Majesty,

I am very sorry to have to disappoint you, my lady, but next to nothing could be recovered from the Lowtown Museum and the Templars have been vague as to what exactly happened that caused the destruction.

May I once again thank you for your magnificent generosity in allowing us to keep Lady Hawke's journals in the University's library. To show our boundless gratitude, I have had a package delivered with this letter. Within it, we have enclosed reprinted copies of the journals for your personal library. I have bound and edited the journals myself, I hope you trust me enough to feel confident I edited them to make them easier to read while still preserving Hawke's unique style. As I'm sure you know, I was very fond of her myself and we corresponded regularly after her visit here. Many of the theories and such that you will find within the journals I discussed with her myself.

Most of them are from her early days at Kirkwall and the years surrounding the opening of the museum. I regret, again, to inform you that if she kept a journal the final year leading up to the destruction of Kirkwall's Chantry and her flight from Kirkwall not long after, we have been unable to find it.

Most of the editing I did was simply a bit of cleaning up. As you noted, Hawke tended to use them for purely academic purposes rather than personal ones, though her personal entries and notes are still there. Mostly, I simply took out a lot of the extensive mathematics that tended to take up pages and her notes on translation attempts. The most relevant ones I kept alongside whatever it was she was trying to figure out at the time. Should you wish to see them in their entirety, of course, the originals are always open for your perusal.

I'm afraid you'll find some odd discrepancies here and there. Some of these journals were delivered to us by Master Haze, who took them when he left Kirkwall, and the rest were sent to us anonymously (my guess is Varric Tethras, personally). In both cases, several pages had been torn out of the journals and Haze (who I vouch for, your Majesty, he wouldn't lie about this) has informed me that he doesn't know who tore them out.

Regarding what is missing:

1- As you know, Hawke made some highly controversial points and examples referring to her belief that everyone has at least a small measure of magical talent whether they use it consciously or unconsciously. I spoke with her on the subject extensively and I know for a fact she and her sister worked together observing the citizens of Kirkwall over the years. However, beyond a few comments, there is nothing in the journals about her studies. It is my belief that most, if not all, of the pages torn out, had something to do with this subject.

2- Haze remembers reading several of her entries regarding Sandal Feddic. She had several notes about Sandal's talent as well as things he said over the years, but Haze mentioned she was very closed mouthed about talking about him out loud, especially in the later years. His 'prophecy' is one of the things left about him in the journals. Since the Templars showing an inordinate amount of interest in Sandal was one of the reasons they left Kirkwall, I'm relatively certain that Hawke herself tore these out in order to protect him.

3- I have included many of her letters to various scholars including several of our letters back and forth. However, all her letters to the dwarven archeologist Silandry "Sil" Marath, who was a close friend of Hawke's, are gone. All of them. Again, I think Hawke either destroyed them or took them with her to prevent them from being used against Serrah Marath, especially after the Chantry denounced her.

Despite the loss of some of her more infamous work, these journals have the core of Hawke's thoughts and methods, as well as some personal insights she revealed little of out loud to even her friends. My thanks again for your generosity, my lady.

Your Faithful Servant,

Priam Delcor, Dean of Students