Ch.17 The breach awaits
Cassandra watched as another vortex opened just a few feet from where Shartan had vanished from, out of the swirling green mass stepped her soulmate and she felt her tattoo return to its colored sate. The magister paled and fell to his knee in defeat, Shartan looked around the room and smiled at her warmly before his features turned grim as he gazed at the defeated magister.
"I told you shem that playing with that magic would bring your ruin, now it has as you are now the property of the inquisition." Shartan snarled at the man.
"What does it matter, I have failed the elder one and now my son will die!" Alexius cried out and at that moment Cassandra felt pity for the man who had tried to save his only son.
"We all die father." Felix said gently.
"Oh stop whining the lot of you, Felix if you swear yourself to the inquisition and myself then as long as your father also swears loyalty to me and the inquisition I will cure you. I have not lived this long and through every fucking blight without learn how to cure it!" Shartan snapped, Cassandra gapped at her soulmate.
"What?!" Alexius cried out as everyone in the room stared at the mage.
"What none of you are shocked that I am older than most recorded history but the fact that I know the cure for the taint astounds you? I mean really I had year chess matches with the witch of the wilds." Shartan said but before anyone could comment the doors of the throne room were thrown open.
Shartan watched as the human queen walked up to him and the rest of his party, he bowed to her as this was her land at the moment. The Queen looked around her and lock eyes with him, Shartan approved of what he saw. This was a woman who knew the art of ruling, before anyone else could do anything a man seemed to appear out of nowhere next to the queen. Shartan looked the man up and down sensing the taint in his blood, he knew at once this was the warden prince consort.
"We came to deal with the mages but it appears that has already been done, the inquisition has our thanks in this matter." The queen said, the prince nodded along eyes never leaving Shartan.
"Thank you queen Anora, the mages will be leaving as soon as we can get them packed up." Shartan said.
"Do my people have no say in this?!" the grand enchanter demanded storming up, Shartan turned to her.
"No last I check you sided with the magister which since the inquisition owns him, we now by extension own you! Now you will be treated fairly, but it is time for you mages to stop disgracing our kind and take you thumbs out of your arse and learn to manage being in the real world! So we will be guiding you like the foolish children you clearly are, and the more you behave and learn the more freedom you will be given but right now it is clear that you cant be seen to lead yourselves out of a bag! And you grand enchanter are a disgrace to our race! Your foolish actions caused a war! We are elves we were born to play the long game, so shut up and watch and listen and maybe you will learn how not to get your charges killed without gaining a damn thing!" Shartan rounded on the woman nearly roaring by the end of it, the grand enchanter cowered before bowing and moving away.
"Sorry about that but it has been a along day and I have little patience for fools and children in adult bodies." Shartan said with a half bow.
"Then never come to court in ferelden that is all that seems to be there some days." The prince mutter.
The group moved into another chamber to iron out the details of the move, by the end it was decided that the group would travel ahead to haven with the prince to make an formal alliance between the groups.
"It will be a pleasure to have you with us lord Cousland." Cassandra said and Shartan rolled his eyes.
"You would not be saying that if you found out that he had stolen your purse." Shartan remarked, and Cassandra felt for her purse until she saw it land on the table.
"Sorry old habits die hard, plus never hurts to keep skills sharp!" the prince joked as the queen sigh and laid her head in her palm, Varric burst out laughing at the look on the seeker and Shartan's faces.
Later that night before Shartan departed for bed he slipped the prince a small packet that contained a formula for fixing the original join and a new one along with a cure for those who wished to retire, neither the prince nor Shartan ever mentioned it but somehow that letter in the morning was flying on the wings of a special falcon sent to find the warden Tabris to deliver it to the wardens.
A few days later Shartan stood with his soulmate at the breach looking at it, He and solas had spent the entire time since the breach tiring to figure out a way to safely use it to tear down the veil. But in the end it turned out that it could not be done safely while others could use it to release the taint of the old elven gods. With one last look at his soulmate he stepped forward and heard Solas call out to the mages.
"Alright fenny, Just like old times! Except you supply the power and I will do the casting! Just don't pant to loudly boy like last time!" Solas glared at him and he smirked before he felt the surge of power, He reached into the well of power and tethered it to the rift.
As the magic began to flow, he wove the magic in a new pattern. Just because they could not bring it down did not mean they could not change it a bit, all he was doing was sealing off the physical side of things and the spirits but letting the power flow through. This way the world would slowly right itself and one day the veil could come down with no danger at all but that would be many centuries away.
What felt to Shartan as only a few moments later was really nearly an hour but when he was done the mages slumped from power drain, He stood proud looking at where the breach once stood but now it was gone and while the scars remained the danger had past for now anyway. Cassandra Came up to him and whispered.
[Are you too tired to enjoy the heroes party?] She nearly purred in his ear, He grinned before whispering back.
[I may need to lay down for a bit, care to join me?] At her nod Shartan laid the way down the mountain.