Brin (Cortex Collection)

**Brin** lists all cortex entries on Sentinel Brin, a friend of the Freelancer.

## Collection Details

A total of **20** cortex entries make reference to Brin.

The following Cortex Entries tell about Ryssa Brin, her work, achievements, interests, mails and more!

## A SIMPLE JOB

*See Cortex Entry: A SIMPLE JOB for More Details*

Twice the Scars had targeted Arcanists. Twice they had merged Arcanist tech with Shaper relics. This could not be a coincidence.

In search of answers, Arcanists were sent to study a Scar-modified relic with the Freelancer sent to protect them. When Scars attacked, the Freelancer defended the Arcanists and silenced the now-volatile relic. It became clear the Scars were pursuing relics that displayed powers of creation and transmutation. While their larger plan was unknown, Brin and the Freelancer had secured a lead.

## Agent Ryssa Brin (1)

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Ryssa Brin is a driven Sentinel who was promoted at a young age after taking emergency leadership of the fort's defenses during a Scar attack that killed her commanding officer. Brin has been singularly focused on her job since she was a teenager—for which the other parts of her life have suffered, even if she doesn't see it that way.

## Agent Ryssa Brin (2)

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Sentinel Brin,

Your javelin's core-case belonged to your mum? You should have said so! I'll keep an eye that it's humming smooth, but otherwise leave it as is. Javelins have unique hearts—just like their pilots—and this one's yours.

Besides I want my favorite Sentinel happy.

— Zoe, Fort mechanic

## Agent Ryssa Brin (3)

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Sentinel Barr,

Having reviewed the events, it's evident that the call was Brin's to make. You were not present. Had action not been taken, we would be arranging condolences for those families.

I don't care about "manners." Sentinel Brin is a diligent soldier. It would benefit you to see past her youth to what she's already done with it.

— Vule

## Agent Ryssa Brin (4)

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We were fine. We were through. The Scars were in retreat. We didn't even know the relic was there. It went volatile. Elementals spilling all over the place. I'd rather face a dozen Scars than an unstable Shaper relic. Give me something I can outthink or outshoot instead of a reality-warping death-machine.

— Sentinel Brin, Sentinel report

## Agent Ryssa Brin (5)

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"Yes, we differ in tactics, organization, and some would say, responsibility. Plus, chain of command. But protecting people? That's worth working together."

— Report on Sentinel-Freelancer collaboration by Sentinel Brin

## CAUTIOUS COOPERATION

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Encouraged by their earlier success, Sentinel Brin once again requested the Freelancer's aid. The task seemed simple—repair a series of alert beacons—but appearances are deceiving. The final beacon sent out an alert that led the Freelancer to a host of Scars. Once again, the Scars had combined an array of Arcanist machinery with relics that now spat forth deadly elementals. Yet, the Freelancer was triumphant and gained a little more respect from Brin.

## ENEMY MINE

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Admitting fault is never easy. Overeager, Sentinel Brin sent Sentinels after the Scars—and they had failed to return. Fearing the worst, she turned to the Freelancer for help.

The Freelancer tracked the missing Sentinels to a Scar-filled cave. Tragically, it was too late for most of the Sentinels. One, still alive, painted a grim picture: his comrades had perished silencing a Shaper relic the Scars could not control. Yet a glimmer of hope remained for one last missing Sentinel. While unaccounted for, he might yet live... if the Scars had taken him.

## Faye Navine (2)

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You think the Sentinels here are closed off, boring, and insular? You should meet the ones in Antium. if Brin's sharing the Sentinels' hardest missions with a Freelancer, she probably trusts their chances of coming back are high. It's a compliment, from a certain angle.

— Faye on Sentinel contracts

## Festive: Founding of Fort Tarsis (Challenges)

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Freelancers celebrate the anniversary of Fort Tarsis' foundation the only way they can: by continuing the Legion of Dawn's work.

Participate in this festive event by gaining reputation with each faction and completing contracts.

## Icetide Wishes from the High Road

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Congratulations! Or... happy Icetide? Or both, I guess. Commander Vule said we had to write holiday wishes down, so here goes: I wish for better lancer-order cooperation in the new year. Thank you for reading, and have a great holiday.

— Sentinel  Ryssa Brin

## Mail: A Thank You Letter

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I wasn't sure if I should send this. I wanted to thank you for what you've done so far. This Freelancer-Sentinel collaboration has been interesting. But also good.

