The Dragoon In Skyrim - Volume 1 Chapter 116 The Warning
Vincent and Eamon arrived at the throne room where Alistair was already awaiting them. Leliana wasn’t present since she liked to be in the Shadows to hear everything but not be seen doing so.
What she didn’t know was that a looming shadow was stretching behind her when suddenly the shadow took the form of a Nord and surprised her as they heard a scream coming from the sideline as Leliana fell over herself.
She was now in plain sight of everyone when Vincent sees Vlad and says, “It seems my Shadow has scared yours.”
“Your Shadow?” asks Alistair as Vincent nods.
“Yes, the person that looks after you from the shadows. He is like a Crownguard just more personal since you must trust him with your life,” says Vincent as Vlad disappeared again in front of everyone.
“Cailan loved to see that,” says Vincent as Alistair could see what his half-brother could have loved from that when Vincent says, “Anyway, I’m here because of the treaty that Cailan signed.”
“Is something wrong with it?” asks Alistair as Eamon walks towards Alistair.
“The treaty will get invalid with you on the throne,” whispers Eamon to Alistair as Alistair opened his eyes wide in shock.
“That can’t be!” shouts Alistair as he didn’t believe it.
“It is. We signed a treaty with King Cailan and his Bloodline. You might be his brother but not his Descendant. Only with Maric can you maintain this treaty,” says Vincent as both Alistair and Leliana looked confused with what he meant.
“Maric is your nephew. He is the son of Anora and Cailan. Anora managed to escape with their son from Loghain’s and Howe’s madness thanks to a gift that the wives of the Ambassador left behind,” says Eamon surprising them again.
“I have another nephew,” says Alistair as many women entered the Palace claiming that it’s Cailan’s son.
“If you don’t trust me we can test your blood with his. We use simple magic to do that,” says Vincent as again the couple was surprised by what Vincent said.
“Blood Magic!” shouts Alistair as the Templar in him rallied up.
“You could say so. But don’t compare your magic with ours. If we were to do so then your magic might be a newborn child while ours is that of a God. I fought against Mages from here and I wasn’t impressed by them and even less by the people you call Templars. Compare them to ours and yours would piss themselves in the pants,” says Vincent as he was stating the truth.
Elissa confirmed that the Templars in Tamriel were far stronger than the ones in Thedas. She wanted to meet the people called Templars on Tamriel and Vincent made it happen.
The Templar showed them how they use the Light from the Burning Sun and bend it in a way to save the civilians. Carver after seeing that joined the Templars on Tamriel since they stood for the people and the Divines and no one else. The except was for when they were in war than they would join the Legion to fight alongside them.
But for Alistair that was almost like an insult as he stood up from his throne and walked towards Vincent only to find out that Vincent seemed taller than he looked all of a sudden.
“You think a Blight is a big deal. Fight against a God and we will talk again. The Empire fights against the Daedric Princes since way before history began to be recorded,” says Vincent as he seemed to grow bigger and bigger in Alistair’s eyes.
“I can understand that your people fear Magic but to lock it away is just irresponsible. Once enough Magic is in one place it will make puff and everything that was created on lies will fall in itself,” says Vincent as now the people were confused by Vincent’s cryptic message.
“But I’m only here because of the treaty. If it wasn’t for that I would have already sailed to Amaranthine to meet Aedan before sailing to Highever to meat Fergus,” says Vincent as Alistair was feeling a pressure he never felt before.
“Will you go through the test it will also prove if you really are Maric’s son after all,” says Vincent as Eamon never looked at it that way.
“We will do your cursed test but I want to see that it works by testing someone that shares my blood first,” says Alistair as Vincent nods since he could agree to it.
“Then the conditions have been made for the Trial of Blood,” says Vincent as his voice became quite deep while saying that giving it a dangerous vibe.
Vincent then leaves the Palace to meet the others in the Manor when Eamon catches up to him and asks, “That trial you talked about a moment ago isn’t dangerous, right?”
“It is harmless but you will be going through the Trial as well since you are Cailan’s uncle making you the ideal person to confirm it besides Alistair,” says Vincent as he reached the Gate to leave the Palace.
Once outside the Palace, he asks, “What did you find in the Grey Warden Fortress?”
