A mermaid, ( in the thoughtful tone of someone considering the rest of what he's said, still, answering the last first. ) The family crest; she holds a sword in her right hand and a harp in her left. My grandparents selected it, when the title became a Vauquelin one; I have a locket that bears it.

So the illness hasn't spread out of Kirkwall. All the known rifters

( troubling thought there might be unknown rifters, but can't be entirely discounted )

are here, but not all the Templars are. All of the Templars in the Gallows have it, but we haven't any cases of former Templars in Kirkwall not attached to the Inquisition, and none outside of Kirkwall, so there is something that they, specifically, have in common here, something that they were all exposed to, through...obviously the rifter with the blood plague, but they didn't all see him, did they?