[Shortly after the survey is returned, a short note appears in Allumin's assigned mail cubby in the dining hall. It reads:]
Dear Sir,
Welcome once more to Thedas, to the Gallows, and to Riftwatch et cetera. I thank you for the time you spent responding to and returning my survey. Should you have any questions regarding the nature of Thedas, its arcane arts, the business of Riftwatch, and so on and wish to receive answers from the perspective of a fellow Rifter then I am entirely at your disposal.
As a small additional note, I wonder whether you might seek out an audience with the esteemed Madame de Cedoux. She is Riftwatch's cryptographer and I believe she may have some use for the alphabet (if that is indeed what I have interpreted the second line of characters on your returned survey to have been part of). She is quite interested in all varieties of languages, particularly those which originate from elsewhere as it is a great benefit to create codes out of things which our enemy has no reference whatsoever for translation.
Regarding your anchor: There are no fears whatsoever of anything ill happening because of it. Or at least, the likelihood is very small. There has been only one confirmed case of death by anchor poisoning and that person was unfortunate enough to have the thing in their torso rather than an appendage. (I trust yours is in a hand or some similar limb.) Everything should be perfectly well for the duration of your stay in Thedas. I am quite certain of this.
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