Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance (Podcast)
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Dragon Age: Vows and Vengeance | Episode 1: Once a Thief…
Nadia Carcosa, a reformed thief, returns to her criminal roots after a wedding proposal goes sideways and her partner Elio, a revered mage in the Tevinter Imperium, gets dragged into a conspiracy with world-shattering consequences.
Here is the transcript for Episode 1: Once a Thief… if it's not coming up for you.
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NARRATOR: This podcast features adult language, violent imagery, and mature themes. Listener discretion is advised.
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(NAUTICAL BELL RINGING)
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(RAUCOUS TAVERN CHATTER, MUGS CLANKING, SINGING) BAR MAIDEN: All right, here's your last ale, Edmund.
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Remember... (RAUCOUS TAVERN, BAR PATRONS SINGING) PATRON 1: You tell me.
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PATRON 2: They'd better hoard their boys like dragons in the den! PATRON 3: People have been saying the ground be feeling
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like it's going to give. Crikey! These days- OLEN: Listen up, yeah. (CHAIR BEING PULLED UP) OLEN: There I am.
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Treasure in one hand, blade in the other. About to make off with the biggest score of my life
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And what's standing in my way but twenty-nine bloodthirsty, flesh-hungry Cue-nari?
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PATRON 4: Oh no! OLEN: Any of you ever crossed paths with a Cue-nari? PATRON 5: No, thank the maker. No.
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OLEN: Scary bastards. As fierce as dragons but smart too.
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And should you ever find yourself standing across from one, just remember, absolutely,
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do not look them in the eyes. To them, there's no greater disrespect.
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PATRON 6: I will never. Do not look them in the eyes. So I find the biggest fucker and get nose to nose with him,
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eyes locked. I hold up my fists and say, "Which hand do you want me to kill you with?"
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(CROWD GOING NUTS) PATRON 7: You're a mad man! PATRON 8: Come on, then! What happened next? OLEN: What happened next?
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(CHUGGING DRINK) That my friends is a story for another night.
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PATRON 9: Oh! Come on. PATRON 10: You can't just leave us. OLEN: (Laughing) Sorry lads, but I've had my fill of drink.
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And that coin bag is looking kind of light. (COINS JINGLING) Come back tomorrow and come
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back with coin, for a good story don't come cheap. I bled to bring you these tales.
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The least you can do is pay accordingly. Fear not, once the bag is full,
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I won't spare a single gruesome detail. (DRUNKEN HEMMING AND HAWING)
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(HEAVY FOOTSTEPS, SLAMMING DOOR) (MUSIC)
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SINGER: Compel to forge on. What will we become?
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(CLOCK TICKING) OLEN: (Singing) Oh, Grey Warden, what have you done?
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(DOOR OPENING, KEYS BEING PLACED ON TABLE) (WHISTLING, COIN PURSE BEING SET DOWN)
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Bless the maker, that wind has got a bite to it tonight.
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(FIRE BEING LIT, ROARING) That's better.
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NADIA CARCOSA: There he is. The man with a plan. OLEN: Nadia
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NADIA: Olen. OLEN: What are you doing here? Did anyone see you come in?
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(DOOR SLAMMING) NADIA: I came to have a quick drink with my trusted friend. OLEN: Don't you know that every templar, guard, warden,
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and bounty hunter, this side of Thedas is looking for the now notorious Nadia Carcosa?
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NADIA: Hey, I said a quick drink. (CORK POPPING) OLEN: There's no time for that. And I'm plenty drunk as is.
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You gotta get out of here. I damn near thought I was being followed home.
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NADIA: You set that job up. Now I want to have a drink. So we are going to have a drink.
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(BOTTLE SLAMMING ON TABLE) OLEN: Alright then. One drink. And then you're gone
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NADIA: (Clearing throat) To Elio.
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OLEN: Look, Nadia. I had no idea the job would go down like that. NADIA: Shh, shh, shh. Go on, drink up.
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(GULPING DOWN DRINK) There you go. That's the spirit. Now I'm gonna need some answers.
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OLEN: (Coughing) I don't have any answers. I already told you I was sorry. NADIA: Actually you didn't, but that's okay,
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we'll get to sorry here shortly. OLEN: Nadia, you have to leave. I can't risk having you here.
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NADIA: Oh, but if I leave, how will you ever get the antidote? OLEN: (Coughing) What antidote?
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What are you talking about? NADIA: Do you really think that was an Orlesian ale you just sipped? Give it a moment.
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You should feel a tickle in the back of your throat. (OLEN WHEEZING, GLASS DROPPING) There you go. Now it's working.
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Next you'll feel your lungs getting tighter. Then you'll pray for air. But for now, we can talk.
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OLEN: I don't know anything. NADIA: Hm. Well that's what we need to find out.
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Now, let's start from the beginning. (TICKING CLOCK INTENSIFIES)
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NARRATOR: This is Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance Chapter One: Once A Thief...
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(BIRDS CHIRPING) ELIO: Wake up. Nadia,
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it's me. Good morning. You with me now?
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NADIA: (Sighing) I'm always with you. ELIO: Good. Get dressed. I have a surprise for you. (FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: Mmm, I do love surprises.
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ELIO: I'll be out by the table. NADIA: Wait, wait. ELIO: What? NADIA: Come here so I can kiss you first.
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(FOOTSTEPS) ELIO: With pleasure. (Nadia laughing) (Nadia and Elio kiss)
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ELIO: Take your time. I'll meet you in the dining chamber. (FOOTSTEPS, DOOR CLOSING)
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(MUSIC) (FIRE ROARING, THROAT CLEARING)
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(PLATES AND SILVERWARE CLANKING) (FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: What is all this?
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Are we having breakfast or a banquet? ELIO: I wanted us to celebrate a special day.
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NADIA: Those flowers are beautiful. What are they? ELIO: Andraste's Grace. I thought they'd be, I dunno. Poetic.
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NADIA: You are so sappy. But I love it. ELIO: You mean everything to me.
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NADIA: Okay, okay. Just tell me what are we celebrating?
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ELIO: You. NADIA: Me? ELIO: Yeah. I thought we'd commemorate your birthday.
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Real proper like. NADIA: Elio, I told you I don't know when my birthday is
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ELIO: Exactly. So I figured it can be any day. We'll just pick today. NADIA: Elio.
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ELIO: Wait. Before you say anything, let me give you a present.
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Here, open it. (BOX OPENING) NADIA: What is this?
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ELIO: What does it look like? NADIA: Why would you give me this? ELIO: Generally speaking, there is
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but one use for such a thing. (Nadia sighing) ELIO: Come on. It's perfect.
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What better way to honor your new birthday than with the start of a new life? (Nadia sighing)
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NADIA: Why can't you just leave things be? You always have to push! (FOOTSTEPS)
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ELIO: Nadia! Nadia! Keep playing. I'll be back.
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(FOOTSTEPS) Nadia. Nadia! Let's discuss this.
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NADIA: Discuss this insane wedding ring that you gave me. ELIO: This ring is not insane. It was my great-grandmother's.
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NADIA: Elio! ELIO: What? NADIA: That's even crazier. I can't wear this. ELIO: Why not?
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NADIA: Look, I love you. I really do. But we cannot be that kind of couple! (DOOR SLAM)
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ELIO: Nadia, I'm tired of this being a secret. It's time to bring us into the light.
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NADIA: Elio, I am a Liberati. You are a mage. And not just any mage! You are part of the Magisterium.
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This is already a recipe for disaster! ELIO: Whoa. Why are you getting mad? NADIA: Because! I adore what we have
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and I don't understand why that can't be enough. ELIO: Because you make me want so much more!
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Why can't you see that? NADIA: You may be used to getting everything you want
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but people like me have to live in a world filled with walls and ceilings and dead ends.
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ELIO: Nadia- NADIA: No, don't Nadia me. You always think everything is fine,
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that it'll all work out, no problem, no big deal. You'll, you'll sign some papers here, make a decree over there.
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But I am the one who will have to live with their stares and whispers. I don't fit into that part of your world.
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And if you really loved me, you would understand that putting this ring on my finger is like
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putting a target on my back. ELIO: It doesn't have to be like that. NADIA: It is like that!
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You can't just wave your title around and make everything okay and make up fucking birthdays and throw flowers on the ground.
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I know what I am. I am a nothing in this world and I'm okay with that.
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But I thought maybe just, maybe I could be something special to you and only you, but no.
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No, that wasn't good enough. You just had to push. ELIO: Hey, hey, hey. Come here. NADIA: No, no. Get off me.
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ELIO: Nadia. NADIA:No! ELIO: (Sighing) I'm sorry.
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Okay? I'm, I'm sorry. What else do you want me to say?
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NADIA: You know what? Look, I need some air. Nadia. Nadia!
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(DOOR SLAM) Shit. (SEAGULLS, SHIP BELLS RINGING)
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FISHMONGER: Fresh oysters. Fresh clams. Catch of the day right here.
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NADIA: What's the daily deal? FISHMONGER: Oh, I got a special on pickled krone and rum.
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NADIA: It sounds disgusting. I'll take two. (COINS JINGLING) FISHMONGER: Oh, here you go.
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NADIA: Thanks Joren. FISHMONGER: Oh! Hey, by the way, you should know I saw some surly looking drag with a dead eye nosing about your
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houseboat this morning. NADIA: Hmm. Thanks for the heads up.
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FISHMONGER: You got it. (MUSIC) (FOOTSTEPS, CLIMBING INTO HOUSEBOAT)
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NADIA: Ugh. Ick! These pickled krone smell like last week's special.
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(Sighing) Elio. Elio, what am I gonna do with you?
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VIK: Been waiting for you all Morning. NADIA: So I gathered from Joren's description.
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VIK: Olen says he needs to see you. NADIA: Too bad for Olen. VIK: He says you owe him one.
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NADIA: I owe him shit. VIK: Fancy ring you got there. Maybe I'll just take that
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and see if it clears your debt. NADIA: You touch this ring and I'll pull your guts out like I'm threading a loom.
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(Laughter) NADIA: What's the call, Vik? VIK: Just a job.
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NADIA: You know I'm out. VIK: (Sighing) We know. But this one is special circumstances. NADIA: Was it worth the salt?
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VIK: Come see for yourself. All I know is the coin's good. And Olen said he needs the best thief in Thedas.
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NADIA: Oh, did he say that? VIK: Yeah, but after they said no, he sent us to find you.
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NADIA: (Laughter) I've missed you friend. (RAUCOUS TAVERN) OLEN: So, there I was treasure in one hand, blade in the
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other about to make off with- NADIA: The biggest score of your life. OLEN: (Laughing) Nadia. Oh, it's been too many moons.
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Ladies, can you give me and my dear friend here some privacy? We have some important business to discuss.
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Then I promise to finish telling you my adventures. COMPANION: Don't keep us waiting too long.
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NADIA: (Clearing throat) I think you mean my adventures, no? OLEN: Your adventures, my adventures. It's just a damn good story.
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And I live to entertain. NADIA: Yeah, yeah. So what's the job?
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(THUD ON TABLE) OLEN: I'm not gonna perfume the pig pen. This is a rough one.
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The information is slim. The ask is impossible. And if anyone gets caught, we're all fucked.
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NADIA: But? OLEN: But this. (COIN PURSE THUDDING ON TABLE) NADIA: That sounds heavy.
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OLEN: Gold and lots of it. This is just a taste to get things started. Delivery guarantees triple the bag.
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NADIA: Triple? What sort of fotress you got me breaking into? OLEN: (Sighing) Yeah. How about that?
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NADIA: (Sighing) Olen. OLEN: You ugh (Coughing) you have to break into Arcanist Hall, The Archives.
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NADIA: I'm sorry, what? OLEN: Look, I know it sounds impossible. NADIA: (Gasping) No.
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OLEN: Come on, just hear me out. I have a plan. And you owe me. NADIA: No, I meant, "No, it doesn't sound impossible."
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It sounds like just the thing I need: some fun. OLEN: (Luaghing) And here I thought
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retirement would calm you down, but you sound crazy than ever. NADIA: Hey, I never retired.
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I just took a little break from reality, but we all gotta wake up sooner or later. OLEN: I'll drink to that.
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(CLINKING GLASSES, GULPING, GLASS SLAMMING DOWN ON TABLE) NADIA: So what's the mark?
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OLEN: The Eye of Kethisca. NADIA:What in the world is The Eye of Kethisca?
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(SHIP BELLS TOLLING, BUSTLING CROWD, LUTE PLAYING)
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FISHMONGER: Get your fish. Fish! The freshest from the sea today. ELIO: (Clearing throat) Pardon me.
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Excuse me. MERCHANT: Looking to win over the fair heart of your beloved. ELIO: No, no, thank you.
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MERCHANT: Here, give this a try. ELIO: No, I said no. Thank you.
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MERCHANT: Excuse me, sir. Hello! You look like a man with a heavy heart?
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ELIO: If you only knew. MERHCANT: Oh, perhaps a nice bouquet of flowers will help mend your day.
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ELIO: (Laughing) Flowers are what got me into this mess. If you'll excuse me.
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(FOOTSTEPS, CRICKETS CHIRPING, LIVESTOCK NOISES)
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ELIO: There's no need to follow me from the shadows. NEVE GALLUS: Magister Andante?
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ELIO: And you are? NEVE: Name's Neve. Neve Gallus. ELIO: Ah, I've heard that name.
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NEVE: (Laughing) In good context, I hope. ELIO: Always on the back of whispers. NEVE: So probably not then. Makes sense. The powerful
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tend to look down on private investigators. They're not comfortable with anyone who's a friend
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to street urchins and scullery maids. ELIO: Not to mention you know where all the dirt is hidden.
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NEVE: And where all the bodies are buried. Yes, precisely. (SHIPS BELLS TOLLING)
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ELIO: So, what is it that's brought you to me? NEVE: It's about Nadia. ELIO: You know Nadia? What's going on?
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NEVE: I've received word that she's about to do something quite reckless. ELIO: Hm. That is kind of her thing.
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NEVE: So I've been told. But now she's been tasked with stealing an ancient artifact.
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ELIO: Also kind of her thing. NEVE: You don't understand.
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She's going to break into the Archives and you have to stop her. ELIO: (Laughing) No, nobody stops Nadia, I'm afraid.
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When her mind is set, it's like stone. NEVE: Well, you are going to have to find a way to stop her
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because many lives depend on it. ELIO: What? Come again?
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(CRICKETS CHIRPING, FOOTSTEPS) GUARD 1: (In the background) So, that's when I turned to me wife and I said, "Honey, I'd fight a whole legion of darkspawn
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if it would make you be with me forever." (Laughter) Oh, come on. She bought it entirely!
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VIK: (Whispering) This way. NADIA: (Panting) It seems like an awful lot
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of guards here tonight. VIK: When has that ever stopped you? NADIA: Good point. VIK: Besides we got a man on the inside.
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NADIA: Clever. (ARMORED FOOTSTEPS) GUARD 1: (In the background) Think about what it would be like to have your own guards.
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GUARD 2: (In the background) Instead of being one of the guards. GUARD 1: (In the background) Yeah. VIK: Now, over that wall.
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(GRUNTING, LANDING THUD, HEAVY BREATHING)
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NADIA: You good old man? VIK: I'm fine. Dammit. NADIA: (Laughing) Wanna make a little wager? VIK: (Laughing) Oh, 50 silver to whoever's
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over the south wall first? NADIA: You're on. (BREATHING, SPRINTING) VIK: Hey, wait! Hey! (GRUNTING, RUNNING FOOTSTEPS, BREATHING, LAUGHING)
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(GRUNTING, RUNNING FOOTSTEPS, BREATHING, LAUGHING) VIK: You cheated!
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No one said go. NADIA: We never established that as a rule. VIK: Whatever. Here's your coin, dammit.
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(COIN CLINKING) NADIA: (Laughing) Thank you. Now give me a hand with this. VIK: (Grunting) Anchor the top of that wall. NADIA: Yes, I know how grappling hooks work,
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thank you. (CLINKING OF HOOK, TOSSING ROPE, HOOK CLINKING ON GROUND) VIK: You were saying?
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NADIA: Shut up. (Laughter) GUARD 1: What was that? VIK: (Whispering) Quiet. NADIA: (Whispering) I can get it this time.
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(ROPE SWOOSHING) VIK: No, just wait. (NADIA GRUNTING) NADIA: Yes! Got it. GUARD 1: (In the background) You hear that? It's over there.
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NADIA: Oh shit. VIK: Dammit. I told you to wait. NADIA: I thought you had a man on the inside. VIK: He just left the window open!
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NADIA: (Sighing) Well, guess we better climb. VIK: You're climbing without me. NADIA: What? VIK: I gotta clean up your mess. NADIA: Vik!
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VIK: Just go and remember over the ledge, through the window, and the Archives are down the spiral staircase. Go!
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Over here, you bastards! Try and catch me! (Laughter) NADIA: Crazy fool.
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(CLIMBING, GRUNTING)
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NADIA: And there's the window. Thanks Vic.
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(HORSE WHINNYING, METAL CLANGING) GATE GUARD 1: Someone approaches! GATE GUARD 1: Stop! Identify yourself at once.
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ELIO: It's just me. GATE GUARD 1: Magister Andante, sir. GATE GUARD 2: We didn't see you in the dark.
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ELIO: That's all right. Just doing your jobs. Try to stay warm out here, all right? (FOOTSTEPS) GATE GUARD 1: It's after hours at the archives, sir.
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And our orders are to let no one pass. ELIO: Luckily for all of us. I am not no one.
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(FOOTSTEPS) GATE GUARD 1: I'm sorry sir. But we cannot let you pass. GATE GUARD 2: Yes. Yes, sir.
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ELIO: (Laughing) Let me see if I have this straight. You a night watchman are telling me, an Altus mage,
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where he can and cannot go? GATE GUARD 2: But our orders, sir.
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ELIO: And who gave those orders, hmm? The Magisterium of which I am a venerated member.
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The Magisterium, which funds this building and pays your salaries, which means those orders came from me.
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And now I'm giving you new orders to let me in. So, open the doors.
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GATE GUARD 1: Uh...yes, sir! Right away. (GATES CREAKING OPEN)
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Sir. ELIO: Have a good watch. (FOOTSTEPS, GATES CLOSING)
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NADIA: Wow.
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This place is massive! ELIO: How else do you expect it to hold every object,
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scrap of writing, relic, or antiquity. that's even remotely interesting to the Empire? NADIA: Elio! ELIO: Evening, my love.
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(FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: What are you doing? You can't be here. ELIO: Actually, no. I have every right to be here.
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It is you who trespasses. NADIA: (Sighing) I'm sorry. I needed to clear my head after this morning.
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ELIO: There were better ways to find peace than breaking into the Magisterium. NADIA: (Sighing) You wouldn't understand.
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ELIO: You're right. But how can I understand when you keep so much locked away! NADIA: I do that to protect you.
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ELIO: (Scoffing) You do it to protect yourself. NADIA: Elio, I... (SOMETHING MAGICAL HUMMING IN BACKGROUND)
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Wait, listen. Do you hear that? (FOOTSTEPS) ELIO: Nadia? No! We have to go!
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NADIA: Look over here. It's this box. I think this is it.
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This is what I came for. It's the- ELIO: The Eye of Kethisca.
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NADIA: How do you know that? ELIO: Listen to me. You've been tricked. This isn't a simple grab and go for the money!
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There are bigger forces at play. We have to put this back and leave. NADIA: What? No, no. I could never-
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ELIO: Nadia, look at me. I speak the truth. This thing is dangerous.
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Please just put it down and come with me. We can go back to our lives like this never happened.
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No marriage, no complications. Just you and me. Please.
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NADIA: Okay. Okay. I trust you. Let's go. (FOOTSTEPS)
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ELIO: Oh, no. NADIA: Really? You brought Templars? ELIO: They're not with me! (ARMOR CLANGING) TEMPLAR SERGEANT: The two of you!
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Don't move. ELIO: Gentlemen, this is all a misunderstanding. I am Elio and -
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TEMPLAR SERGEANT: We know who you are, Magister. And your treasonous deeds have been brought to our attention.
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Believe me when I say that you and your little thief partner will hang
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for everything you've done. ELIO: Sergeant. I'd advise you to watch your tongue.
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TEMPLAR SERGEANT: And I'd advise you to come quietly. Otherwise, you'll suffer far greater than a rope.
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NADIA: On my count. Get ready. ELIO: We should just surrender. I can explain things to the council.
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NADIA: Look at them. Do they look like they wanna listen? ELIO: Nadia- NADIA: I'm sorry, but I won't let you pay for my mistakes.
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Now watch out for the stacks. (SHELF TIPPING OVER, CRASHING TO THE FLOOR)
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ELIO: No! The relics! TEMPLAR SERGEANT: No! NADIA: Do you think we can get away? ELIO: Not that one!
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TEMPLAR SERGEANT: Save what you can! Kill the traitors! (STRUGGLING, FIGHTING, DAGGERS CLASHING) NADIA: Elio! Forget the damn relics!
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ELIO: I can't believe you just did that! NADIA: Would you rather I let us die? Come on!
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TEMPLAR SOLDIER 1: Watch out! Flame blast! (SPELL CASTING, SCREAMING) NADIA: Whoa. Have you always been able to do that?
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Whatever that was? ELIO: Of course, I'm a bloody mage.
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NADIA: Look out! (FIGHTING, STRUGGLING) ELIO: Oh, impressive moves my dear.
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NADIA: Thanks. Now, can we please get out of here? ELIO: Lead the way (FOOTSTEPS, DOOR CLOSING)
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NADIA: I have an escape route on the roof at the top of those stairs. ELIO: All of this because I wanted to celebrate a birthday.
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NADIA: Now is not the time. ELIO: It never is. NADIA: Just be quiet and skip every third step. And don't touch the walls.
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ELIO: What? Why? (FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: (Grunting) I installed some surprises, just in case.
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(EXPLOSIONS) ELIO: My lady. I don't know if I should be impressed or scared. NADIA: Probably a little of both.
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(RUNNING FOOTSTEPS) Come on, that window is our ticket out of here.
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TEMPLAR SOLDIER 2: Halt, take another step andwe shall reign death upon you.
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ELIO: (Out of breath) Archers. NADIA: Of all the cursed luck. The escape is right there! ELIO: Hold on, I've got this. NADIA: What are you doing?
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ELIO: (Grunting) Firestorm! (ROARING FIRE PROJECTILE)
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NADIA: You - you missed them! ELIO: Missing them was the point. (SCREAMS)
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NADIA: They're retreating. ELIO: You don't always have to kill. Now, how do we get out of here? NADIA: Follow me.
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(RUNNING FOOTSTEPS, RAPID BREATHING) NADIA: Hold tight. We're going down this rope fast and hard.
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(SLIDING DOWN ROPE, GRUNTING)
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NADIA: Are you okay? ELIO: Yeah. NADIA: Elio! ELIO: We are gonna have a long talk as soon
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as we get back to the estate. NADIA: No. No, they'll be looking for you. We need to go to mine, to Dock Town.
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ELIO: (Out of breath) Okay. (MUSIC) (SHIP BELLS RINGING, CRICKETS CHIRPING, FOOTSTEPS TRUDGING)
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NADIA: (Panting) It's not much further. Just up...(grunts)
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ELIO: What's that glowing in your bag? (MAGICAL HUMMING) It's this, the Eye.
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ELIO:I told you that thing is dangerous! Why would you take it? NADIA: Because in case you didn't notice, we're both outlaws now.
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ELIO: (Sighing) They're not gonna stop, are they? NADIA: (Sighing) I'm afraid not.
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And I will make up for that later. But right now we need to get some coin and plan our next move, which means we're going to finish this deal.
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Danger be damned. (FOOTSTEPS) NEVE: I'm afraid I can't let you do that. ELIO: You! NEVE: Hello again, Magister.
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NADIA: Who's the hat? ELIO: This is Neve Gallus, private investigator.
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And I presume the one who tipped them off. NEVE: Tipped who off? ELIO: The Templars. They ambushed us in the Archives,
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swords drawn, talking treason. NEVE: That explains the light show. all of Minrathous just saw on the rooftop.
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ELIO: Was it you? NEVE: It wouldn't really be good for my business if I earned a reputation for tipping off the law.
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But I suspect I know who it was. NADIA: Mind sharing that information. NEVE: Have either of you ever heard
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of the Dread Wolf? (GROAN FROM THE SHADOWS) ELIO: What was that?
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NADIA: Show yourself! (GROANING, PANTING, FOOTSTEPS) VIK: Nadia! (COLLAPSING, EVERYONE GASPING)
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NADIA: Vik! (COUGHING, LIQUID GUSHING) No! No, no, no, no, no.
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ELIO: Who is this? NADIA: His name's Vik. We're old friends. He works for the guy who gave me this job. NEVE: He what?
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VIK: They're coming for you. (WHEEZING, DEATH RATTLE FROM VIK)
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(ARROWS RAINING DOWN) NADIA: Take cover! Templars found us! NEVE: Those aren't Templars.
