Regina Adaar

Regina Adaar is a Vashoth riftmage. Per request of Divine Justinia V, she and her mercenaries are part of the conclave as guards. While the conclave is going on, Regina witnesses Corypheus and the Grey Wardens binding Justinia with blood magic. She takes the Orb from Corypheus and thus causes the explosion at the conclave and enters the fade unwillingly, having obtained the so called mark or anchor. After leaving the fade with the help of the Divine, she get's found and taken by Cassandras troups for interrogation, starting the game. Regina is no devout Andrastian, she doesn't care about religion. Regina is willing to help fight the breach alongside Cassandra but not out of devotion, she does it because she hopes that it will convince the chantry forces that she is no evil terrorist, like Roderick framed her to be.

## Overview

### Physical Appearance

Regina is a very tall woman, which often intimidates people. She also has bright green eyes due to the anchor influencing her body in some regards. Before the Anchor, her eyes used to be less bright but still green. She likes to wear imposing armors to frighten enemies or other people, who even think of opposing her, so she follows Viviennes advice that clothing is a weapon that one shouldn't discard. But the most impressive part of her looks are her four horns, that set her appart from many other Qunari.

### Personality

Regina is commonly seen as a cold, distant and stern leader. But it is also a very well known fact that she gets results and that rather fast. She is a "the end justifies the means" or "do what has to be done" type of person. Her morality could be described as morally grey or true neutral. If laws have to be broken to get a better outcome, then so be it. But Regina can also be a warm hearted around the people she cares about, which she doesn't show in public as she wants to keep her somewhat intimidating and serious reputation, that has served her very well so far. Reginas leadership style can be described as very effective, stern and pragmatic. She doesn't let her emotions get in the way of her decisionmaking.

#### Decisionsmaking and Morality

Like I said, Reginas morality is very much grey and can change to more light or dark shades depending on the situation that she is faced with. While she has her morals, she does put them aside at times when it gets her and her organisation a much needed advantage. But there are lines that she isn't willing to cross. So she will never agree to slavery as freedom is the most important right for her. When it comes to her decision making, she doesn't rely on her emotions as she thinks them to be a distraction. She goes solely by what logic tells her to do. One example of that is the decision to sacrifice Bull's chargers. In her mind, the alliance with the Qun, that she hates, is worth more than a small group of mercenaries in an all out war against Corypheus. Especially as the Qun has one of the best spy networks in form of the ben-hassrath. So in the end she is guided by logic and pragmatism.

### Talents and skills

Regina is most proficient in the use of lightning and rift magic. She usually traps enemies in a static cage and then uses pull of the abyss and chain lightning to finish them off, while they are clustered. If the situation requires it, she will fight with either a sword or her staff in melee. At one point she had Vivienne teach her on how to create a spirit blade, so that she is always ready to defend herself against an enemy that sneaks up on her. If that fails, she uses a fade step to get some distance and resumes to stone fists.

Outside of combat Regina is a good strategist, who usually has Cullens approval when she presents her strategies. Her strategies are very often abstract to confuse the enemy with tactics that they never had to face before. She hates to use commonly known strategies.

Regina is also a good enchantress, as she provided these services to her former mercenary band. She was taught by her dwarven Blacksmith Serynn, who is part of her mercenary band, and also uses these talents in favor of the Inquisitions, enchanting weapons and armors for her army. She greatly improved that skill when she got Vivienne and her loyal mages to join the Inquisition. Among these mages were a few tranquil who deepened Reginas understanding of enchanting. So it is safe to say that Regina is a quick learner when it comes to magic.

## Backstory

Regina was born to a couple of two Qunari. Her mother, Hera Adaar, was a Vashoth mage, who taught her the basic skills of magic like how to control it. Hera hails from a very old Qunari blood line, which goes back to the time were the Qunari were experimented on with Dragon blood. That is also the reason why Regina has four horns. At least that is what she was taught by her family and what Corypheus indirectly confirmed by calling the Qunari an experiment. Her family never interbred with other races or even families that once did that. Reginas father, Kaaras, is a ben-hassrath agent, who was tasked with hunting down Hera because she was a mage that escaped the Qun, as she didn't want to be shackled like the other Saarebas are. She wanted to live in freedom and wanted the same for her future child, if she ever had one. Kaaras changed his view on the Qun, when he met Hera, who was a peaceful woman who simply tended to her own life without hurting anyone with her magic. She didn't even try to get revenge on the Qun or attack them in any way. She simply wanted to live in peace. Upon meeting Kaaras, who was tasked with killing her or bringing her to the tamassrans to be qameked he chose to ignore this order as he saw it is unjust after being questioned why he wants to kill her. He was unable to answer that question aside from duty. He didn't know the exact reason except that she broke some rule of the Qun, whose existence or justification he also doesn't know about. That led him to decide to live for himself and not for an ideology that he doesn't even understand, just because he was born into it. So he and Hera slowly got to know eachother and share their worldviews with each other, which brought them even closer. After a few years they fell in love and got Regina. Regina was a mage, just like her mother. She was a happy and energetic girl that was determined to see the world and understand it. But that luck didn't last for too long. When Regina was 10 years old, Hera managed to teach Regina how to wield her magic without loosing control. By that time, the Qun has already sent other Ben-Hassrath assassins to deal with the rogue family. They killed Reginas parents, while Regina managed to hide and thus survived.

The girl was deeply traumatized upon hearing the screams of her parents and witnessing their deaths with her own eyes, out of her hiding spot. After the assassins were gone, she was found by the Valo-Kas mercenaries, who took her in as she was still a kid and thus a useful lure for future target. They also had another mage, who trained her in magic and especially in lightning magic to turn her into a valuable asset of the group. As the years passed on, Regina turned into a very capable fighter and eventually leader. The mercenaries taught her that emotions are a weakness in battle and that it is best to push them away if she wants to survive. The fact that she didn't receive any love for most of her childhood and youth also added to her turning into a cold and calculating being. For her logic and pragmatism mattered above all else, just like the mercenaries taught her. She learned how to manipulate the feelings of others to get exactly what she needs. She also learned how to weaponize emotions, like love and attraction. She never used it for pleasure but to basically enthrall her targets or intimidate or persuade them, whatever was required or most effective. Those skills also got her the position as the leader of the mercenaries. Her purely logical and pragmatic approach to problems, combined with her unusual skills set her apart from the common mercenary. And there is also her skill in magic and enchanting that strengthened her position even futher. She once had a contract, where she had to kill a group of bandits that were harassing a Dalish clan. The dalish offered some of their famed bows to the mercenaries, so Regina took the job. She soon learned that the leader of that bandit clan was a very lusty individual, a weakness that she was going to exploit to it's fullest. She put her charm on display and soon got the leader enarmoured to herself. She continued to make him feel like the best person in the world for a few weeks, before she broke him mentally and embarrassing him in front of his people. She had to use such tactics, as the bandits were far better equipped than Reginas group. She used the ensuing chaos to take the bandits, who had no good leadership anymore, by surprise and end them for good. The Dalish clan kept their word and gave the mercenaries many elven bows, which greatly increased their efficiency as elven bows are among the best in Thedas.

By the time Dragon age Origins happened, Reginas mercenaries had a reputation for being among the best. They were hired by Queen Anora of Ferelden to bolster the ranks of the fereldan army, which was bled dry in the battle of Ostagar. Regina accepted under the condition that she will get payed a very large sum of gold and that the mercenaries are allowed to recruit a dwarven blacksmith from the court into their ranks. As the situation was desperate, Anora was forced to agree to these terms. The valo-kas were usually tasked with hunting groups of darkspawn in the brecilian forest and among Denerim, a job that they did very well. They were also tasked with bolstering the defence of Lothering, when the darkspawn arrived to ensure that many people would make it out alive. The valo-kas acted as guards of the refugee convoy, while the Templars acted as cannon fodder to buy time for the refugees. Aside from that she and her group participated in the battle of Denerim and were tasked with defending the Alienage, a task that she carried out with great pleasure as she was a friend of elves in general. Regina valued freedom more than anything else and she thus felt sympathy with the oppressed elves, which resulted in her volunteering to defend the Alienage. After the battle was won, the group carried on with a Dwarven blacksmith in tow. It was a middle aged woman, who was named Serynn Turmi. Serynn is a very nice and intelligent dwarf, she is usually calm and keeps to herself. She was also able to teach Regina a few ways to work with lyrium, without loosing her mind or suffering other negative effects. Regina had a great deal of respect for the Dwarf, who she saw as an actual friend and not just a comrade.

By the time of act 2 of Dragon age 2, Regina and her group were in Kirkwall to help Isabela with finding the relic. The group only agreed to that contract because they knew that it will greatly hurt the Qun to loose it. And Regina carries an intense hatred against the Qun since they murdered her parents for leaving the ideology. Regina and Isabela do manage to find the relic. While Isabela is about to give it to the Arishok to get them to leave Kirkwall, Regina decides to swallow her hatred and stays idle. She allows it to happen, because she already has a plan to sink the ship that the Arishok will leave with, with her own magic. For her it's the better way as she will have the advantage. Isabela agrees to play along and go with the Arishok after Hawke turned her over, as he demands that the thief accompanies him to Par Vollen. In reality, Isabela made sure that her crew would aid Regina in the pursuit of the Qunari to sink their ship, with a stolen ship. So as soon as the Arishoks ship leaves the port of Kirkwall, Regina and her allies start to chase him down accros the ocean, to the borders of rivain were Isabelas other pirate allies come to aid Regina. They manage to sink the Arishoks ship and thus drown him. Regina fishes the tome of koslun out of the water with her magic and burns it down. But as Regina is not stupid, she had her people make a copy of the tome beforehand with slightly altered teachings, that benefit the common populace in the Qun controlled nations. The teachings are far more benevolent and allow for more freedom. She hopes that this deception will work and allow the people to slowly see the truth. She ransoms the tome to the Qun for a very high price. The tome looks exactly the same as the original, which prevents the deception from being noticed. In the end, Hawke is the champion of Kirkwall as she got the Qunari to leave, while Regina is the one who killed him, which is a secret.

