Desire

> *"I want to feel your warm blood pulsing through your veins first hand"*
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Desire is a demon encountered in season 1. She is fickle and seductive. Only the strongest of wills can resist her deals.

## Background

Desire was summoned by the Tevinter Mage Octavius to imprison Fergus Cousland, Tyra Cousland and Merryn Hecate in her own domain in the fade. While they were under her coma Octavius used the Tevinter artifact Magrallen to harvest the dragon blood of Tyra.

## Involvement

### Season 1

When a party consisting of Sarah, Anais and Arasghilana destroys the Magrallen the entire population of castle cousland is transported into the fade. She quickly remakes her domain to fit all the new entries.

From before she has Tyra captive in the chasind camp she grew up in and continously torments her with visions of the mad hunters that killed her clan. For Ethel she has her dream wedding for her granddaughter Sarah. For Merryn she has a peaceful picnic on a hill with his wife and for Fergus she has a false version of his family, safe and sound.

When the party raches the inner sanctum of the fade altered Cousland Castle she offers to make a deal with them. She takes half the life of one of the people in the fade and she gives them all a gift. Anais and Sarah rejects the offers but Arasghilana agrees to give her own life in exchange for removing her tranquility. Arasghilana joins forces with Desire and manages to defeat the other half of the party and afterwards they share a bed. When Arasghilana wakes up she discovers that Desire has kept her promise and that she is indeed cured.

### Season 2

In the Dirtharaan dlc, Desire contacts Arsghilana in the fade after she's been poisoned. She takes the form of Tyra when she appears in her dream and when questioned about it she says that that's the form that Arasghilanas mind wanted. She also hints that she may have done more things to Tyra in the fade than was previously seen by the party.

As the party enter M's hideout they find Arasghilana inside a magic cage. They free her but she turns out to be possessed by Desire and attacks the party. During the ensuing fight, Arasghilana manages to free herself from Desire, however doesn't have time to say this as she is killed by Tyra.

### Season 3

As the party fall through the floor of the ghast cave they're in, Erik gets impaled. He hears a voice in his head asking weather or not he wants to be saved, he reluctantly agrees and gets up unharmed. later that night he has a dream where a purple campfire talks to him. The night after that, Erik has sex with Eugene and Desire comes to him in another dream, now as a shadowy silhouette. She informs him that she is merely a shard of a desire demon but that she grows stronger from the desire of other people that Erik interacts with. The next time they meet, Desire shows Erik two of the previous people she had possessed, one of which is the reason Desire is stuck on Erik. One turns out to be Arasghilana, the other is Maolen.

Erik continues having dreams after a certain amount of sexual intercourse. Eventually Desire asks if she should leave him and Erik says yes. Eriks wound opens slightly because of this but he manage to patch it up with the help of Cassandra. When Erik eventually faces off against his brother, his soul calls for Desire in the fade and she comes to his aid. After the fight, Desire heals his wound, kisses his cheek and disperses into the fade.

### Season 4

Right after saying "sorry" to Tyra in the season 3 Epilogue Desire arrives in a strange castle somewhere in the fade and is greeted by a demon dressed in a grand red dress who welcomes Desire into her court of freak and outcast spirits.