Many Tranquil were forcibly possessed by Venatori and their skulls used to make Oculara. However, his son Felix Alexius, and his apprentice Dorian Pavus, reveal his plot to the Inquisition. Alexius invites the Inquisitor to Redcliffe Castle to 'negotiate' intending to ambush the Herald for his master. When the Herald of Andraste and a party of Inquisition operatives arrive to speak with the mages, Alexius announces that the mages have already agreed to become his indentured servants, in exchange for eventual Tevinter citizenship. When the rebel mages agree to his terms, Alexius takes things further by seizing control of Redcliffe Castle and driving out Arl Teagan Guerrin. Alexius persuades the rebel mages that fleeing to Tevinter is their only hope of survival and offers them his protection in exchange for their indentured servitude. Realizing the southern Rebel Mages are on the brink of joining forces with the Inquisition and slipping beyond the Venatori's grasp, Alexius uses time warping magic to go back in time and arrive in Redcliffe Village during a supposedly imminent templar attack. However, in the wake of the Breach into the Fade at the Temple of Sacred Ashes which destroyed the Divine's conclave, Grand Enchanter Fiona offers an alliance with the newly reformed Inquisition. Ī group of Venatori, led by Magister Gereon Alexius, travel south in the hopes of seizing control of the rebellious southern Mages by offering them Tevinter citizenship, thus allowing them to escape their Templar pursuers. Some of these foreign mage refugees were in fact Venatori infiltrators who encouraged an alliance with the Tevinter Imperium as the situation with the mage rebellion grew dire. In a discussion of the Venatori's motives at Skyhold, Cullen expresses his views that the Venatori are a seperate sect of fanatics rather than the vanguard of a Tevinter invasion, while Josephine derides their ambitions as folly, given that the present day Imperium doesn't wield anything like the power it did during Corypheus's time the ideal of Tevinter that the Elder One and the Venatori wish to restore no longer exists.Īs the brutality of the Mage-Templar War escalated, many hunted rebel mages and apostates congregated to Fiona's refuge in Redcliffe village. The Venatori, by and large, do not represent the views of the Tevinter Imperium Dorian insists that the Imperium will disavow any suggestion of involvement with these "dangerous cultists" (though he does note that many magisters will privately think the Venatori have got the right idea). To this end, they dedicate themselves to destroying the southern nations until a new Tevinter Imperium under the leadership of the Elder One emerges. The Venatori revere Corypheus: the ancient Tevinter Magister turned into a darkspawn emissary whom they believe will make the Venatori into god-kings who will rule over Thedas in his stead when the Elder One conquers the Black City and becomes a god.
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