There are nine thousand tales in the City of Chains...

[tallishtales.livejournal.com]

But I'll wager not one of them is quite like mine. And now, here I am in a whole new city of stories, all of them just piled up and waiting to be told, and nobody with any real flair to tell them until now.

So! Fellow refugees of narrative! Let me know why your story needs to be told. I'll make you famous. Immortal, you could say. And my rates are very reasonable. You can find me any evening down at the Nancing Phony (and never was an inn better named), and assuming you're properly heroic, we should be able to work out a distribution deal pretty painlessly.  Varric Tethras, at your service.

Comments

[tallishtales.livejournal.com]

A title of respect, my good troll.

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oh

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good

[tallishtales.livejournal.com]

Delighted you approve. Do trolls still have an interest in fame, fortune, good reputation, eternal glory... stop me when you hear something that interests you.

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wwell no most are just pathetic lowwblood wwastes a air

[tallishtales.livejournal.com]

Even a nobleman can benefit from good publicity. Especially when the peasants may be revolting. And rebelling, too.

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nobodys rebellin though theyre all pretty fuckin revvolutin its just evverybody dyin thats the main problem not that im helpin much there

[tallishtales.livejournal.com]

Everybody dying? Well, that certainly sounds... cheerful.

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i thought genocide wwould be a lot more entertainin than this shit

[tallishtales.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you're not related to the Qunari? The grey skin, the horns, the unsettling belief in uncompromising slaughter...

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Am i supposed to knoww wwhat inferior race youre refering to

[tallishtales.livejournal.com]

I'll just take that as a "no," then.

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wwhat racket are you runnin anywway

[tallishtales.livejournal.com]

Serah, you wound me. I am simply in the business of collecting stories.

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oh thats incredibly descriptivve wwhat kind of stories

[tallishtales.livejournal.com]

Lately, I've been playing biographer to the famous. For a nominal fee, I'll make anyone better-known and better loved, providing they've lived a colorful enough life to supply me with material.

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is royal magenta enough colour for you

[tallishtales.livejournal.com]

It's a place to start, at any rate.

If you want your story told, it should probably start with your name.

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eridan ampora

[tallishtales.livejournal.com]

So, Eridan. Tell me. What makes you the most interesting troll on the island?

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im the only one wwhos killed some a us

[tallishtales.livejournal.com]

All right. Tell me why, in these battles to the death, the audience should be rooting for you.

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wwhat is rootin wwhat do i care about that

[tallishtales.livejournal.com]

Cheering. Applauding. Hoping you win?

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oh wwell they wwerent really battles to the death i mean if i wwas battlin somebody itd be pretty fuckin pointless if i murdered them