Old Roads: Pitiless Games update
Chapter 4 sees a couple of departures, several inconveniently-timed arrivals, and one interruption named Oghren. It goes by Our Antebellum Innocence. (and is also on AO3, which has just now decided to be recalcitrant...i'll post the link later.) This chapter is SFW. Next chapter will not be, and the rating will go up to M.
Title: Old Roads: Pitiless Games
Rating: T (...for the moment. It has Zevran in it, after all.)
PC: Amell
Word Count: ~34k, ~8k this chapter
Spoilers: At this point, it's not so much spoilers as it might not make any sense if you haven't played through Origins/Awakening...
Summary: Amaranthine is destroyed, and Warden Amell travels to Vigil’s Keep to take command. But one either must play the game of politics or be used as a pawn, and like it or not, every last one of Kathil’s demons are about to come home to roost... Amell/Zevran/Cullen, post-Awakening, multiple viewpoints, Part 5 of Old Roads.
Cullen had joined them by the time they hit the main hall, where the commotion had moved. Laurens was already there, as was Varel and a group of well-dressed people apparently led by a tall, bald man. "Calm down, Eddelbrek," Laurens said to the bald man. "Please. Whatever this is about, we can't start solving it until we can talk about it rationally."
"There is nothing rational about my people starving to death," Eddelbrek said. "I told you in the autumn that this was going to happen unless you sent men to protect the farms. Between the darkspawn and the lack of food in our stores, we will be lucky if we have anyone left to do the planting this spring. The darkspawn ruined much of the harvest last year, and it is a blow we will not recover from without help. And as go the plains, goes the arling."
"Maker, I don't think I'm much good at this."
Title: Old Roads: Pitiless Games
Rating: T (...for the moment. It has Zevran in it, after all.)
PC: Amell
Word Count: ~34k, ~8k this chapter
Spoilers: At this point, it's not so much spoilers as it might not make any sense if you haven't played through Origins/Awakening...
Summary: Amaranthine is destroyed, and Warden Amell travels to Vigil’s Keep to take command. But one either must play the game of politics or be used as a pawn, and like it or not, every last one of Kathil’s demons are about to come home to roost... Amell/Zevran/Cullen, post-Awakening, multiple viewpoints, Part 5 of Old Roads.
Cullen had joined them by the time they hit the main hall, where the commotion had moved. Laurens was already there, as was Varel and a group of well-dressed people apparently led by a tall, bald man. "Calm down, Eddelbrek," Laurens said to the bald man. "Please. Whatever this is about, we can't start solving it until we can talk about it rationally."
"There is nothing rational about my people starving to death," Eddelbrek said. "I told you in the autumn that this was going to happen unless you sent men to protect the farms. Between the darkspawn and the lack of food in our stores, we will be lucky if we have anyone left to do the planting this spring. The darkspawn ruined much of the harvest last year, and it is a blow we will not recover from without help. And as go the plains, goes the arling."
"Maker, I don't think I'm much good at this."