[Open] Time for some enjoyment

[conqueredhearts]

WHO: Iskandar and OPEN
WHAT: Iskandar is here to have a good time. Join him?
WHEN: Throughout Drakonis
WHERE: Skyhold and other fun places
NOTES: Probably lots of cute times. Maybe some sad times depending on the threads. But mostly a lot of cute and loud affection. Because Iskandar.

A. It's a new dog!

He'd been wanting one since first seeing the mabari. Now he had one of his own. A fine pup who tended to spend much of his time tripping over his own feet but was ever eager to be with and please the large man. Really he'd been told that an older dog would be recommended but they'd laid eyes on each other and that had been that. After all, once that bond was formed there simply was no going back.

And so one could find him with a puppy in one of the more open areas. They were training and it seemed that the puppy was at least rather intelligent at picking up on things! So long as Iskandar used his native tongue for the commands, something he'd decided to do just to solidify their bond further.

"Heh. What a clever boy you are, my Achilles Alexander!" The pup gave a bark and then happily ate up the piece of meat that he was given. And yes, Iskandar sure had named this dog after himself.

B. Training is important

The best way to perfect how one used their adjusted powers was to, well, use them. So he was around the training grounds to work with the couple of them that he felt could safely be done here. Name the teleportation and invisibility ones. So it was easy enough to spot him standing in one location only to reappear in another. At times he frowned and rubbed his beard as he considered what he'd been doing before trying again.

One could feel free to interrupt him though. He wasn't needing the concentration to do this really.

C. Memories rise to the surface

There were times when even Iskandar needed a moment to reflect, to think on the sadder days. Though he never regretted any of them that hardly meant they didn't weight on his heart. Many had been lost under his command or had given up much to follow him. Then there were times when he remembered Hephaestion and how perhaps he would never see him again. Or that his son would be someone he'd never lay eyes on.

So he was in the gardens with a kitten and a mabari pup curled up together on his lap. Both were sound asleep as if they'd been playing hard until that moment. He smiled down at them fondly, stroked their soft ears as he admired their pure innocence.

"It has been long since I had your purity, little ones."

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[conqueredhearts]

"As I said, I am a King. Marriage helps to bring heirs but also ensure your rule of a land. Besides that, I am fond of the women I married." He wasn't sure what the Avvar way of marriage was but he was going to have to research that people. They sounded rather fascinating in all honesty.

"Ah but no I did not come to conquer. I actually was in the middle of a battle with a powerful foe when I was carried here. In all honesty, the desire to conquer burns strong in me but it would bring me no pleasure as I am now. There is nothing so satisfying about being this powerful and simply taking. It only breeds humiliation and destruction and that is not what I believe in. I would rather be fully human again like when I was ruling. Then I would fight with all the limitations that comes with."

Most wanted power to win but not him. He would rather be the one without it and fighting against the giants using his own intelligence.

[inagutterson]

"Maybe how you do marriage makes heirs. Or airs. Does it make those too? Some folk go to the winds when they go and they're still around when you hear a wayward curse carried on them. 'sides only got your word for it don't I? I could sort that but it ain't like me and my titles.". Yngvi finally stops for a breath and to favour this alleged king with one of his knife-edge smiles. What comes of learning manners from strays and Orlesians ladies who by rights ought not to have survived the Game.

Some of that sounds like a reaver. Some of that sounds like a berserker. All of it conjures old stories and memories of times around campfires with drink and meat aplenty. The pain of it is so fierce, so sudden it steals his breath. The mask slides sideways and Yngvi can't quite look at Iskandar for a moment.

Good old Kirkwall senses to the rescue.

"Fully human. Explain. In detail. I'm interested in that because how even.". Is he a demon? Is he dead? Should he poke him like he did that weird tree in Orlais? Fuck it, he's leaning over to poke with a short grubby finger.

[conqueredhearts]

Well he could have answered the part about making babies but someone was now poking at him with one of his fingers. He didn't pull back from it and instead just allowed the poking. He seemed fully human. Perfectly solid, definitely there. Of course he was very big for a human but that wasn't the point.

"Well. I'm a spirit summoned by a mage. This is my physical form but it is the soul of the man I was when I was alive. I died centuries ago and am now spirit instead. Does that make sense?"

It was the simplest explanation honestly...

[inagutterson]

"You and the augur would literally never shut up if you met, you aren't going to Honey Badger Hold." At least not while Yngvi's around. Because how will Gjurd police Yngvi getting up to no good? "Also never be near Aura if she shows up, she's all about spirits and swinging swords too, don't want you near her or I'll set twenty nugs on you and we'll see what they make of a thing like you. They come from the Deep Roads that're full of Darkspawn, look at them. They know things no one was meant to know."

Behold those beady black eyes, fathomless pits of unknowable horrors. Fear the nugs. Fear them.

"Pretty sure you're a thing the Chantry would set on fire. Have the Templars do a Templar thing around in the big Templar skirts. The mages wouldn't be allowed to clap eyes on you unless it was to see how you worked then they'd end up with sunbursts on their heads. You sound like a shady demon thing though, spirits don't do the whole up inside a person the way you're doing it. Spirits are-- a thing. Demons now. Well demons like to have teeth." Look. Yngvi's not wrong from a certain point of view about that bit.

[conqueredhearts]

"Well I'm not actually inside a person. This is my own body and not one I have possessed. I suppose some aspects could be considered demonish though." He gave a shrug, obviously not that bothered by the fact. Demons were a pretty normal thing where he was from. Usually summoned by the Caster class though. They were as close to being mages themselves without actually being so. Not that this was helping Iskandar's case but he wasn't one to actually hide anything about himself. This was what he was and people could do with it what they would.

"I'm rather sure they'd have some terrible times setting me on fire though. And I'm actually friends with one of the Templar here. I think he finds me rather odd but most do so that's not all that surprising I suppose."

He laughed then gave him a great big grin. "I'm also not so sure why I should fear these nugs. They are small and I have heard many a mention of them being weak and edible."