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ELIO: Assassins! (SPELL CASTING)
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ELIO: Frost magic? NEVE: You're not the only mage here! (FIGHTING, CLASHING)
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ELIO: Neve! Behind you! (FIGHTING, BOULDER SLAMMING INTO GROUND)
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NEVE: That's a nice trick, Magister. ELIO: Stonefist. One of my favorites. (FIGHTING, MAGICAL HUMMING GROWING LOUDER)
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NADIA: Uhh guys, the Eye thing is being weird. Is this bad? It seems bad.
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ELIO: Nadia, not now. NEVE: Elio, stop. Don't draw any power from the Fade-
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(SONIC WAVE BOOMING) NADIA: (Grunting, panting)
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Elio. Elio! Elio, wake up. ELIO: What happened? NADIA: The eye went boom.
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Now come on. Here's our chance. ELIO: What about Neve? NADIA: Let her figure it out. (CLIMBING ONTO BOAT)
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NADIA: Untie that rope. I'll raise the sails. ELIO: So this is the boat you never let me see.
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NADIA: (Grunting) Now is not the time. (PULLEY RAISING SAILS) Come on, already. Damn blasted pulley. Hurry. Push this off.
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ELIO: Right. On it. (Grunting) (SHOVING BOAT AWAY FROM DOCK, WAVES LAPPING BOAT) NEVE: Come back!
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You don't understand what you're doing! NADIA: Bye-bye, now. NEVE: I won't let you leave!
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(SPELL CASTING) ELIO: Maker's breath! She's trying to freeze the bay.
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NADIA: Shit! Grab an oar. Help me get this thing moving. ELIO: I have a better idea. (BLAST OF WIND)
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NEVE: The Eye will destroy you! NADIA: Hey.
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ELIO: Hey what? NADIA: You're amazing. Thank you. (KISSING)
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ELIO: So, uh, where to now? (WAVES, SEAGULLS) NADIA: To find this buyer of Olen's.
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He said he's an elf with a fancy tongue. ELIO: Oh, great.
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(MUSIC)
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(HORSE TROTTING, WAGON WHEELS)
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NADIA: Elio, we're here. How you feeling?
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ELIO: (Grunting) Like I've been left out to rot in the sun.
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Oh, the Silent Planes, as barren as ever. NADIA: I don't know.
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It's prettier than I thought it would be, peaceful too. Nothing at all like Minrathous.
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ELIO: Yeah. Well, I don't suppose that'll be a problem anymore, seeing as neither of us can ever go back.
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NADIA: I said I was sorry. ELIO: I know. I just... All those relics, the history, the knowledge.
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NADIA: Elio, I didn't know what else to do. I did it to protect you. ELIO: What's done is done.
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I - I'm sorry.
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Look, when I proposed, I told you all I wanted was to be with you.
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Now I have that. So, we'll figure the rest out together. I promise. I just need time.
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NADIA: Me and you, Elio. ELIO: Me and you. What's that? NADIA: What's what?
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ELIO: That glimmer. Is that- NADIA: Your grandmother's ring? Yeah. ELIO: You kept it. NADIA: I did.
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NADIA: But you wear it around your neck and not your finger. NADIA: Got to start somewhere. (HORSE WHINNYING)
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Whoa, whoa! Shh, shh, shh. What's got you spooked, girl? ELIO: Probably just that ominous looking chap in the road
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just ahead. Is that your guy? NADIA: I'm not sure. Hood's up. I can't see his face.
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ELIO: Think he's safe. NADIA: Let's go find out. Keep an eye for bandits just in case.
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(HORSE TROTTING, SNORTING)
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You! Stranger! Do you know of Olen?
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SOLAS: Nadia, I presume. I am Solas. And I am, I believe, the one that you seek.
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NADIA: You have the gold. SOLAS: If that is what matters most to you. NADIA: It's what matters to the world.
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(COINS JINGLING) SOLAS: Perhaps. NADIA: Looks good to me.
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Elio, give him the eye. ELIO: (Whispering) Are you sure about this? NADIA: What other choice do we have?
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ELIO: One moment. (MAGICAL HUMMING)
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SOLAS: Steady yourselves. There is nothing to fear from this relic.
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NADIA: You didn't see what this thing did back in Minrathous - unleashed a wave of energy or something.
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Tore the ground up. Almost killed Elio. SOLAS: I will demonstrate. (Speaking strange tongue)
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Ar dirthan'as ir elgara... Ma'sula e'var vhenan...
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ELIO: How did you do that? SOLAS: The eye was made from a rare gem mined here in the caves beneath us.
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It was crafted centuries ago by a powerful dreamer. ELIO: So it's connected to the Fade.
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SOLAS: Do you feel a connection to the fade, Magister? ELIO: You know who I am.
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SOLAS: Among other things. I know you well. NADIA: What is this? What- what game are you playing?
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SOLAS: I do not play games. But if you seek answers, then come.
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(FOOTSTEPS THROUGH ROCKY DEBRIS) (FOOTSTEPS THROUGH ROCKY DEBRIS)
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NADIA: Maybe we should turn back. This cave has a dark energy. I don't like it. (BATS SQUEAKING)
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SOLAS: Energy is neither dark nor light. It is just energy. And it is not the cave responsible for what you feel.
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It is the Fade. The veil is fragile here. ELIO: I can feel it.
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SOLAS: What about the eye? Can you feel that too? NADIA: You said you had answers about what happened.
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Tell us. SOLAS: (Sighing) I suspect that when Elio summoned his magic back on those
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docks, he unknowingly formed a bond with the eye and it amplified his powers.
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(BLADE UNSHEATHING) NADIA: You better choose your next words very carefully. ELIO: What are you doing?
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NADIA: We never said it was at the docks. SOLAS: Kindly remove your blade from my neck. NADIA: You start talking. I'll decide if I move it.
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SOLAS: Do you think the threat of a knife brings truth? NADIA: The knife is just a promise.
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ELIO: Nadia, put it down.
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NADIA: Fine. (BLADE BEING SHEATHED) SOLAS: I heard word that the Venatori had plans for the Eye.
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I hired Olen to retrieve the relic before that could happen. (WIND HOWLING)
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ELIO: Why would you do that? SOLAS: Because they do not understand its power... or yours Magister.
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ELIO: Mine. SOLAS: There are things in motion that neither of you can fully grasp.
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And it is up to me to ensure that we arrive at the best possible outcome. But in order for that to happen, yes, I will need your help.
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ELIO: Why me? SOLAS: Because you are a powerful Rift Mage and your bloodline is tied to this relic.
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The dreamer that forged the eye bore the name of An'Dante. ELIO: My family created it.
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NADIA: It was no accident that Olen hired me, was it? SOLAS: You are sharper than you let on.
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NADIA: It's a gift. SOLAS: It's a frailty. ELIO: I was told that the eye would end the world
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not mend it. SOLAS: Some people confuse a reckoning as an ending. ELIO: So you seek reform?
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SOLAS: I seek regeneration. NADIA: I've heard enough of this dreck.
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Let's go, Elio. Elio! ELIO: I'll do it.
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NADIA: Umm...can I speak to you for a moment? (FOOTSTEPS) (Whispering) Are you crazy?
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There is no way we can trust this guy. ELIO: (Whispering) I understand your concern, but my purpose in the Magisterium was to help the people,
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to invoke change. I can't do that now. That life is over.
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This could be my last chance to make a difference. And to find out that the eye was born by my ancestors' hand.
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I - I have to do this. It was fated.
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(MUSIC) NADIA: Why must you be so noble? ELIO: We are who we are. My love.
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(FOOTSTEPS, MAGICAL HUMMING)
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NADIA: What is this place? SOLAS: An ancient chamber, once home to unspeakable acts.
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Many were sacrificed on these grounds and the blood that was spilled weakened the barriers between our worlds.
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ELIO: And the eye will help us fix that? SOLAS: More or less. NADIA: And you're sure this is safe?
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SOLAS: As safe as we make it. NADIA: I don't know. I've got a bad feeling about this.
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ELIO: Would it help if I told you that ring around your neck is imbued with a protective spell? NADIA: Maybe. Is it? ELIO: Maybe. (Nadia laughs)
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SOLAS: The relic is ready. Prepare your mind. Begin.
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SOLAS & ELIO: (Chanting in Elvish) Heruamin litirien. Alai uethri maeria.
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Halurocon yalei nam bahna. Dolin nereba maome... NADIA: Guys. Guys, this is not the right.
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SOLAS: Silence, please. SOLAS & ELIO: (Chanting in Elvish) Ame amin. Halai lothi amin.
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Aloamin Heruamin. Heruamin oh lonai. Imwe naine beriole... (ROCKS BREAKING, CAVE CRUMBLING) NADIA: Elio! Elio, I really don't like this! Elio!
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ELIO: It's working, Nadia. I can feel it! SOLAS & ELIO: (Shouting in Elvish) AME AMIN! HALAI LOTHI AMIN! ALOAMIN HERUAMIN!
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ALOAMIN HERUAMIN! ALOAMIN HERUAMIN!
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NADIA: Elio! ELIO: Solas, something is wrong! SOLAS: Keep your focus.
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ELIO: Solas, please! We must stop! SOLAS: Keep your mind steady.
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ELIO: I feel something. What is this? NADIA: Solas, you have to stop this! SOLAS: This is all to be expected.
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Remain firm. ELIO: I can't hold on! SOLAS: If you let go now the Eye will explode.
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NADIA: Elio! ELIO: I'm here! NADIA: Where? (Elio screaming) (CAVE COLLAPSING)
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NADIA: Elio! Elio! SOLAS: We must flee. We must flee. Now!
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Hurry! NADIA: Elio! SOLAS: Nadia, here, take my hand.
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NADIA: Save Elio! SOLAS: He has crossed over. NADIA: Elio! SOLAS: We must escape. I'm sorry.
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(BREEZE RUSTLING)
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(HORSE WHINNYING)
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NADIA: (Grunting) Elio. Elio, are you there?
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Elio! Solas! Hello!
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No! (CLOCK TICKING)
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NADIA: I will ask you one more time. Did you know about the Venatori? OLEN: (Choking) No, I swear.
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NADIA: And Solas. Did you know of his plan for Elio? OLEN: (Choking) Who's Solas? NADIA: What do you mean, "Who's Solas?"
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He's the guy you sent me to meet. OLEN: (Coughing) We never met in person. My contact only referred to him by title.
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NADIA: And what was that? OLEN: The Dread Wolf. NADIA: Son of a bitch!
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(FIST SLAMMING TABLE, FOOTSTEPS) OLEN: Nadia, please. NADIA: Where can I find this wolf? OLEN: I don't know.
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NADIA: Well, that's too bad for you. OLEN: Wait, wait. (Coughing) I over heard my contact speaking to another about his plans
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to visit ancient burial grounds in the Hinterlands. But that's all I know. By the maker, I swear!
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NADIA: There's your antidote. Careful not to choke on it. (GLASS VIAL ROLLING ACROSS TABLE, CORK POPPING, CHUGGING)
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OLEN: I really am sorry, Nadia. Truly. (COINS JINGLING, THUNKING ON TABLE) NADIA: That's for Vik's family. Make sure they get it.
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And if they don't, I'll be back. OLEN: I shall, on my grave.
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NADIA: Then we never need to see each other again. (DOOR CLOSING, WIND BLOWING)
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(HORSE NEIGHING) NADIA: Shh. Easy, girl.
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We got a long ride ahead of us.
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(SMALL, EERIE RINGING) ELIO: Nadia! NADIA: Elio? ELIO: (Screaming) Nadia! NADIA: Elio, where are you? Are you okay?
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ELIO: I can't escape without you. You must - you must find a way! NADIA: Don't worry. Don't worry,
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I'm coming. What do I do? Like - like how do I get to you? ELIO: (Screaming) I'm here! (Words echoing) NADIA: Elio!
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Elio!
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Don't worry my love. I'm coming for you. Hyah! (MUSIC)
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(HORSE CANTERING, CRICKETS CHIRPING)
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(MUSIC) (MUSIC)
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NARRATOR: Dragon Age Vows and Vengeance is a production of Electronic Arts in association with Pod People,
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based on the award-winning video game franchise from BioWare. Learn more about the world of Dragon Age
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and its latest game, Dragon Age: The Veilguard by visiting dragonage.com.
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Rated M for Mature. Directed by Matt Sav
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Written by Will Melton and Jeremy Novick Featuring the voices of
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Mae Whitman as Nadia Armen Taylor as Elio
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Gareth David-Lloyd as Solas Jessica Clark as Neve
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Also featuring Damien Gerard as Olen
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Additional Voices by Sabrina Fest, Roslyn Gentle, Jillian Kinsey,
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Daniel Lench, Isaac Gonzalez Rossi, Sean Thomas Simmons, Charles Halford,
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and Brandon Gill as Narrator Creative and Narrative Direction by Todd Stallkamp
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BioWare Narrative Development and Support by Mary De Marle and John Epler
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Editorial Direction by Will Melton Producers for Electronic Arts
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Alex Bader and Chris Beckett Production Management by Brian Rivers
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Assistant Direction by Ashton Carter Story Development by Todd Stallkamp
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Will Melton, Matt Sav, and Jeremy Novick Associate Producing and Script Supervision by
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Hannah Rae Leach Casting by Elaine Al Dapper, Lisa Donadio,
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Lindsay Ploussard, and Alex Vikmanis Sound Design by
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Michael Aquino, Morgane Fouse, and Carter Woghan
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Dialogue Editing by Michael Aquino and Carter Woghan
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Mixing and Mastering by Morgane Fouse Featuring Original Music by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe
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Executive Producers for Pod People Matt Sav and Rachael King
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Electronic Arts Brand and Marketing Leads Kari Hale and Olivier Tse
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Electronic Arts Design Hugo Ugaz and Jacob Meyer
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BioWare special thanks to Ashley Barlow, Cody Behiel,
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Hilary Hidey, Steve Lam, Crystal McCord, and Patrick Weeks
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Electronic Arts special thanks to Kevin Maher, Jacklyn Gilson,
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Rick Dressler, Marcie Galea, Krista Trezise, Joe Gatdula, Jon Bailey,
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Greg Joson, and Ritual Khanna. Dragon Age: The Veilguard,
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a single player RPG launches fall 2024 on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.
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Begin your adventure at dragonage.com. Rated M for Mature.
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Next time on Dragon Age: Vows and Vengeance NADIA: There are just two things.
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You get to be alive or dead. Decide quick which one you prefer. (DEMONIC CHANTING)
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SPEAKER 1: Tonight we shall teach these heretics what it means to defy the Deathless One.
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SPEAKER 2: You should have never come here dwarf. LACE HARDING: This is a fine mess you've gotten yourself into, Harding
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SPEAKER 3: On my mark. Pull!
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NADIA: (Grunting) That's it. Press forward! Everyone, form one giant line and push!
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I don't have time for a little side adventure. There's somebody else who already needs me. SPEAKER 4: Help us and I'll help you find the Dread Wolf.
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SPEAKER 5: It would appear you have nothing left, but excuses. (Nadia sighing)
NARRATOR: This podcast features adult language, violent imagery, and mature themes. Listener discretion is advised.
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(NAUTICAL BELL RINGING)
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(RAUCOUS TAVERN CHATTER, MUGS CLANKING, SINGING) BAR MAIDEN: All right, here's your last ale, Edmund.
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Remember... (RAUCOUS TAVERN, BAR PATRONS SINGING) PATRON 1: You tell me.
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PATRON 2: They'd better hoard their boys like dragons in the den! PATRON 3: People have been saying the ground be feeling
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like it's going to give. Crikey! These days- OLEN: Listen up, yeah. (CHAIR BEING PULLED UP) OLEN: There I am.
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Treasure in one hand, blade in the other. About to make off with the biggest score of my life
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And what's standing in my way but twenty-nine bloodthirsty, flesh-hungry Cue-nari?
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PATRON 4: Oh no! OLEN: Any of you ever crossed paths with a Cue-nari? PATRON 5: No, thank the maker. No.
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OLEN: Scary bastards. As fierce as dragons but smart too.
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And should you ever find yourself standing across from one, just remember, absolutely,
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do not look them in the eyes. To them, there's no greater disrespect.
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PATRON 6: I will never. Do not look them in the eyes. So I find the biggest fucker and get nose to nose with him,
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eyes locked. I hold up my fists and say, "Which hand do you want me to kill you with?"
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(CROWD GOING NUTS) PATRON 7: You're a mad man! PATRON 8: Come on, then! What happened next? OLEN: What happened next?
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(CHUGGING DRINK) That my friends is a story for another night.
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PATRON 9: Oh! Come on. PATRON 10: You can't just leave us. OLEN: (Laughing) Sorry lads, but I've had my fill of drink.
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And that coin bag is looking kind of light. (COINS JINGLING) Come back tomorrow and come
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back with coin, for a good story don't come cheap. I bled to bring you these tales.
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The least you can do is pay accordingly. Fear not, once the bag is full,
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I won't spare a single gruesome detail. (DRUNKEN HEMMING AND HAWING)
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(HEAVY FOOTSTEPS, SLAMMING DOOR) (MUSIC)
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SINGER: Compel to forge on. What will we become?
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(CLOCK TICKING) OLEN: (Singing) Oh, Grey Warden, what have you done?
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(DOOR OPENING, KEYS BEING PLACED ON TABLE) (WHISTLING, COIN PURSE BEING SET DOWN)
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Bless the maker, that wind has got a bite to it tonight.
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(FIRE BEING LIT, ROARING) That's better.
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NADIA CARCOSA: There he is. The man with a plan. OLEN: Nadia
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NADIA: Olen. OLEN: What are you doing here? Did anyone see you come in?
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(DOOR SLAMMING) NADIA: I came to have a quick drink with my trusted friend. OLEN: Don't you know that every templar, guard, warden,
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and bounty hunter, this side of Thedas is looking for the now notorious Nadia Carcosa?
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NADIA: Hey, I said a quick drink. (CORK POPPING) OLEN: There's no time for that. And I'm plenty drunk as is.
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You gotta get out of here. I damn near thought I was being followed home.
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NADIA: You set that job up. Now I want to have a drink. So we are going to have a drink.
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(BOTTLE SLAMMING ON TABLE) OLEN: Alright then. One drink. And then you're gone
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NADIA: (Clearing throat) To Elio.
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OLEN: Look, Nadia. I had no idea the job would go down like that. NADIA: Shh, shh, shh. Go on, drink up.
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(GULPING DOWN DRINK) There you go. That's the spirit. Now I'm gonna need some answers.
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OLEN: (Coughing) I don't have any answers. I already told you I was sorry. NADIA: Actually you didn't, but that's okay,
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we'll get to sorry here shortly. OLEN: Nadia, you have to leave. I can't risk having you here.
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NADIA: Oh, but if I leave, how will you ever get the antidote? OLEN: (Coughing) What antidote?
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What are you talking about? NADIA: Do you really think that was an Orlesian ale you just sipped? Give it a moment.
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You should feel a tickle in the back of your throat. (OLEN WHEEZING, GLASS DROPPING) There you go. Now it's working.
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Next you'll feel your lungs getting tighter. Then you'll pray for air. But for now, we can talk.
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OLEN: I don't know anything. NADIA: Hm. Well that's what we need to find out.
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Now, let's start from the beginning. (TICKING CLOCK INTENSIFIES)
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NARRATOR: This is Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance Chapter One: Once A Thief...
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(BIRDS CHIRPING) ELIO: Wake up. Nadia,
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it's me. Good morning. You with me now?
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NADIA: (Sighing) I'm always with you. ELIO: Good. Get dressed. I have a surprise for you. (FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: Mmm, I do love surprises.
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ELIO: I'll be out by the table. NADIA: Wait, wait. ELIO: What? NADIA: Come here so I can kiss you first.
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(FOOTSTEPS) ELIO: With pleasure. (Nadia laughing) (Nadia and Elio kiss)
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ELIO: Take your time. I'll meet you in the dining chamber. (FOOTSTEPS, DOOR CLOSING)
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(MUSIC) (FIRE ROARING, THROAT CLEARING)
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(PLATES AND SILVERWARE CLANKING) (FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: What is all this?
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Are we having breakfast or a banquet? ELIO: I wanted us to celebrate a special day.
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NADIA: Those flowers are beautiful. What are they? ELIO: Andraste's Grace. I thought they'd be, I dunno. Poetic.
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NADIA: You are so sappy. But I love it. ELIO: You mean everything to me.
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NADIA: Okay, okay. Just tell me what are we celebrating?
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ELIO: You. NADIA: Me? ELIO: Yeah. I thought we'd commemorate your birthday.
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Real proper like. NADIA: Elio, I told you I don't know when my birthday is
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ELIO: Exactly. So I figured it can be any day. We'll just pick today. NADIA: Elio.
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ELIO: Wait. Before you say anything, let me give you a present.
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Here, open it. (BOX OPENING) NADIA: What is this?
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ELIO: What does it look like? NADIA: Why would you give me this? ELIO: Generally speaking, there is
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but one use for such a thing. (Nadia sighing) ELIO: Come on. It's perfect.
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What better way to honor your new birthday than with the start of a new life? (Nadia sighing)
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NADIA: Why can't you just leave things be? You always have to push! (FOOTSTEPS)
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ELIO: Nadia! Nadia! Keep playing. I'll be back.
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(FOOTSTEPS) Nadia. Nadia! Let's discuss this.
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NADIA: Discuss this insane wedding ring that you gave me. ELIO: This ring is not insane. It was my great-grandmother's.
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NADIA: Elio! ELIO: What? NADIA: That's even crazier. I can't wear this. ELIO: Why not?
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NADIA: Look, I love you. I really do. But we cannot be that kind of couple! (DOOR SLAM)
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ELIO: Nadia, I'm tired of this being a secret. It's time to bring us into the light.
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NADIA: Elio, I am a Liberati. You are a mage. And not just any mage! You are part of the Magisterium.
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This is already a recipe for disaster! ELIO: Whoa. Why are you getting mad? NADIA: Because! I adore what we have
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and I don't understand why that can't be enough. ELIO: Because you make me want so much more!
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Why can't you see that? NADIA: You may be used to getting everything you want
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but people like me have to live in a world filled with walls and ceilings and dead ends.
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ELIO: Nadia- NADIA: No, don't Nadia me. You always think everything is fine,
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that it'll all work out, no problem, no big deal. You'll, you'll sign some papers here, make a decree over there.
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But I am the one who will have to live with their stares and whispers. I don't fit into that part of your world.
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And if you really loved me, you would understand that putting this ring on my finger is like
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putting a target on my back. ELIO: It doesn't have to be like that. NADIA: It is like that!
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You can't just wave your title around and make everything okay and make up fucking birthdays and throw flowers on the ground.
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I know what I am. I am a nothing in this world and I'm okay with that.
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But I thought maybe just, maybe I could be something special to you and only you, but no.
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No, that wasn't good enough. You just had to push. ELIO: Hey, hey, hey. Come here. NADIA: No, no. Get off me.
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ELIO: Nadia. NADIA:No! ELIO: (Sighing) I'm sorry.
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Okay? I'm, I'm sorry. What else do you want me to say?
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NADIA: You know what? Look, I need some air. Nadia. Nadia!
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(DOOR SLAM) Shit. (SEAGULLS, SHIP BELLS RINGING)
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FISHMONGER: Fresh oysters. Fresh clams. Catch of the day right here.
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NADIA: What's the daily deal? FISHMONGER: Oh, I got a special on pickled krone and rum.
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NADIA: It sounds disgusting. I'll take two. (COINS JINGLING) FISHMONGER: Oh, here you go.
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NADIA: Thanks Joren. FISHMONGER: Oh! Hey, by the way, you should know I saw some surly looking drag with a dead eye nosing about your
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houseboat this morning. NADIA: Hmm. Thanks for the heads up.
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FISHMONGER: You got it. (MUSIC) (FOOTSTEPS, CLIMBING INTO HOUSEBOAT)
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NADIA: Ugh. Ick! These pickled krone smell like last week's special.
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(Sighing) Elio. Elio, what am I gonna do with you?
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VIK: Been waiting for you all Morning. NADIA: So I gathered from Joren's description.
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VIK: Olen says he needs to see you. NADIA: Too bad for Olen. VIK: He says you owe him one.
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NADIA: I owe him shit. VIK: Fancy ring you got there. Maybe I'll just take that
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and see if it clears your debt. NADIA: You touch this ring and I'll pull your guts out like I'm threading a loom.
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(Laughter) NADIA: What's the call, Vik? VIK: Just a job.
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NADIA: You know I'm out. VIK: (Sighing) We know. But this one is special circumstances. NADIA: Was it worth the salt?
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VIK: Come see for yourself. All I know is the coin's good. And Olen said he needs the best thief in Thedas.
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NADIA: Oh, did he say that? VIK: Yeah, but after they said no, he sent us to find you.
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NADIA: (Laughter) I've missed you friend. (RAUCOUS TAVERN) OLEN: So, there I was treasure in one hand, blade in the
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other about to make off with- NADIA: The biggest score of your life. OLEN: (Laughing) Nadia. Oh, it's been too many moons.
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Ladies, can you give me and my dear friend here some privacy? We have some important business to discuss.
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Then I promise to finish telling you my adventures. COMPANION: Don't keep us waiting too long.
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NADIA: (Clearing throat) I think you mean my adventures, no? OLEN: Your adventures, my adventures. It's just a damn good story.
