Beyond Two Souls
Pre–Inquisition. Mahanon was banned from his clan for being an abomination and he has the mark on his face to prove it. Thirty years later, he travels alone all over Thedas, unexpectedly meeting the people he would soon meet again in the months.
Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Age
Prologue
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Elgar watched, torn of what to do in this situation. He had done what the little one had asked him to do. Kill the slavers that had killed many of his kin, including his own parents.
So why?
Why was Keeper of the Lavellan clan yelling at the 9–year–old Mahanon?
Mahanon backed up, frightened and confused. "Keeper?"
The older male glowered at him as his first tried to stop him. She pleaded to him, "Keeper, please! He is only a child!"
"Deshanna, are you blind?! This child has allowed a demon to live within him. He cannot live!"
Elgar was about to intervene. No. They will not harm the child.
Deshanna then stood between him and Mahanon, who had now hid behind her. "You cannot kill him, Keeper! Please, I beg of you… He's just... a child still. He is your brother's son––"
"I know that!" The Keeper snarled then he looked down at Mahanon and he too was torn.
However, the Keeper moved forward and he grabbed his daughter, Deshanna, and pulled her away. He went over to Mahanon who was now trapped against a wall. "I will not kill you, Da'len… but you will live in exile. You will live with this. Mark."
The Keeper then took out a dagger and cut himself, getting blood on his hand. Mahanon was confused before suddenly the Keeper placed his bloody hand on his forehead and started chanting.
Mahanon began crying out in pain, trying to get away from the deranged Keeper.
Elgar the Spirit could not stand in the sidelines any longer as he made his presence known. The ground began to shake and the trees began to bend. The rest of the elves noticed this as they backed away, but still it was not enough to deter the Keeper.
The strange Spirit kept at it, and the winds began to swirl around them. Then the rock wall behind Mahanon started to crack, and Elgar could not take it no longer.
LET. HIM. GO!
The rock wall burst out from above Mahanon's head and a huge rock flew, hitting the Keeper to the head. The Keeper fell to the ground, unmoving. Blood trailed down from his skull.
Mahanon fell to the ground, gripping the right side of his face. He looked up and there was a red marked tattoo that stretch from his forehead, crossing over his right eye vertically and ending underneath the cheek bone.
The Dalish boy got up quickly, looking at the unconscious keeper and then back up at the horrified faces of his people, including Deshanna's.
Run.
"…D–Did you… Did you all see that?!"
Run!
"Keeper Zatrand!"
"That boy is a monster!"
Do you hear me boy?! RUN!
Without a choice, Mahanon started running, ignoring Deshanna's calls. He kept running and running, and he never looked back.
The mark on his face would be known to all Dalish Clans…
That this child?
He is cursed.
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Author's Notes
As you might have guessed it, this fanfic was inspired by the video game Beyond Two Souls, but it will be a little different so that it could fit in the Dragon Age universe.
Elgar is, of course, the spirit, and yes I know that Elgar means spirit. No, he's not the dead twin brother of Mahanon.
More will be revealed…sometime in the future.