Anders looks down, pressing his lips together for a few moments before he begins to answer. It's not easy, but she's helping him. She deserves the information if she wants it.
"Myself and a few others were flung into the Fade. It was a trap, set for us. When we proved too much for the demon who wanted us there to handle, it threw us and the spirit who teamed up with us out of the Fade. The spirit, Justice, wound up in a corpse. For a time that sufficed, but the corpse was falling apart. One... A friend suggested we consider merging. We'd some ideals in common, after all. When I was cornered by Templars who didn't care I was a Warden and should be beyond their power, we merged. He saved my life, because moments afterward I was skewered with a blade. But it... It didn't go all that well."
He swallows and takes a breath. "My anger and his incomprehension of shades of grey combined. Twisted him. He became less Justice and more Vengeance slowly but surely. We had to separate, but he, he didn't want to. So we tried various ancient rituals to try to put him back in the Fade. Four failed entirely. The fifth pulled him out of my body, but purely as Vengeance. Justice was lost, and as Vengeance was attacking, he was fought. He died. Co--There's someone who says in time my friend may find his way again and slowly become Justice once more in the Fade. I hope he's right."
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"Myself and a few others were flung into the Fade. It was a trap, set for us. When we proved too much for the demon who wanted us there to handle, it threw us and the spirit who teamed up with us out of the Fade. The spirit, Justice, wound up in a corpse. For a time that sufficed, but the corpse was falling apart. One... A friend suggested we consider merging. We'd some ideals in common, after all. When I was cornered by Templars who didn't care I was a Warden and should be beyond their power, we merged. He saved my life, because moments afterward I was skewered with a blade. But it... It didn't go all that well."
He swallows and takes a breath. "My anger and his incomprehension of shades of grey combined. Twisted him. He became less Justice and more Vengeance slowly but surely. We had to separate, but he, he didn't want to. So we tried various ancient rituals to try to put him back in the Fade. Four failed entirely. The fifth pulled him out of my body, but purely as Vengeance. Justice was lost, and as Vengeance was attacking, he was fought. He died. Co--There's someone who says in time my friend may find his way again and slowly become Justice once more in the Fade. I hope he's right."