#emithas.

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Emithas feels the despair he's carried (that has carried him) for so long begin to unravel. If he allows hope to take its place only for that to prove false, it would prove the end of him at long last. When the world rent in two did not, when he was torn from his home for a god's curiosity did not. "You were lost to me-"

Reunion, 941 Dragon / Emithas ( original character ) and Felassan ( @weptlore )

commissioned from @wickedsnack-art

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Vhen'Theneras

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Rook witnessing the recollection of him when he still wore vallaslin is Emithas' lowest point in vg (of issues which only involve him). It is intrusive whether Rook means it to be or not, a view into a decent portion of his life he'd rather lie forgotten

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Audacious Gambit (1333 words) by nixeofmidgard

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Original Elvhen | Ancient Elven Characters (Dragon Age), Ghilan'nain (Dragon Age), Sylaise (Dragon Age), Solas (Dragon Age), Agent(s) of Fen'Harel (Dragon Age)

Additional Tags: Elvhenan

Summary:

one of the Wolf's rebels, dangerously close to discovery, makes a gamble for his life.

[weptfreedom-archive]

Sexual Smonday Question! What is Emithas’ favorite act/position, and why?

cc: @weptlore

I hesitate to call it a position, as it is really a state of being, but the timing of today's discussion is too close to your question to pass up.

Dreaming, by the laws and customs of Elvhenan, was denied to him, held up as impossible, even. And for the sheer dedication and single-minded focus it generally took, it effectively was. Still, he learned.

In my head, what's described in Birds of Fancy goes beyond this, even. And while Ilriane slept, alone, half a continent away scouting out an abandoned temple, he came to Felassan in such a way. As the empire spiraled further into ruin, spelling an end (though neither knew what an end they faced), they let go the pretense holding them back. It was not an experience he'd had before, nor repeated since, a level of intimacy beyond what a body could offer, beyond anything he'd shared with anyone.

It was also the last time he spent in Felassan's company, til millenia had passed.

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“ He does not deserve a quick death. ” @theharellan

"You misunderstand." Easy to do, when it is still difficult to express himself in this side of a broken reality. Before, he'd been merely awkward. Now, it stymies him.

"I do not care for the fate of a single...templar." Nor the order as a whole. Might consider the same course of action, in Solas' position. But Emithas also expects he, too would be encouraged away from it. "I ask you to reconsider only how. For your sake."

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it is possible, though exceedingly unlikely (given their "crimes" of abandoning the war), that something of who his parents were exists, still, within the Fade. He has no way of knowing, and the likelihood they'd remember him is even smaller than the chance of their continued existence. Emithas has never looked, and Ilriane before him had no opportunity to.

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does the idea of justice and morality align for emithas, or does emithas have a point where he will do anything for his loved ones?

I've said before he was raised with the ideal of doing no harm, by people new to physical existence, who became that way through coercion and refused to continue to take part in war.

To go from that into an existence in which most of what he did was harmful without a choice in the matter, well...it changed him. How could it not? How could he hold onto that ideal in such an environment?

Taking on the identity of the Varghest gave him some means of striking back: little, spiteful moments of inconvenience for the tyrants who'd uprooted his life and salted the bare earth.

And the rebellion? to borrow Tas' phrase, it was not civil. It was not bloodless. It was not gentle. They were up against primordial beings of immense, reality-shaping power (Rook's ability to stand against Elgar'nan was the result of a perfect storm scenario, any deviation from that would have meant their failure. I said what I said 🤷) far beyond any of them.

All that to say, ideals are great, but Emithas' lived reality made holding onto them a pipe dream.

does he have a point where he will do anything for his loved ones?

He reaches that point, or as far as he's ever gone, in one endgame scenario. He is desperate. He has tried to reason with Mythal. He has fought her. Neither convinced her. Now, in a highly fraught moment, he bargains, he keeps his word. He uses what's left of her as the anchor that maintains the veil, and it is not done (solely) in order to spare Solas that same fate.

In that moment, Emithas is vengeful.