Sarah Hecate

Sarah in season 2 (Drawn by PaintFactory)

Ethel Hecate (grandmother)

Ricco Hecate (grandfather)†

Tyra Cousland (adopted cousin)

Oriana Cousland (aunt)†

Orren Cousland (cousin)†

Fergus Cosuland (uncle in law)

Antonio Rodrigo Hecate (2nd Cousin once removed)

Aiden Travelyan (Husband)

Alice Hecate-Travelyan (Daughter)

Victoria Hecate-Travelyan (Daughter)

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Sarah Hecate, the daughter of Merryn and Tamara Hecate is one of the heroes in season 1 and 2. She is a rouge skilled with the staff, bow and alchemichal ingredients. Even if she'd rather be a mage she doesn't have much choice in the matter. She has an affinity for animals, especially her dog Sophie. She is played by Eve.

## Background

Sarah Hecate Is not an apostate like most peasants in the village she lives next to say. But her mother was. Tamara Hecate was the oldest daughter to two banns, raised in wealth in comfort. When her magical abilities surfaced Tamara's parents hid them, hiring an apostate mage to train her. Tamara grew to be a wild spirit going off to the village often to socialize. There she met a hunter and fell in love. Soon enough she ran off with him much to the disdain of her parents and had Sarah. It was from Tamara that she learned about healing herbs and how to cure ills and injuries etc. She also bought her the hat she still wears, though it was much too big for her when originally bought. Her father Merryn was a hunter, he taught her the bow and how to deal with animals. The mother remained with the family for some time before being found again by the circle and taken to the Ferelden circle tower. Coincidentally Sarah's grandmother showed up just before the Templars urging her to come back home, leading Sarah to believe that she tipped them off when she refused to comply with the wishes of the Hecate family and leave her husband. She was transferred to the Orlesian circle and currently lives in the white spire. (Sarah did not find out about this though and she thinks she's in the Fereldan circle).

Sarah and her father moved from town to town providing their services to villagers in healing and in hunting. They separated as Sarah became old enough to live on her own. He went to work as a hunter for a lord, sending money in Sarah's way. While she lived in a village as a healer. There the villagers started accusing her of being an apostate and one day a group of drunks drove her out burning down her house She moved on and similar things(well her house was burned down only once but overall she was treated poorly and was driven off under a threat of violence) happened in 3 other villages. So she learned to stay out on the outskirts of villages only trading with them and occasionally doing her usual trade. This however made her look even more like a witch.

Finally after years of being treated like an apostate she started living deeper and deeper in the woods. Speaking only to animals whom she considered to be her only friends. She had conversations with them and everything. Even raised some to look after her (eg. She has an owl she trained from an egg to watch over the road from her house to her cottage in case someone tries to sneak up to her at night)

## Involvement

### Season 1

Sarah meets Anais and Vehlkost in Jader. After attempting to solve a disappearance case they all end up in the deep roads. There Sarah manages to bribe a demon with royal elfroot and hesitantly consents to locking Gwaren inside to blow himself up. After escaping the deep roads into Orzammar the party get's forced to participate in a proving to prove their innocence. She helps by taming one of the opponents, a bronto.

Outside of Orzammar the party meets Tony Mark, a carriage driver that knows her father and tells her that almost everyone in Cousland castle has fallen into a coma including her dad. Tony agrees to take the party to Jader but get's assassinated halfway by an assassin sent for Anais' head. In Jader she manages to evacuate a portion of the city but looses a toe to a darkspawn.

After being interrogated by empress Celene, Sarah get's approached by Leliana, a hand of the Divine who saw how she dealt with the bronto in Orzammar. She offers Sarah a job as an agent and Sarah replies that she'll think about it. She also goes to visit her mother in the white spire and tells her a bit about her adventures so far.

In Highever, she discovers that what Tony Mark said is true and her fathers mind has been trapped in the fade. Someone who isn't trapped is her grandmother Ethel who insists that she gets a husband so that someone will be there to inherit the Hecate fortune. Sarah refuses and Ethel storms away.

After destroying the Magrallen, the party ends up in the fade. Sarah sees her grandmothers attending a fake wedding for her so she crashes it but excanges a few words with Ethel. Her dad is trapped on a field with Desire pretending to be her mother. When the party finally confronts Desire, Arasghilana agrees to her deal. Both Sarah and Anais is appaled by this and a fight ensues. After Anais is defeated, Sarah finally relents and exits the dream of her own will.

In the last fight with Anais' father, Sarah attempts to sway Fenris to their side and with Arasghilanas help they manage to convince him to switch sides. After the Archon's death, Sarah gets in touch with Leliana and becomes on of her agents.

### Season 2

In season 2 Sarah works for Leliana as one of her agents. She's not the best, in fact she's more of a scout/ranger/healer type. She helps an elf at a clinic in Halamsharal. He was a good healer and just needed some people skills. Then she got a job to go to Tevinter. On the job she joined up with Tyra, her new mentor Sanga, Arasghilana and Leben.

