DIVISION: Forces

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The Forces Division is the Inquisition's army in Kirkwall. It provides security for the base there and also for Inquisition agents on missions, shipments, and guests. It also includes the base's healers, and all the other support staff necessary to the outfitting and maintenance of an army, include smiths, engineers, stable workers, and the like.

LEADER: Commander Coupe | INFO
PROJECTS: Naval Presence, Red Lyrium

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SUBJECT: The Dead of Knight
PARTICIPANTS: Alex Karahalios, James Norrington, Six
DATE FILED: immediately on their return, mid-Harvestmere-ish
STATUS: mission complete / log ongoing
SUMMARY: A team go to Churneau to investigate the death of Chevalier Dame Ines. It starts poorly, and progresses to worse. Although they find a suspect and report them, they get kicked out.

REPORT:

Commander Coupe,

Respectfully, I think sending a team with two rifters to a war zone to investigate a murder might not have been the ideal scenario, and I promise you that is a massive understatement. Even with Knight-Commander Norrington’s intervention and advocacy on a few things, they were frosty from the get go.

The good news is that I was able to do an autopsy. Based on what I found, I feel confident in saying that Dame Ines was poisoned. There weren’t any signs of injury from a weapon, or sickness that I could work out. Attached is a break down of my findings, but boiled down to simplest terms her stomach and esophagus had an excess of blood, the mucous membranes were eroded, and there was a lot of blacked tissue. I haven’t seen anything like it before, honestly, but the nature of the damage and the localisation definitely supports poison.

The bad news is that while I was doing the autopsy and Six and Norrington were investigating and searching, one of our suspects got suspicious and tried to drown me in a cask of wine. (Next time I’ll make sure not to do the autopsy in the cellar, but it was the best location we had available to us.)

Luckily, my esteemed colleagues found alarming evidence in her room, realised they couldn’t find her to arrest her, and came to my rescue. It was very stirring and emotional. Inspiration. The soldiers hate us for reporting their beloved cook and getting her hanged, and then we got booted for stirring up dissatisfaction and conflict in the ranks, so that isn’t really ideal.

Along with the medical report, attached you’ll find the encoded documents from the cook’s room. She’s been hung already for being an Ander spy. Hopefully she hadn’t had a chance to report to the Ander forces about the Dame’s death. Might be that one of these documents is information she was meaning to send their way, or information from them.

Let us know if you’ve got questions.

Doctor Alexandra Karahalios

NOTES & LINKS: log

[limier]

Doctor Karahalios,

We’ve not the luxury of choosing ideal hands.

[ or rifters wouldn’t be sent anywhere but a bloody rift. ]

I am little surprised they resisted the dissection of a noblewoman's remains, particularly so near the border. I cannot say I am pleased, but trust yourself and the others exercised judgment of a tense situation. May any future drownings remain in the realm of allegory.

The Inquisition presently hosts an excess of apothecaries, physicians, and those who employ their services. Contact the Scoutmaster regarding those documents recovered, and your description of the poison. I would sooner we identify its origins before it can see further use by the enemy.

Regards,

— Ser Coupe.