a side dude with great hair

[montalis]

PLAYER
Name: Jay
Contact + Notes: wuzzafuzzle
Anything We Should Know: I play Iorveth???
Favorite GIF: nah i like this static thing better


CHARACTER
Name: Luciano Montalis Della Scalla, but only goes by Luca Montalis unless you know him from before his Templar days
Info Page/App: Click
Who They Are: A once heir of an Antivan merchant family, now Seeker, here to snoop on everyone's life and be sassy ig. Being a rogue more specced towards stealth, he does a lot more on the investigation, sneaking side of things. Generally wants to know everyone's business, especially if they're important people whose business could have an effect on other peoples' lives.
Where They've Been: Doing Seeker stuff, been in and out of Inquisition bases as needed, but not officially joined up with anything yet. Probably following Cassandra around Skyhold a bunch doing whatever she tells him to, or going information gathering.
What They Want: To know all the secrets :B also, to help the Inquisition make sure their world doesn't fall to ruin, plus make sure no one's taking advantage of the world falling to ruin to be a dick bag to the people.
Plot & CR Desires: No specific plots as of yet, but if anyone wants to plot for having known him in the past through Antiva, nobility, Templar or Seeker stuff, I'd be all kinds of down for braining that up. Just trying to get the character flushed out some more right now.
Anything Else: nah fam

Comments

[elegiaque]

i think we could potentially swing some prior cr with pretty much any of my characters bar The Rifter One, but in general i like this dude and im keen to get CURRENT cr, for sure. off the top of my head: galatea's chantry-adjacent so potentially he could have crossed her path when she was torturing people for andraste, gervais was a circle mage and he actually traveled for his research work (under templar guard, obvs), etc.

[montalis]

HMMMM I think we could get some nice stuff out of these. For Gala, maybe he could have been doing some investigation into that chantry and reports of the mothers going bonkers with torturing peeps? maybe a too little too late thing, and by the time the seekers had actually gotten around to look into it, gala was already handling it herself, so it was just the trail from her left? Like a peripheral awareness of who she is? but idk how much you want known about gala, sob

as for captain flint i mean gervais, if he was under templar guard, there's a good chance luca could've been one of those guarding him. or if its a research specific thing, luca does a lot of information gathering, so maybe he could've gone with the guard as a seeker for the sake of getting some snooping in? idk idk

[ipseite]

with gala's situation there wouldn't have actually been anything about the mothers - they weren't going off the rails so there wouldn't have been any reports like that, they just made a couple of poorly timed bad decisions about what to do in the midst of the war, the work galatea did for them was chantry-sanctioned and no one knows those mage children existed, so what it actually looks like happened is "galatea lost her shit for no discernible reason". crossing paths would be more like galatea's work supporting his investigative work, probably, or potentially he could have looked into the terrible murders of those poor innocent chantry mothers.

and yeah!! gervais traveled for healing work and research purposes, and obvs mages go no where by themselves. if he was going somewhere convenient to luca, two birds w one stone.

[ipseite]

also gervais was at the white spire w wren and is now her kept man so that could raise an eyebrow.

[montalis]

OHOH re: gala's situation, yeah that makes sense. wasn't sure exactly how that went down specifically. but yeah, maybe he tracked a little bit of the mothers being murderated, and when he realized it wasn't mages or templars that put it out of his jurisdiction??? hmmm idk that doesn't mean he's known anything about her at all tho so it might be a moot point

8OOO lemme see what k2 says about luca toddling around after her, maybe he can be the lololol eyebrow waggle at u old sexual delinquents u child

[elegiaque]

that could definitely work, he could've been like "mmm this isnt a job for my Elite Skills" and potentially gala getting wind someone around here was actually at some point investigating those murders could Be Interesting. tho also just straight up having at some point worked together briefly could work (that's how she knows wren).

