Vivienne watched as the mage known as Shartan walked into the main foyer with the grace of a jungle cat as he surveyed the room Vivienne thought he looked more like a king looking down at his kingdom than an elven guest at her party, beside him walked his soulmate if the rumours were to believed the seeker Cassandra Pentaghast who was looking as uncomfortable as the elven man was looking at ease. Vivienne was about to descend into view and approach the herald when a foolish minor noble started to challenge the herald, she readied her magic as the man began to challenge him but stopped when Shartan spoke.
"Why would I ever lower myself to fight a simpering glory chase fool such as yourself?" Shartan spoke coldly and Vivienne was impressed at how the tone used froze the noble in his tracks.
"Now unless I am mistaken all the real fighters left for the tourney no later than this morning, so that would mean that you did not even rank high enough to warrant a place there, so why would I insult the inquisition's name by even thinking of accepting and another thing you were about to draw you weapon in the foyer of a noble's mansion during a party without issuing a proper challenge. Are you so uneducated that you don't know how to properly challenge someone or were simply hoping that when I killed you everyone would forget that fact?" Vivienne was impressed by the elven man's knowledge of proper noble manners, from what knew he had spent most of his life in the mountains so where had he learned that?
The noble turned red behind his mask and with a scream of rage whipped a dagger out and threw it at the elven man, but Vivienne saw the man slip as he released and the dagger went wide missing the elven man but hitting the seeker with a glance blow that without her armor gave her a small cut on her arm. Vivienne saw the moment the blood welled up on the seeker that Shartan's entire demeanor changed and before anyone could move the sound of lightning striking shattered the silence born from the knife being thrown, the noble flew across the room hitting the other wall hard enough to crack the plaster with Shartan advancing on the downed noble with magic crackling around him like a cloak.
Vivienne had thought the elven man might have some power to speak of but what she was seeing terrified her, the elven man's mere presence was crushing with a simple gesture the noble man was hoisted into the air by his throat without anything touch him.
"You dared to harm ma ghi'myelan! I hope this teaches you for the next life, never harm a powerful mage's soulmate!" Vivienne felt fear run down her spine at the words a moment before the man vanished in a flash of lightning leaving only a scorch mark on the floor, the man turned and locked eyes with her.
"Ira Abelas Madam De fer, I lost my temper and damaged your lovely home please send the bill for the repairs to the inquisition and we will pay for the damages." He said bowing the picture of manners as if he had not just killed a man so brutally.
"Think nothing of it my dear, one must always defend their soulmate, but I would be honoured if the seeker and yourself would do me the please of speaking with me in private?" Vivienne said smoothly as she watched the elven man healing the seeker with a gentle touch.
Nodding the trio moved into a side chamber, the elven man listened calmly to what she had to say and at the end accepted her into the inquisition and gave her directions on what she was allowed to bring with her and who she was to report to upon arriving. The seeker watched her carefully but Vivienne knew that despite that bored look on the man's face he was watching her even closer, once the matters were dealt with he left.
"I am sorry to leave so soon my dear but I have an interesting meeting soon, besides I think if I stayed some of your noble pets would faint every time I so much and raised a hand." He said mockingly as he exited the room with the seeker in tow, leaving Vivienne with the impression that this man was hiding his past and she was determined to find it out and soon.
Sera yanked the arrow out of the noble wanker that he had killed. "Rich tits always ask for more than they deserve." She turned to face this herald things and stopped for a second as there was something strange about him.
"So true they rarely know when to stop talking." The herald smirked at her, and again she was struck by how familiar this elf looked.
"So you followed the notes well enough… and you're an elf, hope you aren't too elfy." She said glaring at the markings on his face.
"Too elfy that is one I rarely hear, anyway moving along why exactly did you lead me into a death trap?" Sera was confused by how bored this tit sounded, but before she could respond his head snapped up and looked behind her.
"Contacts in bound, get behind cover, you to blondie!" the elven man snapped as he drew his great sword, and Sera jumped to obey she knew better than to piss off a mage that could swing a sword like that around like a toy.
The fight was short and bloody Sera watched as the elven man simply waded into the enemies and started cleaving them in two with the lady seeker covering him.
"fen panelan gonun" came the sharp command from the herald, Sera hopped that the tit was not talking to her as she knew jack shite of that junk.
Sera watched as the bald staff twirling elf suddenly stop and attack the fighter on the right side of the alley, the fight finished quickly with the two melee fighters cutting the breechless fighters to pieces. Sera walked up to the group and shivered under the searching gaze of the herald.
"Who was your mother child?" The herald asked before she could speak and that question brought her up short.
"Why do you want to know?" Sera glared at the elf not trusting this mage.
"Because you look a lot like Athela." Sera's face went slack at the mention of her mother's name.
"How do know my mother's name you tit!?" she demanded and the herald face palmed while cursing in elven.
"Dammit I knew I should have asked around more! Fucking hell this is what happens when you only check on your kids every five years, they died and I grand child you did not know you had grows up without family!" Sera felt like someone just hit her with a fish, now she knew why the man looked familiar her mom use to have a drawing of this tit and her grandma above the fire place.
"Prongs are you saying this woman is your grandkid and you did not know about her?" the dwarf asked.
"Varric when you live as long as I have you develop a system. Stick with soulmate until she dies if there is kids that are grown check in every five years and if they have kids check on them every five years after that stop caring, if I tried to track all of the descendants I have I would be looking after nearly half the free marches and the dalish clans!" Okay now sera was really confused, and said as much.
After the elf who was named Shartan explained everything she offered the aid of the jennies, and Shartan smiled and said he was glad to have their help as they had given him some of his most entertaining soulmates over the years. Sera told them she would meet them in have but before she could leave Shartan stopped her giving her a strange pendent.
"It was your grandmother's she would have wanted you to have it, I found it in your mother's house after I heard she had died. Oh also I has a charm your grandmother placed on it, the charm will lessen nightmares as it wards off spirits that feed of negative emotions." Sera looked down and saw her mother's dream catcher charm necklace, she nodded thanks and ran before they could see her crying.
Cassandra lay panting after a round of hard paced sex and felt the magic spell of her soulmate wash over her cleaning her off, the magic reminded her of the events of the day and she looked at Shartan deciding to ask rather than drive herself ill worrying about it.
"Should I be on the look out for more grandchildren?" Shartan choked on the flask of elven tea that he was drinking from.
"Grandchildren no, she is the only one out there and I know this as she has no siblings. Before you ask I had a spirit tack her past for me and found out that she was born a year after my last visit." Shartan said and Cassandra smiled before curling into her soulmate, as she drifted off she realized that Shartan had not said anything about other kids, sadly she forgot that thought as Shartan fucked her hard in the fade that night.