Aegis the Mad, Warden (and High Emperor) of Fereldan - Ressi
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Start date: 19th June
End date: 19th of July
This idea is a blatant rip off of another group I was on, and they in turn ripped it off a running trend in graphic novels some time
back.
Basic premise: Nature vs Nurture; Take a familiar character (one of your own or one others will recognise) from a familiar setting
(Trek TNG Sg-1, Haven, Terpsichore...) and put them somewhere else familiar, as they had grown up there....
Jedi Master Ruben Williams?
Teal'c of the house of Mog?
Ressi the Incorrigible, Warden of Ferelden?
Colonel Briana of the Royal Manticore Marines?
James T Kirk of the Minbari Rangers?
Jack O'neil in Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
The idea isn't to have them step through a hole and be the same person, but to show a scene, a key event that illustrates their
character in the new setting.
All we want is that one key scene, something succinct, punchy and possibly humorous
Aegis stood to one side, away from the others, and watched them cannily for any kind of sign of trickery, thinking back on the
strange events that had led him to this particular place. One could never be too sure of the motives of people one encountered
out in the place the others called the Kocari Wilds, but that Aegis simply referred to as his forest. He had come upon the group of
misfits, who obviously required his assistance, as they had been ambushed by a group of monsters, that they referred to as
'Dark Spawn'. Aegis did not much care for the monsters. They smelled funny and ran off all the tasty prey.
Aegis had taken it upon himself to rescue these hunters. Clearly they were so inept at their hunting that even if they turned out to
be as bad as the monsters Aegis could easily kill them too. Once Aegis had run around and slaughtered more than his fair share
of the monsters he had stopped to talk to the hunters that had nearly been killed in the ambush. One of them, who called himself
Alistair, was a very whiny sort and did not seem to be very useful. One was a deeply cowardly fellow, who called himself Jory.
The third referred to himself as Daveth, Aegis did not much care for Daveth he seemed very sneaky.
The three stupid hunters had not seemed to quite know what to make of Aegis, even after he had clearly explained that he
owned all of the forest and that they were trespassing on his land. Most importantly, they had not seemed very impressed to
learn that he was the "most very greatest hunter in all of everything". Alistair had not seemed overly impressed and had said
something about Aegis clearly not being the 'most very smartest hunter in all of everything'. Aegis had responded, naturally, by
punching Alistair in the face which Daveth and Jory had rather enjoyed. Then Alistair had suggested that Aegis was one of the
monsters, Aegis had punched Alistair in the face a second time for saying such a thing. Everyone knew the monsters could not
talk.
Then Daveth had offered Aegis one of the shiny sharp sticks that the monsters carried. He had called it a sword. Aegis had
looked and sniffed at the sword. Aegis had then asked how it worked. Alistair told him 'pointy end goes into the other man'. But,
when Aegis tried to put the pointy end of the sword into Alistair the other man had become very angry for some reason. Aegis
could not imagine why since he had just been doing what Alistair had told him to do in the first place. Aegis had then decided he
did not need a sword.
After that Aegis had invited himself along on the adventure the other three were having. He did not really understand what they
were trying to do, but he liked adventures as a general rule and these stupid hunters would need his help anyway if they were
going to stay alive out here while they were fighting monsters. So, he had accompanied them on their journey through the
woods, smacked Alistair a few more times for being stupid and Jory several times for being a coward and Daveth once just
because. For some reason, none of the three of them seemed to like him very much by the time Aegis led them back into a
place they called camp, not that Aegis minded if they liked him or not.
They had then all gone to talk to someone with bright shiny skin called Duncan. Alistair had tried to tell Duncan, again, that Aegis
was a monster. Aegis had retaliated by punching Alistair several more times in the face. Duncan had finally decided that Aegis
was some kind of mutated cat thing that had been warped by something called 'dark magic' probably the doing of something
called a 'Blood Mage' but Duncan had said Aegis did not have something called 'the taint' and then had asked Aegis if he wanted
to join something called 'the Grey Wardens'. Aegis had agreed to join provided he be given a roasted chicken and that he could
be a white warden instead of a grey one. After all, his fur was white, not grey, so it would be impossible to be a grey warden as
he had clearly explained to Duncan. Duncan had agreed to give Aegis the roasted chicken, but had explained that Aegis would
have to be a Grey Warden and that it was simply a name and not meant to imply that his fur was grey. This answer was
confusing, but acceptable, to Aegis.
All that had led up to where Aegis now was, preparing for something that was called 'the Joining'. Aegis watched as the blood
they had collected in the forest was poured into a shiny cup and he made a mental note to also demand that he be given the cup
after this joining thing was done. It was shiny. When it became clear that part of this joining thing would involve drinking blood
Aegis had become very excited. "Me is can do that," Aegis said, puffing himself up and slapping Jory hard on the back. "Is most
very much easy! Me is go last so make sure Coward and Sneak is drink too... and me is will drink all that is left... OH BOY!"
With that last remark Aegis had scampered behind Jory and Daveth and given both of them a hearty shove forward. That had
apparently been too much for the coward to handle and he started freaking out and pulled out his very large sword. Obviously,
this would have to be dealt with. Before Duncan could move forward and deal with Jory though, Aegis sprang forward into the
middle of Jory's back and tackled him. In a flash Aegis had wrapped both hands, and his claws, around and into Jory's head and
given a massive tug. There was a sickening crack, Jory's body twitched once, and then he went limp.
"You is coward," Aegis declared to the still body, giving it a savage kick and then spitting on it. "Now is more for me, oh boy!"
Aegis then turned his emerald eyed gaze on Daveth. "Is you make be coward too," he asked, flashing his claws and baring his
fangs making it most apparent that there could easily be a repeat of what had just happened to Jory.
"No, I'm not a coward," Daveth replied. "The Blight must be stopped." Mollified, Aegis had retracted his claws and then stood and
watched as calm as could be as Daveth took the cup from Duncan, sipped its contents and then keeled over dead.
"Me is did not do that," Aegis said, nudging Daveth's body with his foot. "Now is to be my turn," Aegis declared, jumping forward
and snatching the cup out of Duncan's hands.
In a flash he had upended the cup and most of its crimson contents into his mouth, though some had run out the corners of his
mouth and down his front staining his white fur a much darker color as he greedily gulped down every last bit of the cup's
contents and then proceeded to lick the inside clean. The drink was very good in his opinion. If he had known how tasty the
monsters were he would have started eating them long ago.
"Good," Aegis declared happily, belching loudly and looking quite satisfied. He could not see what the big deal was, this blood
tasted good to him and there were no ill effects that he could determine. "More," he asked, holding out the cup for a refill.
"Amazing," Alistair said, looking at Aegis in disbelief. "It doesn't seem to have affected him at all... is he completely unaffected?"
"It would seem that way," Duncan replied in a musing tone, both men now regarding Aegis.
"MORE," Aegis demanded, stamping his foot and shaking the cup in the direction of Alistair and Duncan. "ME," he stomped his
foot, "IS," he shook the cup at Alistair, "WANT," he shook the cup at Duncan, "MORE!," he punctuated the tirade by hopping up
and down for emphasis.
"There is no more," Duncan replied, "you've had all of it."
Aegis considered this for a moment. This was most assuredly a bit of bad news. But, he quickly remembered he had been
promised a roasted chicken. "Then me is want chicken," Aegis said in a matter of fact tone.
"Head down that way," Duncan began, pointing in the direction of camp, and before he could finish his statement Aegis had
scampered off in the direction of the food.