Author's note: Well my lovely break is over I head back to class today. I hope you enjoyed the extra posts during my mini-vacation.


We step back into the corridor and those strange wolf/dragon heads start spouting the glowing blue-green plasma type stuff again. I look for a pattern a way around.

"Ideas are loud here," Cole advises, "make them louder, think of water."

Of course, this is my head in the fade, so my thoughts should be loudest.I think of water and the plasma changes to harmless water.

The demon growls in aggravation. "That thing can't help you. I will see more!"

I smile at the demons irritation. It's time to irritate it more. I smile over at Cole. "Thank you Cole," I say gratefully.

"Then I helped? Good," he replies joyfully in his childlike manner.

I tentatively part the fabric of the fade ( at least my magic and that works here) and go back to prison. However, this time instead of Cassandra questioning me, I concentrate on the chancellor and war table. Of course he is still spouting the nonsense he did in real life. The demon has seen fit to lay my doppelganger on the war table as if dead. I walk into the next hallway and see Mother Giselle being led off questioned by the doppelganger for being a heretic. I have to give the demon irony points for that one.

"Betrayed allies will curse your name," the Demon sneers, "Like the first Inquisition, you will bring blood, ruin, and fear."

"Unless you don't," Cole pipes in, "none of this is real unless you let it be."

I add Cullen and Josephine all speaking at the same time. My head, my rules, I take a quick walk noticing that most of my advisors/friends are being imprisoned by the Demon. I decide to create a hidden key I unlock all the cells, the demon replaces everyone inside their cells again. Now he has many people to create and control and several conversations going on at the same time.

However the building seems to have come to an end. I stop short wondering where to go next.

"Think sparks," Cole says helpfully.

Sparks, I remember seeing a series of unlit braziers in the rooms. I walk into one and using veilfire I light it and conjure a torch, lighting that as well.

I walk into the nearest room and light the brazier. The demon screams in anger and the guard in the room runs out. I smirk wickedly and continue lighting the braziers in each room. The scene replays itself with Envy getting angrier each time. I walk to the end of corridor to light the last brazier and the wall moves.

"What are you doing?" Envy screams in rage.

There is a short twisting hallway that ends at another strange statue. However it's not curvy and twisted like the first. It has very straight lines and look like a fancy pillar with the skull nestled in it. There is an inscription:

Envy's Dogma

Weeks of studying, learning, imitating. The Lord Seeker reveals who he is, what he is with every sharp tongued reaction. Lucius Corin abandoned, hidden, after taking his face, his armor, his templars. Easy as slipping into a new skin.

The Herald of Andraste protests as the templars leave the city. Small. Unimportant. Beneath the Lord Seekers notice, but for instructions from the elder one.

The Lord Seeker may still be alive, well that will make Cassandra happy at least. Did he do this willingly? My stomach twists at the thought. And now I know for certain that the real Lord Seeker was not in Val Royal. Also he didn't think the Inquisition or I was influential enough to care about. In retrospect it was probably a good thing as we were outnumbered at Val Royal. However the room goes no further so I turn back. I work my way back to the first room and think about Orlais.

The demon creates chevaliers talking about the Herald of Andraste and her army of demons razing Val Royeaux.

I gasp in disgust.

"Righteousness suited the Lord Seeker as well," the demon sneers.

"You're letting the Herald see more to sketch her shapes, but what she sees makes her stronger," replies Cole a bit smugly.

I smile in gratitude at him.

"Quiet!" screams Envy in anger.

"You wish to be difficult?" he rants, "Then see the legacy of the Inquisition. Its followers hosts to demons! Your world …Ashes! Show me what you'd do with them!"

"Or don't," Cole replies simply, "It can't make you, not anymore, you're getting too strong."

"Shut! Up! Thing!" Envy rages.

Going back through the area I notice a door that wasn't there before. I open it and step through.

I recognize the courtyard outside of Therinfall Redoubt there is another strange statue here. I walk over to look at the inscription.

Envy's Dogma:

Growing disbelief. The Herald, leading nobles, shining men and women whose power chokes a country. The Inquisition, rising larger than the templars. Unbearable envy. What is a Lord Seeker, compared to what the Herald will become?

Seething, consumed with want. Dreaming, wanting, needing to wear the Herald of Andraste's face when next meeting the Elder One.

Well that explains a lot, I caught the eye of Envy because it felt I was stronger than the Lord Seeker. It doesn't change the fact that we need to discover who or what this elder one is.

I remember that I met the Lord Seeker at the top of Therinfall Redoubt and I look for a way up. Everything in my path is trying to kill me. I guess Envy has given up getting to know me. I smirk at the thought. I hear Cole urging me onward. I ignore everything isn't an immediate threat and run and climb till I make it to the top of Therinfall Redoubt. I walk up the last staircase leading to the door where I met the Lord Seeker/Envy.

I take a deep breath and start time again. I'm out of the fade/my mind and back in the present with the Lord Seekers hands around my throat. The Lord Seeker suddenly becomes a doppelganger of me and I have the uncomfortable sensation of being choked to death by…..me.

"Unfair! Unfair!" the other me screams in rage, "That thing kept you whole! Kept you from giving me your shape!"

"What could you gain from being me?" I manage to grunt out.

"What could you gain?" it rants.

"What…ugh" It stops short with a disgusted snort.

"We will start again! More pain this time! The elder one comes!" it shrieks angrily.

Cole appears standing on the hand of a statue high above us.

"It's frightened of you," He states calmly.

My doppelganger turns to address Cole, "Get out of…"

I didn't give it the chance to say anything else as I took the opportunity to kick it in the chest as hard as I could. I hit the ground with a grunt and scramble to stand. Ser Barris and my companions move protectively around me.

The demon then shows its real form. It's more grotesque than terrifying. Much like the statue I saw. I thought it was a fancy carved pillar but in reality, the pillars on either side of a face represented legs. I watch in horror as the creature pulls itself off the floor and moves into its actual standing position, bent over backwards with its head between its knees? The creature screams in rage. It then flies through the room and over anything in its path behind a green magical barrier.