Radonis Flavius

## Background

Radonis, used to be married to the daughter of a very powerful Tevinter magister, Faleria Claudius. She was born with an extremely frail health which would not allow her to have more than one pregnancy, and Radonis, born infertile, lost all hope of producing an heir of his own. However Danarius, Faleria's father, let him know of a certain treatment that could provide him the ‘prowess’ he would need in order to have a child. The only downfall was that, if used a second time, the treatment would kill him instantly. Thus, having only one shot at assuring house Flavius’ legacy, the two eagerly set the plan in motion. They contacted an ancient demon and made a deal. Faleria got pregnant, then, naturally, nine months passed by and on the fateful night in 9:17 Dragon, Anais was born. Radonis and Faleria had waited for this fateful day for a long time, but, alas, Anais was not what Radonis had expected.

You see, there is no Tevinter law specifying that the Magisters or the Archon had to be male, however, the tradition says otherwise. There has not been a female Magister in Ages, and there are no records of any female Archons, thus, when Radonis was told that Anais did not possess a penis, he was angry. Very angry. That same night, in a fit of rage, Radonis approached the ancient demon once more. It promised him a son, should he kill his current wife and child. The same night he burned Faleria to ashes. An elven slave witnessed this and swiftly told his brother-in-law, Julius, who was with Anais at the time. He cradled her in his arms and fled the Archon’s estate.

The following months had been a political turmoil. The Archon’s murder was uncovered to the public thanks to Julius. Radonis managed to escape the accusations by blaming his late wife of some sort of fit or mental illness which had her attack him first, thus justifying his actions. Julius was not convinced and decided that he would be the one raising Anais, as he did not deem the Archon’s estate ‘safe’.

Not having been able to fulfil his promise to the ancient demon, Radonis begged it for another favor. It agreed to give him another chance, on the condition that he give it a powerful physical body beyond any other. Radonis got to work and spent 18 years gathering the bones of the archdemon Zazikale from the 2nd blight. In 9:35 Radonis managed to collect all the bones he needed, the last ingredients to resurrect the old god in demon form was an immense source of raw lyrium and the blood of a great dragon. He found the blood in the adopted daughter of Fergus Cousland and put one of his most trusted advisors Magister Octavius to drain her blood. As for the raw lyrium, he sent an undercover agent Marcellus to dig for the rumors of the ancient Thaig of Gwaren under Jader. However, unexpectantly, Jader suddenly exploded, leaving its raw lyrium completely unguarded. Around that time, Radonis' agents reported that his daughter had been found and he sent out his top assassin Claudia to put an end to her. Meanwhile Radonis retrieved the last of the dragon blood needed and got ready for the ritual.

In the nick of time, his daughter Anais along with Sarah and Arasghilana infiltrated his camp to put a stop to him. They fought, Radonis using his borrowed slave Fenris and blood magic against the party. However when the party got the upper hand, he fled to his carriage of dragon bones and drove towards Jader. He almost made it but was shot by Anais and the cart tumbled just in front of the pit. She cut his head off and that was the end of Radonis.