In light of information recently acquired from the Tevinter Imperium, courtesy of our dear Lord Pavus, it would appear that we will need to make some adjustments to the family history. I have enclosed copies of the source documents with this letter, naturally, and before you ask, I have had it all verified. It is genuine (obviously, else it would all be hearsay and I wouldn't bother you about it.)
That the founding member of our House traveled to Ostwick with the Anderfels Royal Army is not in dispute – the records on that particular point are clear. What we must now acknowledge is that the line did not originate in the Anderfels, but the Imperium.
Sometime in the late Towers Age, a member of the Pavus family, one Octavia Pavus, is recorded as marrying a member of the Laetan class (that's a mage born to non-mages, or a descendant of the same) by the name of Corentin Trevelyan. The Pavus family records only list three issue from that marriage, but nosing through records of the era, we found a handful of mentions of something scandalous about the union, and the resultant offspring. It has taken some cross-referencing to confirm, but from what we have been able to gather, there was a fourth child, a son, our own Heinrich Trevelyan.
In retrospect, perhaps we should have been more curious about how a complete unknown came to be a page in the Royal Household of the Anderfels, or why we could find no records of his place of birth, or family. Considering the vast wealth of the Pavus family, it is not out of the question that a mixture of bribery and diplomacy might have been used to ensure a happy future for their son.
Pity those who stayed in Tevinter did not share that view.
- Excerpt from a letter written by Lord Inquisitor Chauncey Trevelyan to his sister, Revered Mother Evelyn, 9:43 Dragon
Notes: So, I maybe took a throwaway line from Dorian about knowing of a Trevelyan in his family line, and the possibility that they founded the branch in Ostwick and ran like mad with it.