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Dalish Elves- Nomadic Elves, keepers and preservers of the knowledge of the ancient kingdoms: The Dales and Elvhenan. The clans wish to preserve the sacred kingdoms that the elves use to hold and wish to reclaim their former glory. Many clans are differnent due to circumstances such as some despising humans while others trade with them. The Sabrae clan is known to trade with humans but do have a distrust. But one of their numbers has a deep hatred for humans and this is his story.
Within the Brecilian Forest, 3 humans are running away and trying to escape the forest. "Hurry, hurry! We need to we need to get out of here." One of them says with fright. However, an arrow hits one of their foot and falls to the ground with his companions picking him up.
"Dont move Shemlen or you will die." They look to see 2 Dalish elves in Dalish leather armor and pointing bow and arrows straight at them.
"You are near our clan's camp. Properly Bandits, Mahariel.(1)" One of Dalish says to the other, Mahariel is a male Dalish with the markings in devotion to Ghilan'nain, Goddess of the Animals. He has dark brown hair with white-blond streaks with greyish eyes. He holds a bow but he has a greatsword which he prefers over the bow.
"Well Tamlen, perhaps they have come for our Halla and women so lets just shoot them and go back to the clan." Says the Dalish with a look that says he wants to kill them as he is about to loose his arrow when one of them says with a fright.
"W-wait please! We don't want any of that. We ran from a cave we were exploring!" One of the scared humans says while the other uninjured one continues:
"Yes yes, we were attacked by a monster but we outrun it!" He says as he puts pressure on his injured companion's foot.
"How do we know you are not lying?" Asks Tamlen as he is still looks at them with suspicion.
"Here, we found this in the ruins." One of them says as he gives Tamlen a relic with him surprised.
"Mahariel, this is an anicent elven for sure. We should check it out but what should we do with the shems?" Mahariel looks at them, then shoots a arrow straight to the human's head and unsheathes his greatsword to cut off his head. Leaving the shocked injured human alive.
"Crawl away, Shem and maybe you'll live." The Dalish says without mercy. The injured human crawls away with fear. This doesn't shock Tamlen as he knows Mahariel hates humans but stills has a hard time with his cruelity but he does show a love for their culture and other Dalish.
The 2 goes to the Elven Ruins and have killed a few wolves and spiders. They keep walking but spots some skeletons that start to animate and attack them. While Tamlen hits them with his bow and arrows, Mahariel shatters them thanks to the force of his greatsword. They keep walking as they begin to talk.
"By the way Mahariel, are you excited that we are about to discover our ancient history?" Tamlen asks with happiness. Meanwhile, The Dalish looks at his companion and chuckles a bit.
"Its great that we will finally get a ancient relic, maybe its Arlathan."
Tamlen- "Yeah now we will have songs written about us and our deeds with this."
Mahariel- "We should however be careful, something is definitely at the end of this cave."
Tamlen- "Im surprised that you came with me on my patrol is there a reason?" Mahariel begins to sweat as he remember his reason he wanted to get away from the camp for awhile.
But before he can answer his friend, they spot a mirror in the end of the ruins. However, they hear growls and spot a deranged looking bear and charges at the 2 with them dodging before getting hit. The Dalish Elf uses his greatsword to cut the bear however it uses its claws to hit him in the arm which causes him to lose his sword as it slides to the ground. It charges again but an arrow to the eye, causes the bear to roar in pain.
"Go Lethallin(1), I'll hold the bear off while you grab your sword!" His friend shouts as he fire another arrow but the beast rolls to dodge the arrow. He runs to his sword as the bear gets up and moves to attack its new focus: The bow-user. Said user starts to run, making sure that he moves away from his childhood friend as the bear closes on him. The Dalish Warrior grabs his sword, takes a stamina potion, runs to the side of the bear as it focuses on his friend and with a large vertical strike, he decapitates the bear. He looks at his friend but notices that Tamlen is staring at the mirror.
