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Bad thing about Varric Tethras' life: the people he has to deal with. He's a younger son of a noble family turned merchanters in a city where the Dwarven Merchants' Guild and the Carta can make life very, very miserable for merchant families that don't play the right games the right way. Good thing about Varric Tethras' life: the dwarf is very, very, very good with words. Sometimes better than his family is with money- and his family's usually pretty good with money. Ranking Carta members can be remarkably vain, and playing on that vanity can go far. Bribes don't always have to be monetary.
Did you know there was such a thing as a dwarven romance novel? And that a really good writer can put just about anybody he knows in the role of the ridiculously buxom and breathtakingly clever protagonist as she carves her way metaphorically and physically through the hidebound but remarkably lusty nobility of Orzammar?
Well, if you didn't, you might want to check out the rolls of parchment drying on the table where Varric is currently working. Or not, if you're the kind of human or elf or whatever-you-are who isn't into that sort of thing. Varric will probably be sociable either way, once he gets Mischa past the gate marshals and into the Proving Master's pants. It's a tricky paragraph. These things take a deft touch.
Did you know there was such a thing as a dwarven romance novel? And that a really good writer can put just about anybody he knows in the role of the ridiculously buxom and breathtakingly clever protagonist as she carves her way metaphorically and physically through the hidebound but remarkably lusty nobility of Orzammar?
Well, if you didn't, you might want to check out the rolls of parchment drying on the table where Varric is currently working. Or not, if you're the kind of human or elf or whatever-you-are who isn't into that sort of thing. Varric will probably be sociable either way, once he gets Mischa past the gate marshals and into the Proving Master's pants. It's a tricky paragraph. These things take a deft touch.