#ws.

blight in the water, which goes far beyond treviso, is bad (and a problem she doesn’t begin to know how to fix)

less defended (crows v. fuck ton of mages and the minrathous flying tower of magical grenades)

but!

there’s also a bit of tevinter rivalry at play, albeit a subconscious one. the belief that ‘if your mages are so good, they can solve this themselves’ — of course, it isn’t until going back to a devastated dock town, and pretty much only dock town, does it click that, oh, of course the magisters aren’t going to stick their necks out and protect dock town when they’re almost all rich fucks. and, oh, of course a bunch of them were venatori or venatori sympathisers or willing to step aside to not have problems, something dock town and the shadow dragons won’t do.

she frames/puts up the letter you get from the necropolis dragon spirit that says it wants you to live for a thousand years so that it can come back and -colourful threats-. the game doesn’t give you anymore, but she happily collects hate mail from her adversaries.

i’ve mentioned before that she doesn’t have a fear of death but, rather, fears having a painful death, and torture, which she knows is what awaits her if she fails

to that end, she 1000% asks lucanis about his time in the ossuary when he’s ready to talk about it, what the worst part was, how he survived

it’s probably something she also asks the crows about too — some of their torture survival techniques

those recommendations help her get through fade jail, too, alongside varric spirit. it also helps that she’s gone through lucanis’ mind prison before that, too.

bellara or neve, whoever is taken by elgy, has her horrified and she is eternally in admiration of their spirit and that they were able to resist and use his own power against him!!!

johanna literally stole a room from the necropolis. bellara & emmrich talk about it in act i as a room is missing. meaning, i want the necropolis to be glitching a lot more (ground shaking with room changes quite often, even more impossible to navigate with any actual purpose, etc.). & also for that to be part of why it's so restless/so many undead are about & why the watch has their hands so full.