"This most be a Eluvian, the thing Master Paivel use to talk to us about when we were children." Mahariel is shock as he to looks it and realises that his best friend is correct. An Eluvian is a mirror that was use to communicate and travel parts of Arlathan- The first Elven Kingdom, due to they had no roads to travel. Tamlen begins walking to the Eluvian, wishing to touch it.
"I can hear voices within it."
"Stop Tamlen! We shouldn't touch it!" But he was to late and once Tamlen touch the mirror, it cause a explosion that knock Mahariel out. Before he loses conscious, he sees 2 humans look at him.
"Don't worry, we are here to help." The older one says while he blacks out.
(3 days later, Sabrae Camp)
Mahariel begins to regain consciousness and he spots the Keeper of the clan: Marethari, talking with Duncan of the Grey Wardens. "Have no fear old friend, Sokka is heading to the mirror while Tenebris will stay here in case the Darkspawn attack plus it seems he wants to talk with his brother but he went with the others." He instantly grabs his greatsword and strikes the human. Duncan moves out of the way but before he can strike again, vines come out of the ground and hold him down.
"Mahariel! Stop, thats an order!" He stops but all he can do is glare at the human as if he killed his parents. Without warning, it was as if a monster just came and punch the Dalish warrior straight to the face causing him to fall to the ground. He takes off a mask and puts on a darker mask to show a masked Elf. "My name is Tenebris and what you just saw was my Goron form. i suggest you don't try another attack you just did." The man just gets up and looks at his Keeper.
"Keeper, why did you protect that Shemlen?"
"Mahariel, This man and his 2 companions are here to investigate a tainted presence and to recruit people for the Grey Wardens. So please, let go of your hatred for humans." The keeper says as she wishes that he will listen to her and he does with great reluctance.
"Very well, Keeper but I wish to go with them to search for Tamlen. I heard your conversion and I wish to know what happen to my friend." Marethari, however just shacks her head. "A human named Sokka went with Merrill and Curet went to the cave and may come back soon." Duncan meanwhile looks at the sick Dalish and realises something.
"Im afraid old friend, that this man is also tainted with the darkspawn plague and I wish to take recruit him to the Grey Wardens." Duncan says with Mahariel widen his eyes. Before he can argue about this, He spots the 3 mention people coming from the forest and Sokka walks to Duncan while Curet and Merrill walk to the Dalish and Tenebris.
Curet is the brother of Tenebris and a Elf that travels with the clan for a time. But he looks angry at Mahariel and does a chop to the head on the Dalish warrior that felt like a anvil had fallen on him that ends with him kneeling to the ground in pain. "Sorry to tell you this Keeper, but we search the entire cave and we couldn't find Tamlen." Sokka says to the Marethari as Tenebris talks to Curet.
"Brother, why did you chop him like a piece of wood?"
"He... Eat... My... Venison..." He says as he learned that he eat the deer that he hunted 3 days ago and he ran to Tamlen's patrol to get away from him.
"Oh! It is great to meet you Tenebris. I am Merrill. Curet talked about you and your siblings. Well of course he would talk about you guys, he is your brother but he does... Im rambling am I?" Merrill says as she tries to introduce herself but does her well known rambling that makes her cute in Curet's opinion. Curet decides to help her since his brother looks at her weirdly.
"She... Is... Shy..." Since Curet came to the clan, both him and Merrill have helped eachother due to some of the Dalish not liking that she has wanted to learn their dark history while the feral warrior has been there for her. Meanwhile, Mahariel talks to his Keeper about this new situation.
"Keeper, you cannot expect me to go with these Shemlens and become a Warden since their kind did to my parents." He says as he holds his necklace: His mother's. Marethari answers why he hates humans.
"My child has a hatred at humans due to humans attacking and killing his mother when he was a baby." Duncan seems sad but still steels his emotions.
"I was not one of the bandits, I see all Wardens as equals despite any background. This is a time of great conflict and if you don't become a warden, you will become a Darkspawn and kill your people. I will drag you kicking and screaming to save you." Duncan says this as he sees potential in this Dalish warrior. However, Mahariel just raises his greatsword and points at the Warden.
