"Don't leave me alone." For everything that's happened to her, there's a hint of steel beneath the words, just enough for the mage to smile beneath the layers of blood and wired edge from an hour of killing. "Take me home."
Shianni's eyes meet theirs, and something inside of her snaps at last. The smell of iron hits her nose, enough to make a blade out of, and she has to tear her eyes away from the other elf, gasping and clenching her eyes shut.
"Please. I can't stand to look at it anymore. Just..."
There's nowhere for her to look. Corpses litter the floor from one corner to another, their vital ichor dragged out of them with unseen force, left to rot in heaps with their limbs wrapped around their bodies like dying spiders.
"You killed them, didn't you?"
They look down at the shaking woman, nodding, before realizing her eyes were still shut, waiting for their voice.
"Like dogs, Shianni."
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Meowdy. I'm searching for somebody interested in a highly creative telling of the events of Dragon Age: Origins with a focus on the storytelling potential of an Elven PoV; themes of genocide, Dark Fantasy storytelling, mildly horrifying implications and uses of magic, slavery, so on.
It is my intention that our MC is a cutaway from the canonically established origin stories made available in the game, instead being a runaway Tevineter elf-slave who's sought refuge in Ferelden before being wrapped up into the events of the original game, themselves a violently radicalized separatist whose aims are to see the birth of an autonomous society for and by Elves. Their induction into the Wardens being something of a roadblock to them that they're likely conned into at Duncan's behest.
Despite the grim undertones at play here I do enjoy levity and our MC is a gregarious, generally upbeat and happy person in spite of their traumatic past; they're a service dominant, preferring the company of women and prioritizing their needs and pleasure in bed.
Lore authenticity isn't very important to me. I value telling a good story over being hogtied to canon.
Shianni's eyes meet theirs, and something inside of her snaps at last. The smell of iron hits her nose, enough to make a blade out of, and she has to tear her eyes away from the other elf, gasping and clenching her eyes shut.
"Please. I can't stand to look at it anymore. Just..."
There's nowhere for her to look. Corpses litter the floor from one corner to another, their vital ichor dragged out of them with unseen force, left to rot in heaps with their limbs wrapped around their bodies like dying spiders.
"You killed them, didn't you?"
They look down at the shaking woman, nodding, before realizing her eyes were still shut, waiting for their voice.
"Like dogs, Shianni."
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Meowdy. I'm searching for somebody interested in a highly creative telling of the events of Dragon Age: Origins with a focus on the storytelling potential of an Elven PoV; themes of genocide, Dark Fantasy storytelling, mildly horrifying implications and uses of magic, slavery, so on.
It is my intention that our MC is a cutaway from the canonically established origin stories made available in the game, instead being a runaway Tevineter elf-slave who's sought refuge in Ferelden before being wrapped up into the events of the original game, themselves a violently radicalized separatist whose aims are to see the birth of an autonomous society for and by Elves. Their induction into the Wardens being something of a roadblock to them that they're likely conned into at Duncan's behest.
Despite the grim undertones at play here I do enjoy levity and our MC is a gregarious, generally upbeat and happy person in spite of their traumatic past; they're a service dominant, preferring the company of women and prioritizing their needs and pleasure in bed.
Lore authenticity isn't very important to me. I value telling a good story over being hogtied to canon.