Main World State: Altharistyrsa a.k.a very messy āyes I like to ignore canonā world state
ā¢ Kala Mahariel | Two-handed Warrior | Romanced Leliana in DAO | Anora is queen, Alistair stays a warden | Currently in Urthemielās body and magically bound to Morrigan (ritual gone wrong)
ā¢ Ren Hawke | Force Mage | Rivalmanced Isabela | Sided with mages | Red!Hawke who basically hates everyone yay
ā¢ Altharis Lavellan | Rogue (both double daggers and bow. Sheās bad at both) & Fire Mage | Weird relationship with Leliana | Exiled from Clan Lavellan | Briala rules | Cassandra is both the Inquisitor and the Divine
Both Altharis and the world state in general has the same tag, since the world state name is the same and itās all about her anyway (well, kind of).
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(Planned) Second World State:
Rogue double daggers Brosca or Tabris, romance Morrigan. // rogue hawke rivalmance Merrill // either fem cadash who romances cassandra or adaar dorimancer.
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Mass Effect OCs
ā¢ (Planned canon Femshep, havent finished the game) Hans Shepard | Paragon | Vanguard | Earthborn sole survivor | romanced Ashley in me1, then Miranda in me2 - forever. Ashley survives to get her heart broken yay (love you ash).
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kala on my mind again aughh my girl who has a childlike curiosity and excitement and whimsy, picked up a big sword at 10 years old and trained to swing it to impress merrill who absolutely did not get it was for her,, ended up with a scar bc ofc it was too big for her. an only child who immediately got attached to tamlen and so eager to call him brother and treats him as one. whose coping mechanism to her parentsā death was to make everyone around her laugh so they think sheās not hurting. who vaguely remembers encountering a cub at 5 years old, which turned into an older girl crying about a mirror. who likes pretty dresses and shiny armors, and jewelries, who twirls her hair and blushes and giggles when the weird pretty girl said she likes her hair
and now sheās in the body of an archdemon she vowed to defeat. But still the whimsy stays. the joy of love and living persist
[stands in front of the mic covered in blood] i love divorce does anyone else love divorce i will always love exploring the dynamics between two women with broken vows [A dragon roars in agreement from a distance] Thank you, Kala Mahariel. youāre a fucking real one
(Voice of a person whoās going crazy reading His Majestyās Dragon) I just think that, since my Mahariel, Kala, was bound into the body of Urthemiel, due to the failed ritualā her relationship with Morrigan would be akin to Laurence and Temeraire's. Kala and Morri are now bound by magic, in which if Kala is hurt Morrigan is also hurt and vice versa, and that their minds have melded, and that if Morrigan calls for Kala, Kala would ascend from the Deep Roads and fly to Morriganās side, perhaps at an instant (I have not yet decided how that works). But regardless of the weird things that come with it, like how Morrigan canāt even begin to separate Kalaās memories of her time with Leliana from her own, the most important thing is they are on equal grounds. They are partners. Not romantic or platonic soulmate but a secret, undiscovered thing.
Anyway. Badly written scene between Morrigan and Kala.
āIt could be done,ā Morrigan says, her back turned towards Kala.
If a dragon could frown, Kala would display such an expression now. āWhat could be done?ā
āI suppose I could... Transfer this ābondā you and I have to Leliana, should you want to.ā Morrigan says it the way she always says things: a matter-of-fact statement of pure observation. āWe may need a few things, butāā
āAnother ritual?ā Kala lets out an air through her nose, both in disbelief and amusement. āWoman, you are out of your mind.ā
āThen what else do you wish me to do, beast?ā
Kala wishes she knew, in her present form, how to shrug. She always did love the gesture, because often she did not know many things. But for now, she sits on the ground with her long tail curling on her side, and lifts one of her wings and forearms.
āI could be bound to worse people than my favorite mage.ā The mage in question does not say a thing, but even in the dark Kala can see a faint blush creeping onto her cheeks. She does eventually accept the offer for shelter, seating herself beside the dragon, and burrow herself onto her side.
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can i hear more about the altharistyrsa worldstate? hm idk maybe some tidbit about that comes to your mind first? i find it very intriguing
Hi vosqui thank youu sm for asking i always jump up and down when i talk about this. Also im so sorry you asked for tidbits but I ended up with. This. thereās just a lot that I wasnāt sure how to be brief djkalfkdka. anyway
This world state was born from two things: 1) My inability to play vg because I dont have a pc good enough to play it (though even if I did not sure itād be my priority after hearing all the criticisms) 2) my frustrations that as an inquisitior, especially non humans, you canāt be more vehemently against being a leader / religious figure.
I am also a fan of creating female characters that are just weirdo pathetic lesbians with so much guilt that she blames herself for every little bad thing that happens. Altharis is that, basically.