"I will challenge one of you and see if the power the of the Shems is all it crack up to be. If you beat me, I'll go with you." While Tenebris looks ready to fight, Sokka unsheathes his longsword and points it at Mahariel. "I accept and use my sword: Timur(2) to defeat you." They stare at eachother with fierce looks and so charge. "Rapier form." Sokka says as his sword starts to change the shape from a longsword to a rapier and a single pierce almost hits his hand but he deflects the strike with his greatsword.
"This is my sword: Timur. It can change shape to form any sword from rapier, longsword, and even greatsword." Sokka says as he annoys Mahariel, with his strength he swings his greatsword but the Water Tribal dodges the strike. Duncan is impress at both the sword users as they duel with the fierceness of animals. "Feel the wrath of the dragon, Shemlen!" Mahariel says as his strikes keep getting stronger and stronger. Meanwhile, Duncan asks Marethari about the Dalish warrior's mother which she explains:
"His mother was a Dalish that we have never meet before but she was attack by human bandits so we save her. However, she was injured and we couldn't save her. Before she died, she gave Mahariel to us and she beg us to raise him as our own. She tried to tell us what his name is as she gave us her necklace but all we heard was it started with M. So we named him Mahariel. When we told him about his mother, who attack her, and gave him her necklace he swore his anger and vengeance on humans at a young age. The oddest thing about him besides his anger, would be his fascination of dragons." The keeper explains with truth as Sokka changes his rapier to a greatsword and the clashes between eachother causes a gust of wind to escape them. The Dalish warrior kicks the dark skinned as he moves away and for a few seconds, Sokka notices that Mahariel's eyes turned red. 'Wait, what was that?'
The Dalish warrior slams his sword to the ground and wind escapes which causes Sokka to fall to the ground with Mahariel looking at the sword wielder. "I trained my body and muscles to create wind, the stronger I strike with my sword." With that, he slashes the air creating wind that goes towards his opponent. Sokka ducks with a slide and changes his greatsword into a katana and with a single strike to the leg, his Dalish enemy falls to the ground as he points his sword at his throat. With a sigh, the elf surrenders with his clan cheering at the human's abilities.
The Water Tribal removes his katana and holds his hand out, with Mahariel begrudgingly taking his hand and getting up as he feel embarrass of his lose. However, Merrill and Curet walk to Mahariel and congratulate him for his battle. "Stronger... Then... Thought..." Curet says as he pats his student on the back while Merrill heals his wound. "You did great Lethallin." The First of the keeper and his childhood friend says.
After that, the Dalish clan is preparing to leave and move to another location due to the local village being told by a injured human that his friends were killed by Elves and now they are creating a milltia to charge at the camp. Before they leave, they watch Mahariel walk with the Wardens as they are leaving the forest as well. Marethari gives her former clansman her Keeper's ring and hugs him. Meanwhile, Tenebris and Curet are talking one last time before Tenebris leaves with the Wardens and Curet with the clan.
"By the way brother, have you heard of our siblings from anywhere around the planet?"
"Heard... Mysticis... Lothering..."
"So our magical brother is at that small village. We went there not long ago but I didn't see him. Maybe he was away at the time, but Latronem is helping the Southern Water Tribes against an empire."
"Miss... Them..."
"Don't worry my skull loving brother, we will meet them in the future. For now I bid you farewell."
The masked rogue goes to the Wardens and walks to them. As they leave, Mahariel begins looking at the lyrium potions he likes to collect and notices that instead of the usual blue, they are a dark red color. 'Thats odd, why did the color change? I'll study them later, for now I shall join the wardens but I will surpass these Shems.' He thinks as the Wardens leave the forest and head to Denerim for more recruits.
1 The name Mahariel has always seem like a first name so it is.
2 Timur- Sokka's sword from Avatar is based on the legend of Timur, Emperor of Mongols and Islam. Had a nickname called The Sword of Islam.
Tenebris will be the only Link involved in the main story of Origins. His siblings will be mention or even appear for a bit but not strongly involve in this story. They may appear in future stories.
Next Time- The One that surpasses his fate- Tabris: City Elf.