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And I live to entertain. NADIA: Yeah, yeah. So what's the job?
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(THUD ON TABLE) OLEN: I'm not gonna perfume the pig pen. This is a rough one.
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The information is slim. The ask is impossible. And if anyone gets caught, we're all fucked.
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NADIA: But? OLEN: But this. (COIN PURSE THUDDING ON TABLE) NADIA: That sounds heavy.
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OLEN: Gold and lots of it. This is just a taste to get things started. Delivery guarantees triple the bag.
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NADIA: Triple? What sort of fotress you got me breaking into? OLEN: (Sighing) Yeah. How about that?
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NADIA: (Sighing) Olen. OLEN: You ugh (Coughing) you have to break into Arcanist Hall, The Archives.
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NADIA: I'm sorry, what? OLEN: Look, I know it sounds impossible. NADIA: (Gasping) No.
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OLEN: Come on, just hear me out. I have a plan. And you owe me. NADIA: No, I meant, "No, it doesn't sound impossible."
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It sounds like just the thing I need: some fun. OLEN: (Luaghing) And here I thought
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retirement would calm you down, but you sound crazy than ever. NADIA: Hey, I never retired.
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I just took a little break from reality, but we all gotta wake up sooner or later. OLEN: I'll drink to that.
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(CLINKING GLASSES, GULPING, GLASS SLAMMING DOWN ON TABLE) NADIA: So what's the mark?
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OLEN: The Eye of Kethisca. NADIA:What in the world is The Eye of Kethisca?
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(SHIP BELLS TOLLING, BUSTLING CROWD, LUTE PLAYING)
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FISHMONGER: Get your fish. Fish! The freshest from the sea today. ELIO: (Clearing throat) Pardon me.
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Excuse me. MERCHANT: Looking to win over the fair heart of your beloved. ELIO: No, no, thank you.
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MERCHANT: Here, give this a try. ELIO: No, I said no. Thank you.
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MERCHANT: Excuse me, sir. Hello! You look like a man with a heavy heart?
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ELIO: If you only knew. MERHCANT: Oh, perhaps a nice bouquet of flowers will help mend your day.
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ELIO: (Laughing) Flowers are what got me into this mess. If you'll excuse me.
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(FOOTSTEPS, CRICKETS CHIRPING, LIVESTOCK NOISES)
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ELIO: There's no need to follow me from the shadows. NEVE GALLUS: Magister Andante?
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ELIO: And you are? NEVE: Name's Neve. Neve Gallus. ELIO: Ah, I've heard that name.
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NEVE: (Laughing) In good context, I hope. ELIO: Always on the back of whispers. NEVE: So probably not then. Makes sense. The powerful
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tend to look down on private investigators. They're not comfortable with anyone who's a friend
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to street urchins and scullery maids. ELIO: Not to mention you know where all the dirt is hidden.
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NEVE: And where all the bodies are buried. Yes, precisely. (SHIPS BELLS TOLLING)
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ELIO: So, what is it that's brought you to me? NEVE: It's about Nadia. ELIO: You know Nadia? What's going on?
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NEVE: I've received word that she's about to do something quite reckless. ELIO: Hm. That is kind of her thing.
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NEVE: So I've been told. But now she's been tasked with stealing an ancient artifact.
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ELIO: Also kind of her thing. NEVE: You don't understand.
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She's going to break into the Archives and you have to stop her. ELIO: (Laughing) No, nobody stops Nadia, I'm afraid.
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When her mind is set, it's like stone. NEVE: Well, you are going to have to find a way to stop her
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because many lives depend on it. ELIO: What? Come again?
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(CRICKETS CHIRPING, FOOTSTEPS) GUARD 1: (In the background) So, that's when I turned to me wife and I said, "Honey, I'd fight a whole legion of darkspawn
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if it would make you be with me forever." (Laughter) Oh, come on. She bought it entirely!
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VIK: (Whispering) This way. NADIA: (Panting) It seems like an awful lot
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of guards here tonight. VIK: When has that ever stopped you? NADIA: Good point. VIK: Besides we got a man on the inside.
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NADIA: Clever. (ARMORED FOOTSTEPS) GUARD 1: (In the background) Think about what it would be like to have your own guards.
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GUARD 2: (In the background) Instead of being one of the guards. GUARD 1: (In the background) Yeah. VIK: Now, over that wall.
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(GRUNTING, LANDING THUD, HEAVY BREATHING)
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NADIA: You good old man? VIK: I'm fine. Dammit. NADIA: (Laughing) Wanna make a little wager? VIK: (Laughing) Oh, 50 silver to whoever's
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over the south wall first? NADIA: You're on. (BREATHING, SPRINTING) VIK: Hey, wait! Hey! (GRUNTING, RUNNING FOOTSTEPS, BREATHING, LAUGHING)
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(GRUNTING, RUNNING FOOTSTEPS, BREATHING, LAUGHING) VIK: You cheated!
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No one said go. NADIA: We never established that as a rule. VIK: Whatever. Here's your coin, dammit.
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(COIN CLINKING) NADIA: (Laughing) Thank you. Now give me a hand with this. VIK: (Grunting) Anchor the top of that wall. NADIA: Yes, I know how grappling hooks work,
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thank you. (CLINKING OF HOOK, TOSSING ROPE, HOOK CLINKING ON GROUND) VIK: You were saying?
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NADIA: Shut up. (Laughter) GUARD 1: What was that? VIK: (Whispering) Quiet. NADIA: (Whispering) I can get it this time.
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(ROPE SWOOSHING) VIK: No, just wait. (NADIA GRUNTING) NADIA: Yes! Got it. GUARD 1: (In the background) You hear that? It's over there.
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NADIA: Oh shit. VIK: Dammit. I told you to wait. NADIA: I thought you had a man on the inside. VIK: He just left the window open!
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NADIA: (Sighing) Well, guess we better climb. VIK: You're climbing without me. NADIA: What? VIK: I gotta clean up your mess. NADIA: Vik!
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VIK: Just go and remember over the ledge, through the window, and the Archives are down the spiral staircase. Go!
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Over here, you bastards! Try and catch me! (Laughter) NADIA: Crazy fool.
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(CLIMBING, GRUNTING)
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NADIA: And there's the window. Thanks Vic.
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(HORSE WHINNYING, METAL CLANGING) GATE GUARD 1: Someone approaches! GATE GUARD 1: Stop! Identify yourself at once.
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ELIO: It's just me. GATE GUARD 1: Magister Andante, sir. GATE GUARD 2: We didn't see you in the dark.
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ELIO: That's all right. Just doing your jobs. Try to stay warm out here, all right? (FOOTSTEPS) GATE GUARD 1: It's after hours at the archives, sir.
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And our orders are to let no one pass. ELIO: Luckily for all of us. I am not no one.
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(FOOTSTEPS) GATE GUARD 1: I'm sorry sir. But we cannot let you pass. GATE GUARD 2: Yes. Yes, sir.
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ELIO: (Laughing) Let me see if I have this straight. You a night watchman are telling me, an Altus mage,
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where he can and cannot go? GATE GUARD 2: But our orders, sir.
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ELIO: And who gave those orders, hmm? The Magisterium of which I am a venerated member.
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The Magisterium, which funds this building and pays your salaries, which means those orders came from me.
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And now I'm giving you new orders to let me in. So, open the doors.
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GATE GUARD 1: Uh...yes, sir! Right away. (GATES CREAKING OPEN)
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Sir. ELIO: Have a good watch. (FOOTSTEPS, GATES CLOSING)
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NADIA: Wow.
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This place is massive! ELIO: How else do you expect it to hold every object,
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scrap of writing, relic, or antiquity. that's even remotely interesting to the Empire? NADIA: Elio! ELIO: Evening, my love.
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(FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: What are you doing? You can't be here. ELIO: Actually, no. I have every right to be here.
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It is you who trespasses. NADIA: (Sighing) I'm sorry. I needed to clear my head after this morning.
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ELIO: There were better ways to find peace than breaking into the Magisterium. NADIA: (Sighing) You wouldn't understand.
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ELIO: You're right. But how can I understand when you keep so much locked away! NADIA: I do that to protect you.
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ELIO: (Scoffing) You do it to protect yourself. NADIA: Elio, I... (SOMETHING MAGICAL HUMMING IN BACKGROUND)
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Wait, listen. Do you hear that? (FOOTSTEPS) ELIO: Nadia? No! We have to go!
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NADIA: Look over here. It's this box. I think this is it.
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This is what I came for. It's the- ELIO: The Eye of Kethisca.
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NADIA: How do you know that? ELIO: Listen to me. You've been tricked. This isn't a simple grab and go for the money!
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There are bigger forces at play. We have to put this back and leave. NADIA: What? No, no. I could never-
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ELIO: Nadia, look at me. I speak the truth. This thing is dangerous.
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Please just put it down and come with me. We can go back to our lives like this never happened.
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No marriage, no complications. Just you and me. Please.
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NADIA: Okay. Okay. I trust you. Let's go. (FOOTSTEPS)
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ELIO: Oh, no. NADIA: Really? You brought Templars? ELIO: They're not with me! (ARMOR CLANGING) TEMPLAR SERGEANT: The two of you!
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Don't move. ELIO: Gentlemen, this is all a misunderstanding. I am Elio and -
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TEMPLAR SERGEANT: We know who you are, Magister. And your treasonous deeds have been brought to our attention.
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Believe me when I say that you and your little thief partner will hang
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for everything you've done. ELIO: Sergeant. I'd advise you to watch your tongue.
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TEMPLAR SERGEANT: And I'd advise you to come quietly. Otherwise, you'll suffer far greater than a rope.
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NADIA: On my count. Get ready. ELIO: We should just surrender. I can explain things to the council.
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NADIA: Look at them. Do they look like they wanna listen? ELIO: Nadia- NADIA: I'm sorry, but I won't let you pay for my mistakes.
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Now watch out for the stacks. (SHELF TIPPING OVER, CRASHING TO THE FLOOR)
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ELIO: No! The relics! TEMPLAR SERGEANT: No! NADIA: Do you think we can get away? ELIO: Not that one!
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TEMPLAR SERGEANT: Save what you can! Kill the traitors! (STRUGGLING, FIGHTING, DAGGERS CLASHING) NADIA: Elio! Forget the damn relics!
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ELIO: I can't believe you just did that! NADIA: Would you rather I let us die? Come on!
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TEMPLAR SOLDIER 1: Watch out! Flame blast! (SPELL CASTING, SCREAMING) NADIA: Whoa. Have you always been able to do that?
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Whatever that was? ELIO: Of course, I'm a bloody mage.
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NADIA: Look out! (FIGHTING, STRUGGLING) ELIO: Oh, impressive moves my dear.
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NADIA: Thanks. Now, can we please get out of here? ELIO: Lead the way (FOOTSTEPS, DOOR CLOSING)
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NADIA: I have an escape route on the roof at the top of those stairs. ELIO: All of this because I wanted to celebrate a birthday.
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NADIA: Now is not the time. ELIO: It never is. NADIA: Just be quiet and skip every third step. And don't touch the walls.
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ELIO: What? Why? (FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: (Grunting) I installed some surprises, just in case.
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(EXPLOSIONS) ELIO: My lady. I don't know if I should be impressed or scared. NADIA: Probably a little of both.
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(RUNNING FOOTSTEPS) Come on, that window is our ticket out of here.
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TEMPLAR SOLDIER 2: Halt, take another step andwe shall reign death upon you.
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ELIO: (Out of breath) Archers. NADIA: Of all the cursed luck. The escape is right there! ELIO: Hold on, I've got this. NADIA: What are you doing?
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ELIO: (Grunting) Firestorm! (ROARING FIRE PROJECTILE)
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NADIA: You - you missed them! ELIO: Missing them was the point. (SCREAMS)
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NADIA: They're retreating. ELIO: You don't always have to kill. Now, how do we get out of here? NADIA: Follow me.
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(RUNNING FOOTSTEPS, RAPID BREATHING) NADIA: Hold tight. We're going down this rope fast and hard.
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(SLIDING DOWN ROPE, GRUNTING)
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NADIA: Are you okay? ELIO: Yeah. NADIA: Elio! ELIO: We are gonna have a long talk as soon
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as we get back to the estate. NADIA: No. No, they'll be looking for you. We need to go to mine, to Dock Town.
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ELIO: (Out of breath) Okay. (MUSIC) (SHIP BELLS RINGING, CRICKETS CHIRPING, FOOTSTEPS TRUDGING)
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NADIA: (Panting) It's not much further. Just up...(grunts)
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ELIO: What's that glowing in your bag? (MAGICAL HUMMING) It's this, the Eye.
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ELIO:I told you that thing is dangerous! Why would you take it? NADIA: Because in case you didn't notice, we're both outlaws now.
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ELIO: (Sighing) They're not gonna stop, are they? NADIA: (Sighing) I'm afraid not.
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And I will make up for that later. But right now we need to get some coin and plan our next move, which means we're going to finish this deal.
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Danger be damned. (FOOTSTEPS) NEVE: I'm afraid I can't let you do that. ELIO: You! NEVE: Hello again, Magister.
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NADIA: Who's the hat? ELIO: This is Neve Gallus, private investigator.
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And I presume the one who tipped them off. NEVE: Tipped who off? ELIO: The Templars. They ambushed us in the Archives,
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swords drawn, talking treason. NEVE: That explains the light show. all of Minrathous just saw on the rooftop.
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ELIO: Was it you? NEVE: It wouldn't really be good for my business if I earned a reputation for tipping off the law.
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But I suspect I know who it was. NADIA: Mind sharing that information. NEVE: Have either of you ever heard
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of the Dread Wolf? (GROAN FROM THE SHADOWS) ELIO: What was that?
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NADIA: Show yourself! (GROANING, PANTING, FOOTSTEPS) VIK: Nadia! (COLLAPSING, EVERYONE GASPING)
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NADIA: Vik! (COUGHING, LIQUID GUSHING) No! No, no, no, no, no.
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ELIO: Who is this? NADIA: His name's Vik. We're old friends. He works for the guy who gave me this job. NEVE: He what?
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VIK: They're coming for you. (WHEEZING, DEATH RATTLE FROM VIK)
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(ARROWS RAINING DOWN) NADIA: Take cover! Templars found us! NEVE: Those aren't Templars.
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ELIO: Assassins! (SPELL CASTING)
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ELIO: Frost magic? NEVE: You're not the only mage here! (FIGHTING, CLASHING)
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ELIO: Neve! Behind you! (FIGHTING, BOULDER SLAMMING INTO GROUND)
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NEVE: That's a nice trick, Magister. ELIO: Stonefist. One of my favorites. (FIGHTING, MAGICAL HUMMING GROWING LOUDER)
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NADIA: Uhh guys, the Eye thing is being weird. Is this bad? It seems bad.
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ELIO: Nadia, not now. NEVE: Elio, stop. Don't draw any power from the Fade-
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(SONIC WAVE BOOMING) NADIA: (Grunting, panting)
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Elio. Elio! Elio, wake up. ELIO: What happened? NADIA: The eye went boom.
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Now come on. Here's our chance. ELIO: What about Neve? NADIA: Let her figure it out. (CLIMBING ONTO BOAT)
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NADIA: Untie that rope. I'll raise the sails. ELIO: So this is the boat you never let me see.
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NADIA: (Grunting) Now is not the time. (PULLEY RAISING SAILS) Come on, already. Damn blasted pulley. Hurry. Push this off.
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ELIO: Right. On it. (Grunting) (SHOVING BOAT AWAY FROM DOCK, WAVES LAPPING BOAT) NEVE: Come back!
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You don't understand what you're doing! NADIA: Bye-bye, now. NEVE: I won't let you leave!
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(SPELL CASTING) ELIO: Maker's breath! She's trying to freeze the bay.
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NADIA: Shit! Grab an oar. Help me get this thing moving. ELIO: I have a better idea. (BLAST OF WIND)
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NEVE: The Eye will destroy you! NADIA: Hey.
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ELIO: Hey what? NADIA: You're amazing. Thank you. (KISSING)
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ELIO: So, uh, where to now? (WAVES, SEAGULLS) NADIA: To find this buyer of Olen's.
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He said he's an elf with a fancy tongue. ELIO: Oh, great.
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(MUSIC)
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(HORSE TROTTING, WAGON WHEELS)
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NADIA: Elio, we're here. How you feeling?
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ELIO: (Grunting) Like I've been left out to rot in the sun.
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Oh, the Silent Planes, as barren as ever. NADIA: I don't know.
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It's prettier than I thought it would be, peaceful too. Nothing at all like Minrathous.
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ELIO: Yeah. Well, I don't suppose that'll be a problem anymore, seeing as neither of us can ever go back.
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NADIA: I said I was sorry. ELIO: I know. I just... All those relics, the history, the knowledge.
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NADIA: Elio, I didn't know what else to do. I did it to protect you. ELIO: What's done is done.
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I - I'm sorry.
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Look, when I proposed, I told you all I wanted was to be with you.
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Now I have that. So, we'll figure the rest out together. I promise. I just need time.
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NADIA: Me and you, Elio. ELIO: Me and you. What's that? NADIA: What's what?
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ELIO: That glimmer. Is that- NADIA: Your grandmother's ring? Yeah. ELIO: You kept it. NADIA: I did.
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NADIA: But you wear it around your neck and not your finger. NADIA: Got to start somewhere. (HORSE WHINNYING)
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Whoa, whoa! Shh, shh, shh. What's got you spooked, girl? ELIO: Probably just that ominous looking chap in the road
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just ahead. Is that your guy? NADIA: I'm not sure. Hood's up. I can't see his face.
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ELIO: Think he's safe. NADIA: Let's go find out. Keep an eye for bandits just in case.
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(HORSE TROTTING, SNORTING)
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You! Stranger! Do you know of Olen?
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SOLAS: Nadia, I presume. I am Solas. And I am, I believe, the one that you seek.
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NADIA: You have the gold. SOLAS: If that is what matters most to you. NADIA: It's what matters to the world.
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(COINS JINGLING) SOLAS: Perhaps. NADIA: Looks good to me.
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Elio, give him the eye. ELIO: (Whispering) Are you sure about this? NADIA: What other choice do we have?
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ELIO: One moment. (MAGICAL HUMMING)
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SOLAS: Steady yourselves. There is nothing to fear from this relic.
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NADIA: You didn't see what this thing did back in Minrathous - unleashed a wave of energy or something.
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Tore the ground up. Almost killed Elio. SOLAS: I will demonstrate. (Speaking strange tongue)
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Ar dirthan'as ir elgara... Ma'sula e'var vhenan...
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ELIO: How did you do that? SOLAS: The eye was made from a rare gem mined here in the caves beneath us.
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It was crafted centuries ago by a powerful dreamer. ELIO: So it's connected to the Fade.
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SOLAS: Do you feel a connection to the fade, Magister? ELIO: You know who I am.
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SOLAS: Among other things. I know you well. NADIA: What is this? What- what game are you playing?
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SOLAS: I do not play games. But if you seek answers, then come.
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(FOOTSTEPS THROUGH ROCKY DEBRIS) (FOOTSTEPS THROUGH ROCKY DEBRIS)
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NADIA: Maybe we should turn back. This cave has a dark energy. I don't like it. (BATS SQUEAKING)
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SOLAS: Energy is neither dark nor light. It is just energy. And it is not the cave responsible for what you feel.
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It is the Fade. The veil is fragile here. ELIO: I can feel it.
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SOLAS: What about the eye? Can you feel that too? NADIA: You said you had answers about what happened.
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Tell us. SOLAS: (Sighing) I suspect that when Elio summoned his magic back on those
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docks, he unknowingly formed a bond with the eye and it amplified his powers.
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(BLADE UNSHEATHING) NADIA: You better choose your next words very carefully. ELIO: What are you doing?
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NADIA: We never said it was at the docks. SOLAS: Kindly remove your blade from my neck. NADIA: You start talking. I'll decide if I move it.
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SOLAS: Do you think the threat of a knife brings truth? NADIA: The knife is just a promise.
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ELIO: Nadia, put it down.
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NADIA: Fine. (BLADE BEING SHEATHED) SOLAS: I heard word that the Venatori had plans for the Eye.
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I hired Olen to retrieve the relic before that could happen. (WIND HOWLING)
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ELIO: Why would you do that? SOLAS: Because they do not understand its power... or yours Magister.
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ELIO: Mine. SOLAS: There are things in motion that neither of you can fully grasp.
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And it is up to me to ensure that we arrive at the best possible outcome. But in order for that to happen, yes, I will need your help.
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ELIO: Why me? SOLAS: Because you are a powerful Rift Mage and your bloodline is tied to this relic.
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The dreamer that forged the eye bore the name of An'Dante. ELIO: My family created it.
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NADIA: It was no accident that Olen hired me, was it? SOLAS: You are sharper than you let on.
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NADIA: It's a gift. SOLAS: It's a frailty. ELIO: I was told that the eye would end the world
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not mend it. SOLAS: Some people confuse a reckoning as an ending. ELIO: So you seek reform?
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SOLAS: I seek regeneration. NADIA: I've heard enough of this dreck.
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Let's go, Elio. Elio! ELIO: I'll do it.
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NADIA: Umm...can I speak to you for a moment? (FOOTSTEPS) (Whispering) Are you crazy?
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There is no way we can trust this guy. ELIO: (Whispering) I understand your concern, but my purpose in the Magisterium was to help the people,
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to invoke change. I can't do that now. That life is over.
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This could be my last chance to make a difference. And to find out that the eye was born by my ancestors' hand.
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I - I have to do this. It was fated.
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(MUSIC) NADIA: Why must you be so noble? ELIO: We are who we are. My love.
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(FOOTSTEPS, MAGICAL HUMMING)
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NADIA: What is this place? SOLAS: An ancient chamber, once home to unspeakable acts.
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Many were sacrificed on these grounds and the blood that was spilled weakened the barriers between our worlds.
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ELIO: And the eye will help us fix that? SOLAS: More or less. NADIA: And you're sure this is safe?
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SOLAS: As safe as we make it. NADIA: I don't know. I've got a bad feeling about this.
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ELIO: Would it help if I told you that ring around your neck is imbued with a protective spell? NADIA: Maybe. Is it? ELIO: Maybe. (Nadia laughs)
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SOLAS: The relic is ready. Prepare your mind. Begin.
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SOLAS & ELIO: (Chanting in Elvish) Heruamin litirien. Alai uethri maeria.
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Halurocon yalei nam bahna. Dolin nereba maome... NADIA: Guys. Guys, this is not the right.
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SOLAS: Silence, please. SOLAS & ELIO: (Chanting in Elvish) Ame amin. Halai lothi amin.
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Aloamin Heruamin. Heruamin oh lonai. Imwe naine beriole... (ROCKS BREAKING, CAVE CRUMBLING) NADIA: Elio! Elio, I really don't like this! Elio!
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ELIO: It's working, Nadia. I can feel it! SOLAS & ELIO: (Shouting in Elvish) AME AMIN! HALAI LOTHI AMIN! ALOAMIN HERUAMIN!
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ALOAMIN HERUAMIN! ALOAMIN HERUAMIN!
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NADIA: Elio! ELIO: Solas, something is wrong! SOLAS: Keep your focus.
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ELIO: Solas, please! We must stop! SOLAS: Keep your mind steady.
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ELIO: I feel something. What is this? NADIA: Solas, you have to stop this! SOLAS: This is all to be expected.
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Remain firm. ELIO: I can't hold on! SOLAS: If you let go now the Eye will explode.
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NADIA: Elio! ELIO: I'm here! NADIA: Where? (Elio screaming) (CAVE COLLAPSING)
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NADIA: Elio! Elio! SOLAS: We must flee. We must flee. Now!
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Hurry! NADIA: Elio! SOLAS: Nadia, here, take my hand.
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NADIA: Save Elio! SOLAS: He has crossed over. NADIA: Elio! SOLAS: We must escape. I'm sorry.
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(BREEZE RUSTLING)
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(HORSE WHINNYING)
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NADIA: (Grunting) Elio. Elio, are you there?
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Elio! Solas! Hello!
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No! (CLOCK TICKING)
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NADIA: I will ask you one more time. Did you know about the Venatori? OLEN: (Choking) No, I swear.
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NADIA: And Solas. Did you know of his plan for Elio? OLEN: (Choking) Who's Solas? NADIA: What do you mean, "Who's Solas?"
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He's the guy you sent me to meet. OLEN: (Coughing) We never met in person. My contact only referred to him by title.
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NADIA: And what was that? OLEN: The Dread Wolf. NADIA: Son of a bitch!
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(FIST SLAMMING TABLE, FOOTSTEPS) OLEN: Nadia, please. NADIA: Where can I find this wolf? OLEN: I don't know.
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NADIA: Well, that's too bad for you. OLEN: Wait, wait. (Coughing) I over heard my contact speaking to another about his plans
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to visit ancient burial grounds in the Hinterlands. But that's all I know. By the maker, I swear!
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NADIA: There's your antidote. Careful not to choke on it. (GLASS VIAL ROLLING ACROSS TABLE, CORK POPPING, CHUGGING)
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OLEN: I really am sorry, Nadia. Truly. (COINS JINGLING, THUNKING ON TABLE) NADIA: That's for Vik's family. Make sure they get it.