8)))) aw yis

[montalis]

fkldsfa lmfao yeah that could be pretty fun if gala caught wind of it!! tho if he ever learned what actually happened there, he probably wouldn't be sympathetic enough to not consider gala someone that needs to be taken in :'||| SO let's maybe got the worked together option instead :B

also also, k2 is down for him having been babysat/working with her on fieldwork stuff for a time, so I could def see him knowing gervais through that. quietly eavesdropping on them while they escorted him around 8'D gives them LOOKS now when he seems them

[limier]

lies myself down on this post

isaac & casimir are circle mages, neither really......traveled.....but we could probably finagle something esp if luca did anything during the war. there's probs a feasible way to say wren knows him as well idk. let's do some past cr on someone.

[montalis]

pets ur face gently

hmhmhm, i hadn't really solidly decided which circles Luca's been through, kind of left it open for the sake of plotting stuff with peeps, so we could always say he was somewhere close to either of them for the sake of familiarity. in the war, he went the cassandra route and nope'd right out of the chantry split with the templars, so if he was involved, it'd probably have been more in trying to keep the peace in places, or guarding/assisting the Divine.

Oooh, Wren is a Templar that was with the Orlesian circle, right? If you want them to have a little more connection, maybe he could've trained in the Orlesian chantry and been in and out of stations at White Spire a bit? Enough to have known her relatively well as idk some senior templar to toddle around after 8T IDK gimme ur thoughts

[limier]

aces!!

IF you end up tossing him at ghislain to collect pietro, he can totes know isaac from there, isaac spent most of his time in ghislain ratting out other mages breakin the rules so 8)

and yeah wren was at the white spire, i'd be super down for that! she only ever made lieutenant but that's honestly probably more reason to be dealing with baby templars/seekers than anyone higher up the food chain. she was mostly involved in fieldwork, so it'd be a good fit too for the kind of stuff he ended up doing to say they went on some adventure as part of his training or she spent a while babysitting or something.

and now look at him. all grown up. a bigshot. unfortunately still says words.

[montalis]

LMFAO "unfortunately still says words" is the most accurate thing i have heard for him yet, bless you

Re: Ghislain, yes!! I was thinking I could say he'd spent a bit of time stationed there in order to collect some CR with Pietro, so that would work out awesome to add Isaac in as well. What was he up to most there?

i love the idea of him attaching to her at white spire for fieldwork training and babysitting and stuff. she seems like a person he'd have a lot of respect for in general, for her disposition and dedication while also not being a crazy person. so i think that'd be a super cool fit. also, eyebrow waggling at gervais and her, im jussayin : D unfortunately still makes rude faces

[wythersake]

isaac was a healer there & did a little teaching because enchanter. as a dude with access to the records luca would probably know he'd been transferred to ghislain as a result of some political screwups outside the circle & that he has some nastier magic he tries to downplay. but he was a loyalist!! at the time!! don't look at what he's done since shh

and LMAO i mean she is a crazy person but she's a moderate at least so yes, i'm excited for this.

[montalis]

gently touches jude law face

ahh, yeah even if he'd only met isaac during his templar days, he'd probably have at least learned what fuckery he was involved in by the time he got to seeker status and started knowing everyone's business all the time. tho tbh, even if he was only a templar at the time, there's a good chance luca would go out of his way to learn stuff about his charges, esp ones transferred in without immediately available reasons, because he's that extra credit motherfucker that wants to know about who his charges are and what he might want to look out for. tbh its up to you know much he should know :B

cries look as long as shes not one of the super extra crazy ppl that just need to sit down and be quiet, he's good with it. esp if he knew her p well as a person prior to the crazies setting in, idk. SENTIMENT DOES THAT, OOPS.

[limier]

heeee basically found noble patronage, got dragged into some inter-house politics, and then caught the blame so that the others could smooth things over. and then reacted really poorly to that, so probably would've been on closer watch for a bit during his first year or so to make sure he didn't try anything stupid. hence the sucking up & telling on people. :V

outside of healing magic he's p good with entropy spells, particularly those that affect the mind.

