SUBJECT: Absolute Shartanty PARTICIPANTS: Araceli Bonaventura, Myrobalan Shivana, Simon Ashlock, Wren Coupe DATE FILED: Justinian 9:44 STATUS: Complete SUMMARY: An Inquisition team went to Val Royeaux to provide security for a convention concerning the Canticle of Shartan’s reinstatement as a part of the Chant, rather than a Dissonant Verse. While not actively campaigning for the Canticle’s reinstatement, they did assist a Chantry sister whose scholarship may support its inclusion in the canon by retrieving a stolen manuscript for her.
REPORT: [The following letter is written in Simon’s hand, having been dictated by Myr.]
To Knight-Enchanter Amsel,
At the request of Revered Mother Berengaria, we journeyed to Val Royeaux to guard a convention of clerics gathered to debate the Canticle of Shartan. A number of attendees were expected to argue strongly for its reinstatement in the canon in full; consequently, the Revered Mother expected trouble between the various factions present.
At Knight-Lieutenant Coupe’s advisement--and with an eye toward maintaining the late Divine’s legacy and mandate for the Inquisition’s sake--we elected to maintain tight security especially for those Chantry sisters arguing in support of the Canticle’s return as a canon Verse. In addition to breaking up a fistfight that erupted during one of the debates, we assisted one Sister Aleya by retrieving the only copy of her latest manuscript from a thief who had taken it from her rooms. The sister’s work comparing the Dissonant Verses to the accepted canon appears to support claims that the first Justinia was the author of the Canticle of Shartan, and as such provides evidence for arguments to its validity as a historical document.
The question of the Canticle’s canonicity, however, remains unresolved. Strong cases were presented both for and against its re-inclusion in the Chant of Light and further conferences are planned to pursue the matter.
In Andraste’s love, Myrobalan Shivana, Simon Ashlock, Araceli Bonaventura y Castell, Luwenna Coupe
Absolute Shartanty