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And if they don't, I'll be back. OLEN: I shall, on my grave.
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NADIA: Then we never need to see each other again. (DOOR CLOSING, WIND BLOWING)
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(HORSE NEIGHING) NADIA: Shh. Easy, girl.
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We got a long ride ahead of us.
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(SMALL, EERIE RINGING) ELIO: Nadia! NADIA: Elio? ELIO: (Screaming) Nadia! NADIA: Elio, where are you? Are you okay?
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ELIO: I can't escape without you. You must - you must find a way! NADIA: Don't worry. Don't worry,
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I'm coming. What do I do? Like - like how do I get to you? ELIO: (Screaming) I'm here! (Words echoing) NADIA: Elio!
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Elio!
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Don't worry my love. I'm coming for you. Hyah! (MUSIC)
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(HORSE CANTERING, CRICKETS CHIRPING)
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(MUSIC) (MUSIC)
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NARRATOR: Dragon Age Vows and Vengeance is a production of Electronic Arts in association with Pod People,
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based on the award-winning video game franchise from BioWare. Learn more about the world of Dragon Age
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and its latest game, Dragon Age: The Veilguard by visiting dragonage.com.
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Rated M for Mature. Directed by Matt Sav
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Written by Will Melton and Jeremy Novick Featuring the voices of
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Mae Whitman as Nadia Armen Taylor as Elio
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Gareth David-Lloyd as Solas Jessica Clark as Neve
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Also featuring Damien Gerard as Olen
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Additional Voices by Sabrina Fest, Roslyn Gentle, Jillian Kinsey,
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Daniel Lench, Isaac Gonzalez Rossi, Sean Thomas Simmons, Charles Halford,
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and Brandon Gill as Narrator Creative and Narrative Direction by Todd Stallkamp
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BioWare Narrative Development and Support by Mary De Marle and John Epler
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Editorial Direction by Will Melton Producers for Electronic Arts
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Alex Bader and Chris Beckett Production Management by Brian Rivers
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Assistant Direction by Ashton Carter Story Development by Todd Stallkamp
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Will Melton, Matt Sav, and Jeremy Novick Associate Producing and Script Supervision by
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Hannah Rae Leach Casting by Elaine Al Dapper, Lisa Donadio,
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Lindsay Ploussard, and Alex Vikmanis Sound Design by
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Michael Aquino, Morgane Fouse, and Carter Woghan
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Dialogue Editing by Michael Aquino and Carter Woghan
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Mixing and Mastering by Morgane Fouse Featuring Original Music by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe
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Executive Producers for Pod People Matt Sav and Rachael King
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Electronic Arts Brand and Marketing Leads Kari Hale and Olivier Tse
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Electronic Arts Design Hugo Ugaz and Jacob Meyer
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BioWare special thanks to Ashley Barlow, Cody Behiel,
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Hilary Hidey, Steve Lam, Crystal McCord, and Patrick Weeks
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Electronic Arts special thanks to Kevin Maher, Jacklyn Gilson,
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Rick Dressler, Marcie Galea, Krista Trezise, Joe Gatdula, Jon Bailey,
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Greg Joson, and Ritual Khanna. Dragon Age: The Veilguard,
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a single player RPG launches fall 2024 on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.
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Begin your adventure at dragonage.com. Rated M for Mature.
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Next time on Dragon Age: Vows and Vengeance NADIA: There are just two things.
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You get to be alive or dead. Decide quick which one you prefer. (DEMONIC CHANTING)
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SPEAKER 1: Tonight we shall teach these heretics what it means to defy the Deathless One.
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SPEAKER 2: You should have never come here dwarf. LACE HARDING: This is a fine mess you've gotten yourself into, Harding
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SPEAKER 3: On my mark. Pull!
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NADIA: (Grunting) That's it. Press forward! Everyone, form one giant line and push!
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I don't have time for a little side adventure. There's somebody else who already needs me. SPEAKER 4: Help us and I'll help you find the Dread Wolf.
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SPEAKER 5: It would appear you have nothing left, but excuses. (Nadia sighing)
Dragon Age: Vows and Vengeance | Episode 2: The Cult of the Doom Blade
Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance is based on Bioware’s hit RPG video game franchise, Dragon Age. This is episode 2 of 8 in an immersive fantasy series and stars Mae Whitman as Nadia, Brigette Lundy-Paine as Drayden, and Ali Hillis as Harding.
Transcript:
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NARRATOR: This podcast features adult language, violent imagery, and mature themes.
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Listener discretion is advised. (MUSIC)
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(OWL HOOTING) (DEMON ROARING) DEMON: Come out from the shadows and face me coward!
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(ROARS) LACE HARDING: This is a fine mess you've gotten yourself into, Harding.
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DEMON: Let's see how good you can hide when I set the sky ablaze. (DEMON ROARS)
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HARDING: Ugh! DEMON: There you are! You should have never come here, Dwarf.
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HARDING: And yet, here I am. DEMON: And now you will die for your meddling.
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(DEMON ROARS) (HARDING GRUNTS) HARDING: Nope, don't think so!
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But I'll be happy to send you right back to the Fade. (ARROWS SHOOTING)
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DEMON: Insolent bug, you think these arrows can stop me? A creature of fire?
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(DEMON ROARS) HARDING: You'll (grunts) have to be faster than that.
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DEMON: I will pluck your soul from the flesh and have it as a snack.
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HARDING: Come and get it. (DEMON ROARS) (HARDING GRUNTS)
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(DEMON GRUNTS) (HARDING GRUNTS) HARDING: You can knock me down all you want,
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but I'm getting right back up. DEMON: Such confidence. But tell me this, do you know what lies
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beneath these grounds? HARDING: Honestly, I don't really care.
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DEMON: This is a cemetery. (DEMON LAUGHS) HARDING: Oh shit. (DEMON LAUGHING)
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(GROWLING) DEMON: Rise, my minions!
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HARDING: By the Stone, give me the strength to survive this night. (HARDING GRUNTS) (DEMONS SCREECHING) DEMON: Soldiers of the undead, feast upon this trespasser!
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(MUSIC) (HARDING GRUNTS) HARDING: How many of these guys they got?
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(HARDING GRUNTING) (NADIA YELLING) (SWORDS CLASHING)
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HARDING: Who are you? NADIA CARCOSA: Just a stranger passing by and thought I'd help. HARDING: Well, thanks for that, brave stranger.
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NADIA: No thanks needed. I hate demons. (ROARING, SWORDS CLASHING)
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HARDING: Behind you! (DEMON ROARS) (GRUNTING) (SWORDS CLINKING) HARDING: Nice moves!
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NADIA: What do you say I handle these bony rats and you take the big one? HARDING: Works for me.
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HARDING: Only one ice arrow left. Make it count. (ARROW BEING DRAWN)
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HARDING: Breathe. Just breathe. NADIA: Take the shot! (HARDING GRUNTS) (ARROW FLIES) (DEMON ROARS)
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(HEAVY BREATHING) DEMON: (groaning) So cold... (HEAVY BREATHING)
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DEMON: The tremors. (HEAVY BREATHING) DEMON: The pain. DEMON: The anomalies. The veil grows thin, little one.
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DEMON: (gasping) Enjoy your victory while it lasts. DEMON: Your world is coming to an end.
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(DEMON GROANING) NADIA: Oh, enough already. (NADIA GRUNTS) (DEMON'S BODY SHATTERS)
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(HEAVY BREATHING) NADIA: Nice shooting. That arrow packs a mighty punch. HARDING: Thank you?
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NADIA: Name's Nadia. HARDING: Nadia, I am Inquisition Scout Lace Harding.
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NADIA: The Inquisition? What in damnation you doing all the way out here? HARDING: I should ask you the same.
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(CRICKETS CHIRPING) NADIA: I'm trying to find someone very important to me, but to find him, I must first find a cunning elf
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that left me for dead in the Silent Plains. And my intel brought me to these grounds.
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HARDING: This elf have a name? NADIA: Many, but the name I seek is the Dread Wolf.
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(SIGHING) HARDING: Great. That's who I'm hunting too. NADIA: If you hunt for the same prey,
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then you truly are a friend. HARDING: The Dread Wolf isn't prey. He's a friend.
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At least he was, but now he's, I don't know, misguided.
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HARDING: I'm not trying to kill him. Just stop him. NADIA: Oh, I don't want him dead either. I need him very much alive
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because he's the only person who can help me break into the Fade. HARDING: You wanna do what?
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(DISTORTED RINGING) VOICE: Nadia? (NADIA GRUNTS) HARDING: Nadia! Nadia! Are you okay?
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HARDING: What's happening? (NADIA GROANING) NADIA: Elio...(groans) Elio...
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(MUSIC) NARRATOR: This is Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance.
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Chapter Two: The Cult of the Doom Blade. (CRICKETS CHIRPING) (FLAMES CRACKLING)
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(LIVESTOCK NOISES) (HARDING HUMMING) (NADIA GROANING)
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(NADIA GASPING) HARDING: Easy. It's just a bad dream.
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(NADIA GASPING) HARDING: Breathe deep. (NADIA BREATHING DEEPLY)
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HARDING: There you go. Drink this. It'll calm your mind. NADIA: I-I'm fine.
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HARDING: Just drink it. (SIGHING) (DRINKING)
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NADIA: Whoa. This is actually good. (SLURPS) NADIA: Mm. Really good.
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HARDING: Hm. It's a recipe from my mom. NADIA: What happened?
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We were talking and then everything went black. HARDING: You were seized by some force and collapsed.
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So I brought you here. NADIA: Where's here? HARDING: My camp.
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I couldn't risk riding all the way to Raven's Brook with your condition. NADIA: Oh, um, (clears throat) thanks.
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HARDING: (chuckles) You saved me first. (NADIA CLEARS THROAT)
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HARDING: Who's Elio? (MUSIC) NADIA: What? HARDING: Elio. You kept saying that name before you
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passed out. NADIA: Oh, um, he's the person I'm trying to find
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and the man who gave me this ring. NADIA: But now, because of me, he's trapped behind the Veil.
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Lost somewhere in the Fade and I have to get him back. HARDING: (sighs) Nadia, not to be cruel,
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but hardly anyone survives the Fade. NADIA: (scoffs) No, you don't understand. This is different.
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Elio's not just anyone. He's a mage. A powerful one. NADIA: It was the Dread Wolf who tricked me
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and drew us both into his web because he wanted Elio's help. HARDING: Help with what?
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NADIA: (sighs) An ancient relic. HARDING: What relic? (PERSON SCREAMING IN THE DISTANCE)
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NADIA: Did you hear that? HARDING: Yep. You feel up to this?
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NADIA: (sighs) Let's go. (MUSIC) (BREATHING, RUSTLING)
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(PERSON SCREAMING) HARDING: That way! (RAPID BREATHING) (PERSON SCREAMING)
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NADIA: There! (RUSTLING) (PERSON SCREAMING) (RAPID BREATHING) (RUSTLING)
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HARDING: Hold up here. I want a better look. (HORSE NEIGHING) NADIA: Down there, in the clearing.
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HARDING: Those three on horseback look like villagers. ELISA: No, no. Please stop.
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(DISTANT VOICES CRYING OUT) NADIA: What the hell are they doing? HARDING: They're chaining both of them to that post
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by the cave. HARDING: I don't like this. (CHANTING) NADIA: Do you hear that?
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HARDING: Shh. (PEOPLE CHANTING) NADIA: It's coming from the cave. HARDING: Shh. (PEOPLE CHANTING)
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(DAGGER UNSHEATHING) NADIA: This can't be good. HARDING: I'm going in closer. (PEOPLE CHANTING IN FOREIGN TONGUE)
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VOICES: Nu es fyr geirum... (PRISONERS GROANING) VOICES: Grar upp kominn Vefr, verbjooar...
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BOLMOR: Mayor Devlin, how wonderful for you to join us. MAYOR DEVLIN: You speak as if our actions
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were not guided by your own hand. BOLMOR: Oh, come now. There's no need for such dramatics.
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(PRISONER GROANS) BOLMOR: What we have here is a divine relationship that benefits all of us.
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MAYOR DEVLIN: Oh, spare me the song and dance, Bolmor. You've got your flesh.
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BOLMOR: Yes. The Deathless One will be most pleased with your generosity yet again.
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(PRISONER GROANS) MAYOR DEVLIN: Are we done here? BOLMOR: Oh, un-unless you care to stay for the ritual?
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MAYOR DEVLIN: You know that'll never happen. BOLMOR: Suit yourself. (HORSE WHINNIES)
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MAYOR DEVLIN: I can't watch this. Let's go. (HORSE WHINNIES) MAYOR DEVLIN: Come on!
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(PRISONER GROANS) BOLMOR: Praxton! Prepare the sacrifices. (PRISONER GROANS) PRAXTON: With pleasure my Lord.
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(VOICES CHANTING) HARDING: The prisoners are gonna be sacrificed. NADIA: By dirt and spit they are not!
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We've gotta do something! HARDING: Shh. Agreed, but we need a plan. We can't just go rushing in blades first.
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NADIA: Watch me! HARDING: Okay, then I'll just stay up here and provide cover so you don't get yourself killed.
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(CHAINS RATTLE) (PEOPLE CHANTING) (PRISONER WHIMPERING) BOLMOR: Let's start with the loud one.
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(CHUCKLING) PRAXTON: All right then, here we go. (ELISA WHIMPERING) DRAYDEN KIEL: Elisa, I know this is frightening,
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but I have a plan. DRAYDEN: There's going to be a chance for escape, but be strong.
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(CHAIN RATTLING) (ELISA WHIMPERING) ELISA: No, no, please let me go! I have a daughter. Please, she needs me!
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BOLMOR: What she needs is your sacrifice. You know what happens if the Deathless One goes hungry?
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BOLMOR: Your duty tonight, it's the highest honor a mother can have.
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BOLMOR: Can't you see that? PRAXTON: My Lord, look! (NADIA YELLING)
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(SWORDS DRAWING) BOLMOR: Whoever that is, kill her! PRAXTON: Grab that (inaudible)! (FIGHTERS SCUFFLING)
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(NADIA YELLING) BOLMOR: Archers! Take cover! (FIGHTING CONTINUES) PRAXTON: Fight her! Fight her!
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CULTIST 1: To the Deathless One, I shall live forever!
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(FIGHTING CONTINUES) NADIA: I don't know. You look pretty dead to me.
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CULTIST 2: By His unholy name I- (ARROW WHOOSHES) NADIA: You shut him up, Harding.
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(FIGHTERS SCUFFLING AND GRUNTING) BOLMOR: What are you doing? Kill her already!
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NADIA: You! You're next. BOLMOR: Praxton! Stop her.
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(FIGHTING CONTINUES) (PRAXTON GROWLING) NADIA: Guess you must be the muscle. (NADIA GRUNTING) (SWORDS CLASHING)
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NADIA: You know the thing about you big guys? You all got weak ankles. PRAXTON: Huh? Aargh!
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PRAXTON: (howling) Aahhh, you bloody witch! (ARROWS WHOOSHING) (GRUNTING) (FIGHTING CONTINUES)
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BOLMOR: They have too many archers! Return to the cave at once! PRAXTON: Retreat! (ARROWS RAIN DOWN)
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PRAXTON: This isn't over! NADIA: Great! Then I can break your other ankle. PRAXTON: Come here. DRAYDEN: Elisa! Look out!
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ELISA: Please! Help me. NADIA: Hold on. I'm coming! (ELISA WHIMPERING) PRAXTON: Sorry, but you've been marked.
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DRAYDEN: Don't you dare! (ELISA GASPS) NADIA: No!
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BOLMOR: We shall meet again, crusader. Goodbye. DRAYDEN: You monsters!
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NADIA: Hey, hey, hey, hold on. Just hold on. I'll get you help. Harding! ELISA: (choking) Please...my daughter...
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Make sure she's never marked. Make sure she's- (gasps) HARDING: Nadia, what is it? (ELISA GASPING)
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HARDING: Let me see her. NADIA: It's too late. (FABRIC TEARING) HARDING: If I can just stop the bleeding-
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NADIA: I said it's too late! She's dead. She's already dead.
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(THUNDER CRASHING)
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(PRISONER GRUNTING) NADIA: Here. Allow me. (SIGHING) (CHAINS CLINKING)
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NADIA: (clears throat) You're welcome. DRAYDEN: Welcome? You just ruined months of research and got Elisa killed!
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NADIA: You ungrateful swi- DRAYDEN: I had a plan! NADIA: Oh, they were about to kill the both of you and we risked life and limb to save you!
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HARDING: What research? Who are you? DRAYDEN: I am Drayden Kiel, writer, scholar, and historian.
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And I have been studying the Cult of the Doom Blade for nearly a year now. DRAYDEN: That was the closest I've ever come to seeing
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the secrets of their sacrificial ritual firsthand. NADIA: You do realize it's a ritual you would've missed the end of, right?
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DRAYDEN: I can actually take care of myself. Thank you. NADIA: Oh yeah? That how you wound up out here chained
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to a post? DRAYDEN: This may come as a shock to someone like you, but I volunteered for this.
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If nothing else, it's saved another from the harvest. HARDING: Harvest? DRAYDEN: Each month the villagers have a blind drawing.
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Two amongst them are chosen for the offering, but no one has seen what happens.
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It was my hope that by learning of the ritual, I'd be able to stop it once and for all. NADIA: Yeah. Looks like you did a really great job.
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DRAYDEN: I wasn't really counting on your interference. NADIA: (scoffs) Excuse me- HARDING: Nadia, relax. DRAYDEN: Your interference.
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I was going to save myself and Elisa there. HARDING: Were you two close?
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DRAYDEN: Not really. We crossed paths from time to time. Her daughter was actually chosen,
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but she traded herself on the condition her daughter be spared from future lotteries. DRAYDEN: I volunteered for the second spot
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to make sure the mayor would agree. NADIA: (sighs) I've heard enough. Take us to the village at once.
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I wanna speak to this mayor. HARDING: It's late. Let's wait till morning. NADIA: Now!
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HARDING: (sighs) Fine. Let's ride. (HARDING WHISTLES) (HORSE NEIGHS)
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(THUNDER RUMBLING) (HORSE WHINNYING) (DOOR CREAKS)
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(PEOPLE MUTTERING) NADIA: Which one of you is the mayor? PATRON 1: Who's asking?
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NADIA: I am, you twit. And the next time I ask, I'll dot my sentence with a blade. Now, which one of you is the may-
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MAYOR DEVLIN: Me. I'm the mayor. What's this about? NADIA: You know exactly what this is about.
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Harding! (BOOT STEPS) (PEOPLE GASPING) PATRON 2: (whispering) Sweet Maker.
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HARDING: Clear that table. (OBJECTS CLATTERING) (HARDING GRUNTING, PANTING)
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HARDING: This one needs a proper burial. MAYOR DEVLIN: Is that...? NADIA: The poor mother you left for dead?
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Yeah, that's exactly who that is. MAYOR DEVLIN: I don't understand. How did you- DRAYDEN: The plan changed rather unexpectedly, I should say.
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VILLAGERS: (murmuring) What? What did you do? MAYOR DEVLIN: No, no, no! INNKEEPER: Andraste's mercy! What did you do?
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NADIA: We saved their life. That's what! MAYOR DEVLIN: You saved them, but doomed us all.
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PATRON 1: Take them back! Maybe Bolmor will forgive us. The moon's still dark. Maybe there's time.
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NADIA: What is wrong with you people? INNKEEPER: Wrong with us? Do you have any idea what you've done?
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PATRON 2: Yeah. Now they'll want punishment. NADIA: Good. You deserve it. PATRON 2: Deserve it? HARDING: Nadia, can't you see these people are scared?
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PATRON 2: You don't get it. You're just an outsider. They won't just come back for simple revenge. They'll take our children.
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NADIA: Then you fight. MAYOR DEVLIN: Look at us. We are not warriors.
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We're a small village of farmers, merchants, and ch- ch- cheese makers.
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We don't even have a weapons blacksmith! Drayden, tell her. VILLAGER: Yeah! DRAYDEN: It's true.
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They tried to fight back once when it first started. HARDING: What happened? PATRON 1: What happened? I'll tell you what happened.
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Next night, they came back a dozen strong. This time they got my son and my wife and daughter.
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They told us if anyone took up arms, the same would happen to them.
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HARDING: I'm so sorry. (FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: Why are you apologizing for what they did?
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HARDING: Desperate times, desperate people. DRAYDEN: If you're so eager to fight,
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perhaps you can fight for them. NADIA: Come again? DRAYDEN: I just saw the two of you
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practically destroy the cult by yourselves. MAYOR DEVLIN: Is that true? DRAYDEN: It is.
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DRAYDEN: This one commands her bow with such ferocity they thought it was twenty archers upon them.
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VILLAGER: (gasping) What? DRAYDEN: And this one, despite her mouth, tore through them with a pair of daggers like a tornado made of steel.
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DRAYDEN: Bolmor himself screamed for retreat. (PEOPLE GASP) PATRON 2: Bullshit! DRAYDEN: Friends, I swear to you, I saw it with my own eyes.
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MAYOR DEVLIN: If this is true, then you must help us. We could be free.
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VILLAGER: We need you on our team. NADIA: But you just said so yourself, none of you are warriors.
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(scoffs) How can we possibly help? HARDING: We could train them. NADIA: What? HARDING: Won't take much.
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They only need to know the basics. Block and strike. We can do the rest. (NADIA SCOFFS)
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DRAYDEN: What's the matter, mouth? You scared? NADIA: (scoffs) As if.
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DRAYDEN: So then what's the problem? NADIA: The problem is that I don't have time for a little side adventure.
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There's somebody else who already needs me. HARDING: Help us and I'll help you find the Dread Wolf.
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(NADIA SIGHS) DRAYDEN: It would appear you have nothing left but excuses.
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(NADIA SIGHS IN EXASPERATION) VILLAGER: Come on. NADIA: Okay, fine. We start tomorrow.
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(VILLAGERS CHEER AND APPLAUD) NADIA: But you, I don't like you.
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DRAYDEN: I'll warn you now, I shall grow upon you like an elf root. (MUSIC) NADIA: Whatever. Just stay outta my way.
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(FOOTSTEPS) (BIRDS CHIRPING) (ROOSTER CROWING) (BIRDS TWITTERING)
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HARDING: Good morning all. (VILLAGERS CHATTERING) (NADIA SIGHING) NADIA: (whistles) Listen up!
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(FARM ANIMAL NOISES) HARDING: I know the circumstances for our gathering aren't the best, but we'll make sure
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that no one is taken by that cult again. (VILLAGERS GRUMBLE) HARDING: Does anyone have any sort of weapons training
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or military experience? FIRST ARCHER: I hunt boars. Use a bow for that,
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if that counts. HARDING: That counts. You're my first archer. Anyone else? Anyone?
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(SILENCE) NADIA: (sighs) All right, let's make this simple. Forget your job, your name, your family.
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There are just two things you get to be, alive or dead. Decide quick which one you prefer.
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DRAYDEN: Well, you certainly have a way with words. HARDING: Okay, let's split up. HARDING: First Archer, gather the best hunters
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and meet me on that rooftop. Nadia, you and Drayden take the rest and work on ground combat.
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NADIA: Alright, people, you heard the plan. Grab your hatchets and follow me into the forest.
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(BOWS TIGHTENING) HARDING: Notch...Aim...
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HARDING: Fire! (ARROWS CLATTERING) VILLAGER 2: Always to the left. VILLAGER 3: Dang! HARDING: No, no. Don't get discouraged.
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Try again. But this time, don't pull from your wrists. Put your body into it, like this.
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(BOWS TIGHTENING) (ARROWS WHOOSHING) VILLAGER 2: Ugh. VILLAGER 2: I'm never going to get this right.
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We aren't soldiers. (VILLAGERS AGREEING) HARDING: Watch me. Lean in. Rotate back with your waist, shoulders high, firm.
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Get all your weight behind the bow string. (SIGHING, GRUNTING) (BOWS TIGHTENING)
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HARDING: Good! VILLAGER 2: Now what? HARDING: Let go.
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(ARROWS WHOOSHING) (CROWS CAWING) NADIA: Keep cutting. (AXES THUDDING) VILLAGER 4: We need water, we're exhausted.
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NADIA: And I need at least thirty more trees before anyone even thinks about water. (VILLAGERS GRUNTING)
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DRAYDEN: They're no good to us if they're already dead by the time the cult gets here. NADIA: And the cult won't care if they get a blister during combat.
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We need to toughen them up as quickly as we can. (WOOD CREAKING) VILLAGER 5: Timber! (VILLAGERS EXCLAIMING)
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NADIA: No, no, no, no, no. VILLAGER: Whoo! NADIA: Not the big ones. Go for those young ones over there.
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We want a sturdy trunk, but still small enough for you to get your hands around. VILLAGER 5: I thought we were gonna learn how to fight,
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not do field labor. NADIA: (sighs) And what do you plan to fight with? Your soft knuckled hands?
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We need weapons, so keep cutting. DRAYDEN: Please tell me we're not going to fight
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the Cult of the Doom Blade with a bunch of clubs. NADIA: Spears, Drayden, we're making spears.
