Hissing Wastes

by Helca Maica

Mala Noe Lavellan and Co. are very much not enjoying their trip to the Hissing Wastes. Enter a disaster of a fight with a group of Venatory, a half dead Lavellan, sand in his hair and Dorian is done with this shit, thank-you-very-much. H/c and fluff ensues. M-Lavellan/Dorian (Ch.2 is a small dictionary I compiled for laughs for the sake of my friends that do not know DA lore.)

2. Mini Dictionary

AN- A small silly dictionary of Dragon Age facts in a nutshell. I love this to much to leave it out of my Dragon Age work. Hope you enjoy.
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Amatus= beloved
Ma venhan= my heart

Trade Tongue= Common language
Tevene= language of the Tevinter Imperium
Dorian Pavus= sparkly Tevinter necromancer, fab mustache guy. Human, Altus of the Imperium.
Inquisitor Mala Noe Lavellan= Scarfaced bishounen, collector of trinkets and bad fashion, has a sparkly palm. Elf from tribe Lavellan. Oh, and he has an army. He big shot.
Sera= foul-mouthed city elf. Despises 'elfy' elves.
Vivienne= Fashionable fabness. Enchanter of the imperial court of Orlais.

Tevinter Imperium= Known for their evil, secret, blood magic practices. Still have slavery. Kind of destroyed the world a few hundred years ago. Used to worship Dragons. Think they're big shots. Basically Rome. Sparkly fashion is in season.
Empire of Orlais= France had a child with the Hunger Games Capitol and introduced it to Venetian masks. Fashion Police is probably a thing there.

Val Royeaux= Capital city of Orlais
Minrathous= Capital city of the Tevinter Imperium

Tevinter Magister= members of the magistrate council
Tevinter Altus= high born, privileged mages

Spirit Mark spell= spirit enslavement sigil, spirit of target fights for the caster after death. Tis deadmancy.

The Fade= spirit world. Where magic hails from.
Rifts= tears to the fabric of reality. Spit demons from the fade to the material plane. Green.
Demons= corrupted spirits.

The Mark= sparkly scar, controls and closes Rifts. An excuse for the religion people to join my army. Also green.

The Maker= Aka. God. Andraste (Joan of Arc- I mean of Elves) is his waifu in the sky.
Andraste= Prophet of the Maker. Tevinter burned her dead.
Creators= arrogant elven gods.
Forgotten ones= evil arrogant elven gods.
Dalish= elves of the Dales. The remnants of the Elvhes (old elves, big immortal shots. They all gone nao (or are they…!).)

The Chantry= the religious organization around the Chant of Light, the teachings of Andraste as the Maker's prophet- aka. Church of the Maker. Founded in Orlais. Exists in Tevinter as well, but different.

Lyrium= crystallised magic under the earth. Extracted by dwarves and turned into potions and templar-heroin.
Red Lyrium= corrupted crystallised magic

Templars= Circle guard-dog-Paladins. Can subdue mages. Get high on Lyrium regularly.
Red templars= red lyrium zombie army of destruction.

Circles= glorified prison schools for all mages.

Venatory= evil cult of Tevinter nationalist supremacists.

Spellbinder= Venatori mage. Magicks through a cursed book.
Stalker= Venatori rogue. Dual daggers.
Gladiator= Venator fighter. Mace and tower shield.

Corypheus= monstrous ancient Darkspawn. The Venatori are his groupies.

Darkspawn= Blighted human-monsters.

The Blight= regularly occurring zombie apocalypse. Something to do with corrupted Tevinter Dragon Gods. The result of how Tevinter broke the world. Ask Corypheus.