On the journey to Minrathos she felt quite mischievous and decided to not tell Leben that Anais was the archon as a prank, she also along with Arasghilana taught Tyra about sex ed. Important.

In Minrathos she met up with Anais who showed off her dads head as you do, and filled Sarah and the others in about the coronation, she decided to settle in the circle quarters for the duration of her stay with the two elves she was to investigate Cole and Atia.

Over the course she never managed to find out much other than "Cole be shady". Instead they played cards and had fun. There was a time at the party of which the host died the next night when she stole a bunch of booze which she shared with her party. She also hired Anahada during the investigation on the girls death, tho she never found the proof that Cole did it in spite of the fact that she suspected he did.

Over the time to the coronation some other unimportant people Sarah found to hate died, the as the coronation unfolded she partied, hanging out with Leliana, Wynne and Shale, Leben joined the frey hiding from the queen of Rivain, she flirted with a handsome mage Aiden Trevelyan. Then Cole showed up panicked and ran off. She ran after him but lost him then everything blew up...

Wait its Rewind time - ... She and the party chose to go to the circle quaters, meet up with Atia and have the final showdown with Cole. She tried using words but Cole didn't listen. So Tyra tried her sword and things worked out.

After that the party went on a tangent in the Dirtharaan DLC, Sarah wasn't present.

So Cole had a note and amulet which let to a mysterious 'M'. So she and the party have headed off to find a ship, and found the Sperare who agreed to take them there. Whilst everyone else "bonded" with some folk from the crew, Sarah merely had a bunch of friendly competitions and chats with Quintus. She otherwise spent her time writing letters and keeping busy when at ports.

One time the ship was attacked by pirates, and Sarah's quick wits made the party capable to respond to the sudden attack defeating the pirates, this attack let them know of the pirate hideout, which the party attacked and rescued everyone inside including Sweeny and some Melon, she kicked Sweeny in the stomach really hard upon finding him.

Then in a next escapade Tyra turns into a reaver, it was freaky but thankfully she was able calm the little (big) girl with some hugs. When Tyra got confused later about feelings tho she wasn't much help. I'm sorry Tyra but your cousin lived in the woods for years.

Finally the final battle was approaching as the party landed in the hideout of M. They talked their way inside than found Desire in the shape of Arasghilna. Sarah stun-locked her making her unable to do anything and the party just wailed on her. Arasghilana might have came out but we'll never know. Ooops. She did try her hardest to keep Arasghilana alive as the demon seemed to be gone but to no avail.

They've beaten some 'M' guy. But it appeared not the correct M guy or at least the ONLY M guy, so either way the mission was deemed a failure. They returned with the news to the Archon who never paid them, then back to Orlais where Leliana probably paid her less idk. They held a funeral to Arasghilana in Highever where Sarah said some nice elven words, also it was revealed she fed information about Tyra to Fergus which made Tyra angry. Overall Sarah considered the fact that she's a shite spy but decided to keep working for Leliana because it was a good cause and she trusted her boss will give her more appropriate missions next time.

Sarah didn't take part in the second DLC either.

In the Feast day special Sarah and Melon acted compassionately in the fade, and as they figured out they were supposed to apologise to the tombstone the demon possessing Gwaren's mom allowed them to go if they leave Anais behind to be punished as Anais acted like Anais would. She disagreed though and stayed to fight the demons.

### Afterwards

In the time between Seasons 2 and 3 Sarah met up with, was courted by and married Aiden Trevelyan, they had 2 twin girls together Alice and Victoria. Due to an argument between Ethel and the Trevelyans and the fact that Aiden was a mage they decided to merge their surnames together in the girls' surname. Ethel was really happy to have great grandchildren and acted almost as a different woman after they were born. She died only a year after making the year with the girls the last year of her life. (The year the demon claimed to have wanted to take back in Highever).

After Ethel's death her titles of the Oswnin banorn were transferred to Sarah as the named heir. She found ruling quite hard but its not like it was an arling, with help of her husband and advisers she kept up with her duties, and the title of nobility made Sarah an asset for Leliana when she wanted something from the Fereldan court. Sarah also used this opportunity to start a project which involved building a huge clinic in her town, staffed by many healers which could heal people of Oswin as well as any travellers.

As the mage rebellion unfolded Sarah gave refuge to her mother, ass well as any other mage she trusted in her castle. The templars however disapproved and sieged Cairn Oswin, Sarah and her family managed to escape however templars occupied her lands. The Trevelyans helped her family out by giving her and the mages she protected a refuge. As the Divine called for a truce at haven Sarah's parents attended the conclave and were caught in the blast which created the breach. Thankfully she and her husband were out of reach (the girls were with their grandparents in Free Marches). After that Sarah joins the Inquisition as an agent of the inquisition.

### Gallery

The first version of Sarah made in Dragons DogmaOriginal Sarah drawn by GalaxyFox2nd version of SarahFade version of Sarah in her wedding dressSarah in her coronation dress (drawn by Fleruna)AU-Sarah