What if the whole Zevran offers to pick locks but has insufficient skill thing isn’t because he’s lying but because Antiva uses different locks?
Like, that’s a country with a heavy assassin presence. Everyone is theoretically in danger, and most people don’t want to die. So they do what they can to slow the Crows down, and that includes complex puzzle locks.
It doesn’t work forever. Eventually the Crows catch on and start training their recruits how to unlock those - any assassin worth their salt needs to be able to get through a locked door - but it still takes a couple extra seconds to work, so people keep using them. Eventually, the Crows stop teaching people how to lock pick standard locks entirely, because they’re just not used in Antiva. Even for things that need to be opened quickly, people opt for combination locks.
Those kind of locks don’t catch on in the south. Any Fereldan worth assassinating has at least three dogs and trusts them more than any lock. Orlais adopts the practice for like 30 seconds before deciding that they’re not worth it because it makes secret meetings take longer, and also certain locks have become trendy and thus easy to guess. Besides, they invite potential assassins into their homes all the time. Puzzle locks, as far as the Game is concerned, are cheating.
Usually the Crows train any of their people going south on how to pick standard locks. They don’t with Zevran. They don’t even bother to let him know about the difference. They really don’t think he’s going to succeed, they don’t necessarily want him to, and he’s pretty obviously checked out.
Zevran, competent at puzzle locks because all Crows have to be, is completely at a loss the first time the Warden points him at a locked chest.
Here’s a teaser WIP of my submission for the patron of the arts fanzine!
The theme is tavern songs from Inquisition and I wound up choosing Once We Were. A bittersweet song, but one I thought as very fitting for the elves and their mourning of a golden age past.
Ayyy, who remembers Sebastian from DA2? Yellow Dafodil’s are actually a metaphor for Chivalry. The kiss however also comes with thorns~
Another bittersweet conclusion! This is the last cover for Knight Errant’s five issue series. All five issues are out now so check it out if you haven’t already. Thanks as always to AD Dave Marshall!
I always enjoy making these, I’ll cross my fingers for more DA art. Hopefully this isn’t the end!
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