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endawn · 17 days ago

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ask pax if he regrets forcing himself back into his body and, therefore, coming back from the dead and he won’t answer. take his silence as his answer.

#❪ ⋅ ✹ ⋆ —┊ ❛ v. what yet lingers [dragon age] ❜ ❫#❪ ⋅ ✹ ⋆ —┊ ❛ ooc. ❜ ❫#suicide mention //#death //#( both long & short answer: it’s complicated )#( but in the years after the oblivion crisis [ Martin’s death ] he … wanted to die )#( he was dealing with grief & depression while getting bounced around by ocato & his continued duty to the empire )#( he wanted to rest. he was tired. )#( he knew nothing about governing on the elder council let alone one who had been in stagnancy & decline for years #but now had been set on fire by cultists )#( and he knew nothing about directing the ENTIRE military force as the new grand marshal )#( but there was no one left. the systematic assassinations of both legion leaders & any clear line of succession ensured there’d be chaos )#( he was the most ‘qualified’ because there was no one really left )#( it was all trying to pick up the pieces in the wake of an apocalypse )#( it did not help his impostor syndrome. it fed into his low sense of self. )#( mankar calling him a cat’s paw wasn’t entirely false )#( anyways where was i going with this )#( then it came to the legion pax led against the remaining sect of the mythic dawn )#( everyone being slaughtered and he was left alive )#( it was such a massive failure and one where imperial culture dictated he should have died with his men / fallen on his sword )#( death was his absolution )#( but … his duty was not quite done was it? )#( they planned to puppet his corpse with a demon and tear down what progress they had made to ensure the continued survival of cyrodiil )#( they wanted it all to burn )#( the mythic dawn turned themselves into abominations to overwhelm the legion soldiers . to obliterate them. )#( only a few of their mages remained to perform the ritual if they succeeded )#( use his body & magic boosted by the bound demon to seize control )#( he wanted death but he couldn’t when this is what they planned for his body. selflessness is a pillar of his being.he would deny himself #rest to prevent destruction. now he can’t have rest at all. not like this. not when his soul is corrupted. there is no way his gods would #( forgive him now. molag is still the devil in the works. his soul would go to coldharbour while possessed by hunger )

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