## Dragon age Inquisition

### The beginnings of the Inquisition

By the time of Dragon age Inquisition, her mercs are known throughout all of Thedas, as they have taken on many daring contracts and managed to come out of those successful. That is also what got them the Divines attention, when she was searching for a neutral guarding force for the conclave. She knew about the Valo-Kas' reputation and especially about Regina. So she hired them, which Regina had hoped she would as she wanted to see the negotiations, as they could change the world. Upon hearing cries for help, Regina barged into a room where she saw Grey Wardens and some Darkspawn binding the Divine with blood magic. She managed to knock some orb out of the Darkspawns hand and upon touching it herself, caused the explosion at the conclave while Regina was pulled into the fade alongside the Divine. She managed to escape and was found by the chantries remaining troops, who took her for interrogation. Regina lost her memories related to the explosion, so she couldn't answer the chantries questions. However, she did agree to help the chantry forces with closing the breach as best as she could in the slight hope of regaining her freedom that way. She also agreed so that she could then ask the favor of the chantry to find her group, who she lost contact with after the explosion. Upon stabilizing the Breach, Regina officially joined the Inquisition, while denying everything about being some herald of Andraste. The mark is magic for her, not divinity.

She soon decides to travel to the Hinterlands to make contact with Mother Giselle, a chantry member. Regina isn't too fond of her as she usually dislikes chantry people and sees them as dumb for blindly following the chantry, without having evidence of a makers existence. She also thinks that the chantry failed in every aspect and should simply fall, but she won't say that to Giselle for the sake of securing an alliance. So when she arrives in the Hinterlands, Regina decides to take out the renegade mages and Templars to protect the commoners, for a price of course. She demands that people who are of age and in a condition to fight join the Inquisition. The villagers grudgingly accept and do join. In return, Regina deals with all kind of threats in the Hinterlands like rifts, templars, mages, bandits and wolves. She also secures the crossroads by stationing the new recruits there as guards, so that they can fulfill their duty without being seperated from their families. She sees this as the best way to keep her soldiers happy, while gaining more influence in the region. Moving on, she finally goes to meet Giselle and secures the alliance, while also being positively surprised by Giselles more modern views compared to the chantries usual outdated dumb views. She has a feeling that Giselle might prove useful in the future.

Later, she and her small group make their way to Val Royeaux to confront the chantry sisters and the hatred that comes from them. Regina makes it very clear that she doesn't care about the Maker. She only cares about facing and defeating the threat that the breach poses. And she won't rest until that goal is accomplished, whether the chantry supports her or not. This gets her the attention of the first and court enchantress Vivienne, also known as Madame de Fer. Aside from that she receives an invitation from the red Jennies to meet one of them if Regina plays some game. Regina meets Vivienne first and gets along very well with her. Upon being insulted by Marquis Alphonse, Regina challenges him to a duel. She wins with ease and then gives him an ultimatum. She will spare him, if he agrees to work as an agent for the Inquisition. If he refuses, she will finish the duel. Alphonse agrees to become an agent for the Inquisition and soon starts to provide them with intel on the nobles and the chevaliers plans. Vivienne was genuinly surprised by Reginas ability to play the game and joins the Inquisition, providing them with the support of the loyalist mages. Regina then meets up with Sera, who she immediately finds strange. She thinks that Sera is stupid for not disarming her enemies when she had the chance, just because they have no pants. But alas, Regina needs the connections to the Jennies so she accepts Sera into the Inquisition. Upon being approached by what seems to be Fiona, Regina agrees to meet the rebel mages in Redcliffe. But before that, she returns to Haven just to receive a message from the so called Iron Bull. She is inclined to check it out at the stormcoast, but before doing that she goes to the wartable to send out troops to find her former mercenary group. She is especially worried about Serynn, her dwarven friend. While the scouts are out searching for the Valo-Kas, Regina heads to the Stormcoast and meets Bull. Upon hearing that he is a ben-hassrath she has a hard time to swallow her hatred for his kind. She let's Cassandra do the recruitment, who accept the Bull under the condition that he will show every report that he sends to the Qun to Leliana before sending. And Regina adds that Bull is not allowed to even try to convert anyone or he is out. Continuing on the Stormcoast, Regina recruits the blades of Hessarian as scouts and armed force at the Stormcoast, to keep order there. She also turns their base into a stable to store horses for her new allies, to increase their efficiency.

Returning to Haven, she immediately checks the Wartable only to see that Serynn was found and brought to her. She is overjoyed to see her friend and immediately offers her a position in the Inquisition and a place in Reginas squad for outside activities. Serynn did learn how to fight with a bow in the many years as part of Reginas mercenary band. Her specialisation is Artificer, she crafts all of her traps by herself and constantly improves them. Serynn tells Regina that she was being held captive by bandits, who picked up survivors of the explosion to ransom them to the chantry. But Serynn was able to kill them with her traps and her bow. So it was only a matter of time before the Inquisitions troops found her. She decided to get comfortable in the forge alongside Harrit when she wasn't out with Regina. She was a far better Blacksmith than Harrit and thus improved the quality of the arms and armor of the Inquisition forces. She also enchanted them whenever she got her hands on Lyrium. Regina is paying her regular visit to see how she is faring. One day, Serynn gives Regina a staff that she made herself. It's element is lightning, which is Reginas prefered element. And the staff has the name Regina engraved on it's handle. It is a masterpiece of enchanting and smithing. Regina is sure to use that from now on.

She also decides to talk to her other companions, except for Bull. She get's to know Cassandra a bit better but still has a somewhat low opinion of her, because of her devotion to the failing and crumbling chantry. She notices that Solas is a very smart individual and decides to ask him about all kind of things, especially about stuff related to the fade like the nature of spirits. Upon being asked whether spirits are persons or not, Regina is honest and says that she can't say for sure as she never had the chance to interact with a spirit directly. She respects Solas for his knowledge and also shows it, asking him on a regular basis about his opinions and lore on things that interest her. With Varric, she decides to play a game of wicked grace that she wins by cheating. Isabela taught her how to cheat back when she was in Kirkwall. Regina gets the recipe for bee jars from Sera and has a lengthy discussion about the circles with Vivienne, which ends with Regina agreeing with Vivienne but proposing a reform that allows the mages to be free after the Harrowing.

Reginas next objective is to go to Redcliffe, now that she has cleared the Stormcoast of dangers and got equipped. While heading to Redcliffe, she meets and recruits the Grey Warden called Blackwall. He seems to know how to fight so he is a welcome addition to the Inquisition. And as he is a Warden, he has connections that the Inquisition can use. After all the world owes the Wardens for defeating the fifth blight, a debt that Regina will exploit. She get's into a quick conversation with the man and finds out that he is driven by the concept of honor, which Regina usually associates with Knight errants and fools, which is the same in her mind.

### Mages or Templars?

Arriving in Redcliffe she notices a rift that changes time around it, like slowing and quickening it. She is determined to get to the bottom of this and maybe even learn how to control time like that. It was believed to be impossible, but Regina just saw it with her own eyes, so she is questioning the laws and boundaries of magic until Vivienne makes a very convincing case as to why the Inquisition should stay clear of such magic. It is drawn from an unknown source and the use of it is also untested so it is far too dangerous to be used. Regina sees the logic in that and agrees with Vivienne. She later meets up with Fiona, who tells Regina that she basically sold the Mages to Tevinter as slaves for their own safety from the Templars. She also says that she never invited Regina, which hints at more time manipulation. She suspects that this Alexius is behind it as Fiona says that his moment of arrival was strange. She meets him soon enough as he enters the Tavern alongside his son Felix. Regina notices that the boy has some kind of sickness. Felix uses his sickness to drop on Regina to secretly give her a letter that urges her to meet her in the chantry. She follows these instructions and geets greeted by a Tevinter mage by the name of Dorian Pavus. Quite the arrogant man but there is something about him that Regina likes, aside from his skill in battle. She learns that Alexius is indeed responsible for the time magic stuff and that he is out to get her. She wonders why and decides to stay in contact with Dorian. In the meantime she resumes to helping the Hinterlands. She exposes a smuggler called Tanner, who she immediately recruits for the Inquisition under threat of exposing her and thus ruining her reputation. She also recruits the cultists in the Hills, increasing her influence in the Region even further. She makes sure to have the old and weak people spread the word about the good deeds of the Inquisition. The young and able people get recruited into the army of the Inquisition.

Upon returning to Haven, Regina is met with a heated debate about what to do. Cullen and Cassandra advocate for getting the support of the Templars. Leliana and Josephine advocate for the Mages. Regina decides to ask for Serynns and Viviennes opinion, her most trusted advisors and friends. Both of them agree that approaching the Templars is the smarter move but they shouldn't leave the mages completely alone. So Regina and Vivienne come up with a risky plan. They will send a few of their companions and spies to the mages, namely solas, varric, blackwall and the Iron Bull who work with Dorian, offering them to escape Tevinter and instead join the Inquisition. In the meantime, Regina will take Vivienne, Cassandra and Serynn to Therinfals Redoubt to recruit the Templars. Regina had her agent Alphonse work with Vivienne to arrange for a proper noble escort, to get the Lordseeker to grant them an audience. That plan works and they get greeted by the Templar Barris. A young man that still remembers the true values of the Templars, Regina already senses that this man would be a good leader for the Templars and a good ally. Regina does raise the flags like the Lordseeker requested. She puts the people first, templars second and the chantry last. Upon meeting Knight Captain Denam, she intimidates Abernache enough to prevent him from betraying her. She had Leliana collect some scandalous information on him that she now uses against him to ensure his loyalty. So Regina defeats the Red Templars and continues on through the keep. She finds out about the marshall that Denam killed. When she meets Lucius, she realizes that this is a demon that impersonated him and took control of the Templar order in the name of someone called the elder one. Regina does manage to escape her head with the help of a young man called Cole. She also got some boosts to her powers by finding some strange stone statues. As soon as she escapes, she gets tasked by Barris to find three Templar veterans and pure Lyrium. She decides to leave Vivienne and Serynn behind to help fortify the great hall with traps and magic. A wise decision as the attacking red templars get finished off by Serynns traps while Regina finds Lyrium and the veterans. The Templars manage to clear the way to the envy demon, which nearly defeats the group until Serynn throws in a new device that she made, it is very effective against creates from the fade. It is like a banish spell, just stronger because the trap is infused with lyrium that Regina has to cast a banish spell on, which gets strengthened by the lyrium in the trap. Like a long range lyrium potion.

