I do not own the Dragon age series, this is only a fan fiction.

If Henry was trying to hide his borderline rage and need to kill, he was actually not doing such a good job doing so. The temperature in the corridor he was walking through dropped 50 degrees in less time it took the templars to start shaking from the sudden feeling of cold in the corridor.

As they walked in Merideth was actually smiling and doing so while watching Henry walk towards her with his friends shivering from the sudden cold. "So nice of you to come, you just walked in and now I am so nice and comfortable. The heat today was positively murder with this armor, but thanks to you I can actually feel comfortable."

She walked over to him and smiled in a more seductive way."You keep making this comfortable and I might decided to tell the viceroy to go and stick his order and keep you around just so that you can keep the temperature like this.. Relax, I will not do anything to you. I only want you to investigate a few things. Some suspicions of blood magic use and locate a band of apostates that were supposed to be moved to this circle. "

Henry smiled and looked at her with a glare." What is going to stop me from lying to you? I am a Mage myself, and your skills don't do much against my brand of magic... How will you know if I simply lie to you about both of these apostate groups? You wouldn't know if I was telling the truth or a lie."

Merideth laughed as he heard his words. "Now this boys and girls is called having a spine. Got to tell you it is so refreshing seeing someone who is so honest about what he can do... I almost makes me wish I was the girl next to you... I would know if you told a lie because you would not be the only group I sent to look. "

She looked at the others in the group with her own killer intent noticeably seen in her eyes." You may be right that I would not be able to do much to you, but that does not mean I would not be able to do something to your friends.. If I had enough time I would love to see how different your magic is compared to these mages, a spar would be such a fun thing. "

" A spar would be nice but these criminals aren't coming and surrendering to you to be polite. Who do we see about the info about our suspects and their abilities." A very mature elf walked toward him and smiled at both of them. "That would be me, I am the first enchanter my name is Orsino."

"Now if you will excuse us Knight Commander I do believe I have a few things to tell them about the suspects before they can do their work. " Meredith told them they were free to go, but if they had any more questions that were not answered by the first enchanter to ask her tranquil assistant.

The group left and walked towards his office. " You need to hide your desire to kill better. I do imagine she has very much the same desire towards you so she did not notice, but you are not a shem you should know better." Henry looked at Orsino and smiled."If I appear weak they will think I am easy to push around.. I knew full well that she wanted to provoke into fighting her. "

" It is bad enough that they want me to do what could be called a witch hunt on my own people. I know for a fact that if I do find those apostates and supposed blood mages I will suddenly be surrounded by one of her templar units.. So instead of sarcasm I need something so that I can save the lives of those mages.. So far all I can think is far fetched or unlikely at most. "

Orsino smiled and asked what options did he consider."Either getting you to name me unofficially your second in command, that would get me enough leverage to negotiate a peaceful surrender. The negative is that I would be considered a part of this jail. " Orsino wanted to correct him but he had to admit the circle felt more like a prison than anything else.

" The other is a letter giving authority to negotiate and decide on circle matters. But that would severely open you up for character attacks and possibly a move to have you removed as first enchanter. " Orsino knew he was right of course. " What about the option of working for Meredith or the Aroshok"

"Qunari treatment of their mages makes what you suffer here look like a vacation . They live, breath and sleep in their own cages and are constantly under the control of a handler. As a foreign mage it would be suicide.. Working for the Knight Commander is just as bad... "

First Enchanter Orsino actually began to smile to see that the Arcane Warrior in front of him did care about his fellow mages, even though he always was against the very notion of the circle. " As to the rumors of blood magic are spread out in the population, it has been pretty clear this group is in a small cave South of Kirkwall. The apostates might actually be in the opposite direction."

"Because blood magic tend to imply mind control and these apostates actually would avoid it as much as they are trying to avoid the circle and the templars. " Bethany decided to contribute to the conversation and Henry had to agree with her for the most part.

"So we have to wonder around Kirkwall and looked for long forgotten mines and excavations." Garret told both his sister and the rest of the people in the room. "Make sense that way they would avoid the occasional cave in." Varric knew all to well the dangers of a cave in.

"As to what you shall do. I had prepared the letter giving you authority to decide and negotiate before you came, call it my need to be prepared for the unforseen circumstances if you want. As to the challenges to my authority, I would not worry too much if I were you. I did not become First Enchanter without knowing how to handle peer pressure. "

As they were ready to leave he looked at Henry and decided to ask him to clarify a rumor he heard from several people." Before you go I would like to ask you to clarify something for me. I heard several rumors that have troubled be quite a bit and I would like to hear your words on them. "

Henry sat down and waited to hear these so called rumors and he would do his best to put the man at ease if he could. " I heard that the maker is the first elf, that the old gods are in fact his children and that he made the other races and that you are the friend of the dead and the a tervinter Old God. That you have gone under the names of Falon'Din and of Dumat."

Henry smiled at him as he finished saying these things. "They are not rumors Orsino. They are fact, I was named Falon'Din by my father when I was born. I was called Dumat while I tried my best at subtly educate the children that came after my siblings. They needed so much help, at least at the beginning. I go under the name Henry nowadays because most have forgotten me."