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DRAYDEN: Have you considered- NADIA: Look, I'm sure you've read a lot of really fancy books about war and strategy,
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but nothing beats the real thing. So why don't you run along and let us handle this?
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DRAYDEN: Of course I've read books about war. It is the only way you can see the patterns of history and avoid being stuck.
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NADIA: Do you have an off switch? DRAYDEN: Sorry? NADIA: Can you shut up? (BIRDS CHIRPING)
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DRAYDEN: You let your anger lead you into assumptions. NADIA: I don't assume anything. I just tell it how it is.
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DRAYDEN: You mean how you perceive it? NADIA: (scoffs) This isn't the time for a philosophical debate. Either get to cutting or get to stepping.
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(GRUNTING) (BIRDS TWITTERING) DRAYDEN: Hand me an ax. NADIA: Here you go, Books.
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(DRAYDEN GRUNTS) (AX STRIKING TREE) NADIA: Whoa. VILLAGER: Keep it up.
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HARDING: Now that you've got a handle on the basics, let's see who's got a natural aim. (VILLAGERS MUMBLING)
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HARDING: See those targets by the barn? Hit the one in the middle. BULLSEYE: (scoffs) Well they've got to be 50 yards away?
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HARDING: Then it'll be a good test. VILLAGER: (grumbling) This is a harder one than yesterday. HARDING: And...begin!
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(VILLAGERS GRUNTING) (ARROWS WHOOSHING)
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BULLSEYE: Look at that! I've just got a bullseye. HARDING: Give me two more so I know it wasn't a fluke.
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BULLSEYE: Okay. (ARROWS WHOOSHING) (MUSIC)
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(VILLAGERS GRUNTING) NADIA: Nope. It's block, step, thrust,
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thrust, block, thrust. Then regroup. Let's try again. (VILLAGERS GROANING)
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VILLAGER 6: Nadia. We're exhausted. VILLAGER 4: Yeah, we need food. I can barely lift my arms.
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NADIA: And do you think the cult will care if you're tired? If you're hungry? They are going to unleash their fury upon you
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and they will not stop until you lay dead and bleeding. NADIA: I know this is rough.
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I know you're not used to this, but you have to push through the pain, through the fear.
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Again! (VILLAGERS GROANING) DRAYDEN: Wait. NADIA: Damn it. Now what?
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DRAYDEN: I want to challenge you. NADIA: Excuse me? DRAYDEN: A simple challenge. Strike me before I strike you.
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NADIA: You can't be serious. DRAYDEN: For all the gold in my bag. (NADIA LAUGHS)
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NADIA: You must be mad. DRAYDEN: But if I win, the villagers get to take a break
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and rest. NADIA: Fine by me, but no excuses when I feed your ass to the dirt.
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DRAYDEN: Remember those words. VILLAGERS: (chanting) Drayden! Drayden! Drayden! (NADIA GRUNTING) (STRIKING)
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(VILLAGERS CHEERING) NADIA: Impressive, but still weak. (STRIKING, GRUNTING CONTINUES)
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NADIA: Is that all you got? VILLAGER: Get up. Come on, Drayden. (VILLAGERS CHEERING) DRAYDEN: For someone who hates talking,
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you sure do a lot of it. (NADIA AND DRAYDEN GRUNTING) (STRIKING)
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NADIA: That's it. I've had enough of you. (grunts) (FIGHTING CONTINUES) (THUD)
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(VILLAGERS CHEERING) DRAYDEN: Here. Let me give you a hand.
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NADIA: (gasping) I don't need your help. It was a lucky shot. DRAYDEN: It had nothing to do with luck.
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Like I said before, we study to learn patterns, and you overextend with your right
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when you lunge your attacks. NADIA: (scoffs) Yeah, whatever. It's still not the same when your enemy has a weapon
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and is trying to kill you. DRAYDEN: Maybe not, but maybe there's more to me than you've allowed yourself to see.
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(NADIA SCOFFS) NADIA: I guess we'll find out when the blades come out. (FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: (sighs) All right, everyone. That's the day.
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Break for supper. VILLAGER 4: Thank you Maker! (VILLAGERS CHEER) (MUSIC) (VILLAGERS CHATTERING)
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HARDING: Nice work today. BULLSEYE: Thank you, Harding. HARDING: I think you got it. You're a natural with that bow. BULLSEYE: Thank you. HARDING: Bullseye.
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HARDING: You and me are gonna be friends. (VILLAGERS CHATTERING) (FOOTSTEPS) HARDING: Hey, how you doing?
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NADIA: I'm all right. I would be better if everyone wasn't acting a damn fool right now. HARDING: What do you mean? (VILLAGERS LAUGHING)
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NADIA: Look at 'em! Drinking, laughing, acting as if this was all some sort of game. They're gonna get themselves killed if they don't focus.
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HARDING: It's good that they remember what they're fighting for before we head into battle.
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NADIA: (sighs) Yeah, maybe. DRAYDEN: Perhaps most of them realize there's a good chance they won't see the morning.
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And this is their way of saying goodbye. NADIA: Hmm. I get it. I just, (sighs) this whole thing
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has me wound tighter than a fishing net.
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HARDING: Everything okay? I know we just met, but you've been
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different since the battle. NADIA: (sighs) My family comes from nothing.
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We were so poor that even beggars looked down on us. But we had each other.
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(MUSIC) NADIA: And one day, some jackass in the Imperial Chantry accused my mother of stealing.
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NADIA: She was innocent, but he had no interest in listening. NADIA: I begged my father to do something.
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I begged anyone, please do something. Just fight for her. (FAINT ECHOES OF CRYING)
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But no one did anything. NADIA: So I watched as the soldiers dragged her away,
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watched as they put a rope around her neck and watched as her feet...
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(WOOD BREAKING, ROPE SWINGING) NADIA: That's why I've been on edge.
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That's why I've been so angry that these people just rolled over and served that woman to a monster.
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(VILLAGERS LAUGHING AND CHATTING) DRAYDEN: Nadia, I'm so sorry. I had no idea.
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NADIA: I- I don't need your pity, Drayden. All I need is to drive this dagger straight into Bolmor's heart
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so I can get back to rescuing my love from the Fade. DRAYDEN: Wait, what about the Fade?
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(BELL RINGING) SCOUT: They're coming! Bolmor and his men approach! (VILLAGERS SCRAMBLING) HARDING: It's time.
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NADIA: Ground forces on me! Remember the training! HARDING: Archers, to the rooftops! DRAYDEN: Nadia, I'll meet you on the field.
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NADIA: What? Where are you going? DRAYDEN: I've cooked up a bit of a surprise. I'll see you out there. NADIA: Drayden, what the fuck? Drayden! Ugh!
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HARDING: Maybe it'll be a good surprise. NADIA: (scoffs) I won't be holding my breath. HARDING: Let's go people. Let's go.
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(HORSE WHINNYING) (HORSE GALLOPING) SCOUT: Bolmor. He has an entire army with him.
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HARDING: Oh no. How close are they? SCOUT: Five. Maybe ten minutes. NADIA: (sighs) Damn, that's tight.
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HARDING: Get yourself to the rooftops and be ready. SCOUT: Yes, Scout Harding. (HORSE NEIGHS, GALLOPS)
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HARDING: Good luck. Hope to see you when the dust settles. NADIA: You can count on it. HARDING: Come on, boy. Yah!
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(HORSE NEIGHS) (HOOVES THUDDING) (CRICKETS CHIRPING) (OMINOUS CHANTING)
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(HORSE NEIGHS) BOLMOR: Tonight we shall teach these heretics what it means to defy the Deathless One.
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BOLMOR: No mercy! No quarter. Kill any who fight and take all the children.
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(CULT CHANTING) BOLMOR: Let them know the true nature of pain.
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(HORSE NEIGHS) (CULT CHANTING) (FEET TRAMPING)
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(QUIET MURMURING)
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NADIA: Take a spear and lock into formation. Hurry! Hurry! VILLAGER 4: Yes, Nadia. NADIA: That's it. Just remember everything we went over.
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Watch over one another and we'll be okay. We are stronger together. No one breaks the line.
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(VILLAGERS MURMURING) (CULT CHANTING)
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NADIA: Alright, here they come. Remember, wait for them to engage. Block. Thrust. Block.
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Make them work for it. (HORSE NEIGHS) (CULT CHANTING)
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NADIA: There they are. Hold tight. (CULT CHANTING) (MUSIC)
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(HORSE NEIGHING) BOLMOR: Well, well, look who it is.
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The great crusader. BOLMOR: (laughing) I'm so glad you decided to stay
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and join us. BOLMOR: The Deathless One looks forward to your blood in particular.
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(MUSIC) NADIA: Too bad for him because I'm pretty fond of my blood right where it is. (HORSE NEIGHS)
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But I'll make a deal with you. Turn around and leave, vowing never to return, and I'll let you live.
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BOLMOR: (laughs) Oh, child. How you underestimate me.
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(HORNS BLARING) (OMINOUS MUSIC) (CRICKETS CHIRPING) NADIA: Shit, they've flanked us. (HORSE NEIGHS) BOLMOR: Attack!
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(CULTISTS YELLING) (SWORDS CLASHING)
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(VILLAGERS YELLING) (FOOTSTEPS) (YELLING) (FIGHTING INTENSIFIES) (HEAVY BREATHING)
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HARDING: They're coming from behind. Don't let them advance. Fire! (ARROWS WHOOSHING) (PEOPLE SCREAMING)
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(PEOPLE YELL INDISTINCTLY) (PEOPLE YELL INDISTINCTLY)
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HARDING: Reload! (BOWS TIGHTENING) HARDING: Fire! (ARROWS WHOOSHING)
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(PEOPLE YELLING) (ARROWS WHOOSHING) (WHISTLING PROJECTILE)
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(CRASHING) VILLAGER: Fire, fire! Get back! HARDING: Catapult! Everyone to the ropes. Get off these roofs now!
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(PEOPLE YELLING) (CLASHING) PRAXTON: Steady the line. Get the rope taut.
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(ROPE CREAKING) PRAXTON: I want another boulder in that basket now. (CULTIST GRUNTING) (BOULDER THUDDING)
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PRAXTON: On my mark...pull! (CATAPULT CREAKING) (CATAPULT CLATTERING)
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(VILLAGERS SCREAMING) (BOULDER CRASHING) (PEOPLE YELLING) (SWORDS CLASHING)
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VILLAGER 4: Nadia, we can't hold them. NADIA: Hold on, I'm coming. Yah! (HORSE WHINNIES) CULTIST 4: For the Deathless One!
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(CULTISTS YELLING) (FIGHTING CONTINUES) BOLMOR: Now! Kill her while she's down.
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NADIA: Shit! (PEOPLE YELLING) NADIA: Open ranks. Let me in.
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NADIA: Close the gap! (SWORDS CLASHING) (PEOPLE YELLING) VILLAGER 6: We're surrounded, what do we do?
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(OMINOUS RINGING) VILLAGER 6: (muffled) Nadia! Nadia! EXECUTIONER: For your crimes you have been sentenced
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to death by hanging! (OMINOUS RINGING CONTINUES) VILLAGER 6: Nadia, can you hear me? NADIA: Aargh! VILLAGER 6: Nadia we need you!
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VILLAGER 4: They're breaking through! (OMINOUS DISTORTED TONE)
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VOICE: Nadia! (GRENADES BOOMING)
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(PEOPLE SCREAMING) CULTIST 3: Grenades! The villagers have grenades! (PEOPLE SCREAMING)
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CULTIST 2: Retreat! Retreat! VILLAGER 4: Quick while the enemy retreats, fall back and regroup at the auxiliary point.
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(VILLAGERS YELLING) (FOOTSTEPS THUDDING) (PEOPLE YELLING) (CRICKETS CHIRPING)
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(NADIA GROANS) (FOOTSTEPS THUDDING) DRAYDEN: Nadia, are you okay? Nadia?
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NADIA: D- Drayden? Wh- what was that? Was that you? DRAYDEN: Shock bombs.
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NADIA: You made grenades? DRAYDEN: Yep. Before dinner. Here, let me help you.
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(NADIA GRUNTS) NADIA: H-how? DRAYDEN: It's a little trick I picked up from these things called books.
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NADIA: (laughs) You're insufferable. You know that? DRAYDEN: Yep. Just like elf root. (NADIA LAUGHS)
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NADIA: Wait, I have an idea. (BALLISTIC MISSILE WHOOSHING) (BRICKS CLATTERING)
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VILLAGER 2: We're cornered. If we leave this tavern, we're goners. HARDING: We gotta take out that catapult or we're all dead.
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VILLAGER 2: What should we do? DRAYDEN: Hey, Harding. Open up, it's me. HARDING: Drayden? Hold fire, open the door!
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VILLAGER: Yes sir. (DOOR CREAKING OPEN) (PEOPLE YELLING) (FIGHTING) DRAYDEN: Nadia sent me.
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I come bearing gifts. Shock bombs. HARDING: Ah. Thank the Stones!
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You're a miracle worker. HARDING: New plan. Bullseye, me and you are gonna blow
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that nug-humping catapult to bits. Tie these onto your arrows! BULLSEYE: Right.
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(PEOPLE YELLING) (CRICKETS CHIRPING)
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HARDING: There it is. Just beyond the brook. BULLSEYE: Got it! HARDING: I'm going up this tree for a better angle.
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On my mark, you blast it. BULLSEYE: For Raven's Brook. HARDING: For Raven's Brook.
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(HARDING GRUNTING) (LEAVES RUSTLING) (HARDING GRUNTING, PANTING)
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HARDING: Just a little higher. (HARDING GRUNTING, PANTING) HARDING: (whispering) Ah, there you are.
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(BOW TIGHTENING) (CROW CAWING) HARDING: Steady, steady. (BOW TIGHTENING)
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HARDING: All clear. Blast it! BULLSEYE: Pull the turnip! (ARROWS WHOOSHING)
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PRAXTON: Oh shit. (EXPLOSION BOOMING) (PEOPLE SCREAMING)
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(GRUNTING) HARDING: Nice shot. Let's hurry back. (FOOTSTEPS THUDDING) (MUSIC)
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(GRUNTING) NADIA: That's it! Press forward! Everyone, form one giant line and push!
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(GRUNTING) (PEOPLE YELLING) NADIA: Push! VILLAGER: Heave! Ho! Heave! Ho!
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NADIA: Again! (VILLAGERS GRUNTING) NADIA: Push!
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BOLMOR: What are you doing? Stop her! NADIA: I told you, I'm coming for you! BOLMOR: Halt!
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(GRUNTING) (PEOPLE YELLING) BOLMOR: Everyone whose left, ignore the villagers and burn the buildings!
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Raze it all! VILLAGER 4: By Andraste's tears! The village! NADIA: No, no! No! Stay together. We can beat them!
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BOLMOR: (laughs) So much for your little plan.
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(HORSE NEIGHING) (FLAMES CRACKLING) BOLMOR: Normally I take no pleasure from a sacrifice.
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We- we do what we do, because we must. But you, oh, I will enjoy
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seeing the look in your eyes when the sky opens up.
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And the last thing you see is the Black City shimmering on the horizon.
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(HORSE NEIGHS) (GRUNTING) BOLMOR: (laughs) Look around. They've all gone.
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There's no one here to save you. You are out matched and alone.
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DRAYDEN: She's not alone. NADIA: Drayden? DRAYDEN: Let's end this once and for all. Shall we?
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(SWORDS CLINKING) NADIA: Sounds good to me. (BOLMOR LAUGHS) (SWORDS CLINKING) (ALL GRUNTING)
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BOLMOR: You cannot defeat me! NADIA: Hey, books. You see what I see? (SWORDS CLASHING)
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DRAYDEN: I believe I do. (SWORDS CLASHING) NADIA: On my signal. (SWORDS CLASHING) NADIA: Now!
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(ALL GRUNTING) (BOLMOR YELLING)
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NADIA: Toss me your sword! (ALL GRUNTING) (NADIA GRUNTS) (BOLMOR SCREAMS)
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(BOLMOR GASPING) BOLMOR: Deathless One...please...help me.
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NADIA: Hate to break it to you, Bolmor, but there's no one coming. So you tell me,
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how does the Black City look shimmering in the sky? (BOLMOR GASPING)
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DRAYDEN: You learned his patterns. NADIA: I did. But I think next time I'll try to learn them
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before the fighting starts. DRAYDEN: I've got some great books I can recommend. NADIA: Don't push it, Drayden.
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DRAYDEN: Got it. (THUNDER RUMBLES) (RAIN PATTERING) VILLAGER: The rain! It's putting out the fire!
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(VILLAGERS CHEERING) (THUNDER CLAPS) (RAIN PATTERING)
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(ROOSTER CROWING) (HAMMERS THUDDING) HARDING: Sure I can't talk you into sticking around?
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NADIA: The rest was good, but five days is enough and I still have somebody I need to save.
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HARDING: I figured. But, as promised... (PAPER RUSTLES)
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NADIA: What's this? HARDING: Message from a former Inquisition spy. There's been activity in the southern Anderfels.
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Earthquakes. Demons. Sounds like the Dread Wolf to me. NADIA: You should come with me.
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HARDING: Can't. As soon as I finish here, I gotta get back to my partner Varric. We got something brewing and he needs my help.
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NADIA: Ah, well maybe that Stone of yours will see that we meet again. HARDING: I would like that. Be well Nadia Carcosa.
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NADIA: See ya, Harding. (FOOTSTEPS CRUNCHING) (HORSE SNORTING) NADIA: Shh. Shh. Shh. (FOOTSTEPS)
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DRAYDEN: You just going to leave without saying goodbye? (NADIA SIGHS) NADIA: Books. You'll be fine without me.
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DRAYDEN: The other night before the battle, you mentioned something about the Fade. I wanted to talk- NADIA: Hey.
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I don't mean to be mean, okay, you had my back and I appreciate that.
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But I'm not really interested in any of your weird theories or history lessons on this one. This is personal and it's important.
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DRAYDEN: You don't understand, I was researching the cult because I study the Fade.
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I've dedicated my entire life to understanding it. So if your problem lies beyond the Veil,
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I can actually help you. (MUSIC) (FOOTSTEPS) (METAL JINGLING)
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(NADIA GRUNTS) (SADDLE CREAKS) (HORSE NEIGHS)
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(DRAYDEN SIGHS) (HOOVES CLOPPING) NADIA: Well? Are you coming or not?
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(MUSIC) (MUSIC)
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(MUSIC) NARRATOR: Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance
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is a production of Electronic Arts in association with Pod People. Based on the award-winning video game franchise
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from BioWare. Learn more about the world of Dragon Age and its latest game, Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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by visiting DragonAge.com. Rated M for mature. (MUSIC)
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Directed by Matt Sav, written by Will Melton and Jeremy Novick,
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featuring the voices of Mae Whitman as Nadia,
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Brigette Lundy-Paine as Drayden, Armen Taylor as Elio,
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Ali Hillis as Harding. Also featuring Charles Halford as Demon.
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Additional voices by Sabrina Fest, Roslyn Gentle, Damien Gerard, Jillian Kinsey,
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Daniel Lench, Isaac Gonzalez Rossi, Sean Thomas Simmons, and Brandon Gill as Narrator.
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Creative and narrative direction by Todd Stallkamp. BioWare narrative development and support
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by Mary De Marle and John Epler. Editorial direction by Will Melton.
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Producers for Electronic Arts, Alex Bader and Chris Beckett.
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Production Management by Bryan Rivers. Assistant direction by Ashton Carter.
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Story development by Todd Stallkamp, Will Melton, Matt Sav, and Jeremy Novick.
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Associate producing and script supervision by Hannah Rae Leach.
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Casting by Alaine Aldaffer, Lisa Donadio, Lindsey Ploussard and Alex Vikmanis.
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Sound design by Michael Aquino, Morgane Fouse, and Carter Wogahn.
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Dialogue editing by Michael Aquino and Carter Wogahn.
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Mixing and Mastering by Morgane Fouse. Featuring original music by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe.
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Executive Producers for Pod People, Matt Sav and Rachael King.
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Electronic Arts brand and marketing leads, Kari Hale and Olivier Tse.
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BioWare special thanks to Ashley Barlow, Cody Behiel,
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Electronic Arts special thanks to Kevin Maher, Jacklyn Gilson, Rick Dressler, Marcie Galea,
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Krysta Trezise, Joe Gatdula, Jon Bailey, Greg Joson, and Ritual Khanna.
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard, a single-player RPG, launches Fall 2024 on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.
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Begin your adventure at DragonAge.com. Rated M for mature.
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(MUSIC) Next time on Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance.
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VOICE 1: Another infernal quake. And we still don't even know what we're down here digging for. VOICE 2: The elf said dig here. So we dig here.
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(BOOM) (SCREAMING) VOICE 3: Ah! That's it. Everyone head for the tunnel. Cutters up. Be ready for anything. (MUSIC)
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VOICE 3: The shaking grows stronger. We have all felt it. Something terrible is coming.
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We must unite and sing the Maker's praise. DRAYDEN: Harding's information was vague at best.
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We know only that the ones you seek may have been here, but not where or why. (MUSIC)
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VOICE 4: You ask me something evil's coming. Another blight.
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But maybe worse. All this damn magic ripping the world apart.
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VOICE 5: You wanna find the source? You need to head deeper into the mountains. NADIA: Will you show me? (MUSIC)
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VOICE 6: Nadia Carcosa, wanted by Tavinter authorities for crimes of theft, high treason and murder.
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VOICE 7: I think they're involved with the anomalies. VOICE 8: Well, Davrin looks like you get your adventure
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after all. (MUSIC)
NARRATOR: This podcast features adult language, violent imagery, and mature themes.
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Listener discretion is advised. (MUSIC)
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(OWL HOOTING) (DEMON ROARING) DEMON: Come out from the shadows and face me coward!
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(ROARS) LACE HARDING: This is a fine mess you've gotten yourself into, Harding.
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DEMON: Let's see how good you can hide when I set the sky ablaze. (DEMON ROARS)
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HARDING: Ugh! DEMON: There you are! You should have never come here, Dwarf.
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HARDING: And yet, here I am. DEMON: And now you will die for your meddling.
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(DEMON ROARS) (HARDING GRUNTS) HARDING: Nope, don't think so!
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But I'll be happy to send you right back to the Fade. (ARROWS SHOOTING)
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DEMON: Insolent bug, you think these arrows can stop me? A creature of fire?
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(DEMON ROARS) HARDING: You'll (grunts) have to be faster than that.
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DEMON: I will pluck your soul from the flesh and have it as a snack.
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HARDING: Come and get it. (DEMON ROARS) (HARDING GRUNTS)
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(DEMON GRUNTS) (HARDING GRUNTS) HARDING: You can knock me down all you want,
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but I'm getting right back up. DEMON: Such confidence. But tell me this, do you know what lies
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beneath these grounds? HARDING: Honestly, I don't really care.
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DEMON: This is a cemetery. (DEMON LAUGHS) HARDING: Oh shit. (DEMON LAUGHING)
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(GROWLING) DEMON: Rise, my minions!
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HARDING: By the Stone, give me the strength to survive this night. (HARDING GRUNTS) (DEMONS SCREECHING) DEMON: Soldiers of the undead, feast upon this trespasser!
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(MUSIC) (HARDING GRUNTS) HARDING: How many of these guys they got?
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(HARDING GRUNTING) (NADIA YELLING) (SWORDS CLASHING)
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HARDING: Who are you? NADIA CARCOSA: Just a stranger passing by and thought I'd help. HARDING: Well, thanks for that, brave stranger.
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NADIA: No thanks needed. I hate demons. (ROARING, SWORDS CLASHING)
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HARDING: Behind you! (DEMON ROARS) (GRUNTING) (SWORDS CLINKING) HARDING: Nice moves!
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NADIA: What do you say I handle these bony rats and you take the big one? HARDING: Works for me.
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HARDING: Only one ice arrow left. Make it count. (ARROW BEING DRAWN)
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HARDING: Breathe. Just breathe. NADIA: Take the shot! (HARDING GRUNTS) (ARROW FLIES) (DEMON ROARS)
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(HEAVY BREATHING) DEMON: (groaning) So cold... (HEAVY BREATHING)
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DEMON: The tremors. (HEAVY BREATHING) DEMON: The pain. DEMON: The anomalies. The veil grows thin, little one.
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DEMON: (gasping) Enjoy your victory while it lasts. DEMON: Your world is coming to an end.
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(DEMON GROANING) NADIA: Oh, enough already. (NADIA GRUNTS) (DEMON'S BODY SHATTERS)
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(HEAVY BREATHING) NADIA: Nice shooting. That arrow packs a mighty punch. HARDING: Thank you?
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NADIA: Name's Nadia. HARDING: Nadia, I am Inquisition Scout Lace Harding.
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NADIA: The Inquisition? What in damnation you doing all the way out here? HARDING: I should ask you the same.
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(CRICKETS CHIRPING) NADIA: I'm trying to find someone very important to me, but to find him, I must first find a cunning elf
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that left me for dead in the Silent Plains. And my intel brought me to these grounds.
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HARDING: This elf have a name? NADIA: Many, but the name I seek is the Dread Wolf.
