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Mar 14, 2025 2:34 PM

Ellie and Purples in Thedas

As crowded as the rest of Denerim is, the alienage is even more so. A squalid maze of dilapidated shacks stacked one atop the other, cut through by winding dirt paths far too narrow to be termed streets.

The one open spot is the square in the center, where the vhenadal spreads its branches over a small wooden stage. It's here that the elves conduct their community business, festivals, weddings. Today the crowd that has gathered is a restive one. Their ire is focused on the small group of humans standing in front of the door to one of the buildings facing the square. Humans are a very infrequent sight in any alienage, and these are Tevinter by the cut of their clothes, making them a doubly odd group.

Three of them are wearing robes and carry staves, telltale signs that they are mages. The rest are in armor and bear conventional weapons, arrayed in a semicircle around the mages blocking the crowd from approaching.

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Diaeresis

"Fifty sovereigns to walk away having lost the slaves, my men, and the Archon's pet project?" He shakes his head. "No."

Stalas Aeducan

first-and-final

Kappa

"You're a remarkably inconvenient person," says Stalas. "I don't normally have to pay my enemies not to kill themselves."

Metella Amell

iwillgetyou

Kappa

And then the knife in the magister's hand leaps away.

Diaeresis

He makes an abortive fumble after it, curses, then shoves the elf away from him. He shakes his hands free and raises them, chanting some sort of ritual.

His guards tighten their ranks, two with bows nock arrows and fire up at the group on the platform.

Eliana Fabil

lonesome-choir

Diaeresis

"It's a sacrifice stop him now!"

Stalas Aeducan

first-and-final

Kappa

Stalas gestures subtly at Metella as he and Hesta and Kador jump down from the platform—

Metella Amell

iwillgetyou

Kappa

The golems get in the way of the first volley of arrows, the combined impact of Hesta and Kador shakes the floor badly enough to affect the archers' footing, and Stalas flies three times as far as the other two and lands almost directly on top of Caladrius.

Diaeresis

He stumbles backward, his casting interrupted. He hastily raises a flimsy barrier to buy the two seconds he needs to get a more solid one up-

Stalas Aeducan

first-and-final

Kappa

How does the flimsy barrier handle being punched by a golem? Most things handle that poorly, but you never know.

Diaeresis

It gives way. Saps a considerable portion of the energy of his swing, enough so that when the follow-through connects with the magister's body only the breath is knocked out of him, and not his actual life.