The mission is successful as Regina manages to conscript the Templars for the Inquisition. She conscript them because the order is too weak to stand on it's own, now that most of it's leadership is dead. She does appoint Barris to be the section of commander of the templar section of the Inquisitions forces. She also recruits Cole because he helped her in the fight against envy.

While that mission was a success, the mission of Dorians squad in Redcliffe has turned quite sour. While they managed to free around one third of the mages, the Venatori and Alexius caught them. The freed mages managed to escape and made their way to Haven to inform the Inquisition and the newly recruited Templars. Alexius is holding Dorians squad captive in the hopes of luring Regina out to ambush her, so that he can deliver her to the Elder one. Regina learns about that when she sends Cole ahead to tap into Alexius' mind. Cole is her secret weapon in general for that mission. He can remain completely unseen and find out what his enemies are up to, the perfect person to bring along. So upon learning of the situation from the mages and Cole, Regina comes up with a plan. She will send Cole and Sera to break out the other mages and Dorians squad, while she herself will confront Alexius with her companions Vivienne, Cassandra and Serynn. Vivienne points out a major flaw in that strategy, Fiona. Many mages are still loyal to her and would rather follow Fiona to battle than Regina, which means that the Mages would be hostile. So she suggests to bring the freed mages along so that they can convince their kin to fight for Regina and not the traitor Fiona, who sold them into slavery. Maybe they can even convince Fiona, who doesn't seem to be happy in that alliance with Alexius.

Now that they have a plan, the Inquisition gets to work. The freed mages manage to convince a large part of the rebels and get them to join the fight against Tevinter under Regina. Only some very extremist mages, who would wish for a mage rule like in Tevinter, oppose Regina and her people. Lelianas spies decide to knock Fiona out to prevent her from interfering, which was not part of the plan but still a good decision. Regina takes her group and the Templars to the meeting with Alexius. The Templars immediately supress magic in that room to prevent Alexius from using time magic, which is the best decision they could have made as Alexius had his amulet at the ready in the hopes of banishing Regina in time as she is a threat to him. Alexius' can't fight back as he is unable to use his magic now that the room is full of Templars who all enhanced their abilities by taking Lyrium beforehand. He surrenders to the Inquisition after his son Felix urged him to do so. Felix was always of the opinion that what Alexius and the Venatori do is wrong. The Inquisition conscripts the mages like they did with the Templars. They take Fiona with them for judgement. The new leader of the mages is Vivienne, who already leads the loyalist mages.

Now that the Inquisition has all the allies that they need, they return to Haven to deal with the Breach for good. Reginas anchor gets empowered by the mages and the breach gets weakened by the Templars. So the plan is a success and Haven throws a party to celebrate their victory. Regina takes her time to talk to her companions. She starts with Dorian, who is the newest addition to the Inquisition. He expresses his disapproval of the fact that Regina basically took the mages as prisoners. Regina clarifies that they are not in fact prisoners. But they can't be full allies as that would lead to massive fighting with the Templars, a fact that Dorian understands but still dislikes. Regina also asks Dorian out about his homeland and grows to Tevinter even more then she did before. She thinks that they are as evil as the Qun, just in a different way. She moves on to Serynn, who is impressed with Reginas ability to get Mages and Templars to work together. She also says that she would like to recruit a dwarven girl called Dagna to the Inquisition. Dagna is a capable Enchantress, who could still learn much from Serynn. And Serynn would like to have an apprentice to pass on her knowledge. Regina approves of that and so she sends out messengers to recruit Dagna. She then decides to talk to Solas about time magic and the requirements to learn it. He says that it is most likely connected to the Breach and the weakened veil as this isn't usually possible. Solas himself has never heard of anyone managing such a feat before either, which he takes as proof for his theory.

### In your heart shall burn

To everyones surprise, the victory over the Breach was short lived as Haven was attacked soon after by the Elder one who is supported by Samson as second in command. The attacking force consisted of Red Templars, Venatori, some few renegade southern mages and some magisters from Tevinter. The Elder one also has a Dragon that resembles an Archdemon at his disposal. He brought down his power on Haven just to capture Regina and steal her anchor. But the Mages and Templars under Vivienne and Barris fought well and managed to defeat a large part of the attacking army. They managed to secure the retreat of the townspeople of Haven. Regina then ordered them to retreat themselves as she will bury the entirety of Haven in snow by launching the trebutchet at the nearest mountain to start an avalanche. When her people were in a safe distance they gave her a signal by shooting a burning arrow into the sky. Regina was talking to Corypheus while that happened and learned that he strives to become a god by entering the fade with her mark. She sets her plan in motion and destroys Haven and most of the remaining attacking Army. She herself manages to escape by jumping into a mineshaft. She is now lost in unknown territory but soon makes her way to the others. She also unlocked the power of her mark, allowing her to create something close to a rift to kill her enemies.

Upon reaching the camp of the Inquisition forces, mother Giselle asks her about her faith in the Maker, to which Regina replies that he doesn't exist for her. She simply says that faith is nice. But it won't save anyone from the Breach or Corypheus. For her the Maker never existed, so she urges her people to stop praying and instead grab weapons and start to believe in themselves instead of some absent or non existent deity. She urges them to keep fighting, no matter the cost or the circumstances. Reginas "never back down, never surrender" attitude really shows in that talk. She later learns of a fortress in the mountains from Solas. She and Solas lead the Inquisition there, to Skyhold, their new headquarter. Cassandra names Regina the Inquisitor and she dedicates her Inquisition to order and stability. She also learns from Varric that he has an aquaintance that could help the Inquisition. Both Regina and Cassandra have their suspicions that it's Hawke, the champion of Kirkwall. They were proven right, when Hawke appeared in Skyhold and started to talk about corruption in the Wardens ranks and some friend in Crestwood that the Inquisitor needs to meet. That friend was Loghain Mac Tir, the traitor turned Warden. Aside from that, Regina learned about the threat of assassination looming over the Empress of Orlais. She decided to put both of these matters on hold and approached her Wartable. For now she would use her influence to maintain order in the Regions that she already controls. She also decides to explore fallow mire, where she gains some Avvar as allies and the forbidden oasis, where she get's powerful resistances and weapons. Next up on her list of goals is to explore the exalted plains in the hope of putting a hold to the civil war. If that is not possible, she will aid the troops of Grandduke Gaspard de Chalons, the rightful Emperor of Orlais.

### Exploration, new allies and love

Upon arriving in that Region, she sees that it is swarmed by the undead. Celenes troops are locked up in some citadel and Gaspards troops have to hide in their bastion as they also lost their territory. Regina and her squad that consists of Cassandra, Serynn and Vivienne clear the ramparts for Gaspards troops. They also clear their other strongholds and save Celenes troops. As this puts Regina in a position of power, she negotiates a ceasefire as she will need these troops soon enough to fight Corypheus. She also helps the Dalish clan of the Region and gains their respect, that allows her to recruit Loranil a young dalish who wants to join the Inquisition. She uses him as a Soldier under Cullens command. Aside from that he is also a good negotiator to approach other Dalish clans to ask them for aid. He manages to convince Clan Lavellan to help the Inquisition. Regina returns the favor by helping Clan Lavellan in dealing with some minor lord that wants to rally a city to kill them. She has that lord assassinated and finds Lyrium in the wells which made the populace go crazy.

Back in Skyhold, Regina receives an offer of support from Queen Anora, her old aquaintance from the time of the blight. She accepts and thus has the support of Ferelden and it's army. Regina then talks to all of her companions and also helps them with personal matters. She helps Sera in Verchiel, Solas with a spirit, Dorian with rogue Venatori and Cassandra with the missing Seekers. She urges Cassandra to rebuild the Seekers once this war is over, as the south may need an additional anti magic force to deal with the threats of the Qun and Tevinter. She sees the militaristic worth of the Seekers and thus decides that they are far to powerful to be discarded so easily. Cassandra agrees with Regina, which also solidifies their frienship now that they have helped each other. Regina also talks to Serynn, the dwarf has quite the interesting confession to make. She confesses that she loves Regina for quite some time now. She doesn't regret joining her 10 years ago. Regina is stunned after having heard that. She did harbour some secret feelings for the dwarf but always pushed them aside as she thinks that love makes her weak. But something inside of her tells her to stop hiding her feelings from Serynn and instead be honest and confess. After a long moment of silence, Regina does confess her feelings for Serynn, starting a relationship with her. They start it by sharing a long kiss, which Regina has to lift the dwarf up for. She rarely felt that happy, she feels like she belongs with Serynn, even if she wouldn't usually admit it.

### Wicked eyes and wicked hearts

Before leaving for the Winter palace, Regina makes sure to assign each of her many squads of scouts and soldiers tasks via the Wartable. She takes all of her companions to Halamshiral, while her active party consists of Cassandra, Vivienne and Serynn. Regina officially says that she wants to save Empress Celene, but in truth she doesn't, as she would prefer Gaspard to be Emperor. He doesn't throw balls in the middle of a war, he would see the situation for what it really is and act. That is why Regina already plans to let the assassin strike to have Gaspard take over, basically a coup d'etat that only she knows about. Regina dresses in an expensive black dress, which is made out of silk. Upon arriving at the Winter Palace, she gets greeted by Gaspard, who also invited the Inquisition. He also knows about what Regina has done in the exalted plains and thus owes her already for giving his troops an edge as they control way more territory there than Celene. At first, Gaspard was not happy when he heard about the ceasefire but Regina sent him a letter that tells him that she only did it for the good of Orlais, as the troops will be needed alive and well to fight Corypheus. Gaspard understood that as he is a good strategist and a soldier at heart. It also earned Regina his respect. Proceeding into the Winterpalace, Regina encounters a young noblewoman who has lost her ring. Regina finds the ring for her and makes it clear enough that the woman owes her a favor in the future. She also eavesdrops on other nobles to learn about their allegiances and plans for the evening. She finds a group of nobles that also want Gaspard to rule. Regina also sees that they are handing letters to each other. She has Cole tap into their minds to find out about their true intentions. Cole is able to reveal that they have all been wronged by Celene and thus work towards her downfall. But they are not the assassins, the only thing they do is lending coin and soldiers to Gaspard. Regina approaches the group and convinces them that their goals align, she thus secured herself an alliance. But as this is Orlais, she has one of her spies watch these nobles. She learned how to play the game from a former Orlesian bard in her mercenary band. Leliana and Vivienne also gave her tips that she is now using. Bull gave her tips that the ben-hassrath use to read people and their intentions. Before entering the palace itself, Regina takes 2 Halla statuettes with her. She has Serynn determine what kind of enchantment seals the doors and find a countermeasure like a spell that Regina can cast to open them. Regina also orders her best spies to infiltrate the palace and gather as much information about the important people as possible. The important people are Celene, Florianne, Gaspard, Briala and the council of heralds. She also ordered them to eavesdrop on the nobles talk and take notes. She wants to know it all. Her spies are dressed in fine attire like the rest of the Inquisition, so you can't tell them apart from important people like Cassandra, people that you think would follow the rules.

