While I made some fairly steady progress with this chapter overall, writing the Berwick section was a complete pain. I must have approached it about five different ways before settling on this one, and I'm still not 100% sold on it. Strangely enough, once that portion was done, the rest of it came pretty smoothly, particularly Sagramor's rousing speech. Expect to see a good number of those as the story progresses.<br /><br />Also, as this chapter suggests, I'm going to be taking a more positive view of Arl Eamon in this fic, Too often, he's treated as the twisted love child of Pol Pot, Rimmer Dall and Abaddon the Despoiler all because he dared to (gasp) suggest that Alistair's sex life&nbsp;is less important than the survival of an entire nation. <i>He's Thedas' greatest monster!</i> /sarcasm<br /><br />So, yeah, I'm not going to be treating him as a Machiavellian schemer who wants to rule Ferelden using Alistair as a puppet king; not only is it completely overdone at this point, it's not really supported in the text. And moreover, it's simply too easy to pull a Karen Traviss and&nbsp;present a character you don't like as a one-dimensional antagonist, a strawman for your favourites to beat upon. One of the things I really disliked about <i>Inquisition</i> was how too often, conflicts seemed to be generated by characters randomly becoming moron/assholes/corrupt/evil/incompetent or just plain poorly written, so that's something I'm going to do my utmost to avoid, even with the villains or characters I hate.&nbsp;As such, I'm going to present a more multi-layered portrayal of Eamon than you see in a lot of fanfics, and his&nbsp;relationship with Alistair is something that I'll be exploring as the story continues, and it'll form a big part of Alistair's character development.<br /><br />...God, I can go on and on, can't I? <img src="https://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="391" title=":) (Smile)"/><br /><br />And Zevran makes his first appearance! YAY! Figured I had to set up his presence now or else the timeline for his encounter with the Warden wouldn't make any sense. It'll all become clear in the next few chapters.<br /><br />As for Chapter 16? In the immortal words of Deadpool, "Fighty-fighty fight time, blood, blood, blood!" My thanks for all your continued support, and I hope you enjoy!<br /><br /><strong>First Chapter:</strong> A Day for Celebration - <a href="https://thephoenixking.deviantart.com/art/The-Grey-Path-Chapter-One-A-Day-for-Celebration-311164927">The Grey Path - Chapter One: A Day for Celebration</a><br /><br /><b>Previous Chapter:</b>&nbsp;The Bann's Request, Part&nbsp;One - <a href="https://thephoenixking.deviantart.com/art/The-Grey-Path-Chapter-Fifteen-Part-One-559332779">The Grey Path - Chapter Fifteen, Part One</a><br /><br /><b>Next Chapter:</b> The Defense of Redcliffe -&nbsp;<a href="https://www.deviantart.com/thephoenixking/art/The-Grey-Path-Chapter-Sixteen-576609094">The Grey Path - Chapter Sixteen</a>