#sunoflightning

One is a Rivaini elf-blooded blood mage w/ seer training (her name is Asha) and the other is a spirit healer like Anders (his name is Arles). They were close friends w/ Anders and Karl both. Long story short, they both got sent to the Aeonar for stuff they did while trying to help Anders escape from solitary. They managed to escape with the help of Fade spirits--briefly: Asha merged with a spirit of valor, Arles with a spirit of compassion--and ended up going to Kirkwall (for a couple reasons-- the thin Veil and Karl). They followed Karl & the templars to the Chantry in Act 1 and met up unexpectedly with Anders--Karl still dies by Anders’ hand in this AU, so that’s a pretty tragic thing bc like...part of the story is that Asha and Arles learned about the cure for Tranquility at the Aeonar, but they were too late to save Karl. (Mok & I are just a little bit awful.)

Anyway, the good thing is that this AU is more of an uphill battle rather than canon DA2′s downward spiral, because now Anders has more support (two of his closest friends, who know him and his past well) and they’re each merged with a spirit, too, so Anders and Justice aren’t alone. Plus, Asha has some seer training so she actually has some insight re:spirit possession that can help. So that changes a lot, because now we have two spirit healers to help in the clinic, plus Asha and Velanna (who provides an elven perspective for Kirkwall’s mage resistance), and all of them can help out w/ the Mage Underground and stuff. So Anders is less isolated altogether. Mok and I are probably gonna change a lot of Act 3 and maybe Act 2 as well. Ah, did I mention we have four Hawkes? Marian & Alexis are the older twins, and Bethany & Carver both survive Lothering. And we have a mage child character who shows up later too because Mok and I are both weak for DA characters raising kids.

We don’t have a sideblog for this AU though bc we’re still fleshing it out and idk how much interest people on Tumblr have in it bc we haven’t really talked about it much on here yet?? But if people have an interest in it then maybe...?