배릭 테트라스

"이야기에는 힘이 있어. 역사도 다 그런 거야. 가장 뛰어난 이야기, 마지막까지 살아남는 이야기가 역사가 되는 거지. 내 이야기라고 그렇게 되지 말라는 법 있어?"

 

커크월의 드워프 상인 조합 소속, 배릭 테트라스는 두 가지 이유로 유명한(혹은 악명높은) 인물이다. 그건 바로 그의 책, 그리고 커크월의 용사와의 친분이다.

 

성기사단과 마법사 협회가 성가회에서 떨어져 나온 후, 교황 저스티니아 5세는 전쟁이 시작된 장소인 커크월에 자신의 요원들을 보내 답을 찾으려 했다. 용사는 이미 한참 전 사라진 지 오래였지만, 배릭은 자신의 친구들이 커크월 성가회의 파괴에 어떤 식으로 얽혔는지를 다루는 책을 썼다. 교황의 왼손과 오른손은 너무나도 쉽게 그를 찾아냈고, 배릭을 잡아 심문한 뒤 교황에게 직접 증언시키기 위해 콘클라베로 이송했다. 그러나 운명은 배릭이 교황을 만나도록 허락하지 않았다.

 

"There's power in stories. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might as well be mine."

 

Varric Tethras of the Dwarven Merchants Guild of Kirkwall is famous (or infamous) for two things: his books, and his association with the Champion of Kirkwall.

 

After the templars and Circles broke away from the Chantry, Divine Justinia V sent her agents to Kirkwall—where the roots of the war began—in search of answers. The Champion had long since disappeared, but Varric had written a book on his friends' involvement in the destruction of the Kirkwall Chantry, and the Left and Right Hands of the Divine located him with surprising ease. They captured and interrogated him, then brought him to the Conclave to give his testimony to the Divine in person, but fate decreed that he would never meet her.