Path forwards.

As the numerous guards lay smouldering on the floor, I approached the two women, a goofy smile appeared on my face as I knelt down, grabbing the hand of the older woman and kissing it.

"The Mage-Queen Terri greets the lovely lady, may I have your names?"

The younger of the two jumped back in fear and hid behind her sister, I smiled at the interaction before the woman pulled her hand back, confusion clearly covered her face.

"My name is Kuroka, Nya"

Did she say Nya? Like a cat? So fucking cute. My mind was overloaded as I sprinted up to and began to pull her cheeks while cooing to myself.

*Boink*

"Come now Teri, you are scaring the poor girls."

I turn on my heels, as I let the woman's cheeks go they spring back to normal, "Eve my dear, you are no fun, lighten up a bit. Look around us, a little laughter and fun is needed to beat back the darkness."

Turning back to Kuroka I ask, "Who owns this estate?"

The young woman tenses as she quietly whispers "My former master owned it until I killed him, that was five minutes ago, his master will be coming for us. He is not someone we can hope to beat, nya."

I recall the features of the man who chained us to the wall, "Blonde shoulder-length hair, grey streak down the centre, likes to act mysterious with a hood? A thing for chains?"

Kuroka paused, "Yes that is him, have you met him already?"

I burst into laughter, Kuroka looks confused, I turn to see if Eve is laughing but she just staring at me with a 'Really?' look.

I abruptly stop laughing, "He is already dead, he tried to hurt dear Kill Joy over here and got a taste of my Flames, I might have done well done instead of Rare but you know how being angry blinds your judgement."

"Better than you could now, Nya" was the response I got,

"So what you have told me is that this fine-looking estate is free real-estate? Eve turn around, we can finally claim our own castle!"

"Wait!" Kuroka screamed as I trudged off to assess my new land, "That's not how it works in the underworld, people will come here looking for my former master, they will kill you if they find you here."

I paused for a split second before slightly turning my head, "They are welcome to come and try, I don't mind a battle every so often, it adds flavour to the boredom that is life."

Break

A week or two has passed since then, the two sisters vanished to the 'Human' world as they called it, in that time I have had my head buried in the books of the castle, I summoned some lesser demons to act as my guards, patrolling, hunting for food and the like, Eve has spent most of the time looking through the castle, trying to find any hidden labs or rooms.

Safe to say this isn't the main base of the clan, not enough riches or treasure here, the men I killed seemed a little too easy for the main antagonist, even the mad mage caused more issues for my sister. He was just a tevinter mage jacked up on taint, nothing more than a diseased worm.

'We are no different, you can't keep me hidden forever Terri, we will ascend whether you like it or not.'

We are different though, I can keep simply ignoring your existence until I need you again, 'Blighted one', the nickname the prophet of Chantry gave me, he never knew how close to the truth he really was.

Want to know a secret?

When I was younger I fade walked into the Golden city by mistake, the night before, the keeper had told us stories of the Maker and how the blights came to be, by the time I was asleep, all I could think of was that golden city, upon entering the Fade, I found myself in a city turned pitch black by the taint.

Against the judgement of the screaming voice in my mind, I explored the city, every nook and cranny, I spent what felt like days roaming its walls, in the centre of the city stood a giant castle, inside the castle was a giant Golden/Black throne, a symbiotic symbol of the taint and light as one.

Being the stupid and curious child I was, I approached the chair, parking my small ass in the seat and when I did, the world froze, I saw events of the future, the Inquisition, My sister's power, Eve and Solas, everything flooded into my young mind. The past to, the fall of the Elven race at the Hands of Solas, the creation of the Viel, it nearly drove me mad or perhaps it did?

Ever since that day another 'Enity' lived inside me, I have dubbed her 'Mortem' or Death in the common tongue, she is a conscious form of the Darkspawn Taint.

How?

I don't Know.

Why?

I don't Know.

Her Goals?

I don't Know.

All I do know is that we exist as one, if I kill her I die as well, I did try this once, resulted in the deep scar on my left cheek, I tried to manually detonate mana in my stomach, where she lived. The detonation backfired,the resulting explosion nearly teraing my arm off, as previously mentioned, it did leave a deep scar.

I could heal the scar with restoration but the Scar is important to me, it reminds me that no matter how powerful I get, I'm not omniscient...

(End of Chapter, spoilers below, don't read on if you don't want to know.)

Right so I should probably outline my plans for the novel, there will be four main volumes so far, this may change going forwards and they are Arrival, Civil war, Rebuilding and the 6th Blight.

Arrival is the volume we are in now, detailing the Mc's power base building.

Civil war is about the world at large, not specifically related to Mc.

Rebuilding will deal with the results and outcomes of the Civil War.

The 6th blight will be the ending to the novel, the final battle, the coming together of the other 3 volumes.

I have no idea how long it will take for us to get to that point but I hope to see the journey out to the end...