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(SIGHING) HARDING: Great. That's who I'm hunting too. NADIA: If you hunt for the same prey,
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then you truly are a friend. HARDING: The Dread Wolf isn't prey. He's a friend.
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At least he was, but now he's, I don't know, misguided.
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HARDING: I'm not trying to kill him. Just stop him. NADIA: Oh, I don't want him dead either. I need him very much alive
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because he's the only person who can help me break into the Fade. HARDING: You wanna do what?
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(DISTORTED RINGING) VOICE: Nadia? (NADIA GRUNTS) HARDING: Nadia! Nadia! Are you okay?
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HARDING: What's happening? (NADIA GROANING) NADIA: Elio...(groans) Elio...
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(MUSIC) NARRATOR: This is Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance.
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Chapter Two: The Cult of the Doom Blade. (CRICKETS CHIRPING) (FLAMES CRACKLING)
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(LIVESTOCK NOISES) (HARDING HUMMING) (NADIA GROANING)
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(NADIA GASPING) HARDING: Easy. It's just a bad dream.
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(NADIA GASPING) HARDING: Breathe deep. (NADIA BREATHING DEEPLY)
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HARDING: There you go. Drink this. It'll calm your mind. NADIA: I-I'm fine.
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HARDING: Just drink it. (SIGHING) (DRINKING)
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NADIA: Whoa. This is actually good. (SLURPS) NADIA: Mm. Really good.
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HARDING: Hm. It's a recipe from my mom. NADIA: What happened?
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We were talking and then everything went black. HARDING: You were seized by some force and collapsed.
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So I brought you here. NADIA: Where's here? HARDING: My camp.
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I couldn't risk riding all the way to Raven's Brook with your condition. NADIA: Oh, um, (clears throat) thanks.
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HARDING: (chuckles) You saved me first. (NADIA CLEARS THROAT)
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HARDING: Who's Elio? (MUSIC) NADIA: What? HARDING: Elio. You kept saying that name before you
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passed out. NADIA: Oh, um, he's the person I'm trying to find
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and the man who gave me this ring. NADIA: But now, because of me, he's trapped behind the Veil.
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Lost somewhere in the Fade and I have to get him back. HARDING: (sighs) Nadia, not to be cruel,
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but hardly anyone survives the Fade. NADIA: (scoffs) No, you don't understand. This is different.
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Elio's not just anyone. He's a mage. A powerful one. NADIA: It was the Dread Wolf who tricked me
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and drew us both into his web because he wanted Elio's help. HARDING: Help with what?
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NADIA: (sighs) An ancient relic. HARDING: What relic? (PERSON SCREAMING IN THE DISTANCE)
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NADIA: Did you hear that? HARDING: Yep. You feel up to this?
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NADIA: (sighs) Let's go. (MUSIC) (BREATHING, RUSTLING)
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(PERSON SCREAMING) HARDING: That way! (RAPID BREATHING) (PERSON SCREAMING)
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NADIA: There! (RUSTLING) (PERSON SCREAMING) (RAPID BREATHING) (RUSTLING)
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HARDING: Hold up here. I want a better look. (HORSE NEIGHING) NADIA: Down there, in the clearing.
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HARDING: Those three on horseback look like villagers. ELISA: No, no. Please stop.
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(DISTANT VOICES CRYING OUT) NADIA: What the hell are they doing? HARDING: They're chaining both of them to that post
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by the cave. HARDING: I don't like this. (CHANTING) NADIA: Do you hear that?
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HARDING: Shh. (PEOPLE CHANTING) NADIA: It's coming from the cave. HARDING: Shh. (PEOPLE CHANTING)
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(DAGGER UNSHEATHING) NADIA: This can't be good. HARDING: I'm going in closer. (PEOPLE CHANTING IN FOREIGN TONGUE)
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VOICES: Nu es fyr geirum... (PRISONERS GROANING) VOICES: Grar upp kominn Vefr, verbjooar...
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BOLMOR: Mayor Devlin, how wonderful for you to join us. MAYOR DEVLIN: You speak as if our actions
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were not guided by your own hand. BOLMOR: Oh, come now. There's no need for such dramatics.
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(PRISONER GROANS) BOLMOR: What we have here is a divine relationship that benefits all of us.
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MAYOR DEVLIN: Oh, spare me the song and dance, Bolmor. You've got your flesh.
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BOLMOR: Yes. The Deathless One will be most pleased with your generosity yet again.
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(PRISONER GROANS) MAYOR DEVLIN: Are we done here? BOLMOR: Oh, un-unless you care to stay for the ritual?
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MAYOR DEVLIN: You know that'll never happen. BOLMOR: Suit yourself. (HORSE WHINNIES)
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MAYOR DEVLIN: I can't watch this. Let's go. (HORSE WHINNIES) MAYOR DEVLIN: Come on!
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(PRISONER GROANS) BOLMOR: Praxton! Prepare the sacrifices. (PRISONER GROANS) PRAXTON: With pleasure my Lord.
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(VOICES CHANTING) HARDING: The prisoners are gonna be sacrificed. NADIA: By dirt and spit they are not!
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We've gotta do something! HARDING: Shh. Agreed, but we need a plan. We can't just go rushing in blades first.
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NADIA: Watch me! HARDING: Okay, then I'll just stay up here and provide cover so you don't get yourself killed.
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(CHAINS RATTLE) (PEOPLE CHANTING) (PRISONER WHIMPERING) BOLMOR: Let's start with the loud one.
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(CHUCKLING) PRAXTON: All right then, here we go. (ELISA WHIMPERING) DRAYDEN KIEL: Elisa, I know this is frightening,
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but I have a plan. DRAYDEN: There's going to be a chance for escape, but be strong.
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(CHAIN RATTLING) (ELISA WHIMPERING) ELISA: No, no, please let me go! I have a daughter. Please, she needs me!
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BOLMOR: What she needs is your sacrifice. You know what happens if the Deathless One goes hungry?
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BOLMOR: Your duty tonight, it's the highest honor a mother can have.
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BOLMOR: Can't you see that? PRAXTON: My Lord, look! (NADIA YELLING)
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(SWORDS DRAWING) BOLMOR: Whoever that is, kill her! PRAXTON: Grab that (inaudible)! (FIGHTERS SCUFFLING)
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(NADIA YELLING) BOLMOR: Archers! Take cover! (FIGHTING CONTINUES) PRAXTON: Fight her! Fight her!
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CULTIST 1: To the Deathless One, I shall live forever!
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(FIGHTING CONTINUES) NADIA: I don't know. You look pretty dead to me.
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CULTIST 2: By His unholy name I- (ARROW WHOOSHES) NADIA: You shut him up, Harding.
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(FIGHTERS SCUFFLING AND GRUNTING) BOLMOR: What are you doing? Kill her already!
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NADIA: You! You're next. BOLMOR: Praxton! Stop her.
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(FIGHTING CONTINUES) (PRAXTON GROWLING) NADIA: Guess you must be the muscle. (NADIA GRUNTING) (SWORDS CLASHING)
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NADIA: You know the thing about you big guys? You all got weak ankles. PRAXTON: Huh? Aargh!
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PRAXTON: (howling) Aahhh, you bloody witch! (ARROWS WHOOSHING) (GRUNTING) (FIGHTING CONTINUES)
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BOLMOR: They have too many archers! Return to the cave at once! PRAXTON: Retreat! (ARROWS RAIN DOWN)
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PRAXTON: This isn't over! NADIA: Great! Then I can break your other ankle. PRAXTON: Come here. DRAYDEN: Elisa! Look out!
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ELISA: Please! Help me. NADIA: Hold on. I'm coming! (ELISA WHIMPERING) PRAXTON: Sorry, but you've been marked.
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DRAYDEN: Don't you dare! (ELISA GASPS) NADIA: No!
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BOLMOR: We shall meet again, crusader. Goodbye. DRAYDEN: You monsters!
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NADIA: Hey, hey, hey, hold on. Just hold on. I'll get you help. Harding! ELISA: (choking) Please...my daughter...
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Make sure she's never marked. Make sure she's- (gasps) HARDING: Nadia, what is it? (ELISA GASPING)
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HARDING: Let me see her. NADIA: It's too late. (FABRIC TEARING) HARDING: If I can just stop the bleeding-
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NADIA: I said it's too late! She's dead. She's already dead.
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(THUNDER CRASHING)
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(PRISONER GRUNTING) NADIA: Here. Allow me. (SIGHING) (CHAINS CLINKING)
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NADIA: (clears throat) You're welcome. DRAYDEN: Welcome? You just ruined months of research and got Elisa killed!
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NADIA: You ungrateful swi- DRAYDEN: I had a plan! NADIA: Oh, they were about to kill the both of you and we risked life and limb to save you!
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HARDING: What research? Who are you? DRAYDEN: I am Drayden Kiel, writer, scholar, and historian.
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And I have been studying the Cult of the Doom Blade for nearly a year now. DRAYDEN: That was the closest I've ever come to seeing
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the secrets of their sacrificial ritual firsthand. NADIA: You do realize it's a ritual you would've missed the end of, right?
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DRAYDEN: I can actually take care of myself. Thank you. NADIA: Oh yeah? That how you wound up out here chained
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to a post? DRAYDEN: This may come as a shock to someone like you, but I volunteered for this.
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If nothing else, it's saved another from the harvest. HARDING: Harvest? DRAYDEN: Each month the villagers have a blind drawing.
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Two amongst them are chosen for the offering, but no one has seen what happens.
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It was my hope that by learning of the ritual, I'd be able to stop it once and for all. NADIA: Yeah. Looks like you did a really great job.
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DRAYDEN: I wasn't really counting on your interference. NADIA: (scoffs) Excuse me- HARDING: Nadia, relax. DRAYDEN: Your interference.
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I was going to save myself and Elisa there. HARDING: Were you two close?
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DRAYDEN: Not really. We crossed paths from time to time. Her daughter was actually chosen,
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but she traded herself on the condition her daughter be spared from future lotteries. DRAYDEN: I volunteered for the second spot
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to make sure the mayor would agree. NADIA: (sighs) I've heard enough. Take us to the village at once.
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I wanna speak to this mayor. HARDING: It's late. Let's wait till morning. NADIA: Now!
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HARDING: (sighs) Fine. Let's ride. (HARDING WHISTLES) (HORSE NEIGHS)
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(THUNDER RUMBLING) (HORSE WHINNYING) (DOOR CREAKS)
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(PEOPLE MUTTERING) NADIA: Which one of you is the mayor? PATRON 1: Who's asking?
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NADIA: I am, you twit. And the next time I ask, I'll dot my sentence with a blade. Now, which one of you is the may-
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MAYOR DEVLIN: Me. I'm the mayor. What's this about? NADIA: You know exactly what this is about.
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Harding! (BOOT STEPS) (PEOPLE GASPING) PATRON 2: (whispering) Sweet Maker.
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HARDING: Clear that table. (OBJECTS CLATTERING) (HARDING GRUNTING, PANTING)
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HARDING: This one needs a proper burial. MAYOR DEVLIN: Is that...? NADIA: The poor mother you left for dead?
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Yeah, that's exactly who that is. MAYOR DEVLIN: I don't understand. How did you- DRAYDEN: The plan changed rather unexpectedly, I should say.
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VILLAGERS: (murmuring) What? What did you do? MAYOR DEVLIN: No, no, no! INNKEEPER: Andraste's mercy! What did you do?
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NADIA: We saved their life. That's what! MAYOR DEVLIN: You saved them, but doomed us all.
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PATRON 1: Take them back! Maybe Bolmor will forgive us. The moon's still dark. Maybe there's time.
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NADIA: What is wrong with you people? INNKEEPER: Wrong with us? Do you have any idea what you've done?
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PATRON 2: Yeah. Now they'll want punishment. NADIA: Good. You deserve it. PATRON 2: Deserve it? HARDING: Nadia, can't you see these people are scared?
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PATRON 2: You don't get it. You're just an outsider. They won't just come back for simple revenge. They'll take our children.
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NADIA: Then you fight. MAYOR DEVLIN: Look at us. We are not warriors.
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We're a small village of farmers, merchants, and ch- ch- cheese makers.
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We don't even have a weapons blacksmith! Drayden, tell her. VILLAGER: Yeah! DRAYDEN: It's true.
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They tried to fight back once when it first started. HARDING: What happened? PATRON 1: What happened? I'll tell you what happened.
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Next night, they came back a dozen strong. This time they got my son and my wife and daughter.
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They told us if anyone took up arms, the same would happen to them.
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HARDING: I'm so sorry. (FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: Why are you apologizing for what they did?
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HARDING: Desperate times, desperate people. DRAYDEN: If you're so eager to fight,
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perhaps you can fight for them. NADIA: Come again? DRAYDEN: I just saw the two of you
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practically destroy the cult by yourselves. MAYOR DEVLIN: Is that true? DRAYDEN: It is.
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DRAYDEN: This one commands her bow with such ferocity they thought it was twenty archers upon them.
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VILLAGER: (gasping) What? DRAYDEN: And this one, despite her mouth, tore through them with a pair of daggers like a tornado made of steel.
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DRAYDEN: Bolmor himself screamed for retreat. (PEOPLE GASP) PATRON 2: Bullshit! DRAYDEN: Friends, I swear to you, I saw it with my own eyes.
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MAYOR DEVLIN: If this is true, then you must help us. We could be free.
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VILLAGER: We need you on our team. NADIA: But you just said so yourself, none of you are warriors.
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(scoffs) How can we possibly help? HARDING: We could train them. NADIA: What? HARDING: Won't take much.
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They only need to know the basics. Block and strike. We can do the rest. (NADIA SCOFFS)
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DRAYDEN: What's the matter, mouth? You scared? NADIA: (scoffs) As if.
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DRAYDEN: So then what's the problem? NADIA: The problem is that I don't have time for a little side adventure.
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There's somebody else who already needs me. HARDING: Help us and I'll help you find the Dread Wolf.
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(NADIA SIGHS) DRAYDEN: It would appear you have nothing left but excuses.
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(NADIA SIGHS IN EXASPERATION) VILLAGER: Come on. NADIA: Okay, fine. We start tomorrow.
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(VILLAGERS CHEER AND APPLAUD) NADIA: But you, I don't like you.
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DRAYDEN: I'll warn you now, I shall grow upon you like an elf root. (MUSIC) NADIA: Whatever. Just stay outta my way.
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(FOOTSTEPS) (BIRDS CHIRPING) (ROOSTER CROWING) (BIRDS TWITTERING)
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HARDING: Good morning all. (VILLAGERS CHATTERING) (NADIA SIGHING) NADIA: (whistles) Listen up!
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(FARM ANIMAL NOISES) HARDING: I know the circumstances for our gathering aren't the best, but we'll make sure
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that no one is taken by that cult again. (VILLAGERS GRUMBLE) HARDING: Does anyone have any sort of weapons training
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or military experience? FIRST ARCHER: I hunt boars. Use a bow for that,
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if that counts. HARDING: That counts. You're my first archer. Anyone else? Anyone?
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(SILENCE) NADIA: (sighs) All right, let's make this simple. Forget your job, your name, your family.
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There are just two things you get to be, alive or dead. Decide quick which one you prefer.
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DRAYDEN: Well, you certainly have a way with words. HARDING: Okay, let's split up. HARDING: First Archer, gather the best hunters
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and meet me on that rooftop. Nadia, you and Drayden take the rest and work on ground combat.
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NADIA: Alright, people, you heard the plan. Grab your hatchets and follow me into the forest.
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(BOWS TIGHTENING) HARDING: Notch...Aim...
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HARDING: Fire! (ARROWS CLATTERING) VILLAGER 2: Always to the left. VILLAGER 3: Dang! HARDING: No, no. Don't get discouraged.
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Try again. But this time, don't pull from your wrists. Put your body into it, like this.
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(BOWS TIGHTENING) (ARROWS WHOOSHING) VILLAGER 2: Ugh. VILLAGER 2: I'm never going to get this right.
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We aren't soldiers. (VILLAGERS AGREEING) HARDING: Watch me. Lean in. Rotate back with your waist, shoulders high, firm.
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Get all your weight behind the bow string. (SIGHING, GRUNTING) (BOWS TIGHTENING)
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HARDING: Good! VILLAGER 2: Now what? HARDING: Let go.
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(ARROWS WHOOSHING) (CROWS CAWING) NADIA: Keep cutting. (AXES THUDDING) VILLAGER 4: We need water, we're exhausted.
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NADIA: And I need at least thirty more trees before anyone even thinks about water. (VILLAGERS GRUNTING)
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DRAYDEN: They're no good to us if they're already dead by the time the cult gets here. NADIA: And the cult won't care if they get a blister during combat.
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We need to toughen them up as quickly as we can. (WOOD CREAKING) VILLAGER 5: Timber! (VILLAGERS EXCLAIMING)
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NADIA: No, no, no, no, no. VILLAGER: Whoo! NADIA: Not the big ones. Go for those young ones over there.
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We want a sturdy trunk, but still small enough for you to get your hands around. VILLAGER 5: I thought we were gonna learn how to fight,
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not do field labor. NADIA: (sighs) And what do you plan to fight with? Your soft knuckled hands?
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We need weapons, so keep cutting. DRAYDEN: Please tell me we're not going to fight
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the Cult of the Doom Blade with a bunch of clubs. NADIA: Spears, Drayden, we're making spears.
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DRAYDEN: Have you considered- NADIA: Look, I'm sure you've read a lot of really fancy books about war and strategy,
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but nothing beats the real thing. So why don't you run along and let us handle this?
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DRAYDEN: Of course I've read books about war. It is the only way you can see the patterns of history and avoid being stuck.
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NADIA: Do you have an off switch? DRAYDEN: Sorry? NADIA: Can you shut up? (BIRDS CHIRPING)
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DRAYDEN: You let your anger lead you into assumptions. NADIA: I don't assume anything. I just tell it how it is.
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DRAYDEN: You mean how you perceive it? NADIA: (scoffs) This isn't the time for a philosophical debate. Either get to cutting or get to stepping.
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(GRUNTING) (BIRDS TWITTERING) DRAYDEN: Hand me an ax. NADIA: Here you go, Books.
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(DRAYDEN GRUNTS) (AX STRIKING TREE) NADIA: Whoa. VILLAGER: Keep it up.
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HARDING: Now that you've got a handle on the basics, let's see who's got a natural aim. (VILLAGERS MUMBLING)
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HARDING: See those targets by the barn? Hit the one in the middle. BULLSEYE: (scoffs) Well they've got to be 50 yards away?
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HARDING: Then it'll be a good test. VILLAGER: (grumbling) This is a harder one than yesterday. HARDING: And...begin!
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(VILLAGERS GRUNTING) (ARROWS WHOOSHING)
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BULLSEYE: Look at that! I've just got a bullseye. HARDING: Give me two more so I know it wasn't a fluke.
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BULLSEYE: Okay. (ARROWS WHOOSHING) (MUSIC)
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(VILLAGERS GRUNTING) NADIA: Nope. It's block, step, thrust,
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thrust, block, thrust. Then regroup. Let's try again. (VILLAGERS GROANING)
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VILLAGER 6: Nadia. We're exhausted. VILLAGER 4: Yeah, we need food. I can barely lift my arms.
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NADIA: And do you think the cult will care if you're tired? If you're hungry? They are going to unleash their fury upon you
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and they will not stop until you lay dead and bleeding. NADIA: I know this is rough.
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I know you're not used to this, but you have to push through the pain, through the fear.
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Again! (VILLAGERS GROANING) DRAYDEN: Wait. NADIA: Damn it. Now what?
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DRAYDEN: I want to challenge you. NADIA: Excuse me? DRAYDEN: A simple challenge. Strike me before I strike you.
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NADIA: You can't be serious. DRAYDEN: For all the gold in my bag. (NADIA LAUGHS)
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NADIA: You must be mad. DRAYDEN: But if I win, the villagers get to take a break
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and rest. NADIA: Fine by me, but no excuses when I feed your ass to the dirt.
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DRAYDEN: Remember those words. VILLAGERS: (chanting) Drayden! Drayden! Drayden! (NADIA GRUNTING) (STRIKING)
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(VILLAGERS CHEERING) NADIA: Impressive, but still weak. (STRIKING, GRUNTING CONTINUES)
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NADIA: Is that all you got? VILLAGER: Get up. Come on, Drayden. (VILLAGERS CHEERING) DRAYDEN: For someone who hates talking,
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you sure do a lot of it. (NADIA AND DRAYDEN GRUNTING) (STRIKING)
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NADIA: That's it. I've had enough of you. (grunts) (FIGHTING CONTINUES) (THUD)
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(VILLAGERS CHEERING) DRAYDEN: Here. Let me give you a hand.
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NADIA: (gasping) I don't need your help. It was a lucky shot. DRAYDEN: It had nothing to do with luck.
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Like I said before, we study to learn patterns, and you overextend with your right
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when you lunge your attacks. NADIA: (scoffs) Yeah, whatever. It's still not the same when your enemy has a weapon
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and is trying to kill you. DRAYDEN: Maybe not, but maybe there's more to me than you've allowed yourself to see.
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(NADIA SCOFFS) NADIA: I guess we'll find out when the blades come out. (FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: (sighs) All right, everyone. That's the day.
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Break for supper. VILLAGER 4: Thank you Maker! (VILLAGERS CHEER) (MUSIC) (VILLAGERS CHATTERING)
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HARDING: Nice work today. BULLSEYE: Thank you, Harding. HARDING: I think you got it. You're a natural with that bow. BULLSEYE: Thank you. HARDING: Bullseye.
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HARDING: You and me are gonna be friends. (VILLAGERS CHATTERING) (FOOTSTEPS) HARDING: Hey, how you doing?
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NADIA: I'm all right. I would be better if everyone wasn't acting a damn fool right now. HARDING: What do you mean? (VILLAGERS LAUGHING)
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NADIA: Look at 'em! Drinking, laughing, acting as if this was all some sort of game. They're gonna get themselves killed if they don't focus.
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HARDING: It's good that they remember what they're fighting for before we head into battle.
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NADIA: (sighs) Yeah, maybe. DRAYDEN: Perhaps most of them realize there's a good chance they won't see the morning.
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And this is their way of saying goodbye. NADIA: Hmm. I get it. I just, (sighs) this whole thing
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has me wound tighter than a fishing net.
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HARDING: Everything okay? I know we just met, but you've been
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different since the battle. NADIA: (sighs) My family comes from nothing.
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We were so poor that even beggars looked down on us. But we had each other.
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(MUSIC) NADIA: And one day, some jackass in the Imperial Chantry accused my mother of stealing.
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NADIA: She was innocent, but he had no interest in listening. NADIA: I begged my father to do something.
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I begged anyone, please do something. Just fight for her. (FAINT ECHOES OF CRYING)
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But no one did anything. NADIA: So I watched as the soldiers dragged her away,
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watched as they put a rope around her neck and watched as her feet...
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(WOOD BREAKING, ROPE SWINGING) NADIA: That's why I've been on edge.
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That's why I've been so angry that these people just rolled over and served that woman to a monster.
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(VILLAGERS LAUGHING AND CHATTING) DRAYDEN: Nadia, I'm so sorry. I had no idea.
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NADIA: I- I don't need your pity, Drayden. All I need is to drive this dagger straight into Bolmor's heart
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so I can get back to rescuing my love from the Fade. DRAYDEN: Wait, what about the Fade?
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(BELL RINGING) SCOUT: They're coming! Bolmor and his men approach! (VILLAGERS SCRAMBLING) HARDING: It's time.
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NADIA: Ground forces on me! Remember the training! HARDING: Archers, to the rooftops! DRAYDEN: Nadia, I'll meet you on the field.
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NADIA: What? Where are you going? DRAYDEN: I've cooked up a bit of a surprise. I'll see you out there. NADIA: Drayden, what the fuck? Drayden! Ugh!
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HARDING: Maybe it'll be a good surprise. NADIA: (scoffs) I won't be holding my breath. HARDING: Let's go people. Let's go.
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(HORSE WHINNYING) (HORSE GALLOPING) SCOUT: Bolmor. He has an entire army with him.
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HARDING: Oh no. How close are they? SCOUT: Five. Maybe ten minutes. NADIA: (sighs) Damn, that's tight.
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HARDING: Get yourself to the rooftops and be ready. SCOUT: Yes, Scout Harding. (HORSE NEIGHS, GALLOPS)
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HARDING: Good luck. Hope to see you when the dust settles. NADIA: You can count on it. HARDING: Come on, boy. Yah!
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(HORSE NEIGHS) (HOOVES THUDDING) (CRICKETS CHIRPING) (OMINOUS CHANTING)
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(HORSE NEIGHS) BOLMOR: Tonight we shall teach these heretics what it means to defy the Deathless One.
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BOLMOR: No mercy! No quarter. Kill any who fight and take all the children.
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(CULT CHANTING) BOLMOR: Let them know the true nature of pain.
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(HORSE NEIGHS) (CULT CHANTING) (FEET TRAMPING)
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(QUIET MURMURING)
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NADIA: Take a spear and lock into formation. Hurry! Hurry! VILLAGER 4: Yes, Nadia. NADIA: That's it. Just remember everything we went over.
