.

Btw, you can make Easy Tables

|= Character|^= INI|^= DD|^= MOD|^= S
|Sir Perth|^ 16|^ 2|^ 2|^ S



This message was lightly edited by the player at 04:48, Thu 23 July 2020.

Yeah, I was just being lazy... :)

Okay, thank you, Fost, for showing me the chart. I've added in all the initiatives, and I'm going to move us into combat rounds as soon as I post.

That said, since there are a lot of NPCs here, I would like you gents to each take one of Ser Perth's soldiers, in addition to your characters. That'll give us a little more practice in this first combat, and I won't be dominating large swaths of each round.

Fost, please act for the Redcliffe Crossbowman when it's his turn.
Richard, please act for Redcliffe Footman 1.
Mikhail, please act for Redcliffe Footman 2.
Loran, please act for Redcliffe Footman 3.

The post will go up shortly, and you gents will have a chance to post your reaction to what you see/hear before the fun begins. (BTW, you all succeeded on a Perception (Hearing) check.)

Okay, setting "problem" here.
How usual, how common are Tevinter in Ferelden? I assumed they are enemy and not tolerated. Same opinion on Orlesians coming to think on it.
So actually it is not uncommon to find either in Ferelden?

Also, I speak Orlesian. Do I recognize any of the words as Orlesian?

Fost, I think I can answer to that a bit. Orleis is still viewed with mistrust and the people from there more so. That being said, Arl Eamon's wife is Orlesian, so it's not as uncommon as people from Tevinter being here. Remember that Andraste came from Fereldan and overthrew the Imperium preaching the Chant of Light. Seeing Tevinter in Fereldan at all is a big surprise for anyone. Hope that helps a little bit, as I'll leave the rest to GM here.

Thanks, did not remember (or never knew ^^) about the Orlesian wife.

I guess I am having one trouble rating the  guards, they are Tevinter, no? Are they able to speak our language or is Perth able to talk theirs? I forgot, I believe they did talk to us in our tongue before.
Anyway, I am a bit confused about the civility of it all.

Yes, the conversation is taking place in the Trade Tongue. See 3, below.

And, no, Mikhail couldn't make out the words; it was unintelligible noise from his vantage point.

Building on what Mikhail said:

1. Ferelden only successfully regained its independence from Orlais less than two decades ago; it's likely that there are a number of Orlesians who stayed in Ferelden after the occupation ended (becoming Ferelden subjects), and any character closer to 30 than 20 would likely have heard the language spoken in their youth. Orlais is also just on the other side of the mountains from Ferelden, so movement between is common.

Given that, Redcliffe is an occasional, if uncommon, stopping point on the road east from the Frostbacks. Orlesians are known.

2. Tevinters travel, but are definitely rare away from the Waking Sea coastal cities (like Denerim and Amaranthine); to see one in Redcliffe is notable.

3. The Trade Tongue is the common tongue of Thedas. Pretty much everyone speaks it; even Tevinters. In Ferelden, the Trade tongue just happens to be the official language.

4. Regarding the civility, part of that is my dramatic license. Ser Perth wanted to give you gents a chance to get into position, so he saw politely asking about seeing an elf as helping prolong the conversation until you all were ready.

Also, civility is a virtue, and, even though Dragon Age is dark fantasy, I think men of rank and honor would tend to act with civility first, even if that civility is followed immediately by attempts at killing the other in the most efficient way possible. Even Tevinters.

(You'd have to guess at why the Tevinter men-at-arms were so civil.)

5. I can't recall, but I think Mikhail originally noted that their accents were Tevinter; and their accents are certainly different from an Orlesian accent, which most of you would've heard at least once in your lifetime. The Magister just mangled a Tevinter accent, and it's obvious that Orlesian is his native tongue.

Got it. I just wanted to remind you that I do speak the language incase it is a big deal. This is one of the few time I've actually been excited about playing a polyglot as I intend on taking a ton of languages when no magical talents excite me.

Also, I don't remember if we made backstories that important, but I did state in mine that my father breeds, trains and sells Orlesian horses, so Mikahil's very familiar the language. However, this is Mabari country, so horses are kind of viewed as a commodity.

I do want to take advantage of his broad knowledge of language as we continue playing.

Thanks.

As clarification of sorts. I ammall for Perth's manners and attitude, he us a knight after all. I was referring to the "enemy".
Ahhh... you spoiled me :). I was wondering where the Master is

Will we be getting the data of these footmen or do you prefer we just declare move/actions and roll without correct modifiers?

I'll post their info for you to use.

So... what are we waiting for.
Pre-combat descriptions of everyone?

Yes, I'd like to give Loran, Mikhail, and Richard to respond to my last post before we start with combat rounds.

Yeah, thought so.

Come on guys, what's up ?