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Fen'Harel and the Halla

"After his millenia long slumber, Fen'Harel awoke in a world that felt foreign to him: the world of old, the veiled world. In trying to stop the Gods he had doomed the world to an existence devoid of magic. Alone and weakened, he couldn't act alone. That is when he met the lone Halla. It was born of this new foreign land that the wolf despised so, but it possessed unique wisdom and patience. It listened intently to what the wolf told him of worlds gone and forgotten and in turn the halla taught the rebel god about this world and the wolf listened. What the wolf couldn't forsee was to grow fond of the halla. In such a desolate and strange world, it was a beacon of hope and open-mindness. It had taught the God patience and understanding for the wretched world he had created. But Fen'Harel couldn't be driven off his path of duty, every new day that passed was a painful reminder of it. His journey was a dangerous, one that he should take alone. And so, one night he tore off his own heart, leaving a hole in its place, and ran without looking back. The halla wouldn't be deterred, ever so patient and understanding. It trailed him and found the rebel god again, so the wolf in despair chewed off one of its leg and fled where it couldn't follow, hoping it wouldn't. For years he walked the world in search of the wisdom he needed to free all magic but when he thought he did, the slumbering Gods imprisoned him as he had done millenia past. With the wolf locked into the very prison he had made for his ennemies, all hope of freedom had been lost for the People. But true to itself as ever, a three-legged halla persevered. In all the years the lone wolf took stalking the earth in search of wisdom, the halla trailed close behind in search of the god, in search of knowledge to help him. When Fen'Harel was finally freed from his prison, and once he freed all magic and felled his foes, the halla stood there, watching. When the wolf finally approached it, it dropped something at his feet without a word. His heart. All those years it had persevered to give back what the god had torn from himself. And he placed back his heart in the hole its absence had created. And that is the story of the Halla that chased the Wolf in the Veiled world and how it appeased the regret and guilt of a god. Da'len, if you ever see a statue of Fen'Harel somewhere, look close. For you might see a lone halla grazing near it. - Keeper Shirallas of the restored Elvhenan, Lathbora viran - 14:23 Sea.

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The Iron Bull: Ever burned down a dormitory full of kids?

Dorian: err, not today.

Bull: Then I wouldn't worry about it.

The Immortal's Plight

Saw the gameplay trailer and knew I had to do something about the angst of it all. So here's Solas and my male lavellan that came to me in a dream not too long ago-

His name is Iveanis and he has some deaeals with spirits that had piqued Solas' interest at first. Having maybe joped Iveanis was a lingering ancient elf, but nope. Just a dude with weird spirit stories. I might get deeper into that with another drawing one day, who knows?

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Found back this template in my folder from back when I did it for BG3

The Terror of Clan Lavellan

Still water runs deep, or so the saying goes. Iveanis Lavellan might have been a tempered and level-headed Inquisitor but this is just one side of him.

In the Free Marches he is first known as the terror of clan Lavellan. For many, he is the combinations of what they fear the most: a dalish, a mage, and a seemingly possessed one. Accounts of a fierce and relentless dalish with glowing green eyes and lighting scars up the arm have made the rounds of neighboring human settlements following the Fifth Blight. Humans considering it as confirmation of their flawed idea of what a Dalish is. But reality is easily twisted, and so the origins of these accounts all stems from humans who had well overstepped the clan's limits.

The Fifth Blight had seen the clan's size reduced, their game having fled north or been hunted by humans. But while the humans hunted on Dalish territory they accused those same of driving the game away or killing it for the twisted wish to see humans famished. Those rumors had grown and made people bold enough to try and attack the clan.

Those efforts soon died out when the story of the "possessed" dalish mage tearing through one of those attacks came to human ears. And so the legend was born to Iveanis' unfortune, but peace was brought to the clan. For now.

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Iveanis Lavellan

Said i'd talk more about it so I made this.

Here is my thirty-ish year old knight-enchanter Solasmancer little guy in detail:

He's what people would call Fade Child, which is a fancy name to describe a baby that is born living but unresponsive. Belief and theories have it that Fade Children's spirit is stuck on the other side of the Fade and hasn't managed to cross over the material world. Usually those children don't live very long, it's a state similar to Uthenera but the dalish have lost the art of it and do not know how to sustain the bodies of their sleeping peers.

For Lavellan, his keeper theorized, that a spirit must've found him in the Fade and helped him cross over, allowing him to wake up. Since that day he has been able to sense spirits lingering, like tingling in his nape, and when the Veil is weak his eyes take on a greener hue.

When Solas meets him at first, he senses a lingering spirit energy on Iveanis and first assume he's an ancient elvhen (it would also explain how Lavellan survived ther conclave and got the anchor) but quickly realizes it isn't the case though. He then assumes the man's posessed but seems too in control to truly be either.

After Adamant, Iveanis tells him the truth or at least what his keeper theorized. Solas is unfamiliar with Fade Children cause it's a modern plight caused by the Veil. Though Solas still manage to explains that the Keeper is right, a spirit helped him cross and he still can sense traces of it. Most likely because a piece of it made it through with Iveanis or Lavellan's young mind was malleable enough to accomodate the two spirits into one. But in any case: a spirit, so well enmeshed in Lavellan's own that it would be impossible to tear them apart because it would be virtually impossible to say where one begins and the other ends (and even if possible, there's a notable risks to send Iveanis' spirit back to the Fade if they removed it. So to be avoided)

Iveanis and Solas both start to bond over their shared (untold) loneliness. Solas cause he's lost everything, Lavellan cause he's far away from his clan (and later loose his clan). Given his start in life, Iveanis is also very interested in the Fade and its spirits and that only helps him deepen his relationship with Solas even more.

He doesn't like to talk about the Fifth Blight too deeply however. It stirs up memories of very hard time for him and his clan that everyone would rather forget. Famine and fear brings the worst out of people. He's also, obviously, scared of getting stuck in the Fade, Adamant was FUN. /s

He rather cold on first glance but in reality, in his mind, actions speaks louder than words. He'd hung the moon for someone rather than waxing poetry on his feelings, but he does talk. He's just more used to being surrounded by year long friends and family that can understand him with just a glance. He's a competent First and a decent hunter, his presence and competence in the clan during the Fifth Blight probably spared some lives.. and arguments.

Used Lanaluuart's template for this.

Here's more of my Inquisitor again, and yes if Duty is repeated as much there might be a reason. *Cough* for those who have seen my introduction to my character it might be linked to his little "secret" about his weird spirit aura *cough*