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Watch over one another and we'll be okay. We are stronger together. No one breaks the line.
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(VILLAGERS MURMURING) (CULT CHANTING)
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NADIA: Alright, here they come. Remember, wait for them to engage. Block. Thrust. Block.
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Make them work for it. (HORSE NEIGHS) (CULT CHANTING)
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NADIA: There they are. Hold tight. (CULT CHANTING) (MUSIC)
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(HORSE NEIGHING) BOLMOR: Well, well, look who it is.
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The great crusader. BOLMOR: (laughing) I'm so glad you decided to stay
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and join us. BOLMOR: The Deathless One looks forward to your blood in particular.
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(MUSIC) NADIA: Too bad for him because I'm pretty fond of my blood right where it is. (HORSE NEIGHS)
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But I'll make a deal with you. Turn around and leave, vowing never to return, and I'll let you live.
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BOLMOR: (laughs) Oh, child. How you underestimate me.
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(HORNS BLARING) (OMINOUS MUSIC) (CRICKETS CHIRPING) NADIA: Shit, they've flanked us. (HORSE NEIGHS) BOLMOR: Attack!
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(CULTISTS YELLING) (SWORDS CLASHING)
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(VILLAGERS YELLING) (FOOTSTEPS) (YELLING) (FIGHTING INTENSIFIES) (HEAVY BREATHING)
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HARDING: They're coming from behind. Don't let them advance. Fire! (ARROWS WHOOSHING) (PEOPLE SCREAMING)
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(PEOPLE YELL INDISTINCTLY) (PEOPLE YELL INDISTINCTLY)
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HARDING: Reload! (BOWS TIGHTENING) HARDING: Fire! (ARROWS WHOOSHING)
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(PEOPLE YELLING) (ARROWS WHOOSHING) (WHISTLING PROJECTILE)
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(CRASHING) VILLAGER: Fire, fire! Get back! HARDING: Catapult! Everyone to the ropes. Get off these roofs now!
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(PEOPLE YELLING) (CLASHING) PRAXTON: Steady the line. Get the rope taut.
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(ROPE CREAKING) PRAXTON: I want another boulder in that basket now. (CULTIST GRUNTING) (BOULDER THUDDING)
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PRAXTON: On my mark...pull! (CATAPULT CREAKING) (CATAPULT CLATTERING)
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(VILLAGERS SCREAMING) (BOULDER CRASHING) (PEOPLE YELLING) (SWORDS CLASHING)
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VILLAGER 4: Nadia, we can't hold them. NADIA: Hold on, I'm coming. Yah! (HORSE WHINNIES) CULTIST 4: For the Deathless One!
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(CULTISTS YELLING) (FIGHTING CONTINUES) BOLMOR: Now! Kill her while she's down.
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NADIA: Shit! (PEOPLE YELLING) NADIA: Open ranks. Let me in.
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NADIA: Close the gap! (SWORDS CLASHING) (PEOPLE YELLING) VILLAGER 6: We're surrounded, what do we do?
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(OMINOUS RINGING) VILLAGER 6: (muffled) Nadia! Nadia! EXECUTIONER: For your crimes you have been sentenced
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to death by hanging! (OMINOUS RINGING CONTINUES) VILLAGER 6: Nadia, can you hear me? NADIA: Aargh! VILLAGER 6: Nadia we need you!
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VILLAGER 4: They're breaking through! (OMINOUS DISTORTED TONE)
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VOICE: Nadia! (GRENADES BOOMING)
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(PEOPLE SCREAMING) CULTIST 3: Grenades! The villagers have grenades! (PEOPLE SCREAMING)
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CULTIST 2: Retreat! Retreat! VILLAGER 4: Quick while the enemy retreats, fall back and regroup at the auxiliary point.
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(VILLAGERS YELLING) (FOOTSTEPS THUDDING) (PEOPLE YELLING) (CRICKETS CHIRPING)
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(NADIA GROANS) (FOOTSTEPS THUDDING) DRAYDEN: Nadia, are you okay? Nadia?
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NADIA: D- Drayden? Wh- what was that? Was that you? DRAYDEN: Shock bombs.
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NADIA: You made grenades? DRAYDEN: Yep. Before dinner. Here, let me help you.
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(NADIA GRUNTS) NADIA: H-how? DRAYDEN: It's a little trick I picked up from these things called books.
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NADIA: (laughs) You're insufferable. You know that? DRAYDEN: Yep. Just like elf root. (NADIA LAUGHS)
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NADIA: Wait, I have an idea. (BALLISTIC MISSILE WHOOSHING) (BRICKS CLATTERING)
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VILLAGER 2: We're cornered. If we leave this tavern, we're goners. HARDING: We gotta take out that catapult or we're all dead.
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VILLAGER 2: What should we do? DRAYDEN: Hey, Harding. Open up, it's me. HARDING: Drayden? Hold fire, open the door!
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VILLAGER: Yes sir. (DOOR CREAKING OPEN) (PEOPLE YELLING) (FIGHTING) DRAYDEN: Nadia sent me.
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I come bearing gifts. Shock bombs. HARDING: Ah. Thank the Stones!
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You're a miracle worker. HARDING: New plan. Bullseye, me and you are gonna blow
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that nug-humping catapult to bits. Tie these onto your arrows! BULLSEYE: Right.
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(PEOPLE YELLING) (CRICKETS CHIRPING)
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HARDING: There it is. Just beyond the brook. BULLSEYE: Got it! HARDING: I'm going up this tree for a better angle.
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On my mark, you blast it. BULLSEYE: For Raven's Brook. HARDING: For Raven's Brook.
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(HARDING GRUNTING) (LEAVES RUSTLING) (HARDING GRUNTING, PANTING)
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HARDING: Just a little higher. (HARDING GRUNTING, PANTING) HARDING: (whispering) Ah, there you are.
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(BOW TIGHTENING) (CROW CAWING) HARDING: Steady, steady. (BOW TIGHTENING)
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HARDING: All clear. Blast it! BULLSEYE: Pull the turnip! (ARROWS WHOOSHING)
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PRAXTON: Oh shit. (EXPLOSION BOOMING) (PEOPLE SCREAMING)
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(GRUNTING) HARDING: Nice shot. Let's hurry back. (FOOTSTEPS THUDDING) (MUSIC)
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(GRUNTING) NADIA: That's it! Press forward! Everyone, form one giant line and push!
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(GRUNTING) (PEOPLE YELLING) NADIA: Push! VILLAGER: Heave! Ho! Heave! Ho!
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NADIA: Again! (VILLAGERS GRUNTING) NADIA: Push!
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BOLMOR: What are you doing? Stop her! NADIA: I told you, I'm coming for you! BOLMOR: Halt!
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(GRUNTING) (PEOPLE YELLING) BOLMOR: Everyone whose left, ignore the villagers and burn the buildings!
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Raze it all! VILLAGER 4: By Andraste's tears! The village! NADIA: No, no! No! Stay together. We can beat them!
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BOLMOR: (laughs) So much for your little plan.
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(HORSE NEIGHING) (FLAMES CRACKLING) BOLMOR: Normally I take no pleasure from a sacrifice.
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We- we do what we do, because we must. But you, oh, I will enjoy
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seeing the look in your eyes when the sky opens up.
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And the last thing you see is the Black City shimmering on the horizon.
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(HORSE NEIGHS) (GRUNTING) BOLMOR: (laughs) Look around. They've all gone.
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There's no one here to save you. You are out matched and alone.
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DRAYDEN: She's not alone. NADIA: Drayden? DRAYDEN: Let's end this once and for all. Shall we?
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(SWORDS CLINKING) NADIA: Sounds good to me. (BOLMOR LAUGHS) (SWORDS CLINKING) (ALL GRUNTING)
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BOLMOR: You cannot defeat me! NADIA: Hey, books. You see what I see? (SWORDS CLASHING)
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DRAYDEN: I believe I do. (SWORDS CLASHING) NADIA: On my signal. (SWORDS CLASHING) NADIA: Now!
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(ALL GRUNTING) (BOLMOR YELLING)
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NADIA: Toss me your sword! (ALL GRUNTING) (NADIA GRUNTS) (BOLMOR SCREAMS)
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(BOLMOR GASPING) BOLMOR: Deathless One...please...help me.
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NADIA: Hate to break it to you, Bolmor, but there's no one coming. So you tell me,
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how does the Black City look shimmering in the sky? (BOLMOR GASPING)
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DRAYDEN: You learned his patterns. NADIA: I did. But I think next time I'll try to learn them
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before the fighting starts. DRAYDEN: I've got some great books I can recommend. NADIA: Don't push it, Drayden.
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DRAYDEN: Got it. (THUNDER RUMBLES) (RAIN PATTERING) VILLAGER: The rain! It's putting out the fire!
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(VILLAGERS CHEERING) (THUNDER CLAPS) (RAIN PATTERING)
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(ROOSTER CROWING) (HAMMERS THUDDING) HARDING: Sure I can't talk you into sticking around?
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NADIA: The rest was good, but five days is enough and I still have somebody I need to save.
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HARDING: I figured. But, as promised... (PAPER RUSTLES)
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NADIA: What's this? HARDING: Message from a former Inquisition spy. There's been activity in the southern Anderfels.
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Earthquakes. Demons. Sounds like the Dread Wolf to me. NADIA: You should come with me.
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HARDING: Can't. As soon as I finish here, I gotta get back to my partner Varric. We got something brewing and he needs my help.
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NADIA: Ah, well maybe that Stone of yours will see that we meet again. HARDING: I would like that. Be well Nadia Carcosa.
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NADIA: See ya, Harding. (FOOTSTEPS CRUNCHING) (HORSE SNORTING) NADIA: Shh. Shh. Shh. (FOOTSTEPS)
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DRAYDEN: You just going to leave without saying goodbye? (NADIA SIGHS) NADIA: Books. You'll be fine without me.
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DRAYDEN: The other night before the battle, you mentioned something about the Fade. I wanted to talk- NADIA: Hey.
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I don't mean to be mean, okay, you had my back and I appreciate that.
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But I'm not really interested in any of your weird theories or history lessons on this one. This is personal and it's important.
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DRAYDEN: You don't understand, I was researching the cult because I study the Fade.
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I've dedicated my entire life to understanding it. So if your problem lies beyond the Veil,
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I can actually help you. (MUSIC) (FOOTSTEPS) (METAL JINGLING)
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(NADIA GRUNTS) (SADDLE CREAKS) (HORSE NEIGHS)
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(DRAYDEN SIGHS) (HOOVES CLOPPING) NADIA: Well? Are you coming or not?
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(MUSIC) (MUSIC)
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(MUSIC) NARRATOR: Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance
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is a production of Electronic Arts in association with Pod People. Based on the award-winning video game franchise
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from BioWare. Learn more about the world of Dragon Age and its latest game, Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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by visiting DragonAge.com. Rated M for mature. (MUSIC)
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Directed by Matt Sav, written by Will Melton and Jeremy Novick,
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featuring the voices of Mae Whitman as Nadia,
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Brigette Lundy-Paine as Drayden, Armen Taylor as Elio,
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Ali Hillis as Harding. Also featuring Charles Halford as Demon.
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Additional voices by Sabrina Fest, Roslyn Gentle, Damien Gerard, Jillian Kinsey,
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Daniel Lench, Isaac Gonzalez Rossi, Sean Thomas Simmons, and Brandon Gill as Narrator.
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Creative and narrative direction by Todd Stallkamp. BioWare narrative development and support
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by Mary De Marle and John Epler. Editorial direction by Will Melton.
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Producers for Electronic Arts, Alex Bader and Chris Beckett.
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Production Management by Bryan Rivers. Assistant direction by Ashton Carter.
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Story development by Todd Stallkamp, Will Melton, Matt Sav, and Jeremy Novick.
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Associate producing and script supervision by Hannah Rae Leach.
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Casting by Alaine Aldaffer, Lisa Donadio, Lindsey Ploussard and Alex Vikmanis.
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Sound design by Michael Aquino, Morgane Fouse, and Carter Wogahn.
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Dialogue editing by Michael Aquino and Carter Wogahn.
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Mixing and Mastering by Morgane Fouse. Featuring original music by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe.
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Executive Producers for Pod People, Matt Sav and Rachael King.
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Electronic Arts brand and marketing leads, Kari Hale and Olivier Tse.
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Electronics Arts Design, Hugo Ugaz and Jacob Meyer.
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BioWare special thanks to Ashley Barlow, Cody Behiel,
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Hilary Hidey, Steve Lam, Crystal McCord, and Patrick Weekes.
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Electronic Arts special thanks to Kevin Maher, Jacklyn Gilson, Rick Dressler, Marcie Galea,
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Krysta Trezise, Joe Gatdula, Jon Bailey, Greg Joson, and Ritual Khanna.
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard, a single-player RPG, launches Fall 2024 on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.
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Begin your adventure at DragonAge.com. Rated M for mature.
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(MUSIC) Next time on Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance.
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VOICE 1: Another infernal quake. And we still don't even know what we're down here digging for. VOICE 2: The elf said dig here. So we dig here.
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(BOOM) (SCREAMING) VOICE 3: Ah! That's it. Everyone head for the tunnel. Cutters up. Be ready for anything. (MUSIC)
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VOICE 3: The shaking grows stronger. We have all felt it. Something terrible is coming.
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We must unite and sing the Maker's praise. DRAYDEN: Harding's information was vague at best.
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We know only that the ones you seek may have been here, but not where or why. (MUSIC)
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VOICE 4: You ask me something evil's coming. Another blight.
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But maybe worse. All this damn magic ripping the world apart.
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VOICE 5: You wanna find the source? You need to head deeper into the mountains. NADIA: Will you show me? (MUSIC)
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VOICE 6: Nadia Carcosa, wanted by Tavinter authorities for crimes of theft, high treason and murder.
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VOICE 7: I think they're involved with the anomalies. VOICE 8: Well, Davrin looks like you get your adventure
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after all. (MUSIC)
Dragon Age: Vows and Vengeance | Episode 3: A Deadly Descent
Nadia and Drayden’s hunt takes them to a remote mining outpost, where they team up with Davrin, a Grey Warden and skilled monster hunter with a penchant for slaying darkspawn. Will they survive the dangerous descent into The Deep Roads?
Transcript for Episode 3: A Deadly Descent
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(MUSIC) NARRATOR: This podcast features adult language, violent imagery, and mature themes.
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Listener discretion is advised. (METAL CLANGING) (PEOPLE GRUNTING)
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(PERSON SIGHS) GREER: Oy, how long are we staying down here for?
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MAREK: Until I say we go back to camp. Now, keep digging. (PEOPLE GRUNTING)
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GREER: It's not safe (grunts) being down here so late. OLLIE: It's not safe being down here at all,
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but think of the good this coin will buy our families. GREER: It won't be much use to our families
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if we're not around to deliver it. MAREK: Then you better quit your yapping and get back to work.
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Sooner we're done, the sooner- (EARTH QUAKING) (PERSON YELPS)
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MAREK: The sooner we can get out of here. GREER: Another infernal quake, and we still don't even know
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what we're down here digging for. MAREK: The elf said dig here, so we dig here. Now, for the last time, shut up and dig.
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(EARTH QUAKES) (PERSON YELLS) GREER: What was that?
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MAREK: Everyone call in. Greer? GREER: I'm right in front of you. MAREK: Shut up. Ollie? OLLIE: I'm here.
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MAREK: Trevor? TREVOR: Yep. MAREK: Mason? MASON: Yeah. MAREK: Holly? HOLLY: Here. MAREK: Kristoff? KRISTOFF: Here.
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MAREK: Calandra? CALANDRA: Here. MAREK: Ridley? (SILENCE) MAREK: Ridley?
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GREER: Don't even tell me we lost Ridley? MAREK: Ridley? MAREK: Pipe down. Everyone fan out, look for him.
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MINERS: Ridley! Ridley! MINERS: Ridley! Ridley! MINER: Where are you? MINER: Ridley, where are you? MINER: Where are you, mate? MINER: Ridley! MINER: Ridley, mate, come on!
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MINER: Ridley, can you hear us? Ridley! MINER: Ridley, let us know where you are! MINER: Ridley! (SUBSTANCE SQUELCHES) GREER:Ugh! What the Maker is this now?
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OLLIE: Oh, let me see. (WATER DRIPPING, SLOSHING) OLLIE: Oh!
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MAREK: Ollie, you got a read on it? OLLIE: Hard to say, but I don't think it's human.
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Definitely not remains. MAREK: Oh, thank the Maker. OLLIE: It's...warm. OLLIE: Whatever left this, (INTENSE DRAMATIC STING)
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it's still down here with us right now. (PERSON YELLS) MAREK: That's it! Everyone head for the tunnel.
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Hammers out, be ready for anything. GREER: We can't just leave Ridley! MAREK: We don't have a choice! Go!
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(GROANING) (RAPID FOOTSTEPS) (PERSON YELLS) MASON: It got Trevor!
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MAREK: Keep running! (HEAVY BREATHING) (RAPID FOOTSTEPS) (PERSON YELPS) GREER: You hear that? What the hell is that?
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MAREK: Torches! Light 'em! (FIRE WHOOSHES) MAREK: Anyone see anything?
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HOLLY: Nothing. Wait, over there! Kristoff, look out! (KRISTOFF YELLS)
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MAREK: Holly! What happened? You see it? (PEOPLE SCREAMING) HOLLY: Run!! (PEOPLE SCREAMING) (GRUNTING)
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MAREK: Holly! (PEOPLE SCREAMING) GREER: That's it, every man for himself!
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(ALL YELLING)
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OLLIE: Everyone! Everyone, this way! The exit, it's here! (RAPID FOOTSTEPS) (ALL YELLING)
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MAREK: Look out for the rocks! GREER: Ollie! OLLIE: Over here, Greer! Hurry!
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GREER: Ollie! (OLLIE YELLS) GREER: Ollie, don't leave me!
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(OLLIE YELPS) (ROCKS FALLING) (OLLIE PANTS)
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OLLIE: Hello? Hello?! OLLIE: Marek? Calandra?
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OLLIE: Anyone? OLLIE: Great Maker, please!
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OLLIE: Don't let this be it. (MUSIC)
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NARRATOR: This is Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance. Chapter 3: A Deadly Descent.
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(MUSIC) (HORSE GALLOPING)
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(HORSE GALLOPING) AFFIRMED BROTHER: We must seek penance before it's too late.
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Ask forgiveness for our prideful ways! The shaking grows stronger. We have all felt it.
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Something terrible is coming. We must unite and sing the Maker's praise.
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Renounce your pride! (HORSE GALLOPING)
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(GLASSES CLINKING) (PATRONS CHATTING AND LAUGHING)
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NADIA CARCOSA: (clears throat) Barkeep, I'll have one pint of ale and a, uh, Nordbotten Fruit Stew with brandy?
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If you have it? (PATRONS CHATTING) BARKEEP: You got coin? (PATRONS CHATTING)
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(COINS CLATTER) NADIA: Pardon me, I don't mean to interrupt your drink, but any chance you've seen an elf come through here?
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Really intense eyes, not a hair on his head. OLD MAN: Nah, just the same old faces.
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NADIA: Okay. NADIA: How about you? You seen- BLACKSMITH'S APPRENTICE: I ain't seen shite.
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BARKEEP: Here's your drinks. Now stop pestering my customers. NADIA: Just asking a couple questions, friend.
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BARKEEP: Questions cost extra. (PATRONS CHATTING) (COINS CLATTER) NADIA: There.
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Now mind your bar, not my business. (FOOTSTEPS)
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(PATRON BELCHES) (FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: Here you go, one mug of what smells like...
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Ugh! Rotten fruit sludge for your most refined taste buds.
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DRAYDEN KIEL: This happens to be a very popular mix in the Anderfels. And quite sweet, actually. (SLURPING)
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DRAYDEN: Oh, also, did you know that historically, dried fruit represents- NADIA: Let me stop you there. I'm sure it's a riveting story,
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but I need to keep working the room. DRAYDEN: I'll join you. NADIA: Actually, can you stay put?
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DRAYDEN: Why? NADIA: (sighs) Look around. These are working people, not the nobles you're used to.
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Best to let me handle this. DRAYDEN: Whatever, suit yourself. Gives me time to catch up on my reading.
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(BOOK THUDS) NADIA: See? Who brings a book to a tavern? DRAYDEN: Harding's information was vague at best.
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We know only that the ones you seek may have been here, but not where or why.
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So perhaps I can find something in these writings about the Anderfels that will give us a clue
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about why he'd come here in the first place. If my studies of the Fade have taught me anything,
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it's that the future always hides in the past. NADIA: Yes, great.
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You...do that. (FOOTSTEPS) (PATRONS CHATTING AND LAUGHING)
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(NADIA CLEARS HER THROAT) (FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: Afternoon. I was- OLD WOMAN: What do you want?
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NADIA: Uh, just wondering if you've noticed anything strange around these parts?
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Tremors or- OLD WOMAN: Oh, everyone knows about the shaking.
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You ask me, something evil's coming. Another blight, but maybe worse.
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All this damn magic ripping the world apart.
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(GLASS SHATTERS) NADIA: Has anyone said anything about where it comes from? Like some place where things are really bad?
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MERCHANT: You asking about earthquakes? NADIA: Yeah. MERCHANT: I can tell you all about them.
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NADIA: Go on, then. MERCHANT: I take my caravan around the outposts in these areas. So I see where it's worse.
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You wanna find the source? You need to head deeper into the mountains. NADIA: Will you show me?
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I can pay. (COINS JINGLING) MERCHANT: I'm not one to say no to money, but I'm
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no guide either. MERCHANT: You should talk to that Harig over there. NADIA: Over where?
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MERCHANT: Over at the tables playing Wicked Grace. He's the big one. NADIA: Thanks. MERCHANT: Careful though.
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MERCHANT: He's been on a mean losing streak today. PATRON: Hey! Ooh! (COINS CLATTERING)
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PATRON: Harig, you're shit at this game! HARIG: What the fu-? Are you kidding? Ah, horse shit!
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Cheats, all of ya! (groans) NADIA: (clears throat) Gentlemen. Mind if I buy in?
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PLAYER 1: Piss off, table's full. NADIA: Well then, maybe I can sweeten (COINS JINGLING) the pot and get down to business.
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PLAYER 1: Or maybe you can piss off like I said. (PATRONS LAUGH) HARIG: Hey, quit the bullshit, okay? That's five coppers in for all of you.
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(COINS CLATTER) And you, little lady, go away. NADIA: (scoffs) I'm sorry. Did you just call m-? PLAYER 2: Looks like big man's in a bad mood.
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PLAYER 3: Oh, you would be too if you dropped the pile he said goodbye to today. HARIG: I'm going to drop my ax on your pig-kissing tongue
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if you don't watch your mouth. (COINS CLATTER) PLAYER 3: I raise. HARIG: (groans) We just raised.
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PLAYER 2: You in or not? HARIG: You miserable slack-jawed louse. NADIA: Seriously, I just need to find a guide into
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the mountains. I'm looking for an elf. PLAYER 2: (laughs) Got a thing for elves, do you?
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NADIA: (scoffs) No, it's not like that. I just... I need to know if any of you have seen one. PLAYER 3: Of course we've seen an elf.
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Do you think we're stupid or something? NADIA: (sighs) Not any elf. A specific elf!
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Goes by the name Solas? Some call him the Dread Wolf. PLAYER 1: Wait, the Dread Wolf? NADIA: Yes, do you know him?
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PLAYER 1: I do. NADIA: Where might I find him? PLAYER 1: Just up the old mining path. A little south of piss and a little west of off.
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PLAYER: Yeah! (PLAYERS LAUGHING) HARIG: By the tits of my ancestors,
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if you don't all shut up and play, I'm going to gouge everyone's eyes out.
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Now for the last time, little lady, go away! I've got money to win.
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NADIA: Oh, for pity's sake! Fuck the game already! I can pay you well to take me into the mountains. HARIG: If you don't go away,
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I will bury you in those damn mountains. NADIA: Fine!
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(TABLE CLATTERS) DRAYDEN: That went well. NADIA: Shut up.
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DRAYDEN: Maybe they didn't know you were their people. Perhaps- NADIA: Hey, this isn't a joke, okay?
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Every day we fail is another day Elio is lost to the Fade. DRAYDEN: I'm sorry.
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OLLIE: Excuse me, hello? NADIA: I swear, now is not the time.
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OLLIE: No, it's not like that. (PATRONS CHATTING) (FOOTSTEPS) OLLIE: I know the one you search for.
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NADIA: Here, have a seat. Drayden, move your book. DRAYDEN: Oh, yes. OLLIE: Thank you.
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OLLIE: I'm Olive, but my friends call me Ollie. NADIA: Nadia, and as you just heard, this is Drayden.
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DRAYDEN: Hello Ollie. OLLIE: Hello. NADIA: So how is it that you know him? (PATRONS CHATTING) (MUSIC)
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OLLIE: He came through town a few weeks ago, said he had work for us, but it was for something in the Deep Roads.
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The area's forbidden, but the pay was too good to pass up. NADIA: What were you doing down there?
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OLLIE: (sighs) Still not entirely sure. He kept everything real boxed up, like, everyone was focused on their own job,
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then one night something attacked us. I was the only one to make it out and back up to camp.
