I had a lot of letters come to my estate asking for help with random tasks, including some of my old personal business. So I figured before I went out to solve all these problems, I'd go pick up some new armor and a new shield. I found myself a new full plate, and a darkspawn shield. Both which look pretty cool.
I had found a figurine out in my flower picking journey while up in the Dalish mountain, and it looked really elvish. I decided to try to and give it Merrill to see if she'd like it. She was ecstatic to receive a gift like this, she said she has never received just a "gift" before, they were usually always actual things she needed, not just a want.
So I went to go see my business partner who said that our shipments have been constantly ambushed for a while. He ended up finding the person responsible for the ambushes, and it was just a normal miner who was trying to find some extra cash. He told me a sob story about his family and how he just wanted a better life for his son. I believed the story, and he caved in telling me who was ambushing and when the next ambush was. He also told me he left a stash of gold hidden for himself in the cave, and that he felt sorry for ever stealing from someone like me. I couldn't let him be killed for this, besides, his wife and son would be without money or a father.
We went to the ambush site, but they already ransacked the caravan. We found out the people who were ambushing us were actually people who were working for us to protect the caravans. We went to find the traitor in darktown, but Lilly (who was my escort) was killed before I could get there. We went down into their lair, and instantly found some traps. Large spiky traps of doom to be exact. Lucky for me the smugglers were stupid enough to trigger their own traps as well.
We came up upon their leader, and a fight broke out, we pushed up the stairs and slayed all who opposed us, we were eventually ambushed by reinforcements from behind us, which gave a little trouble, but nothing too bad.
I was strolling through Hightown market when a dwarf was yelling at me because his three sons ran into the deep roads looking for loot because they heard of the stories of me finding my fortune in the Deep Roads. We came upon the first brother who was hiding in fear near the entrance, he told me that one of the brothers was mad with greed and locked his other brother in with darkspawn while he ran for a "poisoned sword". I quickly ran to the other brother trapped with darkspawn to find just a few genlocks, but then a few darkspawn mages came up from behind. Holy crap did these guys hurt. They weren't too bad until they spawned these exploding fireballs of death. They would instantly kill Varric and Anders when they exploded, and left me nearly dead across the room. We took them out as fast as possible with a few revives from Anders and his constant heals, and then we headed on to find the last brother.
Upon entrance to the next room the third brother was laying on the floor dead. We searched the surrounding area and found a golem control rod near his corpse. I wondered if it still worked. Sure enough, in the next room we found some golems and I was able to control one of them. There were plenty of other fearsome golems that I could not control though, and they went on a rampage killing everything around them, darkspawn or not. They were some tough enemies, but we eventually crumbled them down to size.
In the last room we found a group of genlocks and a darkspawn mage. I instantly went for the mage when all of a sudden an ogre comes barreling out the treasure room. I instantly change targets while Varric pins the mage to the floor while Merrill threw some lightning at him. I kept the ogre's attention the whole time while we slowly brought him down. He was pretty tough, but after fighting that dragon, this seemed easy.
I came back to see if the brothers had made it out, and the father was sad to see that the third wasn't with me. He was expecting that he was with me, but I came empty handed. Even though the third brother was blinded by greed, he was still sad. He was his son after all.
I was going to talk to the Qunari leader when a guard stopped me asking if I was killing patrols along the beach. I asked if I was really on the top of his list, and he apparently knows I'm quite capable, since he stated that no mere local assassin could kill a Qunari patrol. I went up the beach and found the dead patrol, but there was a transformed mage who was now an abomination with shades. They weren't that tough, but I guess we are bosses.
I was then told by the Qunari leader when I returned that someone stole a recipe that the stealer though was explosives, instead it was a recipe for a poisonous gas. I went to find the merchant that supposedly sold the gas, but he was gone through the smuggler's cove. I chased through tons of mercenaries, but found the merchant. He said he was just a face, and the person who was doing all the stealing and creating was in lowtown. So I went to lowtown, and found an area sealed off by guards. The guards tried to stop me from going down, but no one was willing to fight to stop me. I went down and started sealing containers, and as I was doing so, some smugglers came out, including a female elf who hated the Qunari. I eventually killed all the smugglers and sealed all the containers and went back to the Qunari leader to report my findings.
An hour or so of talking with the Qunari about his customs and how every Qunari is pretty much a slave, he states that he isn't waiting for a boat to come bring him home, but he is instead waiting to take back an item we have stolen from him years ago... Hmm. Some officials need to know about this.
Upon my entrance to the main keep, I was stopped by Aveline asking for me to do some random errands for her. She asked me to give a package to a guard I had saved earlier, Donnic. She was apparently trying to get his attention, but he seemed oblivious to it. It eventually came to me asking Donnic to have some drinks with me at The Hanged Man and Aveline would then make her move. I waited there with Donnic for hours, but he eventually got tired and had to leave. Aveline then came up after he left saying she couldn't do it. I then forced her into another meeting, this time on a patrol, since she dragged me into this, and now Donnic thinks I'm trying to get with Aveline.
I found them on their patrol, and made sure I was ahead of them so they would not be interrupted on the patrol. I found a large group of Mabaris, Some Slavers, and some smugglers. Not much, but they still had to be dealt with.
Upon the finish of their patrol, they met up with us and Donnic was wondering what we were doing here. Aveline was being the awkward one, and all of a sudden Merrill just blurts it out saying they look cute together and should kiss. Donnic was confused by all of this and ran off. Aveline was so mad at us, she thought he was going to file a complaint and ask for a transfer. She dragged me along with her even more to wait for Donnic.
He eventually came up, and asked to speak with Aveline alone. An hour or so later some giggling came from her room. Things were obviously going fine, so I decided to go check the shops in hightown again. I came back to talk with Aveline over it, and she was overjoyed that Donnic felt the same and was glad I pushed her to it.
I then went to talk to Anders, since he said he needed help with something. Apparently there is a Templar who is turning every mage who speaks against him into a Tranquil! Even mages who have passed their Harrowing and are not apostates! I agreed to help Anders with this, this templar has gone too far! I'll be doing this right away, so I'll be posting my results in my next journal entry.
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