Mesaraih dived out of the way of the lightning, thinking he had escaped the shock, but it coiled and splintered off the main group and one lone bolt of it still managed to hit him. He convulsed for a second and felt a small amount of energy drain from him, though when he glanced at Tal he could tell he had managed to avoid the brunt of it. He was rather impressed to see the large Qunari move so quickly to assault the emissary.<br/><br/>Turning his eyes back onto the oncoming darkspawn, he noticed Valehna was offering support to Tal, bringing up roots from the ground to make the path towards the emissary clearer, as well as bringing them all around herself. He quickly ran back into the fray, stabbing a couple of genlocks in the back and bringing them down, hard, onto the ground. He wasn't sure they were dead, but they at least seemed incapacitated. A hurlock grunted behind him, larger than the regular ones he had seen and with thicker armor. As he turned around to face it, it brought a greataxe down, and Mesaraih only just managed to dive out of the way. He gave it a kick from behind, disorienting it, but before he could turn to face it he noticed darkspawn converging onto Ester.<br/><br/>"Shit," he muttered, zeroing down on a genlock archer who was lining up a shot to snipe Ester. He threw one of his dagger at the darkspawn and hit is squarely in one eye. It stumbled back and lied still, but Mesaraih wasted no time. Avoiding another swing from the alpha hurlock's greataxe, he scrambled over to the dead genlock and picked up its bow and arrows, quickly nocking an arrow and firing it at a genlock that was rushing Ester's position. He fired a few more in quick succession around her, taking less care with his aim so that he could shoot faster, hoping it would be enough to let her gain a foothold and position herself better.<br/><br/>His heroics had given other darkspawn time to surround him, however, and now the alpha hurlock was running at him with nowhere for Mesaraih to dodge to. He took a step towards it, planted his foot firmly on the ground, and back flipped over the genlock coming at him from behind. He avoided the hurlock's swing, but the genlock turned around and was able to slash him across his chest. Mesaraih crumpled to the ground, somewhat dazed, though he knew he had to recover quickly if he wanted to avoid getting killed on the spot.