#but a red lyrium rune could help prevent a person from growing further and bring them solace

[nightmarist]

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I've not written anything today, I have to finish my commission, but here's a snippet from yesterday:

She had asked for him to the Rookery, where he found her on her knees, hands clasped as she prayed to herself at the shrine of Andraste, lit well with candles.

“…For You are the fire at the heart of the world, and comfort is only Yours to give.”

She sighed quietly as she stood and turned to Dirthadin as though she had known he was there. She likely did.

“Thank you for coming.” She walked past him to her table and picked up a rune that sat on her desk. Dirthadin pondered it. Instead of a faint blue, however, it appeared to emanate a menacing red.

“Is that from the puzzle chest we uncovered?”

“Yes, and no. It is the same style, but it is a new enchantment Dagna created. We have gathered Red Lyrium shards for her to work with. Thanks to Varric and one of his contacts, we have been able to build a specialized series of vaults to protect anyone who works with it. Dagna has been studying the Red Lyrium for us for quite some time, and we have been careful not to let anyone be exposed for too long, or too often. It has been tedious work, but this is one of the fruits of our labors.”

She showed it to him, the size of her palm, round and smooth, embedded with the veins of Red Lyrium.

“It is surprisingly quite stable. Not that I don’t think Dagna is capable, but Red Lyrium is just so volatile.”

She held it up to him as he laid out his palm for her to drop it in. Heavy, smooth, and cool to touch, exactly like a normal stone, but Dirthadin could feel the Lyrium inside of it sing to him, tug at his very veins, pluck his tendons like harp strings.

“Do you feel it?”

He glanced at her. “Yes. Yes, I do. It feels… Like it wants to take. Like a spider offering a fly a blanket for the night.”

She hummed.

“It absorbs like into itself. It should allow us to dispel the strength of Red Lyrium from the Templars. This is what my contacts had told me about, and what you have been training for.”

His chest ached as if he were holding his own heart in his hands.

“We have also been recreating the original runes. Some of our Templars suffer withdrawals from Lyrium. Cullen told you Templars take it, yes?”

Dirthadin nodded at her, though looked intently on the rune in his hands.

“They may help them ease their pain. We may try to distribute them among some of the former Templars and test the results. Minaeve and Helisma will be conducting further research alongside Dagna – while they specialize in beasts, they are greatly versed in biology and arcano-biology to help study the effects on our people. To make sure we’re doing the right thing.”

“And I am to plant this in the ranks of the Red Templars?”

“Yes. Come, we’ll talk at the War Table. Blackwall and Saarkadan would need to know more about what we will be doing now that Dagna has created these runes for us.”

#imagine instead of forcing templars to take lyrium you can create runes that absorb magic for them to use instead #and not just templars but anyone #protection from magic #and an aid to help circles/colleges protect themselves without the violence of templars #a preventative for forced tranquilization #and perhaps one day with the help of the seekers tranquility will be a training method not a punishment #i think the red templars are too far gone #but a red lyrium rune could help prevent a person from growing further and bring them solace #the iron lung of red lyrium #it doesnt cure.... but it can help