After giving Serynn her assignment, Regina enters the palace alongside Vivienne and Cassandra. Being seen in the presence of the court enchantress and the right hand of the divine, works wonders for her reputation and the impression that she gives off. Regina puts on a fake smile like Vivi has taught her. She also engages in small talk but her expression never changes, not revealing her intentions. Bull told her that expressions turn even the most reclusive people into open books as they betray their emotions and emotions can be used for manipulation. Bull also taught her how to see through the literal and metaphorical masks of people. Regina is able to deduce who supports what outcome of the ball. She hands fellow Gaspard supporters a small caprice coin to show that they are on the same side. Now that she is done with the Vestibule, she enters the grand ballroom together with Gaspard. She and her squadmates get announced by some court jester, that is what Regina thinks of him. She soon stands in front of Empress Celene and puts her charm on display to look good with honeyed words and false smiles, like everyone else does. She notices a faint nod from Leliana in the shadows, signaling that she is doing it right. Regina decides not to mention the assassin as that would foil her plan as Celene would most likely step up the security around her. As soon as she leaves the conversation with the Empress, Regina is greeted by Leliana who hands her a report from the spies with much information about the other nobles. Regina orders them to dig deeper and even use manipulation to find out scandalous secrets about these people, especially about Celene and Gaspard. Regina wants to use her blackmail material against Celene, while she will try to help Gaspard by silencing those who speak out the loudest against him. The game is played with assassination after all. And Regina did hire 3 crows of Antiva. Zevran and 2 dwarfs. She has Zevran kill the leader of the secret anti Gaspard faction. Also the one who supports Celene the most with Soldiers and coin. The Inquisition and the crows make sure that no trace leads to them. They blame it on another noble of the Celene loyalists and start to spread a rumor that he did it to come into Celenes good graces. The Inquisition itself revealed the murder with a forged letter on the corpse that said that the victim knew of the opportunistic "killer" and the plot altogether. That was a deception of Regina but no one noticed. Leliana made that plan for Regina. Leliana only cares about someone ruling Orlais to prevent it from falling into chaos. She doesn't have a favourite. In the meantime, Serynn figured out how to counteract the spell that secures those halla statuette doors. They are weak to concentrated fire magic. One has to melt down a part inside the lock to open it. Not the lock itself as that is too obvious. There is no mechanism so lockpicking is not an option. Inside these locks is a crystal that the enchantment is bound to. Destroy the crystal and you are in. Regina now decides to investigate the small yard. She finds one of those halla doors there and uses the method that Serynn told her to use. It works and Regina gains access to the lower level, where she finds Varric and some other nobles. Those nobles don't care who rules. They only care about making profit through snuggling up to whoever rules. Regina has no respect for such people but she hides it. She finds a few notes left by her spies with additional intel on people. These notes are hidden so well, that Regina has to probe the area with magic to be able to find them. A necessary precaution as others would use it for themselves. She continues on and investigates the library on the upper level. There she meets Morrigan, who tells her that she had to kill a spy from Tevinter. Regina then receives a key to the palace gardens and takes her active party (Serynn, Cassandra and Vivi) with her to investigate. Also to grab some good loot that Celene won't be able to use in the near future anymore. She finds out that Venatori have snuck into the palace. She kills them. In one of the houses in these gardens, she finds a halla door that she unlocks only to find an elven locket inside. That confirms that Celene was in a relationship with an elf, Briala. She meets Briala soon after. An impressive woman in Reginas mind. She managed to stay informed on everything that happens in the palace and to infiltrate it with her elves. Briala proposes an alliance that Regina accepts. Regina also reveals that Venatori murdered that member of the council of heralds in the yards. She knows that it's not Gaspards style to assassinate people. Even if the knife bears his last name. Regina remembers that there are two "de chalons", Florianne and Gaspard. So she decides to investigate Florianne. Either she killed that man herself or someone did it for her. Or someone stole her knife and killed the man with it to frame her. Whatever it is, Regina will find out. She soon got into a dance with Florianne, who asks her out. Whenever Regina asks questions back, it seems like Florianne studied these answers like a presentation for a long time. As if she was afraid to trip up or reveal anything. Definitely a suspicious woman, especially as she tried her hardest to make Gaspard look guilty without any real evidence. But she did give Regina a key to the royal wing of the palace. Before Regina investigated further, she approached Serynn. She ordered her to block any way out of the ballroom with magic infused traps that Regina can use to create a magical cage. She will trap the killer like that as soon as they strike. Regina also orders the assassination of a member of the council of heralds. Her spies have been able to find out that he is about to openly denounce Gaspard. If Gaspard looses, Regina looses as well as Gaspard is her closest ally in that game. He was the one who invited her after all and he seems to be the only one who sees the value of the Inquisition and an alliance. Celene is too busy throwing balls to recognise the threat. So if she remains in power, the fight against Corypheus will be harder. The crows do their job well and blame the murder on the captain of Celenes guards, taking him out of the game as well. There were already rumors that he is unhappy with his station and Celenes rule, while in reality he was fiercly loyal to Celene. But Regina decided to use that rumor to her advantage and end his whole career. She also continues to forge alliances with Gaspards supporters. 1 hour later, she has swayed almost everyone of his supporters to aid her and her cause. Not the coup d'etat as that is a secret but the inquisitions cause of stopping Corypheus. She also made sure to have scandalous information at the ready, should they decide to leave that alliance.

She then decides to investigates the royal wing and finds a soldier that is tied to Celenes bed. He is one of Gaspards men. Celene tied him there so that he can't reveal information about her plans. Regina unties him and hires him. She orders him to testify against Celene at her command. She also finds the captain of Gaspards mercenaries further in the wing, just like Florianne said. It was strange that Florianne knew about him there. That could only mean that she shackled him there herself. Regina also frees this man and orders him to testify against Florianne being there and habing tied him up. She was Reginas prime suspect now. A suspicion that was proven right as soon as Regina returned to the Ballroom. She saw Floriannes hidden looks towards escape routes. Regina let's her strike and then sets off the traps that Serynn and some spies placed. Celene is dead and Florianne is captures. Gaspard becomes the new Emperor by law. He immediately gets the Inquisitions support for his ascention to the throne. And they get Orlais' army and resources in return. Regina also makes sure to spread rumors about Celenes foul deeds in the next weeks, so that everyone who once supported her changes his allegiance to Gaspard. Briala get's recruited by Regina as this is her only way of escaping execution by Gaspard. Briala and her elves now act as spies for Leliana. Reginas whole plot was successful. She has an alliance with a large part of the orlesian nobility and the full support of the nation itself. Gaspard also gave Regina Morrigan as advisor. She also kept the alliance with the crows of Antiva going. Zevran became a direct agent for Leliana. She ends the evening by dancing with Serynn in front of everyone.

Back in Skyhold, Regina decided to finally judge all of her prisoners. She starts with Alexius, who has basically enslaved the mages and tried to erase Regina from time with his magic. She forces him to work for the Inquisition as a scientist that researches all forms of magic, no matter how dangerous they are. Regina decides to have the mages punish Fiona as they see fit. Denam gets the same judgement but with the Templars being his judges now. Florianne gets sentenced to use her connection in the Venatori to find out their next steps and to feed them false information on the Inquisitions plans. Regina also remembers that she has chief Movran from fallow mire in her cells. He and his clan get sent to Tevinter with as many weapons as they can carry. The Inquisition later helps them to build a settlement there. The clan has to kill as many Venatori as they can. While she is at it to judge people, Regina orders for Ser Barris to step forth. He and his Templars have saved many villages from demons while they served the Inquisition. She promotes Barris to the rank of Knight-Commander and grants the Templars more autonomy, while all true power lies with her.

After the judgements are done, Regina takes her time to talk to her companions. She talks to her companions, starting with Vivienne. Vivi tells her about the qualities that the Divine needs to have, qualities that Regina definitely sees in Vivienne. So she uses her influence as Inquisitor to support Viviennes candidacy. She also talks about finding the heart of a snowy wyvern for a potion. Regina sends out some battle mages to hunt the Wyvern, which turns out to be successful. So Vivienne gets the heart and manages to create a potion to halt the process of aging for a moment. She and Regina go to Duke Bastien de Ghislayn, Viviennes lover. The duke dies but the potion did enable Vivi to say goodbye. Regina gives Vivienne the time she needs to mourn. She later returns to Vivienne with good news and to check in on her. After knowing that Vivi is fine for the moment, Regina appoints her the new head diplomacy advisor. So Vivienne replaces Josephine now because of her achievements in the Inquisition. As leader of the mages, as strategist and as advisor. She later talks to Serynn, who approves of Reginas choices and her plot. She even says that Regina would be able to play the dwarven nobles and take Orzammar, if she so desires. Her other companions also voice their opinions about Reginas choices. Blackwall in particular is rather vocal about his disapproval. Regina chooses to ignore it as his opinion doesn't matter to her. In her mind, he has no idea what one has to consider as a leader. She moves on to Solas, who tells her about a spirit of wisdom that was bound against it's will. She immediately heads out with Solas to free the spirit. While they manage to free the spirit, it is too late and Solas is forced to destroy his friend. In Skyhold, Josephine asks for Reginas support regarding the House of reposte. Leliana suggests to simply destroy the contract, Regina agrees and sends out her crow allies to do just that. A successful operation as Josephines life is no longer in danger. Her family is also allowed to trade again. Morrigan also has an offer for Regina, she offers to teach her how to shapeshift into simple creatures like wolves, bears and falcons. Regina accepts and starts her training with Morrigan. She doesn't need the wolf or bear shape, so she focuses on the falcon shape, which she is able to learn in due time.

