[Look, he gets the past trauma thing, okay...but at some point it just becomes pointless.
Estinien knows his strengths, and they don't lie in deception. He doesn't have the patience for it--his recent stint in Garlemald was the closest he's come, and that was simply keeping ones head down and letting Gaius work with his contacts. That was simple. (Even if being an Elezen in the middle of the empire's capital was itself strange.)]
Fate moves in mysterious ways.
[Ah. That explains the niggling familiarity, the unease, and the fact that this man knows so much about him in one fell swoop. Ascian. He might not know the being's true name, but Varis did drop that little secret about the founding of the Empire, even before he'd gotten strongarmed into joining the cause of the Scions.
Well, if there was ever a time to be alone with an Ascian, it would be when they were both on relatively equal footing.]
I have--though I'm more personally familiar with your descendants.
[Should he say 'sorry for your loss'? Does the man know, or care, that Emperor Varis has been killed? He's just going to...not.]
Estinien Wyrmblood, formerly the Azure Dragoon of Ishgard. As you seem to be aware.
Well, you are playing the longest game.
Estinien knows his strengths, and they don't lie in deception. He doesn't have the patience for it--his recent stint in Garlemald was the closest he's come, and that was simply keeping ones head down and letting Gaius work with his contacts. That was simple. (Even if being an Elezen in the middle of the empire's capital was itself strange.)]
Fate moves in mysterious ways.
[Ah. That explains the niggling familiarity, the unease, and the fact that this man knows so much about him in one fell swoop. Ascian. He might not know the being's true name, but Varis did drop that little secret about the founding of the Empire, even before he'd gotten strongarmed into joining the cause of the Scions.
Well, if there was ever a time to be alone with an Ascian, it would be when they were both on relatively equal footing.]
I have--though I'm more personally familiar with your descendants.
[Should he say 'sorry for your loss'? Does the man know, or care, that Emperor Varis has been killed? He's just going to...not.]
Estinien Wyrmblood, formerly the Azure Dragoon of Ishgard. As you seem to be aware.