[tactical_alert]

SEEKER!!! look at this baby seeker!!!

[montalis]

8V he is a smol lil babby seeker, love him. Or not, bc he's kind of a dick sometimes. he's been with the seekers around 5-ish years, so there's probably a good chance malcolm would know him at least peripherally. would you be down for braining some prior CR stuff? :3

[tactical_alert]

yessss. he's been a seeker for, uh, a long-ass time comparatively, god he's just been around practically everywhere, hung around cassandra even before the inquisition for 'where the fuck is hawke' purposes, been around the block...

[montalis]

lol so there's a pretty good chance they'd know each other, or luca would at least know about malcolm. would you be up for him maybe having done apprenticing and training stuff following malcolm around on missions? or just have them be like oh i know that person but not very well?

[tactical_alert]

whoops that notif got lost somewhere. pre-fade rift he would've been involved in some mmm fairly traumatic things and then fucked off on his own doing loner missions because what's Dealing With Things, sounds fake. but as far as the game's timeline is concerned, once everyone showed up at skyhold then yeah he would've been way more open to helping out the baby seeker because seekers gotta stick together fighting the good fight!!!

[montalis]

HELLO THIS IS LATE AS BALLS, SOB the tournament stuff had me wrapped up in 8 million iorveth tags and ignoring my side dude for it. ANYWHO ok cool cool so he probably didn't have much interaction with him prior to inquisition stuff. what i've been saying luca was up to before kirkwall was toddling around skyhold and running off doing recon or info gathering or stealthily stabbing some peeps idk, mostly solo stuff, but if you want we could say they did a few of those things together? for a passing familiarity mebbe. :3

[insatiably]

Julian is an Antivan merchant prince, so if you'd like them to know of each other, I'd be down! All his info is in his journal, because he was a full character before I shoved him into a side character role. :P

[montalis]

Oh no, Julian sounds really sweet!! ;; they're only a few years apart, so it's likely they could've grown up together? luca was a serious, sullen babby that probably could've used a cheerful friend. that and he hated nobles who acted like nobles, so they have that in common. also wanted adventure and things, got into a lot of trouble as a reckless kiddo, so we could maybe say they were rich delinquents together? :'D

[insatiably]

I love it! Yessss, let Julian be the one to put a smile on his face. We could say they played pretend where they fought dragons and such! And got into all kinds of mischief. <3

[montalis]

oh no, pretendsies dragons, thats too cute, i can't handle it :'3 YES let's do it, absolutely. There can be at least one (1) person Luca seems happy to see when he comes to visit Kirkwall

[insatiably]

Nice! Come visit him in Hightown! And he's going to the Tourney too so they can hang out. He'll be so impressed at his Seeker-ness.

[montalis]

aahhh will do!!! he has probably collected all kinds of stories to tell julian tbh maybe he has a story journal he can read to him from while they drink expensive wine and catch up :B Luca will be in the tourney as well, so it'll be fun all around

[insatiably]

OMG, a journal! Luca, you dweeb.

Nah, Julian loves him. It's so very him to write it all down like a serious scholar. Meanwhile Julian's just trying to recount from memory and bullshitting things when he forgets. Whatever; it's close to what really happened, okay?

[montalis]

LOOK ORGANIZATION AND NOTE TAKING IS IMPORTANT OKOK he didn't get to seeker by not being thorough huff huff

cries, that's so adorable, help. luca listening to julian trying to tell a story about something they did, just sitting behind him shaking his head, quietly mouths 'not what happened'. but you do you, booboo, you do you.

[insatiably]

w o w, this shade. Let him live his best life, even if that life is full of bullshit embellishments. Getting people on the edge of their seats in more important than the truth!



...he says to the Seeker of Truth.