And after the talks and learning, Regina decides to upgrade Skyhold. She builds two new towers. One for the mages and one for the Templars. She also builds an infirmary and a sparring ring in the courtyard. In the garden, she builds an herb garden. And near the stables, she builds a huge mabari cennel as they are very useful to have in battle. And Regina has a soft spot for dogs.

### Here lies the Abyss

Hawke approaches Regina and urges her to deal with the rogue Wardens. Regina takes that advice and heads for crestwood, where she is supposed to meet some Warden friend of Hawke. She hates Crestwood the second she sets food in it. It's cold, dark and demon infested. But she does manage to recruit an agent. A young elf called Jana, who was way to eager to join the Wardens. But the Inquisition spies will make sure to get that naivity out of Jana. Regina continued onwards to a fort that was infested by bandits. The Inquisition cleared them out and took the fort for themselves, sealing the rift in the lake soon after. The Mayor, whose involvement in flooding old crestwood has become known, was taken prisoner and awaited judgement by Regina. She later found the Warden ally of Hawke. It was Loghain Mac Tir himself, the traitorous teyrn that Regina resented. But she was willing to work together as she needs allies and information.

In Skyhold she clears the mayors name as he had to make an impossible choice between two evils. In her mind, the tainted people were doomed to die anyways. So he did the right thing to kill them before they can spread the blight any further. Regina has Queen Anoras approval when she makes that decision. The Queen sees this act as worse then Regina does, but she agrees with Regina that the choice to make was impossible and that the mayor did choose the lesser evil in the end. But evil remains evil, so Anora alters the judgement and makes him work as labourer for the Inquisition during the war and afterwards for the crown.

Now that this is settled, Regina and Loghain make their way to the western approach, to stop some sort of a binding ritual. The ritual requires blood magic and basically enthralls the Wardens while binding them to a demon. The Inquisition takes many templars to that place to stop that vint Magister called Livius Erimond. The plan partly succeeds. The magister escapes but the bound Wardens are neutralized. Loghain points out that the Wardens are hiding at Adamant, which throws Regina into a fit of anger. She questions why he didn't tell her sooner and thus halted the Inquisitions plan. She even threatens to throw him off Skyholds walls into the deep valey of ice if he ever witholds crucial information again. It's the kind of behaviour that she expects from Varric but not from someone like Loghain. Regardless, she has her information now and plans an all out assault against Adamant. Both Ferelden and Orlais funded siege equipment for the Inquisition. Orlais also sent mages to the Inquisition to help in the assault with missile deflecting shields.

The siege went very well until they reached the inner courtyard where they met Warden Commander Clarel. Regina simply gave the order to kill her, Erimond and everyone who stands in their way. She is in no mood for diplomacy with blood mages who summon demons and bind themselves to them. In short, she doesn't have time to deal with idiots. Continuing on, Clarel get's eaten by a Dragon and the Inquisitor and her party enter the fade physically, after Regina used the mark to open a rift to prevent them from falling to death. Arriving in the fade they meet a spirit that impersonates the Divine. Regina restores her memories of the events in the temple of sacred ashes, fueling her hatred for Corypheus and the Wardens even further. Regina believes the Wardens to be an utterly useless group as recent history showed that only 2 wardens are needed to end a blight. And aside from that, the Wardens are a safe haven for criminals of all sorts. Regina helps all of the afraid dreamers and receives the essence of perfection as a reward. They later beat the fear demon and leave the fade. A giant spider is about to block their escape but Regina and Vivienne create a magic barrier that is able to get everyone out alive. Regina decides to recruit the Wardens despite her resentment towards them. She has Loghain lead them and keeps the Wardens on a very short leash, to prevent them from stepping out of line. She distrusts them even more than she did the rebel mages or templars.

### Companions and their needs

Regina decides to return to the western approach and clears it of rifts and venatori. She takes a man called Crassius Servis prisoner. She also manages to take the keep in the region for the Inquisition, greatly expanding her power. She later heads for the emerald graves to look for allies there after she received a letter from a man called Fairbanks. She meets up with the man and decides that he and his group of fighters would be useful allies to have as they know the Region and the enemies there. Regina makes a deal with Fairbanks. She will help them, if they in turn pledge themselves to the Inquisition for as long as they are needed. Fairbanks agrees and the Inquisition get's to work, quickly clearing out the enemies in the chateaus and establishing camps. In the end they take an outpost for Fairbanks' men and supply them with many resource to upgrade that outpost. Regina also finds out that Fairbanks is a noble but decides to keep it a secret as he has no political experience and would only loose his worth as ally, should she reveal his heritage. She destroys all evidence as another favor to him. Fairbanks in turn reveals the location of a hidden cave that is filled with valuable minerals.

After this excessive amount of exploring, Regina returns to Skyhold to judge the prisoners. She starts with Crassius Servis, whom she judges to aid the Inquisition by showing them where the Venatori store their stolen goods. She has one of Lelianas assassins follow him to ensure that he doesn't try to escape. The assassin is hidden, so the threat isn't visible to Servis but still very real. Regina tranquilizes Livius Erimond and puts him to use as enchanter and researcher. She sends Ser ruth to die in the deep roads, a useful death as she will take many darkspawn with her. And it's Reginas way of showing the Wardens that they have no right to bind people to demons or act up in a way like that. A message that the Wardens appear to understand. At the Wartable, Regina searches searches for her mercenary band and finds them. She has them brought to Skyhold, where they are supposed to teach new Soldiers how to fight. Regina trusts her people more than some old instructors. A wise choice as her people are able to teach the Soldiers some very unconventional fighting techniques to surprise enemies.

In the meantime she moves on to Cassandra, who talks about the missing seekers. A task that requires Reginas direct attention, so they send out spies to find them. The seekers are found in Caer Oswin alongside Promisers, a rebel faction of the seekers. Cassandras former apprentice Daniel tells them that Lucius is working for Corypheus and force feeds the Seekers red Lyrium. Cassandra is forced to kill him. They also kill Lucius and get his Book of secrets. Back in Skyhold, Cassandra asks for Reginas advice on what to do with the Seekers. For Regina the decision is clear, the Seekers need to be rebuilt. But not as some secret untouchable police because that only encourages corruption. Regina advices to be more open, especially towards their members. They have a right to know that they turn tranquil and are touched by spirits to gain their abilities. Regina later listens to Blackwalls story of a hanged dog and how he did nothing. She calls him a coward. The next day, he is gone but he left a note that he will right some old wrongs. Regina sends out her scouts who tell her that he is on his way to Val Royeaux, where she finds him interrupting an execution. He confesses to have ordered the murder of a family for money and to have fled while his men got executed. That was the moment Regina lost every bit of respect for him. She visited Blackwall, whose real name is Thom Rainier, in prison. She consider that conversation to be a waste of her time and leaves. But Cullen awaits her at the entrance and asks her what they are to do with Rainier. She is about to order his death by the crows hand, when she gets a better idea. She wants Blackwall freed and turned over to the Wardens as he stole one of their identities and basically slandered the name. They are far more wronged than Regina was. So she wants the Wardens to do whatever they want with Rainier, under one condition. He is not allowed to return to the Inquisiton after Corypheus is dead. Or else Regina will order the crows to kill him. In Skyhold, Cullen talks to Regina about his Lyrium withdrawal and asks her for advice as he is tempted to take it again but swore himself not to. Regina tells him to take it until the war has ended, with the promise that she will help him afterwards. She just doesn't want it to affect the Inquisition, especially as Cullen holds a very important position. Later, Regina decides to talk to Cole who asks Solas to bind him out of fear of possession. Regina decides to listen to Solas' advice, who is against binding Cole. So they find a rivaine seer amulet to protect Cole against binding. But it isn't working because Cole became somewhat human, so they search out the person that this development is linked to. The templar who has killed the real Cole. Regina and Solas urge Cole to forgive the Templar as this is his nature. They don't even listen to Varrics advice as he has no experience with spirits. Lastly, Regina talks to Leliana who received a note from Justinia to go to the cloister in Valence. They go there and meet a chantry sister called Natalie, one who works for some grand cleric Victoire who opposes the Inquisition the most in the chantry. Leliana figures it out very fast and is about to kill Natalie. Regina agrees with that and has Leliana kill the sister. She doesn't need enemies in the chantry again, not while they are at war with Corypheus.

### What pride had wrought

After having done all of this, Morrigan approaches Regina to show her the crossroads. She says that Corypheus wants to reach this place as it is very close to the fade. Morrigan also says that Corypheus is searching for an eluvian in the arbor wilderness. So Regina decides that this is their next destination. She won't allow Corypheus to find an eluvian to actually reach the Fade. She mobilizes all of her allies. The armies of Ferelden, Orlais, the Wardens, the mages and templars, the crows, brialas elves and her former mercenary band. Regina takes Solas, Serynn and Cassandra with her. She can't take Vivienne as she has to lead the mages. The crows are supposed to kill commanders and generals of the red templars and Venatori. Brialas elves work as ambushers who lie in wait in the woods. The mages are supposed to support the armies with barriers. As soon as the strategy is finished, the Inquisition moves out to find the temple of Mythal. Reginas group finds it soon enough with the help of Morrigan and Solas. The armies are supposed to keep the enemy out of the temple, so that Regina can find the eluvian without distraction. But that plan doesn't really work out as Corypheus already managed to get inside. Regina watched him die and ressurect by taking a Wardens body. The hurry inside as the Dragon is attacking them. In the temple, they have to solve puzzles to open doors and to show respect to Mythal. Cassandra is against it as she considers it to be a waste of time. She suggests to go through a crack in the ground and follow the enemy directly. Solas, Serynn and Morrigan on the other hand advocate for the rituals as they will lead directly through the temple instead of catacombes. So Regina decides to heed their advice as Solas and Morrigan know more about elves and their temples than Cassandra does. Once they finish the rituals. they head inside and are greeted by Abelas and some ancient elves, with weapons in hand. Solas and Regina manage to forge an alliance with Abelas' people to stop Corypheus' armies. They also learn that Corypheus wants the well of sorrows, no eluvian. Abelas tells them that the well contains immense knowledge. And he rushes of to destroy the well, with Morrigan following him in raven shape to stop him. Reginas group gets a guide through the temple and manage to catch up with Samson and his red templars. Samson forces a fight that Regina was already looking forward to. She wins and executed Samson on the spot. She reaches the well soon after with Abelas' being convinced to surrender it to the Inquisition. Cassandra and Serynn want Regina to drink from it, while Morrigan wants it herself with Solas agreeing. Regina is hesitant as Abelas' told them that whoever drinks from it will be bound to Mythals will. In the end, Regina gives the well to Morrigan. She won't pay the price of such knowledge herself. Regina values her freedom to much to be bound to some elven goddess. Especially as she doesn't know for certain that Mythal is dead. After Morrigan drank from the well, Corypheus appears and attacks the group. But they manage to retreat through the eluvian. Abelas and his people entered the state of uthenera now that they are no longer needed to protect the well of sorrows.

