PROJECT: Elven Artifacts

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Evidence indicates that Corypheus has taken an interest in ancient elven ruins—and even if he hadn't, eluvians and other ancient artifacts could be powerful tools for whoever holds them. The Inquisition will be devoting some of its personnel to searching for these ancient mysteries and making sure they do not fall into the wrong hands.

DIVISION: Scouting
LEADER: Sorrelean Ashara
ASST. LEADER: n/a	STATUS: Active

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These "assignments" are updated semi-regularly and involve ongoing low-level work done in the Elven Artifacts Project. They're usually unrewarding, unglamorous, rarely allow you to have fun (unless you are a very peculiar person indeed), and in general don't have much to recommend them. However, as in real life, just because something is difficult and tedious, it doesn't follow that it's not important. So, if you're interested in filling your character's work hours, giving them something to complain about, or just something to do, you might try putting their idle hands to work on one of the following. You do not need to specifically sign up for these.


Inventory: While most important or notable artifacts come into the Inquisition's hands through specific missions and assignations, trinkets, baubles, and unsorted maybe-artifacts are received every day. How do they get here? All kinds of ways. Many of them are picked up in passing by Inquisition soldiers and agents. A lot are donated, or even "donated." Some of them are genuinely interesting, some of them are junk, one or two might even be something special, but all of them are a big, dusty, unsorted mess. And in pursuit of the rare diamond in the rough, it's everyone's job to sort through, categorize, and describe them for the records, a phrase which has traditionally meant that it's nobody's job. And now it's your job too. Congratulations.

Research, Translation & Transcription: What do we collect more than old junk? Old words. Thedas is littered with elven ruins, and those ruins often have carved inscriptions from which to take rubbings. And the libraries are full of books. And every organization has paperwork to sort through. Most of what's written is either unimportant, uninteresting, or irrelevant, and a lot of what's been brought in is just fancy decoration mistaken for writing. But there's enough here that something has to be valuable. So if you know a language other than common, and have somehow been roped into this tedious busywork, dig in and get to work. Dusty tomes and smudgy rubbings won't neaten themselves, after all.