The Hound of Dendrick DLC

## Synopsis

Taking place in 9:47 alongside season 4, a new party consisting of Adriana De Resoli, Ronja Kalac and Ataashi arrive in the fog-covered village of Dendrick. A place with family drama, dark intrigues and a hound on the loose.

## Not-so-OST

"Start Screen" - Our Island, Fallout 4, Far Harbour OST

The Qunari Suite, Dragon Age II OST

"Cynophobia" - Woof, Omori OST

"Enchanter Klister" - I aint Ojisan, Hunter x Hunter OST

"Dendrick" - Apartment Building, Disco Elysium OST

"Ode to the Trastamaras" - Fortune's Theme, Metal Gear Solid 2 OST

"Crossroads" - Departure Jazz version, Hunter x Hunter OST

"Trial" - Tribunal Theme, Disco Elysium OST

## Sessions

### Session 1: It Takes a Village

While on the hunt for her friend, Ronja Kalac meets up with an enchanter in order to get his permission slip to enter the Nevarra City College. Enchanter Klister agrees to accompany her to Nevarra, hoping to pick up inspiration for his vital fruit/fish conservation studies. Meanwhile in Dairsmuid, Rivain; Adriana De Resoli uncovers a mysterious letter locked away by her mother. The seal on the letter points towards the Dendrick family who live in the quiet village of Dendrick founded by Sir Dendrick on the coast of lake Dendrick.

Ronja and Adriana meet up with the vashoth Ataashi who is traveling to Dendrick to start a new quiet life. The party of four hire a long-carriage from an old man named Finnian. On the road, the carriage is attacked by a mysterious creature enveloped in a thick fog and narrowly escape to the village.

The party manage to talk their way in through the palisade and spend the day becoming acquainted with the locals and uncover parts of the village's sordid history. The founder of the town allegedly put a curse on his own bloodline, so that whomever tainted it would suffer the wrath of his war hound. This story coupled with the monster sighting is especially troubling for Lyanna Dendrick (the village chief's daughter) and her boyfriend Tanner (an elf). The party look snoop around and run a pregnancy test on Lyanna. At night the fog starts rolling in over the village and the party retire for the night. In the morning they discover the body of Tanner, brutally killed in the village square.

### Session 2: Crossbreed

The party wake up and mess around the tavern for a while before going to the square and confronting the dead elephant in the room. They play detectives and uncover evidence suggesting that someone let the hound in during the night to kill Tanner. They also discover Tanners knife covered in black tasty goop nearby. The party investigate around town and uncover among other things:

> Tanner has been in town for 1 year

-> Doc has been in town 6 months

-> The 'curse' activates if the Dendrick line gets mixed blood

-> Tanner is from Hunters Rest

-> Adriana's biological mother is Leonor Dendrick. She was killed by the Dendricks in 9:26

-> Garret is Rat's uncle. Rat's mom died in childbirth

-> Tanner died around 21:00

-> Ulf schedule: start work at 8, finish at 18:30. At tavern at aprox 18:32, left at 21:04~05, came back 2-3 minutes later

->Lyanna is pregnant. Only us and the Doc know

-> Ulf has not been home in a full day

->Tulip was talking to Tanner in front of Doc's house at around 19:00

-> The black goo from the knife at the murder scene doesn't react to acids or anything else

-> Garret went out to the lake before Ulf and came back before him

-> Doc's voice sounds weird, as if it's not his

-> no darkspawn or taint on the goo/knife

After questioning the locals, the party determine that the main suspects for opening the door are Garret and Ulf. They question Ulf about his whereabouts and he seems like he genuinely had nothing to do with it. Lyanna confesses that she is pregnant with Tanner's child and is scared of what her mother will do if she finds out. The party offer to take her with them when they leave the village and she say's that she'll think about it. The party question Garret and Dessinta who reveal that there had been a previous Hound attack 20 years ago that killed Dessinta's sister and Adriana's mother: Leonor. She has been entombed in the crypt, the only place where the party haven't searched yet.

### Session 3: Unseen Serpents

With their main goal in mind, the party take a lil' dip in lake Dendrick and find a key to the cozy local crypt. They discover that someone was being held down in the crypt for a very long time before being transformed into the Hound. On the way out, they're ambushed by Tulip who lays out the situation. The party chose to parley and Tulip reveals a tattoo of an ouroboros on the palm of her hand. It allegedly represent the group she's working for, and when asked who in particular she works for she only says the words Causa Sui. She was sent to this village to turn Leonor into the hound and study the transformation and ways to control her. She tells the party that if they keep quiet about her and her group and lie about the curse, then she'll take care of the hound and be on her way. The party agree and head back above ground.

They find a "funeral" in the village square. Dessinta is trying to burn Tanner's body against Lyanna's wishes and tensions are running high. The party step in and calm Lyanna while Ronja kicks Dessinta into the lake. They agree to leave the village along with Lyanna and the body but secretly entomb it into the crypt (I'm sure Dendrick would have love that). Adriana has a touching conversation with Garret where he confesses that he was taking care of Leonor for the twenty years she was imprisoned and she forgives him. The party ride out of the village and part ways shortly after.

Ronja finally makes it to Nevarra city and enters the collage with the writ that she got from Tulip. She catches up with Dagna who's researching demons on behalf of the inquisition. She also meets Ferdinand Pentaghast who's sponsoring the project. She decides to stay and pursue further personal research. Adriana returns home to Rivain where she gets Lyanna a home. Her sister has returned home briefly before heading out to Tevinter. Adriana warns Sellwynne about the organization that she encountered and goes along with a marriage to Ferdinand Pentaghast in order to secure an alliance for Rivian. About a year after the events in Dendrick, Ataashi is living a relatively mundane life. That is untill she's suddenly contacted by a qunari messenger. She accidentally blurts out her codeword and the messenger is forced to kill themselves after giving her a name. "Ferdinand Pentaghast."

In a small pocket of the fade. Nasa, Popola, Devola and Tulip are watching the events of Season 4 unfold.