Cassandra walked beside Shartan on his right while Solas walked on his right, Dorian was sneaking in with the spies. When they entered the throne room Cassandra gritted her teeth at the sight of Magister Alexius lounging on the throne sneering down at them, she glanced at her soulmate and found him walking with a bearing that made it seem that he ruled this place. The Magister glared at how Shartan seemed to look down on him even from below.
"So, we are here at my leisure so let us get down to business, what will it take for you to pack up and get the fuck out of this place and leave my mages behind?" Shartan asked politely, Cassandra saw out of the corner of her eye saw Solas smirk.
"I have no intentions of leaving without the mages, I could be convinced to loan you enough for the breach if you offered something worth my while." Alexius sneered. Cassandra wanted nothing more than to stomp his face in.
"I offer only a warning Shemlen, the magics you are playing with are dangerous in ways you can not imagine. Besides if you plan to try and rewind the clock to before the breach it will not work, the breach is allowing enough fade energy in to this world that time bending is possible but only to times where the breach is already in place." Shartan said, Cassandra enjoyed watching the jaw on the magister drop further with every word her soulmate spoke.
"How could you possibly know that? Unless you have used time magic as well!" Alexius roared.
"I have never wielded the power myself, but I did study it before helping outlaw the practice in the elven empire, so Alexius trust me when I say this your magic will only bring ruin to you if you continue on this path." Shartan warned, Cassandra watched the expression of fury change to fear on the man's face as he realized what he was standing before.
At that moment, Dorian stepped forward as the spies slayed all the guards in the room. After the magister realized that he was trapped he pulled out his amulet and began charging it with magic, Before Cassandra could react she was hurled back by Shartan's mind blast that knocked both her and Solas back just as Dorian launched a bolt at the magister's amulet. The explosion rips through the room knocking Cassandra back even further, when the smoke clears she feels a searing pain in her arm and panics thinking Shartan until her arm catches her eye. The blast had ripped her sleeve off and to her great horror there lay her mark but instead of the bright greens and blues and golds it was noting but gray and black.
With a fear etched into every line of her body she looks around the room but can not see his body, only when the others start stirring does she break down and starts sobbing at the empty feeling in chest, Solas comes close to her and wraps his arms around her whispering to her in low elven that Shartan helped her learn through her memories and his lessons.
[Peace seeker, Shartan still lives but he has been moved into the future. Now we must wait for him to return.] Cassandra calmed at his words but she could tell he had no idea how long a wait it would be.
Shartan was thrown out of the vortex and into a flooded cell of some kind, before he could get his bearings he and Dorian who also got dragged into the vortex were set upon by a pair of guards. Shartan threw out his hand to stagger them while he stood but instead of staggering them they were hurled against the wall with such force that they went through the wall dead.
"Wow that was something!" Dorian said amazed.
"That was not what I intended, there is only one reason my power would return like this and that is the fade is a lot closer than before." Shartan growled feeling how unstable the fade around them was.
"Really, I don't feel any stronger, your sure that it is the fade?" Dorian asked.
"I am sure most of my power was sealed in the fade when I helped create it so for my power to return this much means someone has spread the breach to a horrible level. Come on we need to find the magister and get that amulet." Shartan growled before blowing the gate off it's hinges.
Cassandra kept up her chant hoping that it would keep her mind sane a bit longer, she had felt her soulmark flare and up back to full color so Shartan was back and now she just had to wait. The door to the room was blown off it's hinges following a loud crack of thunder, as the dust settled in swept Shartan like a vengeful demon. Before she could speak the door of her cell flew off and the world spun as she was suddenly out of the cell with Shartan looking her over, she felt the cool waves of his magic soothing the pain of the red lyrium as he whispered quiet apologises.
[It is all right my Hart, I knew you would return to me.] Cassandra whispered back clinging to the broad shoulders.
[Always my Halla, nothing can keep me from your side.] Shartan whispered.
"As touching as this is we should move on before anything else goes wrong!" Dorian called after freeing Solas, who nodded thanks and glanced at Shartan before speaking.
"The shards restrict my powers to mortal levels; however, I think Alexius deserves to see the wrath of the black Hart, don't you?" Solas asked sounding weak, the only answer was a feral smile on Shartan's face as he led them out.
Alexius knew the moment that Thunder could be heard shaking the castle that something was wrong, but he could not bring himself to care as he had failed nothing he did worked. The elven herald had been right nothing would allow travel to the time before the breach, and that meant his death and Felix would be left alone. A thunderous crash hit his door and even depressed as he was he smiled, nothing could pierce that door, he had brought here as a last defense against his master. But to his horror another louder blast hit the door and cracks spread like wild fire across the door, another blast and the door was reduced to ruble.
"I warned you that playing with time magic would lead you to ruin Shem!" came a snarled yell and Alexius turned to see something that made him pale in fear.
There stood the herald before him but there was something very different about him, his power was swirling around him giving the appearance of clothes that were elven in make but pure black. The markings on his face glowed gently pulsing into to an unseen beat, the worst part was his eyes glowed crimson instead of gold.
"What are you!?" he asked scared.
"something that your master was trying to become, I am the strongest elven mage to ever walk this plane and that includes the false gods I once called family. Now give me the amulet and your death will be swift!" Alexius swallowed and reached for the amulet but stopped when another crack of lightning caught his attention.
Turning slowly, he saw Felix had been turned into nothing more than a charred patch on the floor. "I can not stand to see ghouls suffering so." The herald remarked bored, Alexius screamed in rage and fade stepped towards the monster who killed his son.
It was if the world slowed to a crawl as he watched the herald lift a hand slowly and with a flick he felt somehow lighter, then he was crushed into ground by a spell. The herald closed in and reached into his robes pulling out the amulet. He watched in horror as the mage looked at the amulet with distain.
"No wonder it caused such problems, what mistake riddled spells. Oh well at least it will work to get back to our time." Alexius tried to speak but found the weight crushing him made it impossible.
Alexius could only watch as the elf held the amulet in front of him and snapped his fingers opening a vortex as if it was as easy as light a candle, the herald gestured to Dorian and they walked out of this time. the last thing Alexius ever saw was the Seeker's sword being driven through his chest.