It's like my plants. They need proper care and attention to survive. Sometimes they grow in weird ways. With your help, I know I am doing my best for people. Sometimes people are more important than plants.
That was a joke. Thank you.

— Sentinel Brin

## Mail: This isn’t a Cry for Help

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I need help, and I haven't been able to pry Matti and Erryl away from Faye's collection of Dawnguard tapes long enough to get a coherent word out of either one.

So you're it.

Lucky you.

Hypothetically, someone—let's call him "Shmatthias"—had too much to drink one night and decided to write Aruna's name in bioluminescent bryophyta across half the buildings in Fort Tarsis in such a way that it could only be read from her apartment window.

To accomplish this task, drunk idiot Shmatthias may or may not have broken into the labs of several other Arcanists in the Fort to obtain said glowy moss, and then, when that didn't turn out to be enough to finish the last letter, also snuck into Sentinel Brin's office and stole all of hers.

If something this foolish had happened, hypothetically, could you hypothetically smooth things over with Brin before she conducts a hypothetical investigation?

Admitting to nothing,

Sumner

## Mail: Word from Cal Andrin's Mother

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Freelancer,

I've received word from Cal Andrin's mother that she wanted passed along to you. I suspect she doesn't trust post to reach the enclave in an organized manner. I can see her reasoning.
While her praise is somewhat exuberant, I can't say it's not warranted.

**—Brin**

Freelancer,

What a gift and treasure you are! I barely know what to say. Every parent with a child in the Sentinels fears the day they'll get *that* letter. No matter how proud you are of them, no matter how cautious and talented you know them to be, you can't help it.

I thought my beautiful Cal was lost, but you... I pray I never get that letter. One day I might. But for today, I can't thank you enough for bringing my son home.

Sincerely,

—Lys Andrin

## ONE OF US

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Though the Doomsday relic was silenced, Brin learned the Scars and the Dominion still eyed it greedily. Fearing they'd somehow reactivate it, Brin asked the Freelancer to secure the relic. This time, she and the two Sentinels the Freelancer rescued would join the fight.

The Freelancer, Brin, and her Sentinels fought together against waves of Scars and Dominion soldiers. The heroes were unstoppable. They won the day and secured the relic for safe transport. Afterward, Brin, the Freelancer, and the Sentinels met in Fort Tarsis to celebrate their victory and toast the fallen. Brin admitted the Freelancer was an adept warrior... and a better friend.

## PREVENTATIVE PRECAUTIONS

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As the Scars near Fort Tarsis became more aggressive, the clever Sentinel Ryssa Brin realized she needed to look outside her own ranks for aid, even if it tested her conversational skills.

Though unsanctioned by her superiors, Brin contracted the Freelancer. The Freelancer discovered the Scars were stealing Arcanist equipment and melding it with a Shaper relic. Once active, the relic produced a horrific swarm of skorpions. Undaunted, the Freelancer defeated the creatures and silenced the relic. Though not won over entirely by the Freelancer, Brin could not argue with the results.

## RESEARCH AND RESCUE

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Brin mourned her comrades, yet didn't lose hope. As a favor, not a contract, the Freelancer offered to find the last Sentinel and bring him home.

The Freelancer rescued the Sentinel from a den filled with Scars. The grateful Sentinel revealed that an Escari, those rulers of Scars, had dark plans for humanity. The Freelancer found and goaded the Escari into revealing its goal: modifying a Shaper relic to summon a monster capable of crushing Fort Tarsis. The Freelancer defeated the Escari, but the Doomsday relic would need to be found... and quickly.

## Scar Mine (1)

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"Scars are much simpler to deal with than people assume. You can't kill a Scar. It just bursts into a million little bugs that make up a new Scar. Instead, you must find their leader, an Escari or a Luminary, and kill it. The Scar swarm won't instantly disband, but they will become unfocused and disorganized. Then you just have to mop them up."

—Sentinel Brin

## Sentinel-Freelancer Relations (1)

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Very happy Sentinels and Freelancers are working together. Sentinel Brin showed great vision and daring to encourage this.

Walls do not make us strong, people do. The more we have at our side—no matter who they report to—the better.

— Freelancer Yarrow

## Sentinel-Freelancer Relations (2)

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Given their reputation and the state of their order, reticence in working with the Freelancers was understandable—but should not be beyond reconsideration. Yes, we differ in tactics, organization, and some would say, responsibility. Plus—chain of command. But protecting people? That's worth working together.

— Sentinel Brin, Sentinel report