[montalis]

LOL RIGHT he will allow it, because julian, and its not like some ridonkulous adventure stories will threaten the safety of mages and templars and the people etc etc. also, he knows the truth, and that's all that matters : D

also also, would you like to maybe have them team up for the melee in the tourney? :3

[insatiably]

He's such a good bean. Julian doesn't deserve him. ;_;

Oh, hell yeah! I'll edit my comment to put that in. The Grand Melee part, yes?

[montalis]

yesss grand melee!!

[supersonic]

presses my face here

Pietro is also Antivan but he's 5 years younger and an elf so chances of them crossing paths there seem slim, HOWEVER: he was circled in Ghislain, and used to use Antivan to talk shit with his sister, WHICH WORKS LESS WELL when the Templar you are shit-talking also happens to speak Antivan... :>???

They could've had more positive conversations too if Luca was down for chatting with his charges, Pietro was pretty generally restless and desperate for news of the outside world. Even from Templars.

[montalis]

presses face to ur face!!

jdkslfjdklsa LMFAO I love that idea, and yeah I could totally say he was stationed at Ghislain for a time, maybe a couple years or something. Probably just listened to the Antivan insults for a week or so before taking off his tin can hat and being like "that one was less creative than the others, are you having a bad day" in Antivan or smth idk idk

but yeah, he'd be down for chatting if he was approached for it!! He isn't generally one of those hardass Templars, and he did a lot of traveling and moving around, so he could've easily brought Pietro news from outside :B

[esquive]

10/10 pb choice

[montalis]

tyty same to you, my dude

this game needed more pretty borgia-faced peeps in it tbh

[exsecutus]

1, cute face

2, possible connections because I like the looks of this guy; before he came to the Inquisition, Nikos was living resentfully in Antiva helping to run a SPY RING in OPPOSITION of MONARCHIES and OPPRESSIVE WEALTH and TOP DOWN POWER SYSTEMS and stuff like that. you know, rogue stuff. stole important papers sometimes, maybe a little assassinating. like once he tried to assassinate a king and then hid in Antiva. it's fine. they're based in Antiva City but they go anywhere there's oppression or at least will send pamphlets anywhere there's oppression. also his mother is an Antivan merchant princess so he unfortunately has connections and knows names and things even though he hates it all. so maybe there's some connections to be made there or at least some name recognition?? whatever I am flexi

3, cute face

[montalis]

1 & 3, tyty he's a precious babbin and cesare borgia is just nice to look at

2, Luca was actually a wily delinquent child when he was younger and snooped around the Crows, at least (and almost got killed a lot, probably), so I could see him snooping around Nikos spy stuff as well :3 While he isn't so DEATH TO THE KING as him, he's also not a big fan of the offensively wealthy (aka his entire family sob). I could see him lending a hand if it was redistribution of wealth stuff, tho not so much assassinating. BUT EITHER WAY he was a child of the merchant nobility circle, so they definitely could've had run ins one way or another!! or at least know each others names and lives. This seems fun aahhh come at me

[exsecutus]

perrrrrrrfect yes :>

Nikos wasn't doing the full time spy stuff in Antiva until about 11 years ago so depending on the timing they could totally have had some kind of run in! Nikos' counterpart is Caspar Parakis, who is way more charismatic and invites people to come to meetings and listen to their rhetoric, very into the redistribution of wealth, buys drinks and listens sympathetically to dissident rebellious noble kids who want to stick it to the man a little. soooo if Luca would have been around to be invited, that could springboard us toward some CR. if he would have had genuine interest, he could have attended some meetings, and/or maybe did some snooping under the guise of being interested in the cause but really there for some secrets???

also Nikos was totally flipping through peerage books and sideline asking his mom for gossip and making a burn book of Antivan nobles and their offspring so yes if nothing else he would know some backstory for Luca, if you're cool with that!

hoorayyyyyy

[coquettish_trees]

did i see you have man-ho down in your profile because... look he's cute and wears armor and a seeker? how dashing. left your family to become a templar? how noble.

she also wants to know everyone's business so