Hespith

Hespith is the commander of Branka's troops, as well as her lover. She joined Branka in her search for the Anvil of the Void, and has suffered tremendously because of this.

Involvement


The party comes across Hespith towards the end of the Dead Trenches. She laments the fate of her family at Branka's hands, recounting the horrors in a poem of sorts (below). Her mind has gone, likely due to the taint of eating darkspawn flesh. Hespith is furious with Branka for sacrificing her family in search of the Anvil, and understandably feels betrayed.

Quotes
First day, they come and catch everyone.

Second day, they beat us and eat some for meat.

Third day, the men are all gnawed on again.

Fourth day, we wait and fear for our fate.

Fifth day, they return and it's another girl's turn.

Sixth day, her screams we hear in our dreams.

Seventh day, she grew as in her mouth they spew.

Eighth day, we hated as she is violated.

Ninth day, she grins and devours her kin.

Now she does feast, as she's become the beast.

''She became obsessed, that is the word but it is not strong enough. Blessed stone, there was nothing left in her but the Anvil. We tried to escape, but they found us. They took us all, turned us. The men, they kill... they're merciful. The women they want, to touch, to mold, to change until you are filled with them. They took Laryn. They made her eat the others, our friends. She tore off her husband's face and drank his blood. And while she ate, she grew. She swelled and turned gray and she smelled like them. They remade her in their image. Then she made more of them. Broodmother...''

''That's where they come from. That's why they hate us... that's why they need us. That's why they take us.... that's why they feed us. But the true abomination... is not that it occurred, but that it was allowed. Branka... my love... The Stone has punished me, dream friend. I am dying of something worse than death. Betrayal.''