With the mission being a full success, Regina heads to the war table. She sends out the chargers to take out Venatori hideouts in the arbor wilds. She also orders a thorough study of the temple of mythal by her best mages and scholars. After finishing the Wartable missions, Regina gets approached by Bull who talks about a mission from the Qun at the Stormcoast. Regina meets the Qunari contact herself, it's an elf called Gatt. She immediately dislikes him for being with the Qun but she reminds herself of having to lead by example so she swallows her hatred and accepts the quest as the Qun offered an alliance. They are still grateful that she returned the tome of koslun to them, they haven't figured out her role in the death of the Arishok. The Qun also isn't aware that the tome of Koslun is a falsified copy. She is supposed to clear out some Venatori with Bull to protect a Qunari dreadnought. Arriving at the Stormcoast, she and Bull immediately get to work and clear out the Venatori. But they see mages moving towards the chargers, they will surely get killed if they have to hold the position but if they do the Dreadnought will be able to leave the shore and Regina gains a powerful alliance. She tells Bull to order the chargers to hold their position. Regina wants that alliance to be able to hunt the Venatori in every part of Thedas and not just the south with great efficiency. The chargers die just as Regina and Bull predicted but the alliance is now made and Regina is happy with how everything turned out though she does regret the deaths of the chargers. Later in Skyhold, Bull mourns his fallen mercenaries and Regina joins him. Not because she cares about him but because she wants to honor good Soldiers who gave their lifes for her cause. Bulls dedication towards the Qun is completely restored, he almost looks zealous. A regretable change but one that Regina will accept for the time being. She can always get rid of Bull later.

### Shrine of Mythal and the final battle

After being done with Bull and his problems, Regina approaches Morrigan to discuss the next step with her. She wants to know what knowledge Morrigan has gained from the well and whether it was worth it or not. Morrigan does confirm that it was worth it as she finds out that Corypheus put part of his soul into the Dragon. So as long as the Dragon lives, he can revive himself. But should the Dragon die, Corypheus would be without loopholes. So Morrigan suggests to search out the altar of Mythal, which Regina agrees to. At the Altar or Mythal, Morrigan meets her mother Flemeth after a long time again. Flemeth reveals that she carries a part of Mythal inside of her and that she can teach Morrigan how to transform into a Dragon to fight Corypheus' Dragon. Morrigan accepts and Regina now has a way to defeat Corypheus for good.

Back in Skyhold, Regina is debating with her advisors on where to search for Corypheus when a green light illuminates the whole room. Reginas anchor reacts to it. Morrigan reveals that the voices from the well say that Corypheus is in the temple of sacred ashes, opening another breach. The Inquisitions allies are still returning from the arbor wilds but so are the Venatori. Regina decides that there is no time to wait, she will head out immediately while Corypheus is without allies. She takes Sera, Serynn, Cassandra and Vivienne with her. She thinks that a larger party is now more useful than a small one. Regina uses her falcon form for the first time to scout out the region and she does indeed spot activities in the temple of sacred ashes. So the group makes their way to that place, where they find Corypheus. He talks about the maker being gone, stuff that Regina doesn't care about. She simply attacks while he is holding his monologue.

The battle starts and is going Reginas way. Morrigan is currently fighting Corypheus' Dragon in Dragon shape herself. It's going good until Corypheus manages to shoot Serynn down the floating temple with his magic. Morrigan saves her but gets severely injured by the Dragon in the process. Serynn makes a plan with Morrigan, while Regina and her team is fighting the Magister. What no one really knew is that Serynn brought lots of instable but really powerful explosives with her. So she plans to blow the Dragon to pieces with it. Morrigan is supposed to get very close to it, so that Serynn can leap on it's back to plant the explosives between it's scales. Morrigan thinks that this is a stupid and suicidal plan but she knows that there is no sense in arguing with that dwarf. So she goes along with it and get's Serynn close to the Dragon. Serynn uses a grappling hook to get on the other Dragons back. She crafted it just for that plan, which she didn't tell Regina about to not worry her. Serynn places the explosives and connects them with long wires that she keeps in her hand. Once she is far away, she only needs to rip out the wires to set off the explosives. So she calls for Morrigan to do just that. The dwarf jumps on Morrigans back they fly far enough away for Serynn to set off the explosives. They tear the Dragon apart in a huge explosion, one that Regina sees. She is impressed by her wifes strategy. The Dragon is dead, which means that Corypheus can't revive himself anymore. Cassandra, Regina, Sera and Vivienne charge at Corypheus with their most powerful attacks ready. Sera uses her special ability called thousand cuts, which in her case is a hail of explosive arrows that she shoots. Cassandra keeps Corypheus distracted, while Vivienne keeps up a barrier to protect the group from the explosions. Regina sees Corypheus go down and uses the anchor to open a rift inside of him to turn him inside out. It's successful and Corypheus is permanently defeated. Thedas is finally safe thanks to the Inquisition and especially Regina and Serynn. Even Regina says that Serynn is the true hero of the battle as she blew up a Dragon, a feat that earned her the respect of many trap makers and enchanters.

The group returns to Skyhold to celebrate their victory. Regina spends the evening with Serynn and Sera. The three of them make an eating competition that Sera wins. She managed to eat more of the petit four called The exquisite missery than anyone else. Serynn and Regina then go to the Inquisitors quarter to spend the night there. No one knows what happened that night. So people started to make up rumors. Some claim that Regina and Serynn threw a bed out a window, others claim that they danced like wild dalish. The bards are using this for silly ballads. But the couple doesn't mind it.

### The descent

After Corypheus' or Coryphishit, how the bards and Sera call him, died the world was saved for the moment. But Regina did receive a letter from Orzammar that asks for the Inquisitions support in the deep roads, quakes have collapsed a lyrium mine and endangered many lifes. To make matters worse, tunnel seals that kept the darkspawn at bay have been destroyed so they can now overrun the Dwarven controlled thaighs. As Orzammar is a very important supplier of lyrium for the Inquisition, Regina decides to deal with the matter as quickly as possible. She immediately has a lift built to get down there.

Once they arrive in the deep roads they get greeted by Valta, a shaper. She explains that the quackes are not subsiding and that she even believes them to be of intelligent nature. She attributes that to something called a titan. Regina decides to ignore that for now. She focuses on getting rid of the darkspawn, science has to wait. Her companions, Serynn, Cassandra and Vivienne agree. Though Serynn is intrigued by the titans, she believes them to be an important part of dwarven lore that was forgotten. Afterall the shaper dwarf speaks of sensing the titan in the deep roads. And the deep roads used to be dwarven territory. Whether it was forgotten on purpose or by accident is unimportant for her, for the time being at least. Regina and her group move forward to where they are greeted by an Ogre Alpha, that they get rid of rather quickly. Regina has a new strategy, which is to change into a falcon and then transform back mid air to use the short time frame to slice open the opponents nape. But the opponent needs to be huge for that to work. The tactic proves to be effective but unreliable as Regina is very much vulnerable after transforming back as enemies like ogres could hit her mid air and send her flying. The group moves towards the camp of the legion of the dead after the ogre died. They meet the commander of that part of the Legion, he is called Renn. Serynn recognizes him in an instance but she decides to stay silent as the Legion is currently fighting Darkspawn. They have to blow up part of a cave to stop the Darkspawn from emerging there. The group quickly fights at the Legions side but surprisingly, Regina gets in trouble when two Hurlock Alphas try to smash her with their large axes while she is out of mana to fade step away. She used all of her mana to sling around chain lightnings and other powerful spells. So she has to block with her staff, which get's destroyed in the process and unleashes a huge blast of lightning that hits everyone because the enchantments and especially runes where a bit unstable, a flaw that not even Serynn or Vivi noticed. Vivienne quickly creates a magic barrier to protect the group including Renn and Valta. The blast kills most of the darkspawn and sets off the Lyrium charges. The darkspawn is defeated for the moment but so is a huge part of the Legion. Renn, Valta and the Inquisitors group are the only survivors. Regina already regrets enchanting her staff so much as the mission can barely be considered a success. But they establish a camp nevertheless and think about how to continue. The Inquisition honors the fallen dwarves by sending them back to the stone. Regina later orders a new staff to be made for her, a new lightning staff with even stronger enchantments. The staff arrives a week later, the best enchanters of the circle made it for Regina.

