Aether Effect

From top to bottom: Roana Tabris, Wilfred Hawke, Rivka Lavellan (all headshots by tevivinter)

## AU Information

### Associated Character(s)

Roana Tabris, Wilfred Hawke, Rivka Lavellan, Ashley Williams

### Era

9:45 Dragon (2186 CE)

The Reaper War is over. The mass relays are torn apart from the energy of the Crucible, and the Normandy crash-lands on a new and unfamiliar planet.

The remnants of the erstwhile Inquisition struggle to maintain their alliances in the Tevinter Imperium, oppressors of the Elvhenan, after the revelations concerning Fen'Harel's machinations.

Then, a star falls from the sky, changing everything, forever...

## **Characters**

### **Roana Tabris**

**Hero of Ferelden**

* **City Elf Warrior (Reaver)**
* Conscripted Loghain, made Alistair King with Anora
* Freed Connor from possession, cured Eamon with the Sacred Ashes
* Tower not annulled, all senior Enchanters saved with the Litany
* Peace brokered between Dalish and Werewolves
* Bhelen made king, Anvil of the Void destroyed
* Amaranthine saved, Wardens survived
* Left Morrigan to her own devices
* Romanced Leliana

### **Wilfred Hawke**

**Champion of Kirkwall**

* **Aggressive Rogue (Berserker)**
* Worked for Meeran
* Bartrand killed, Red Lyrium Idol destroyed
* Slew the Arishok in single combat
* Sided with Larius against Janeka
* Sided with Mages, killed Anders
* Left Kirkwall with Fenris
* Survived the Nightmare demon in the Fade

### **Rivka Lavellan**

**Inquisitor**

* **First to Clan Lavellan (Rift Mage)**
* Denies being the Herald of Andraste
* Mages conscripted at Redcliffe
* Celene rules, reconciled with Briala
* Grey Wardens exiled from Orlais, Loghain sacrificed himself
* Drank from the Well of Sorrows
* Vivienne elected Divine
* Titled “*Comtesse of Sundermount*” by Viscount Varric
* Iron Bull betrayed the Inquisitor
* Inquisition reformed into the Divine’s Personal Guard
* Rivka appointed as Paladin-Commander
* Romanced Solas, then Josephine

### **Ashley Williams**

**Acting Commanding Officer, SSV Normandy SR-2**

* **2183: Saren Crisis**
	+ Shepard romanced Liara
	+ Ashley romanced Kaidan
	+ Kaidan died on Virmire
	+ Council on board Destiny Ascension saved
	+ Anderson made councillor
* **2185: Collectors Crisis**
	+ Shepard had a tryst with Kelly Chambers
	+ Shepard nevertheless renewed relationship with Liara
	+ Maelon’s data saved, Geth heretics destroyed, Tali not exiled
	+ Collector Base destroyed, no casualties
* **2186: Reaper War**
	+ Shepard continued his relationship with Liara
	+ Encouraged James to go through with N7 training
	+ Told Javik not to touch the memory shard
	+ Council saved again during Cerberus coup
	+ Genophage cure not sabotaged
	+ Peace brokered between quarians and the geth
	+ Shepard chose Control at the Crucible

## **Universe Plot**

One year after the foiling of the Dragon's Breath conspiracy, the reformed Inquisition faces an imminent crisis when the Qunari launch a full-scale invasion of Tevinter, aided by an unholy alliance with a resurgent Venatori, their leader Calpernia declariing the overthrow of the Archon and his replacement by a tyrannical Censorate. Dorian, sole survivor of the assassination of the Archon, is witness to these tumultuous events, as well as a lone member of Sutherland's Company working against the Venatori.

In the meantime, the Reaper War has ended with the firing of the Crucible and the central intelligence of the Reapers replaced with a beneveolent man-machine gestalt, the massive energies involved wrecking the Normandy SR-2's engines and stranding it upon an isolated planet in the Horse Head Nebula where elves and magic are far from fiction but are sober fact. With Dr. Liara T'Soni retiring from active duty due to the toll of Shepard's sacrifice, Commander Ashley Williams steps up to lead the crew of the Normandy in navigating this strange new world.

All the while, the Dread Wolf's forces are marshalling to see the nefarious plan of their master, former ally and lover of Inquisitor Rivka Lavellan, through in his bid to not just rewrite history but reshape reality itself, and it's all the remnants of the Inquisition, aided by their new allies from our far-flung corner of the Milky Way to stop him, the Venatori, the qunari and the lurking ancient evils which Solas has wrought...

## **Links**

* Tumblr: https://athenril-of-kirkwall.tumblr.com/tagged/aether-effect
* AO3 (Clean): https://archiveofourown.org/series/2074563
* AO3 (Explicit): https://archiveofourown.org/series/1227941