Jarl Radwulf Spurvhauke, Gudslott Hall, Late Afternoon (Middas)
By the time the Argonian had reached the Jarl, he was back seated upon his throne, attention diverted to the pathetically broken raven languishing on one arm of the seat. The tall Jarl looked up at Itan-Ru with his usual, sorrowful eyes, and made of the newcomer his customary anolysis. A young Argonian, or so the Jarl assumed. Radwulf had met scare few Argonians in his time both in Anvil and the Legion. Since Argonia's secession from the Empire, Argonians were more a rarity outside Black Marsh. One or two canny old saxheel from the docks of Anvil sprung to mind, and this lizard's scales seemed far smoother and less weathered than their's. So Jarl Spurvhauke would go with the assumption of youth - the lizard's unsure demeanour supported that theory well enough. Jarl Radwulf's unfamiliarity with Itan-Ru's race limited his scope for anolysis, his movements and way of holding himself alien enough to the Nord. Yet within moments of the lizard opening his maw the Jarl recognised this one was not a native of Argonia. If Radwulf was not mistaken, the inflection on this humble Argonian's voice was far more familiar. Radwulf Spurvhauke could bet his hold that Itan-Ru hailed from the same city as his dear, departed wife: Riften. And a priest of Mara, no less.
Jarl Radwulf lent in, dark eyes looking up past his heavy brow, lips not quite able to smile, but showing at least an absence of the normal disdain that painted them.
"A chaplain from the Mother-Cult, in our humble hold. I am thankful" said the Jarl in his dark, sonorous voice, almost sounding like he meant it. Yet he had doubts. "Under whose tutorship did you apprentice, if I may ask?" queried the Jarl, brows raised. The Jarl of Valton had been married in the Temple of Mara, and to this day was on good terms with all the clergy there. A simple probing question to this young Argonian's supposed past should dismiss the nagging concern he was no more than a Ratway ruffian. Jarl Radwulf had never spent enough time in Riften to tell the one accent from the other.
Before the Argonian had time to answer, however, the hold's battle-grizzled Guard Captain burst through the door, with three captured bandits, all looking the worse for the fight. Jarl Radwulf turned pitiless to this interruption, displeased to have both his interrogation of a possible miscreant, (or, alternatively) his meeting with a Priest of Mara so brusquely violated. The Jarl pursed his lips and glanced between his Guard Captain's bounty.
"Captain. You would do well to ask an audience before bringing such filth to my home." said the Jarl darkly, setting a humourless gaze on the Dunmer. "Take these animals out of my court and throw them in the cells, which I remind you are your jurisdiction. We shall speak more on this later." warned the Jarl, barely able to keep his voice from raising; the upkeep of decorum before a defeated enemy the only thing stopping the Jarl from admonishing Daikanos on the spot.