Orsino then asked a question that he needed to hear the answer to, "Why did you tell the magisters to enter the golden city?" Henry knew this was a question that was bound to happen. "I dislike discrimination Orsino, I saw that the Tervinter Imperium was so full of discrimination against the other races that I felt they needed to see the truth for themselves."

Henry looked troubled as he continued. "But I failed to realize that they would have other intentions of going ahead with the journey to my father's domain. I told them many times to leave their personal desires and more importantly they dark feelings behind, to seek only truth. But they did not listen and when they entered father was injured by their evil intentions. "

Henry looked at the window and then at the face of Orsino. " Father went into his regenerative shell and has been sleeping ever since. When they failed to take the power they sought they turned on each other spreading they sins over the city as they found my father's throne empty. They became the remade by the darkness in their hearts which became an illness you call the taint.. And thus became the very first darkspawn. "

" All those dragons were simply infected by this illness that has destroyed so many people in so many ways. I hope this answers your questions Orsino. Before you ask me why I share this, it is the same reason I have always done before, to educate and to allow you to grow to see the truth. "

Orsino was not ready for such revelations and did not know how to respond. He was however unsure what would happen if he indeed told the Chantry they have been wrong the entire time. The old elven gods were real and they were a part of their faith. Years of persecution against those that did not believe like they did, turned out to be ignorance and the violence of the foolish.

But if he said the things he just learned he would be called a heretic and more than likely end up being executed for trying to tell them the truth. He began to wonder how much of the chant was actually true and how much of it was simply there to make the priests and mothers' own power.

He began to wonder also if they made the circles as a place for the same education of the mages or it was as Henry said a prison to hold in the people that frightened them and were powerful enough to actually opposed them.

Henry and the others found the cave of the blood mages first, the stench in the air inside the cave told them not to expect either a fight or a possible possibility for a happy ending to this particular search. It turns out that the two most powerful blood mages became abominations and killed the rest of the mages, it was a man and a woman. She became possessed by a pride demon and he by a demon of desire if they way they looked was any indication.

Henry tried to knocked them both out so that he could enter their dreams and try and free the mages, but they would not let that happen and Henry and the others ended up killing them both. It was a rather sad thing for Bethany she hoped that they could be reason with but it was simply not meant to be.

The group of templars told them they would take care of the funeral arrangements as soon as they exited the mine where the blood mages had been. Henry knew they would be followed and this pretty much confirmed it.

The second group was found not far from the first in an old abandoned excavation. The ruins were grand and the apostates instead of hiding were actually continuing the work the previous people had begun. When Henry asked them why they took time instead of reporting to the circle like they were supposed to.

A young lady mage told them that indeed they did, and she had written documents where they were given explicit orders by the Knight Commander to continue the excavation of the site. The previous workers had stopped because the place was infested with some of the most foul and dangerous monsters they even met.

"Would you say the monsters looked like rotten golems? Or golem in terrible conditions? " Varric asked the mages and indeed the young lady told them that they did look like the way they described. " So Commander Meredith is trying to get herself a supply of red lyrium. I imagine she planes to do something with the Idol she got from my brother. This is not good."

Henry told them that First Enchanter Orsino sent him to tell them to return to the circle and report on their findings, it would not do if they lost information on the historical site simply because they did not report on a regular basis. Henry handed her the letter showing he indeed have the authority to tell them to do this.

Again the group of templars showed up and escorted them back with the supposed apostates back to the circle. Henry had to use the letter once again to stop the templars from executing the supposed apostate mages the minute they entered the tower. "Seems like the Knight Commander did not want anyone to learn what she ordered those mages to do."

First Enchanter Orsino was waiting to hear what happened in both instances, he was very happy to see that he managed to get back one of the groups he went looking for. "So your telling me that the blood mages killed themselves because they practiced blood magic?"

Henry smiled and he sat down. "The more a person practices blood magic the easier it is for a demon to possess the mage. If they had been possessed recently and by a low rank demon, I could try to enter the fade and separate the connection between the mage and the demon, but this time it was impossible in both accounts. "

" The desire demon was practically welcomed to possess him, and the pride demon is one of the toughest and most power demons it will not relinquish their connection since it is a matter of pride for them. " Orsino asked how did he know the desire demon was welcomed.

" The mage had little change in his physical appearance. This means he was a willing possession or worse he actually called to the desire demon in the first place when he saw his other friend be possessed by the pride demon and started killing off their friends. " Orsino understood that they did everything in their power to.

" I would like to know if you have any idea why Meredith wanted that site excavation continued." Henry looked at him with a rather cold look in his face. "I think she wants to get her hand on red lyrium. Normal lyrium is blue, this stuff is contaminated by the disease that create darkspawn. There are several things you have to do when in the presence of this stuff."

Orsino listened intently and if his life may depend on it. "You do not go near it, you do not touch it, you do not ingest it, you do not wear it as jewelery or in your armor and most importantly you do not use it no matter what circumstances. This thing should be treated as the world's most corrosive and deadly poison. "

Henry got up from his seat and he was thanked for his work," I trust you can take care of the reports to the Knight Commander da'len. The less I have contact with her the better. Dareth shiral." The group left a rather amused and laughing First Enchanter. "I swear it was almost like I was the boy getting a lecture by a keeper in a dalish clan. Oh well I suppose considering who he is I am a lot younger than he is..."