Journal Entry

[evelea_fadewalk]

• mana is coming back and my head is hurting less
  
• yes, getting hit in the chest by a force bolt as a method of demon detection hurts about as much as you'd expect
  
• now that thinking seems to be an option I'll have to do some of that
  
• they think it followed me here, or I brought it with me
  
• and now I'm sitting alone in a bedroom that was definitely designed to house an Orlesian dignitary
  
• Envy is possibly still stalking me and there are fat gilded babies laughing at me from the headboard
  
• we have to get out of here and not just to get away from gaudy bedsteads
  
• but where will we go if we do manage to escape? I can't send Cullen back to that fate. It might simply be death any way we cut it
  
• and the headache is back again
  

I'm given to understand there may be another "Herald" here, with a mark like my own? I am curious to see what sorts of effects they have on whatever passes for the Veil here, but I feel as if just waving them around willy nilly wouldn't be responsible. Thoughts? Observations? Gibbering fear at the very idea?

Comments

[lavellanfadewalk]

Erm, hi.
Ariathenallas Lavellan, the other Herald of Andraste, but people usually call me Aria. It's... hm... weird to know there is another Herald of Andraste around and even weirder thinking that the same could've happened to me, thank the Creators I went after the mages, travelling in time is way easier but yes, as far as I know, same mark as you.

Things I know:
- Can't see the Black City in the sky (and it should be visible from anywhere in the Fade;
- My mark is... itching. Not like when I first entered the Fade in flesh (when I felt the mark belong there, not with me), but more like the mark feels something is wrong here, I don't know how to explain better than it;
- Can't hear the voices from the Well of Sorrows, and they're usually very chatty not that I'm complaining about things being quiet for the first time in months, but its... weird

I'm thinking about trying to open a rift somewhere, but I would like someone to have my back and I guess we should take care of this Envy Demon first.

[evelea_fadewalk]

I have to admit that I'm relieved, but also disconcerted that we are different persons. People? I'm not sure how to approach the multiples running about.

Yes, the mark is not exactly quiet, but it isn't at all like the pain before we first stabilized the Breach.

Maker's breath, I feel like an apprentice to my own life suddenly, but I didn't even know the mark could open rifts. I... that is disconcerting. And a Well of Sorrows doesn't sound like the kind of voices you'd want to be noisy. It sounds... sorry.

I'm sorry, my brain is running in tiny moronic circles, and the news that Envy is here hasn't helped much.

I will try to help however I can, though.

-Evelea Trevelyan

[lavellanfadewalk]

Well, y'know, the Well of Sorrows isn't as bad as it sounds when you learn how to deal with them, but I wouldn't recommend it to a shemlen, they're quite the xenophobic bunch. They made my life a living hell in the first days 'cause I'm a 'quickened child' assholes.

So, yes, the mark can open rifts too, though I discovered it the worst way possible, falling inside the domains of a Nightmare Demon. I don't recommend it too, try to avoid it, yes? No running after mages in the battlements of a fortress being destroyed by a blighted dragon.

Don't worry lass, I'm sure we'll work something out.
We're the Heralds of Andraste, right?
Think about what we could accomplish if we combine the power of our marks? No demons left on our trail, I'm pretty sure.

[evelea_fadewalk]

I expect a nightmare demon is about as horrifying as that implies. I'll... keep that in mind if after all this I have a mind left to keep.

Well, whatever we are, Andraste's Heralds or uppity mages with fancy glowing hands, what's the worst that could happen if we met?

Complete unraveling of reality in an explosion of green rift energy?

I think I need to lie down.

[lavellanfadewalk]

Lass, you really know how to be optimistic, don't you?

Besides, Herald of Andraste or not, I guess we can still be uppity mages with glowing hands, one thing does not necessarily nulls the other. And, if unraveling this particular reality means we can go home, I'm all for it.

[evelea_fadewalk]

Optimism. Is that... how do you pronounce that?

I do hope though that you get back to where you want to be. Some of us... we're just not sure where that is, I think.

[lavellanfadewalk]

Thank you.
Once I go back I'm pretty sure I'll be exactly where I want to. As for the other who lack this fortune, maybe we can arrange something with Dorian and those crazy time travel spells of his.