With her new staff, Regina and her group take the lift to finally enter the deep roads. They get greeted by shriekers but those are no problem. Reginas new staff is even better than the one before. So the group continues on and soon finds a large door that is missing some gears. Valta says that the stone guides her through that door, so the group spreads out to find those gears and is soon able to open that door. They also stumble upon another door that they can now open as well. Behind it, they find the corps of a grey warden with a map to some stash deeper in the thaigs. But Regina decides not to put a focus on it as there are more urgent things to take care of, like the quakes. So they make their way to Heidrun Thaig, where they order agents of the Inquisition to build 3 bridges as the original ones have collapsed. On the other sides, Regina finds much good loot that she gives to Valta and Renn as their equipment is slightly worse. They also find some cheese and a note that mentions some Nug King. Regina laughs and leads the group deeper in the thaig. They soon find another door that requires gears. And behind that door is the nest of the darkspawn, so the group makes camp before opening the door. The fight will be brutal so they want to be well rested. They brew potions and took care of their equipment, a good meal made by Serynn was also included. So now that they are ready, they open the door and immediately get swarmed by shriekers, hurlocks and genlocks. Regina and Serynn take care of the shriekers as they are incredibly fast. Cassandra takes the hurlocks, while Vivienne, Renn and Valta take the genlocks as they are the most numerous right now. For now, the fight is going very well and the soon reach a bridge with 3 hurlock and 4 genlock alphas on it. The hurlock alphas are easy targets for Regina, Serynn and Vivienne as they don't have these large shield to deflect projectiles. Cassandra, Renn and Valta move in close to deal with the genlock alphas. As soon as the hurlocks are dealt with, Regina uses her falcon form to fly over the genlock alphas and land on their shoulder only to transform and cut open their napes. Vivienne fade steps behind them and hits them with her spirit blade. The alphas are taken care of as well and they can continue on to the hardest battle. A fight against 3 ogre alphas and 1 emissary alpha. Regina knows that her falcon tactic won't work as there are two ogres and an emissary that could use her time mid air. Aside from that, transforming is very exhausting and Regina thus avoids it unless it is absolutely necessary. So she resorts back to her usual spell slinging and spirit blade tactic, which works well enough. Serynn has some surprises for the ogres in terms of explosives. She pulls out several small elemental traps and hands them to Regina as she is better at throwing. So Regina throws them at the ogres and sets them off with her own magic. The explosion is huge and manages to kill one of the ogres instantly. Cassandra does the rest, when she climbs on Reginas shoulder and from there jumps at the Ogres throat, while piercing it with her sword. So the ogres are defeated. Vivienne took care of the emissary in the meantime. The path is clear now and the group can establish a camp behind that door. There is also a lift that leads down to some forgotten depths. They take it and soon find writing on the walls that mentions something called a titan, so it seems like Valta was right after all. In the depths they also find some strange dwarves called the Sha-Brytol. They have far more advanced weaponry and kill Renn. Serynn falls into a rage upon seeing that and completely annihalates the attackers with her bombs, she ends the fight by spitting on their corpses and then rushing over to Renn. It's obvious that she cared a great deal for that man. She is also the one doing the honors to lay him to rest and return him to the stone, which he firmly believed in. They continue on and find more strange writing mentioning titans, they also have to fight far more of the Sha-Brytol. Some of them have destructive weapons that the Inquisition uses to destroy the barriers. Serynn keeps one of those for herself to study and eventually recreate it. After passing through a part of the depths that was filled with such barricades, they eventually reach a place that appears to be a village of the Sha-Brytol. There are also clouds on the grounds and stalactites that carry the houses of the Sha-Brytol. In the middle is a wellspring that has the colour of lyrium. The place seems to have it's own ecosystem as there is a source of light and even flora and fauna. Regina is intrigued by it and so is Serynn. They eventually figure out that they are inside of a titan. Serynn can barely contain her excitement and is about to rush off, with Regina having to hold her back because of potential enemies. They clear the place of attacking Sha-Brytol and eventually reach the wellspring which activates some guardian that is quickly taken care off as Serynn figures out it's weakpoint. Valta silences it with magic after she got knocked back by the the power of raw lyrium. She screams that the song is too loud and silences it with a force that Regina deems magical. That makes Valta the first dwarf that ever used magic. Regina is about to ask Valta to join the Inquisition but she has plans of her own. She is the first dwarf connected to a titan in ages and decides to investigate it further but alone. Serynn already knows what to tell Orzammar about Valta. She will tell them that no one knows what became of her, the truth. She also tells Regina to send her a huge team of scientists, mages and dwarves. Serynn wants to investigate this place thoroughly. She has the burning desire to understand how an ecosystem can work that deep underground and immediately gets started. Regina and the rest leave the deep roads, while Serynn is investigating and questioning Valta and that whole place inside the titan.

### Jaws of Hakkon

Regina sees a message from Professor Bram Kenric on the war table, asking the Inquisition to travel to the frostback basin for some historic discoveries. Regina hands it to Serynn as she herself has to deal with a different matter, which is very important for the stability of Thedas altogether. After having helped Tevinter and Nevarra in a fight against the Venatori along their border, both nations want to claim that part of the land for themselves now. As they wanted to in the past often enough. Regina and Vivienne fear that a war might happen, Josephine also shares these doubts. So Regina and Josephine leave Skyhold to attend the peace talks that the Inquisitions chief diplomat Vivienne managed to establish. That leaves Serynn in charge of Skyhold and the Inquisitions forces and resources. And Serynn wants to head to the Frostback basin to meet up with Professor Bram Kenric to see whether his supsicion is true or not. She takes Dorian, Cassandra and Sera with her. She can't take Vivienne as she has to stay in Skyhold to manage the diplomatic affairs. So the group sets off for the basin and arrives a few days later thanks to their huge nug mounts.

Arriving at the camp, Serynn immediately seeks out the Professor. But not to learn about the state of the region or so. She wants to know all there is about the avvar and the history of the region, so the two of them get into a rather long discussion about the interpretation of some facts. The others are already asleep when they finish. Serynn then remembers why she is there, so she asks about what the Professor found and soon makes a plan to visit the nearby Avvar tribe. The next day, Serynn gathers the group and heads out to find the Avvar tribe. She has a habit that Regina never had, which annoyes Cassandra. Serynn stops at every point of interest to investigate it and Dorian even encourages that. So the group is less efficient than with Regina in terms of progression but at least they learn a lot about their surroundings. While walking, Serynn also explains several rare plants without caring whether the group wants to hear it or not. Cassandra already wishes for Regina to come back, Sera uses Reginas absence to play some pranks on Cassandra and joke around. Dorian is perfectly fine with Serynn. So at the end of the day, they arrive at the Avvar village after having explored the woods instead of focusing on the task at hand. In the woods, Serynn found a temple sealed by a massive wall of ice, no ordinary mage could melt that. Serynn sees the chieftain Svarah Sun-hair and gets asked to find their bear called Storvacker. Serynn also speaks to others and helps them in their personal problems to gain the respect of the tribe, she even wins against Hakkonites in the Arena. And she manages to track down a stable Abomination called Sigrud Gulsdotten, Serynn decides to accept her as agent for the Inquisition and she is aware of the long discussion that this will bring with Regina. After having done all of that, she remembers that she was supposed to rescue Storvacker, which causes her to feel like an idiot for forgetting it. But she keeps her limited calm and sets off in that direction with the others in tow. Storvacker has been caged by Hakkonites, so they get rid of them and free the bear. Storvacker is soon returned to Svarah Sun-Hair. Serynn then sets off to investigate a nearby Isle, where she finds the spirit of the beloved of Inquisitor Ameridan, they have a long conversation. Serynn learns that the spirit represents Telana, an elven dreamer who died while trying to reach Ameridan in his dreams. There is also something called the Aegis of the rift, an ability for Regina to claim as she bears the mark. Serynn leaves the Island and finds some lost temple with the professor. They investigate it and after solving some puzzles, they can head inside and find a shrine dedicated to Ameridan and Telana. They also find a way to breach the ice that seals the hideout of the hakkonites. To do so, they have to activate ancient magical mechanisms to melt the ice. So Serynn and the group follow the trail that the mechanism shows them and finally manage to melt the ice. But to open the gates they either need a huge amount of siege equipment or people who can climb the walls. They decide to ask the Stone-Bear clan for help. Svarah agrees and gives Serynn whatever people she needs. So the assault begins and the group quickly makes their way to Gurd Harofsen, the chieftain of the Hakkonites, a man that Serynn saw in stone-bear hold but ignored. He is currently trying to break the seal that binds Hakkon, so the Inquisition has to stop him. Upon reaching him a hard fight breaks out but Serynn knows how to help herself and starts to throw many elemental traps at the man. What works on Ogres will surely work on revenants as well, she thinks. And it does so the fight is won and Serynn can speak to Ameridan who just awakened from his ages long slumber. Serynn tells him about the fate of Telana and Cassandra asks him about the Seekers. She learns that mages used to be part of the organisation and that Ameridan himself opposed the widespread use of the rite of tranquility. He was also a dalish mage, who believed in both andraste and the elven pantheon. He was a dear friend of Emperor Kordillus Drakon I and now wonders why the Emperor never searched for him. Cassandra tells him that the Emperor had the second Blight to deal with. The conversation ends with Hakkon breaking free and Ameridan asking them to kill the Dragon. He gives them some good armors before he dies. Serynns plans are set. She will kill that Dragon like she killed Corypheus'. So she returns to camp to stock up on explosives to blow up a dragon, she knows that Morrigan isn't around to get her on top of the dragon. So she modifies her arrows by sticking the bombs on top of them. Now she has bomb arrows. Now that the group is ready, they head to the dragon who froze part of the sea and made it his home. The fight is far harder than the fight against Corypheus but they manage. Dorian used his ability to slow time for the dragon for a few seconds, which allowed for Sera and Serynn to fire off many bomb arrows to break a wing, forcing the Dragon to land permanently. Cassandra moves in close with Dorian dealing lots of damage with his fire magic. The Dragon is dealt with after a long fight. Serynn thus gained the full respect of the tribe and even got asked to judge the bear. Serynn claims that she will bear that burden as she doesn't want life in the hold to become unbearable. She decides to have a skald recite the bears unbearable misdeeds every day for a week to embearass Storvacker. After having done that, Serynn and the Inquisition leave the Region while sending a message to Regina that she has a few rifts to clear and an ability to claim in the Region.

Reginas peace talks also went well enough as Nevarra and Tevinter agreed to split the land in question in half. No side is truly happy with it but the compromise works for now. War has been averted and Regina can return to Skyhold. She also gets the note from Serynn and decides to change her course to head to the basin directly, where she clears the rifts and claims the aegis of the rift. A useful ability that can deflect projectiles back to the attacker.

### Epilogue (post Main game)

In the next few months, Vivienne is named as the new Divine with the name Divine Victoria I. She reforms the circle and the templar order. The mages are now enjoying more freedoms and responsibilities than ever before, while the templars are firmly leashed to her hand to prevent abuses from happening. All true power lies with her. The recruited Templars and Mages mostly choose to remain with the Inquisition, they have gotten used to be free from the chantry and the supervision or former lyrium leash, something that many Templars are afraid of being reintroduced. Some other Mages create the college of enchanters, a rival faction of the circle. Vivienne pushes it out of circle politics immediately, after it has become clear that coexistence won't be easy if both factions have power. The Inquisition itself gets known for it's impressive manpower, connections and secrets. Many nobles are afraid of the power that the Inquisition holds, now that it doesn't have a goal. But Regina eases their minds by continuing to protect Orlais and Ferelden from threats both inside and outside. She claims forts like Suledin keep and turns them into safe places for refugees. She also helps with rebuilding villages and sealing leftover rifts. The Inquisition also uses the conscripted Wardens to clear regions like Valammar from the Darkspawn and to destroy Red Lyrium. She eventually receives a report of the Wardens finding out that the red lyrium is blighted. Varric and his friend Bianca helped the Wardens in their research.

