Nathaniel hesitates a moment, unsure whether or not he should tell Martin about Justice; he had been fairly sure that Anders would have already said something. But if his suspicions are correct about what happened to Anders when the Masked stormed into the apartment, then Martin should know the facts.
"It's...a bit difficult to explain to someone that's not from Thedas, but I'll try. It requires a bit of an explanation of how some things are in our world; forgive me if I wind up being long-winded." He smiles wryly.
"In Thedas, when people fall asleep and dream, their minds travel to a place called the Fade. I don't know if it's a real place or not, Anders would probably be able to explain all of that better than I. What I do know is that most people can only go there when they're asleep, but mages have the ability to travel there when they're awake."
He gets up abruptly and grabs the carton of milk out of the fridge, pouring himself a glass before sitting back down. "There are two types of beings within the Fade: the first are demons. There's all sorts, and all of them are dangerous and malicious. There are also spirits -- personifications of ideals.
"When Anders and I served as Wardens together in Amaranthine, there was a sort of invasion of darkspawn -- hideous monsters that the Wardens are dedicated to fighting, if you didn't already know that. During one of our battles with them, a few of us were transported to the Fade against our will. We managed to make it out with the help of a spirit called Justice. Something happened, I'm still not sure what, and he was transported back to the mortal world with us, and was trapped within the dead body of a fellow Warden."
Nathaniel grimaces at that. As much as he'd grown to like Justice, serving with a sentient reanimated corpse had always seemed a little gruesome to him.
"I'll leave the details of this part to Anders to tell you, because I wasn't there. But the long and short of it was that some time later, Anders offered his body as a vessel to Justice. Since he was inhabiting a corpse at the time, there was always the possibility that the body..." another grimace from him, "would wear out. So, Justice and Anders merged with each other, and became one being."
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Nathaniel hesitates a moment, unsure whether or not he should tell Martin about Justice; he had been fairly sure that Anders would have already said something. But if his suspicions are correct about what happened to Anders when the Masked stormed into the apartment, then Martin should know the facts.
"It's...a bit difficult to explain to someone that's not from Thedas, but I'll try. It requires a bit of an explanation of how some things are in our world; forgive me if I wind up being long-winded." He smiles wryly.
"In Thedas, when people fall asleep and dream, their minds travel to a place called the Fade. I don't know if it's a real place or not, Anders would probably be able to explain all of that better than I. What I do know is that most people can only go there when they're asleep, but mages have the ability to travel there when they're awake."
He gets up abruptly and grabs the carton of milk out of the fridge, pouring himself a glass before sitting back down. "There are two types of beings within the Fade: the first are demons. There's all sorts, and all of them are dangerous and malicious. There are also spirits -- personifications of ideals.
"When Anders and I served as Wardens together in Amaranthine, there was a sort of invasion of darkspawn -- hideous monsters that the Wardens are dedicated to fighting, if you didn't already know that. During one of our battles with them, a few of us were transported to the Fade against our will. We managed to make it out with the help of a spirit called Justice. Something happened, I'm still not sure what, and he was transported back to the mortal world with us, and was trapped within the dead body of a fellow Warden."
Nathaniel grimaces at that. As much as he'd grown to like Justice, serving with a sentient reanimated corpse had always seemed a little gruesome to him.
"I'll leave the details of this part to Anders to tell you, because I wasn't there. But the long and short of it was that some time later, Anders offered his body as a vessel to Justice. Since he was inhabiting a corpse at the time, there was always the possibility that the body..." another grimace from him, "would wear out. So, Justice and Anders merged with each other, and became one being."