SCOUTING DIVISION

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SCOUTING

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The Scouting Division encompasses traditional scouting, tracking, and reconnaissance work, along with more espionage-focused tasks like surveillance, intelligence-gathering, and cryptography. Their overarching goal is make sure that whatever the Inquisition wants to do next, they have the information they need to pursue it as efficiently, safely, and successfully as possible.

LEADER: Yseult
PROJECTS: Elven Artifacts, Hostile Powers

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[inagutterson]

SUBJECT: Missing Carta agents in Orzammar
PARTICIPANTS: Yngvi, Wren, Ciri, Kit, Seoraj
DATE FILED: early Firstfall
STATUS: Complete
SUMMARY: Investigating Carta agents failing to report back from Orzammaar on schedule before dealing with a rogue red lyrium mining operation involving them and Casteless dwarves. Operation shut down, agents rescued, Casteless dwarves killed as a mercy.
REPORT:
This report's late, I know, sorry. Don't know how to write this one.

We - me, Ser Coupe, Warden Ciri, Seoraj, and Kit - all went to Orzammar together and got in the front door without problems. Some young Casteless guards elevated by Bhelen's reforms helped direct us to the Deep Roads; as well as it likely being where our Carta folk were, they told us about Casteless disappearances too. Not as common as they used to be these days, but no one else had been looking into it.

Heading into the Deep Roads we went looking for the missing. Red lyrium was growing the further in that we got. It wasn't what any of us expected to see down there. And what we saw after—

It was an operation to mine red lyrium, from what we learned after we fought the miners they'd been trying to make a profit by grabbing members of the Casteless to do it. Finding people who wouldn't be missed, taking them down there, working them to death – it was terrible. I haven't seen anything that bad before. Our missing Carta contacts were locked up instead of being made to work because they thought they'd be useful to them, because they thought that seeing the way the Casteless were being worked would break them.

We couldn't save the Casteless. It was…people say it's mercy to kill them but it wasn't. It was just the only thing to do. They were dying, and sick, and they asked. They were beyond being healed.

I think it's best to talk with Lady Cedoux and Kit for what to do about what we learned in Orzammar. Sorry for this taking so long to reach you, getting it down has been—

It's been hard. The contacts have been recovering and returned to the Carta, they're very grateful for the Inquisition's help in returning their people to them.

Yngvi

NOTES & LINKS: Pending discussion with head of diplomacy and Kit per how to proceed with what we know now.
Discussion with Petrana and Kit
Letter to Beleth about the trip
Orzammar log

[arlathvhen]

Thank you for your assessment, and I'm sorry that you had to deal with such grievous events. I can't imagine what it was like, nor will I pretend to. Nevertheless, you have my sympathy. It sounds like you were able to grant them some measure of peace at the end, and I hope that gives you some peace, as well.

If you wish it, you can take a paid week of vacation to take some time off before returning to work. I'll make sure it's cleared. Of course, I'll also understand if you would prefer to go back to work straightaway. Do what you need to do.

Please have either yourself, Madame de Cedoux, or Mssr Grandir alert me once the three of you have chosen the next course of action, and what the Scouting division can do to provide aid for it.

Scoutmaster Ashara