“We found some of the Spirit people there. We tried to convert them as you told us to do and some really changed appearance into more Mer or Men like feature. Some of them couldn’t be saved since they possessed the dead,” says Vlad reporting what happened in the former Fortress of the Grey Wardens.
“Anything else?” asks Vincent happy that the Network didn’t just kill the Spiritfolk as Vlad nods.
“We found an old man in it doing some questionnaire experiments on dead bodies. We didn’t kill him but question him out to find out what he was doing,” says Vlad as Vincent looked at him.
“Do I have to worry about what he did?” asks Vincent as Vlad shakes his head.
“Not really. It seems he was researching the blood of his and the others to search for a way to control the Taint better that the Grey Wardens have inside them. He did achieve something but compared to our researchers he is years behind,” says Vlad as Vincent was thinking when a young woman with poor clothes pumped into him.
The girl fell to the ground and began to cry. Vincent looked at her as he picked her up and asks, “Where are your parents, girl?”
“They died in the Blight. I and my brother thought it would have been secure to live in Denerim so we moved here from Redcliffe. Now I need not only to feed me and my brother but also 10 other orphans,” says the girl as Vincent showed a compassionate smile.
“Someone like you needs to be rewarded if that is true. How about you take me to them after buying some food,” says Vincent as the eyes of the girl lightened up in happiness.
“Of course please follow me,” says the girl as she ran into the market dragging Vincent with her.
She didn’t even notice that Vincent wasn’t a Human as they bought enough provision for the children when she brought him to an alley that had an old warehouse.
They enter the warehouse and inside was another young woman looking after at least fifteen children when the young woman with which Vincent came says, “Bella, I was lucky today.”
“Kaitlyn, I told you it is dangerous outside-,” says Bella as she looked behind Kaitlyn seeing only an Abomination as she falls over and Vincent smiled since that was the reaction he was awaiting from Kaitlyn before.
“Abomination! Stay away from us,” says Bella as she crawled backward while Vincent sighs.
“I’m an Au-Ra, not some Demon, girl,” says Vincent as he helped her up while calming her down as he looked at the children that were from any race from Thedas with six Humans, five Elves, two Dwarves, and three Qunari.
“Are they all the orphans you are taking care of?” asks Vincent as Bella shakes her head.
“No there are still some outside playing right now,” says Bella as she was calm since Vincent talked like any other normal person.
“Can you bring them here. I think it would be better to take you all with me,” says Vincent as both girls were surprised by what Vincent said.
“You shouldn’t, we are doing quite well since we get money from the chantry even if it isn’t much,” says Bella as Vincent smiled at her.
“You don’t have to worry. In Tamriel, everyone is equal to each other. We even have an Orphanage Program that was introduced by the First Emperor to look after the orphans. There they are taught into a profession as well as in combat,” says Vincent as he explained how it worked when Kaitlyn looked quite nervous.
“Would they separate me from my younger brother?” asks Kaitlyn as Vincent shakes his head.
“They wouldn’t,” says Vincent as Kaitlyn was relieved to hear that.
“So give it some thought and visit me tomorrow in the Cousland Manor,” says Vincent as he left them.
“Is it wise to get them also to Tamriel,” says Vlad as he was worried about Vincent.
“The children need competition between themselves so they can grow stronger. Remember how Torygg and Naosane had their rivalry because they wanted to impress me only to find out that their sister was my favorite because she could beat both of them. That’s what Oren and the others need a healthy competition,” says Vincent as he smiled leaving the area to get back to the Cousland Manor.
Once there he talked to the others about what would be happening when Anora asks, “What about me?”
“You won’t be Queen but Teyrnar of Gwaren and the mother of the future King except Alistair doesn’t agree to it,” says Vincent as Anora was nervous about that.
“What if he doesn’t accept?” asks Anora as Vincent sighs.
“Then the treaty will be voided and we will see how the future will playout for the actual King,” says Vincent as the Cousland family was quite nervous to hear that since the Empire needed only five days to conquer the Qunari that were known for their Warfare.
“Don’t worry we won’t invade Ferelden. But we won’t help them either in the future. You will have to survive the chaos that is coming on your own,” says Vincent cryptic.
“Which chaos?” asks Bryce as Vincent shakes his head.
“I already said too much. You just have to know this. One day all of Thedas will be a Mage and when that happens chaos will reign again because the Evanuris returned to Thedas,” says Vincent giving them a hint before going to sleep in the Guestroom with Mina.