(a lot that happens in this world state is just messy drafts I put in one big masterdoc. Lots of things I want to change, lots are only concepts. I also have like a 13k+ words fic of when they first got to Skyhold thatās been abandoned unfortunately LOL. So im sorry in advance for the amount of vagueness)
Anyway, so when they got to Skyhold, when they offered that stupid sword for her to raise, this happened:
In here Altha was still very much a pessimist who didnāt want to lead all these people to death. she put up this idgaf front that made her act like a jerk sometimes. the thing is, this was also after In Hushed Whispers, where she met Leliana in the future who hated her very much. Long story short Altharis naturally added that to her list of guilt. (An important small detail: she ended up conscripting the mages bc of future Leliana saying āno one should have this powerā)
This event also led her to believe that magic is inherently evil and it makes her more ashamed of her power. Especially after she accidentally killed Keeper Deshanna with itā which is the reason why she was exiled from clan Lavellan.
Sheās a very late bloomer, when this happened she was twenty four, most definitely because her magic is very linked to her negative emotions (mostly anger and despair). She and Deshanna had a complicated relationship which I would not go into details (Iād make a separate post about that because Iād need to put some TWs) and last they argued, Altharis just snapped and her magic just... blew up, literally.
So, after a lot of arguments and discussions, Altharis stayed as Herald of Andraste (couldnt help what people called her) while Cassandra slowly was becoming seen as a leader. Eventually she begrudgingly took the title, which eventually gained her much favor to become the next divine, while Altharis became kinda just one of the soldiers.
Ok this has gotten too long so Iām just gonna list bullet points for more important things to know about the world state:
ā¢ Charter is very important in here, arguably even more so than Morrigan.
ā¢ Most of the big problems in this world state do come from Cassandra being both the Inquisitor and the Divine. She did some very fucked up things.
ā¢ Cassandra and Josephine developed a relationship during DAI which would lead to a secret marriage when Cass is Divine. Their relationship is very much unhealthy.
ā¢ Kala Mahariel was Lelianaās wife in DAO but everyone thought she died. Until Morrigan summoned a fucking dragon thats suspiciously shaped like an archdemon Kala defeated. and said dragon introduced herself as. Kala.
ā¢ Altharis and Leliana will never have a defined relationship but they have this weird undying loyalty to each other that nobody can explain. Not even me. Though there are some things that happened pre-Inquisition (during DAO... In the Temple of Sacred Ashes...) that possibly make them spiritually connected. Iāll make a long post about that in the future ^_^
ā¢ Divine Cass era focuses a lot on the complex relationships/friendships between Josie, Cass, Viv, Morrigan, Leli, Altha, Charter, and maybe Meredith (Iād just planned adding Meredith recently so not much about it yet)
ā¢ Since VG doesnāt happen, Iām still figuring out how to deal with that properly. I really do want elven gods to be actual gods, though, but Iāll need some time to think about how to write that
been thinking about cassandra and josephine in my altharistyrsa world and got injured
'i need you by my side, josephine. as divine, my first command would be to make you my ambassador. youāll be given your own wing in the grand cathedral. anything you need, i will give you.ā
oh and she was absolutely being serious. every josephineās needs was met. every single one but her love.
it started with small refusals; to eat dinner together, to take a stroll in the garden. the morning devotions were the only constant routine they took together. it became a lot worse when the third murder in the streets of orlais happened.
as the divineās ambassador, i think josephineās work was pretty much the same- contacting nobles for help with spreading words when they needed to, arranging meetings, and by Vivienne's order and advice, throwing fancy balls. while she was def happy with her position and work, kept being busy, she started to realize that vivienneās visits to her chambers started to surpass cassandraās, and josie feared vivienne was doing that out of pity (she really was not)
and vivienne was really great as the left hand, but josie could see it was starting to take a toll on her friend. it must be tiring to wear so many faces. she didnt even realize that Viv had started wearing one around her too. her smile was good, practiced, but josie took notice of these things- especially on her loved ones. so one evening she asked, subtly, what sort of work has cassandra put her to. Vivienne avoided answering so smoothly Josephine barely caught on.
it was the murders that gave her an idea to track Leliana down. with the unrest among the people of Orlais,both nobles and commoners, they needed all the help they can get. there are some places that even the best of Vivienneās agents couldnāt reach. meanwhile, while leliana had been out of the public eye for almost two years, she knew her agents were still everywhere.
she knew she couldnt track leliana down exactly.. and even if she did she doubt leli would just abandon her mission and come back. So she tracked down her mission instead. Josie took a shot in the dark and reached out to her people at home and found there was an underground painter that went by saāvunin. it wasnt long after she found Leliana in the halls leading to her chambers at dawn.
so this happened. basically.
and now i realize maybeeee i shouldve talked about how josie and cassā relationship developed first. got too excited about post- DAI relationshipsš eh. Next post