And what of Orlais? Gaspard rules with a strong but fair hand, he enjoys the full support of the Inquisition and quickly brings down the small opposition that he had. His gratitude to Regina is unbroken and they continue to stay close allies. He also makes some changes that are benefitial for elves to prevent another elven underground like Brialas from happening.

Cullen and Divine Vivienne create a place for Templars who want to stop taking Lyrium. Cullen helps them cure themselves of their Lyrium addiction. Regina makes sure to provide them with whatever medicine they need to prevent their bodies from being damaged by the withdrawal.

Regina and Serynn themselves married a few months after Corypheus died and lead the Inquisition together. But they do take more times off in which Cassandra takes over as second in command.

Josephine returns to the position as chief diplomat because Vivienne has to leave the Inquisition to take care of her new duties as Divine.

## Relationships

**Serynn:** Serynn is the most important person in Reginas life. They were friends since they met and their relationship only improved. They always have eachothers backs and would literally die for eachother. Both of them harboured secret feelings for the other for quite the long time, which resulted in a relationship that is dominated by fun and happiness. Serynn is also the only person that manages to break Reginas cold exterior and bring out the soft and caring side inside of her. Regina appreciates the fact about Serynn that she always knows how to make her smile. Regina also has the utmost respect of Serynns skills in combat, smithing and enchanting. She occaisionally asks her for tips in enchanting. By the time of Trespasser, the two of them got married. To everyones surprise, it was Regina who proposed. After Trespasser they lead the Inquisition together and even manage to keep the other nations at bay. They won't disband or submit. Serynn and Regina are as different as night and day and that somehow draws them even closer to each other.

**Vivienne:** Vivienne or "Vivi", as Regina calls her, is one of her clostest friends and most trusted advisors. Regina went as far as to trust her with leading the mages and later replacing Josephine as lead diplomat due to her experience with nobility and the orlesian court. Josephine remained second in command as diplomat. Regina also sees Vivienne as some kind of a mentor when it comes to magic and politics, she usually heeds Viviennes advice as she knows what she is talking about. Vivienne and Regina are quite similar in many regards, that's what allowed them to bond. Regina is one of the few persons that Vivienne reveals her softer and more vulnerable side to. Regina values that display of affection very much. Regina also supported Viviennes candidacy for the position of Divine. She believes that Vivienne can bring the best change to Thedas with her foresight and logical approach to problems. She also values Viviennes political experience and her opinions on the mage problem, which are very well thought out.

**Cassandra:** Cassandra and Regina originally got off on the wrong foot, as Cassandra treated Regina like a criminal and Regina treated Cassandra like an imbecile for being very devout andrastian. But they managed to work through these issues and became good friends, realising how similar they are aside from faith. Regina slowly came to understand where Cassandras faith comes from and also what visions she has for the Chantry, vision that she is inclined to agree with. She also respects Cassandras skill in battle and once asked her to teach her how to use sword and shield effectively. Regina knows the basis of swordsmanship but she was determined to learn more from Cassandra as she was likely the best warrior she has met, even surpassing her Valo-Kas mercenaries. After Regina and Cassandra dealt with the rogue Seekers, they really bonded and began to call each other friends. In the end, Cassandra is always by Reginas side when she needs it.

**Varric:** Regina was usually annoyed with Varric joking around or being useless. In her mind he contributed next to nothing to the Inquisition. All he did was to bring Hawke, which her scouts could have done as well with the aid of Orlais and Ferelden. Regina also told Varric to his face that she thinks of him as useless and urged him to stop fooling around and get her the aid of the merchants guild or else he is out. After Regina found out that Varric knew where Hawke was all along, she took Cassandras side in the argument and gave Varric one last chance to prove his worth and his loyalty. She has no use for dishonest people.

**Blackwall:** At first Regina considered Blackwall to be a valuable ally and a respectable fighter. He was capable and had good morals. She also saw the worth in him being a Warden and the connections that this got her. But after he revealed that he is no Warden and a simple traitor, Regina was about to let him rot in prison. She only freed him to send him to the Wardens, so that they can judge him as they were the most wronged party in that matter. She told him never to return to the Inquisition once Corypheus is dead. She hates him most of all people, who are not her direct enemies.

**Dorian:** Dorian and Regina used to have a very neutral relationship. But over time she saw his value as ally and later as a friend. Dorian is one of the few people who she opens up to. She also helped Dorian when his father came to take him back. She held a surprisingly emotional speech about how Dorians father was in the wrong for even thinking about changing his son. In her mind, sexuality is a triviality and nothing that one has to change. It is what it is and it is good that way for her. After the events of Trespasser, Regina aided Dorian and his Lucerni while paying him regular visits in Tevinter. She also offered him emotional support when his father died and offered to keep the other magisters at bay so that Dorian can properly prepare for his new role as Magister. In her mind, Dorian is the best person in all of Tevinter and a friend that she will never forsake.

**Bull:** Regina hates Bull with a burning passion. To her he is as bad as the rest of the Ben-Hassrath. A simple minded, thugish and brutish fool. She thinks of him as a zealot of the Qun with no mind of his own like many of their followers have proven to be. In her mind he only lives for the Qun and not for himself. This mindset get's proven right when he sacrifices his chargers for the Qun just because Gatt told him that he is most likely out if he doesn't follow the will of this ideology. It got Regina a useful alliance, so she doesn't complain about the choice itself. Just about Bulls weak mind and his readiness to discard his close friends for the Qun. During the events of Trespasser, Bull also turned on the Inquisition and was killed by Regina. A death she does not regret in the slightest.

**Cole:** She dislikes him for invading other peoples mind and disregarding their privacy as he often does with Vivienne. But she keeps him around because of his useful abilities. In the end she decided to turn him into a spirit, his original form just like Solas suggested. No way she is going to take Varrics uneducated suggestion over the experts.

**Solas:** Regina had a great deal of respect for Solas until he left the Inquisition and revealed his plan to destroy the world. She considered him to be a friend for a long time and searched for him after he was gone. But when he told her about his plan, she swore to have his head to save the world she worked so hard to safe. She still respects his immense knowledge. In her mind, Solas is blind and somewhat stupid. He apparently fails to see the ancient elves for what they are, tyrant slavers and false gods who would have destroyed the world through sheer idiocy at some point. Like when Mythal killed a titan. She also believes them to be the cause of the blight as it would at least be more logical than some non existent creator creating it just because he is petty.

**Sera:** Regina likes Sera and her engagement for the little people. She is a supporter of the red Jennies and works closely with them, sometimes even lending them a few of her own people to carry out missions. She also likes that Sera is not crying about the elves lost glory but instead moves on and lives her own life. She does get the Dalish though. Regina also agreed with Sera that most nobles are shitty and that pride cookies are the worst. During her mission in Verchiel, Regina turned the noble into a servant of Sera just because she could and because it would amuse Sera. She knows that Sera is a traumatized Girl and thus tries to help her in whatever way she can. She also appreciates Seras skills with the bow.

**Leliana:** Regina respects Lelianas ability to play the game and also her ability to put aside her own morals to get a job done. But she is concerned by Leliana being very changeable by the people she loves. She knows that it was the Warden who told Leliana to embrace her past as a bard instead of being a chantry sister. An act she supports but that makes her question, how much of her personality Leliana leaves up for others to shape. She also thinks that Leliana would be a bad divine. Well intentioned but idiotic. She would throw away the whole system without having a good plan on how to replace it. So her reign as Divine would be very chaotic and Regina hates chaos. Aside from that she thinks that Leliana is nice enough to be around. She also has some interesting stories to share.

**Cullen:** Regina respects Cullens ability to lead the troops and keep them motivated. But she is quite concerned about his lyrium withdrawal during a war. She urges him to take it until the war is over and then they will have time to deal with that issue. But she won't risk her troops just because he is unable to lead effectively. If Cullen fails, Cassandra will replace him. That is something that Regina discussed with both of them and got both their consent to that solution.

**Queen Anora:** Regina and Anora are familiar with each other to the point of feeling and showing mutual respect. Anora became one of Reginas closest allies during the time of the Inquisition as their way of thinking was quite similar and thus a common ground to build an alliance on. Regina would later call Anora "The best ruler in all of Thedas".

**Warden Loghain:** Regina used to hate Loghain for his actions during the blight. But in talks with him, during his time in Skyhold, she learned about his motivations and end goals. She was able to forgive most of his actions. She even agreed that the death of King Cailan was good for Ferelden as the King was a naive idiot. The only action she was unable to forgive was the enslavement of the city elves. Aside from that, she sees Loghain as a redeemed man and valuable ally against the rogue and corrupted Wardens. She would later call him "one of the few acceptable Wardens".

## Reginas opinions on stuff

Regina has very strong opinions on many topics. She hates the Qun with a burning passion after they murdered her family. She thinks that their ideology is close to slavery, which she can't accept. But she does see the militaristic value of that zealous group, which also leads to her allying with them during the war with Corypheus.

When it comes to religion, Reginas opinion on it is rather low. In her mind, Religion is a way for the weak and foolish to deal with the harsh reality. She sees it as a form of denial, when people speak about a grand plan made by some maker that never revealed itself. She sees it as a way for people to escape their failures or crimes, as they will simply claim that it was the maker who set them on this path, without having to face their own villainy or stupidity. So she has grown to hate religious groups like the Qun or the chantry. She sees them safe harbour for the weak and simple minded. **"Faith is nice. But it won't save you from the Breach or Corypheus. The Maker won't help you, so stop praying and grab a weapon. Help yourself." ~Regina**

When it comes to the mage situation, she is one of the people who do see the value of the circles. But in her mind mages should be allowed to live free after they passed their harrowing, as they have proven themselves by then to be reliable and not in need of Templar supervision. While she sees the value of the circles as educational and safe places for mages, she also sees them as prisons that act as a means for the chantry to supervise the mages and while doing so, turn them into andrastians who would follow the word of the chantry without question. She draws comparisons to the Qun until Vivienne tells her how circle life really is, which leads Regina to change her opinion and accept the circle as a flawed organisation that is worth salvaging.

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