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I haven't heard from him since. NADIA: And where is he now? OLLIE: I'll give you a map to the camp.
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But Solas, he vanished right before things went bad. NADIA: Thank you. Come on, Drayden, we're going.
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DRAYDEN: I'll prepare the horses. OLLIE: Be careful out there. It's a bad place full of bad energy.
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And these parts are crawling with Darkspawn. NADIA: Ollie, by this ring, I thank you and-
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HARIG: You! The one with the mouth. We're gonna have a little talk. NADIA: Oh, as much as I'd love to stay and chat,
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I've got places to be. HARIG: All your dumb squawking cost me that game. So here's the deal:
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Now you're going to pay me double for whatever trip was so important you couldn't wait to discuss it.
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NADIA: Yeah, about that. Our plans just changed. We won't be going into the mountains anymore. Thanks, though!
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HARIG: (laughs) You best be yanking my chains. DRAYDEN: I'm afraid she's quite serious.
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HARIG: You stay out of this, little egg, before you get cracked. NADIA: You need to mind your tone.
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HARIG: And you need to make it up to me one way... ...or the other. NADIA: I'm afraid I don't catch your drift.
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HARIG: Either give me your coin or give me some alone time with this sweet little egg so I can-
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(METAL SLICES) (PATRONS GASP) NADIA: The next words you speak may be your last. So choose carefully.
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DRAYDEN: Nadia, I appreciate the sentiment, but he's not worth it. Put the dagger away and let's just go.
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We have what we came for. HARIG: Go on, do it. You won't make it two steps out of this tavern.
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(NADIA GROWLS) DRAYDEN: Nadia... (NADIA SIGHS) (BLADE SHEATHING)
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NADIA: You're lucky my companion has a forgiving heart. (HARIG GRUNTS) (NADIA GRUNTS) HARIG: You were stupid to drop your guard!
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Now give me my coin! (BOOK THUDS) NADIA: Whoa! Drayden! (HARIG MOANS)
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DRAYDEN: Apologies, but I hate bullies. NADIA: Did you just knock him out with a book?
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DRAYDEN: Oh dear, I think I've split the binding. BARKEEP: God, hey! What did I tell you about stirring shit up in here? Huh?
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Get out before I send for the law. DRAYDEN: Ah! NADIA: We were just leaving anyway. Drayden, we should probably...
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DRAYDEN: Yep. (HARIG MOANS) BARKEEP: Ah man, you okay? Here, let me.
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HARIG: Get your grimy ale-shilling hands off me. BARKEEP: Whatever you say. (HARIG GROANING)
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PLAYER 1: Hey Harig, look at this. (PAPER RUSTLES) It's from that new crop of wanted posters.
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HARIG: (groans) Let me see that. PLAYER 1: That's her, right? Looks just like her. HARIG: "Wanted for murder, treason,
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high crimes against the Imperium. Large reward-" Son of a bitch! You!
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OLLIE: Me? HARIG: Yes, you. You're coming with me. OLLIE: Ow! HARIG: We're going to go find us a guard and you're going to tell them everything you know
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about where those two are headed. Now, let's go! PLAYER 1: Hey, we're splitting that reward!
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(MUSIC)
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(METAL CLANGING)
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(HORSE GALLOPING) GOFF: Something troubling you, Davrin?
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DAVRIN: Yeah. (HORSE TROTTING) DAVRIN: Why are we down here in this outpost wasting our time?
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You heard the same rumors that I did. (HORSE TROTTING) GOFF: Because for now, they're just rumors.
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Plus, our duty as Grey Wardens dictates that we are here.
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The quakes, the storms, (MUSIC) something is going on and we have to find out.
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DAVRIN: Come on, we're talking about real griffins. They're supposed to be extinct.
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GOFF: You still have much excitement in your heart, monster hunter.
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But remember, duty is duty even when it's not exciting.
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DAVRIN: Goff, I assure you, as long as the ale is strong and there's darkspawn to slay,
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my heart will be content. GOFF: (laughs) Fair enough, Davrin. Fair enough.
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OLLIE: Harig, please! HARIG: Shut up! HARIG: Aye, Wardens, either of you two seen a
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guard around here? GOFF: What are you doing, you oaf? Unhand her. HARIG: This woman is guilty of conspiring with a criminal!
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Look here. DAVRIN: Give me that. GOFF: What's it say? DAVRIN: "Nadia Carcosa, wanted by Tevinter authorities
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for crimes of theft, high treason, and murder." (MUSIC) Yeah, because we know we can trust Tevinter.
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GOFF: Yeah, see, I don't give a rat's dick about Tevinter and their accusations.
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Take your bounty to Radcliffe. See if they care. HARIG: But they were just in the tavern
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talking about the Deep Roads and cooking up Maker knows what! I think they're involved with the anomalies.
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GOFF: Deep Roads, eh? And what do you say of this? OLLIE: We weren't planning nothing, honest!
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I have never seen her before today. She asked for information, I had some. That's all.
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GOFF: What sort of information? (OLLIE SIGHS) GOFF: Okay, look, you're not in any trouble.
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Just tell us. OLLIE: She was looking for someone that hired us to do a job
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over by the old mines. DAVRIN: It's not safe in those parts. OLLIE: I know. I'm sorry.
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But I warned her about the darkspawn. (EERIE MUSIC) DAVRIN: Did you say darkspawn?
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OLLIE: They were crawling all over that place. I barely made it back.
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GOFF: Well, Davrin. Looks like you get your adventure after all.
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Can you show us the way? OLLIE: I can. HARIG: Hey, what about my bounty?
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DAVRIN: I guess you better hope she hasn't already been ripped to pieces by those beasts. HARIG: Then I'm coming, too. (HARIG GRUNTS)
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DAVRIN: Fine. But listen to orders and stay out of the way. (ADVENTUROUS MUSIC)
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(MUSIC) (MUSIC)
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(HORSES GALLOPING) (HORSES GALLOPING)
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NADIA: Whoa, whoa. (HORSE WHINNYING) (HORSE GALLOPING) NADIA: There. The crumbling face protruding from that cliff.
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It's the statue of The Green Guardian marked on her map. We're close. DRAYDEN: (sighs) Such a sight.
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The way it juts right from the stone, like Grunsmann himself is trying to break free from time's prison.
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Makes for a haunting effigy. NADIA: Everything about this place feels haunting. (BUGS BUZZING)
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DRAYDEN: Imagine what these lands might have been like before the blight. Such splendor.
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But now it's just this. Desolate and indifferent. (HORSE GALLOPING)
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NADIA: Look, just ahead. It's the camp. (HORSE WHINNIES) (HORSES GALLOPING)
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(MUSIC) (HORSES GALLOPING)
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(HORSE SNORTS) (SADDLES CLINKING) (NADIA GRUNTS) (DRAYDEN GRUNTS)
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(NADIA SIGHS) (HORSES SNORTING) NADIA: Nothing here but ghosts.
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I'm surprised there's no bones sticking out from the ground. DRAYDEN: Oh, that's not possible.
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You'd never find a skeleton way out here. NADIA: Ugh, if you're about to tell me of some demonic creature that roams the night feasting on bodies,
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please don't. Just help me search for anything that looks to be a clue. The daylight is dropping fast.
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DRAYDEN: It's actually quite the opposite. According to the writings of Ferdinand Genitivi, (NADIA SIGHS) not even insects and worms can survive these lands.
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A body would never decay. NADIA: Ugh. Must you speak so freely about death?
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It gives me the creeps. (DRAYDEN LAUGHS) NADIA: What? DRAYDEN: Nothing.
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I've just never understood why people have such an aversion when it comes to discussing the beyond. Our deaths follow us like a shadow,
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seems only natural to make its acquaintance. NADIA: (sighs) That's the thing, Drayden. Normal people don't want to make its acquaintance.
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We prefer to focus on the living. So can we please just- (ROCKS CLATTER) What was that?
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DRAYDEN: There! Did you see that? NADIA: Where? The sky's too dark now. DRAYDEN: That way. Look. NADIA: I see nothing!
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DRAYDEN: Stand to my back. We need eyes in all directions. NADIA: Where is that coming from? DRAYDEN: I fear we've stumbled upon-
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NADIA: Don't say it. DRAYDEN: But- NADIA: I said don't say it! (CREATURE ROARS)
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DRAYDEN: Darkspawn. NADIA: Just had to say it! DRAYDEN: Blight magic, look at the eyes behind it.
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Oh no. Genlocks! (SPELL CASTING) (SPELL STRIKING) (NADIA GRUNTS) NADIA: Shit!
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DRAYDEN: Any ideas? (BLADE UNSHEATHS) NADIA: Stick close, swing freely, and hope we survive.
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(CREATURES SNARLING) (BOTH GRUNT) (BLADES CLASHING)
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(CREATURE GROWLS) NADIA: Watch out for those fucking axes! (BOTH GRUNTING) DRAYDEN: There's too many of them!
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(NADIA GRUNTS) NADIA: Stay focused! (HORSES NEIGHING)
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NADIA: Stay focused! DRAYDEN: Do you hear that? NADIA: Oh, by mercy. If this is someone else come to kill us-
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DAVRIN: For the Warden! (CREATURE GRUNTS) DRAYDEN: Who. Is. That?
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NADIA: I have no idea but he's kicking the snot out of those darkspawn. DAVRIN: Leave none standing! NADIA: Hurry! Let's help finish them off.
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DRAYDEN: Can't we watch him a little longer? NADIA: Drayden! DRAYDEN: Sorry. (ALL GRUNTING) (BLADES SLASHING)
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(CREATURE GROWLS) (ALL GRUNTING) (CREATURE GROWLS) (ALL GRUNTING)
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(ALL PANTING) NADIA: That's the last of them. DRAYDEN: Oh, Nadia, look out! DAVRIN: Get down! (CREATURE ROARS)
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(ALL GRUNTING) (NADIA PANTING) DAVRIN: That's the last of them.
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(ALL PANTING) NADIA: I don't know who you are, but thank you.
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DAVRIN: No thanks needed. Killing darkspawn is my sacred duty. HARIG: That's her! She's the murderer!
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Come on. NADIA: Oh, shit. HARIG: This little one here. NADIA: Okay, one, people need to stop calling me little,
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and two, whatever this guy told you, it's a pile of stinking road apples! DRAYDEN: Nadia, what are they talking about?
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GOFF: Oh! Then you are Nadia Carcosa? NADIA: (sighs) Thanks, Drayden.
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DRAYDEN: Sorry... GOFF: This man, Harig, seems to think that you are involved with the anomalies that plague these lands.
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Any truth to that? NADIA: (scoffs) That's insane! I'm not doing anything but trying to stop the one
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who really committed those crimes. The one they call the Dread Wolf. (SWORD CLANGS) GOFF: Whoa! Davrin!
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Davrin, easy there. DAVRIN: Tell me how you know that name. NADIA: Because I'm telling you,
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I think he's the one responsible for this. I was just caught in his trap! (MUSIC)
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DAVRIN: We're taking these two into custody and we're headed back to Weisshaupt, immediately. GOFF: What's wrong?
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DAVRIN: There's a legend among my kind, the story of Fen'Harel. He who hunts alone and the Lord of Tricksters.
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He's an Elven god that betrayed the ancients. He's a harbinger of chaos and rebellion.
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If this one speaks the truth, then something much bigger is going on and the Wardens need to get to the bottom of it.
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GOFF: All right, then get the chains. DRAYDEN: (gasps) What? NADIA: No! Wait! (grunts) You don't understand!
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GOFF: Give me your hands also. DRAYDEN: Oh, what did I do? GOFF: You're her companion so you are coming too.
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DRAYDEN: Well, if you're going to cuff me, can you at least let the other one do it? NADIA: Drayden! DRAYDEN: What?
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Did you not see his shoulders when he swung that sword? NADIA: Who are you right now? GOFF: Silence, both of you!
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HARIG: Come here, come here. (OLLIE GRUNTS) And what about this one? GOFF: She did nothing except offer conversation to a
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stranger and now she's free to go. GOFF: I suggest you do the same.
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HARIG: Ugh! (OLLIE GRUNTS) OLLIE: I'm sorry Nadia, NADIA: It's okay, Ollie.
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HARIG: This is a load of pig squat. GOFF: Oaf, you test my patience.
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HARIG: Just give me my reward then and I'll be on my way. DAVRIN: You would be wise to mind your tone
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when speaking to a Grey Warden. HARIG: I only want what's coming to me.
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DAVRIN: Men like you will always get what's coming to them. HARIG: (laughs) I don't need a lecture
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from a glorified exterminator. Just give me what's mine. GOFF: We are Wardens, not money lenders nor bounty hunters.
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If you want your reward, you'll need to make the trek to Weisshaupt Fortress and wait for their release.
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NADIA: Weisshaupt? (CHAINS RATTLING) No, we need to stay here! GOFF: This matter is settled!
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Davrin, chain them to the horses. Let's march. (FOOTSTEPS) (NADIA GRUNTS) (FOOTSTEPS)
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(MUSIC) (HORSE WHINNIES) (CHAINS RATTLING) (PEOPLE SIGHING)
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DAVRIN: Long ride ahead. Keep up. (FOOTSTEPS) (CHAINS RATTLING) (DAVRIN GRUNTS) (GOFF YIPS) (HORSES TROTTING)
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NADIA: Please just stop! Listen to me! (HORSES TROTTING) (CHAINS RATTLING) NADIA: Hey! GOFF: Would you please shut up?
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NADIA: I will shout every step of the way if I have to. (HORSES TROTTING) DRAYDEN: Excuse me, Wardens, if you don't stop
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and listen to her, it's going to be like this for the entire journey. I'd advise you to save your ears and not test her resolve.
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GOFF: (sighs) Fine. Hold up. (CHAIN RATTLING) (HORSES TROTTING)
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(HORSES GAIT SLOWING) GOFF: Say what you have to say. HARIG: You're not actually going to listen to this nonsense,
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are you? DAVRIN: Another word and you'll get a matching set of chains. NADIA: (sighs) Elio, my partner,
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he wasn't just some magic wielder, he was an Altus mage and part of the Magisterium.
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But the Dread Wolf put a plan in motion to turn the Templars against him. He wanted to force Elio into a corner
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so he'd have no choice but to help him perform a dangerous ritual.
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NADIA: (sighs) But the Wolf betrayed us. And now Elio is trapped somewhere in the Fade.
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Me and my companion here seek only to rescue him before it's too late. And we received information from the Inquisition
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that led us here. But now we walk away from the very tunnels that may reveal the Dread Wolf himself!
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GOFF: Hmm. The Inquisition knows of this? NADIA: Not widely, no.
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I get the sense this is kind of new for everyone, but I can tell you for a fact that he was here.
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That is, Ollie can tell you. OLLIE: It's true. He was the one who hired us for that job.
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GOFF: Hmm. OLLIE: The entrance is just back there, down the mining path. GOFF: Hmm, hmm, hmm.
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GOFF: Davrin? DAVRIN: Gut tells me she's speaking the truth. A lot of conviction behind those words.
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So let's search the tunnels. GOFF: (sighs) Yeah. Unchain them. HARIG: What?!
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(DAVRIN DISMOUNTS) (FOOTSTEPS) (CHAINS RATTLING) DAVRIN: Don't make me regret this.
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NADIA: (sighs) Thank you. (FOOTSTEPS) (CHAINS RATTLING) (DRAYDEN GRUNTS)
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DRAYDEN: Hi. DAVRIN: Hi. NADIA: Now is not the time for that! DRAYDEN: I'm just being friendly.
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NADIA: Is that what we're calling it now? Friendly? HARIG: You are all crazier than a sack of dried nuts!
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If you won't do your duty, I'll return to the town and send word to the Templars.
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I know they'll enforce the law. (COINS RATTLING) NADIA: There's your blasted coin!
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Now go back to whatever mountain cave you crawled out of and say hi to your goat wife for me.
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(COINS JINGLING) HARIG: (chuckles) There we go. Was that so hard? All I wanted was restitution for my losses.
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I'll be on my merry way now. (FOOTSTEPS) Let no one say I am not a reasonable man!
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(EARTH RUMBLING) (HARIG YELLING) (NADIA EXCLAIMS) (EARTH RUMBLING) DRAYDEN: Earthquake! (EVERYONE YELLING)
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NADIA: Everyone watch out! (EVERYONE YELLING) GOFF: The world, it split open! NADIA: Sinkhole! DAVRIN: Mind the cracks and grab what you can.
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DRAYDEN: Nadia? (NADIA GRUNTS) NADIA: I got you! Hold on! OLLIE: Help! (NADIA PANTS)
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NADIA: Ollie! (OLLIE YELLS) (ALL GRUNTING) GOFF: Go! Save yourself!
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(EARTH CRUMBLING) (GOFF YELLING) DAVRIN: Noooo! GOFF: Go! (ALL GRUNTING) (EARTH CRUMBLING)
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DAVRIN: My story does not end here! NADIA: What are you doing? DAVRIN: I'm going down. See you on the other side.
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NADIA: Wait! (DAVRIN SCREAMS) DRAYDEN: Nadia, I can't hold on. (NADIA GRUNTS) NADIA: Don't think about it! Just do it.
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DRAYDEN: I'm slipping! NADIA: Just a little longer! (DRAYDEN YELLS) NADIA: Drayden!
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NADIA: I'm coming! (grunts) (NADIA YELLS) (BODIES THUD) (NADIA GRUNTS)
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(NADIA GROANS) (MUSIC) (ROCKS CRUMBLING)
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(MUSIC) (MUSIC)
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(DISEMBODIED VOICES WHISPERING) DRAYDEN: (distant) Nadia, are you okay? Hello?
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(SINISTER VOICES ECHOING) Nadia? Nadia, Can you hear me?
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DRAYDEN: Nadia? (NADIA GASPS) NADIA: I'm here, I'm alive. Everything's working.
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How about you? DRAYDEN: Oh yeah, I'm okay. A few bumps. Nothing bad. (WATER DRIPPING)
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NADIA: Ollie? OLLIE: Over here! (WATER DRIPPING) OLLIE: Got an unfortunate case of deja vu, but
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otherwise good. DRAYDEN: Wait, Davrin. Where's Davrin?
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DAVRIN: (grunts) Relax. I'm here. DRAYDEN: Oh! Here, let me look at you. Are you okay? How's your shoulder?
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DAVRIN: (grunts) Stiff but ready for action. DRAYDEN: Oh! (WATER DRIPPING)
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(DRAYDEN CLEARS THEIR THROAT) DRAYDEN: By the way, we never officially met. I'm Draven. I mean Drayden!
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You're Davrin, I'm Drayden. There we go. Kind of meshed our names together. Oops.
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(stammers then coughs) I'm gonna shut up now. DAVRIN: (chuckles) You're...cute, but has anyone seen Goff?
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Goff? Goff! Goff! (NADIA CHUCKLES)
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DRAYDEN: Please, just don't. NADIA: What was it you said to me? Oh yes, "That went well."
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DRAYDEN: And what did you say to me? Oh yes! "Shut up." NADIA: At least now I know there's actually a human in there.
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DRAYDEN: I hate you. NADIA: Nah, I'm like Elfroot. (DRAYDEN GROANS) (GOFF YELLS)
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DAVRIN: Over here! It's Goff. (DRAYDEN AND NADIA PANTING) (RUNNING FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: What's wrong? DAVRIN: His leg is pinned beneath this boulder.
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(DAVRIN GRUNTING) GOFF: Just leave me! DAVRIN: You know that's not an option. (DAVRIN GRUNTING) GOFF: Look at me.
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If you move the boulder, you'll have to take my leg. There's no way I'm walking out of here.
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DAVRIN: Then I'll carry you out. GOFF: Oh, Davrin! DAVRIN: With respect to rank, sir, but that's an order.
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(METAL CLANGS) (GOFF GROANS) NADIA: Come on, everyone push! (ALL GRUNTING)
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DAVRIN: It won't budge. GOFF: I'm telling you- DAVRIN: And I told you no. GOFF: Maker! Your blade is about to snap in two.
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(DAVRIN GROANS) DAVRIN: Do any of you know magic? DRAYDEN: I don't mean to be morbid, but could we possibly just sever the leg?
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NADIA: And they're back. DRAYDEN: What? I don't mean to be curt, but he said so himself!
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He's going to lose the leg one way or the other. NADIA: Drayden! DAVRIN: No, they're right. It's our best option.
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GOFF: I don't suppose anyone has any brandy. OLLIE: Actually, chew this.
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NADIA: What is that? OLLIE: Snailroot. We use it to get through long days. It numbs the brain, slows everything down,
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and it helps block out the pain. GOFF: It's better than nothing. Give me that. (GOFF CHEWING)
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DAVRIN: Drayden. DRAYDEN: Yes? DAVRIN: Take this and tie it around his leg. Make it as tight as you can.
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(GOFF YELLS) DAVRIN: Now, you other two must hold his feet down. The chop will be swift and clean, but don't let him move.
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NADIA: Got it. OLLIE: Will do. GOFF: This root tastes like boiled ass water!
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DAVRIN: Then focus on that because this next part won't be any better.
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DRAYDEN: All tied off. DAVRIN: On my mark. Three, two, one!
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(DAVRIN GRUNTS) (NADIA SCREAMS) (INTENSE RINGING) DAVRIN: (muffled) Hold! What happened?
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DRAYDEN: (muffled) Nadia, come here. I got you. (NADIA MOANS) DAVRIN: (muffled) What's wrong? DRAYDEN: (muffled) We're not sure.
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She's been afflicted by some strange ringing in her mind. It comes and goes.
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DAVRIN: (muffled) Can you stop it? DRAYDEN: (muffled) It usually passes in a few moments. (RINGING CONTINUES) (NADIA GROANING) DAVRIN: Ollie, how long does that root last?
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OLLIE: Oh, he'll be feeling the effects for hours. It's not even peaked yet. GOFF: (laughing) I have to say, despite the taste,
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I very much like this root. (chuckles) DAVRIN: Nadia, are you okay? Look at me.
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NADIA: Sorry. It's uh... I think it's passing. DAVRIN: Give it a few moments to be safe.
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Then we'll try again. NADIA: (panting) Sorry about that. I'm good now.
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DAVRIN: Are you sure? NADIA: Don't worry, I've got this. DAVRIN: You better. (WATER DRIPPING) (OLLIE GASPS)
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OLLIE: Oh, no. Oh, no! DAVRIN: "Oh, no," what, Ollie? OLLIE: They're back! DAVRIN: What is?
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OLLIE: The deep crawlers! DRAYDEN: I'm sorry, but when you say deep crawlers, do you mean- OLLIE: Spiders, yes!
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DRAYDEN: No, no, no, don't tell me that! NADIA: Now is not the time to lose it.
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DRAYDEN: You don't understand. I don't do spiders. I hate them. Like, hate! With a capital H! Just, no!
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NADIA: Well, hate them or not, they're coming! DRAYDEN: (whimpers) I do not like this!
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NADIA: All the same, get your sword ready. OLLIE: You guys? NADIA: Because here they come! (CREATURES SHRIEKING AND CHIRPING)
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DAVRIN: Ollie, stand watch on Goff. The rest of you, what do you say? Most kills wins.
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NADIA: Oh-ho, you're on! Come on, Books! Now's your chance to impress the shoulders! DRAYDEN: I seriously hate you today!
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(NADIA LAUGHS) DRAYDEN: You can do it, you can do this! (ALL GRUNTING)
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(DRAYDEN YELLS) (SQUELCHING) DAVRIN: That's 18 for me! NADIA: 17! Right behind you, Warden.
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DRAYDEN: Did I mention that I hate this? (DAVRIN LAUGHS) NADIA: One left and he's all mine! DAVRIN: Mine!
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(CREATURE SCREAMS) NADIA: You jerk! That was my mark. DAVRIN: Next time, kill first, brag later.
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(ALL PANTING) DRAYDEN: Hey, did you see that? I got three of 'em! (NADIA LAUGHS) (GOFF YELLS)
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DAVRIN: Goff! (INTENSE MUSIC) (ALL PANTING) (CREATURE BELLOWS)
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OLLIE: It's too big! I can't fight it! (CREATURE ROARS) DRAYDEN: What in the name of the holy mother is that thing?
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NADIA: It's monstrous! DAVRIN: It's dead is what it is. GOFF: Davrin, this is mad! Just leave me.
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DAVRIN: I can kill it! NADIA: We need to circle it. Attack from all sides. DAVRIN: Do it. Coordinate your attacks!
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DRAYDEN: Why didn't anyone tell me spiders could get that big? (DAVRIN GRUNTING) NADIA: (grunts) It's too big, I can't get a clean stab.
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(CREATURE SCREAMS) DAVRIN: Target the weak spots! DRAYDEN: What weak spots? (DAVRIN GRUNTS) DAVRIN: Those weak spots.
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NADIA: Got it! (ALL GRUNTING) (BLADES SLICING) DAVRIN: That's it! Keep going!
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DRAYDEN: Just make sure to keep an eye out for more. (ALL GRUNTING) (CREATURES SHRIEKING) NADIA: Stop saying that shit! (DRAYDEN HOWLS)
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(ALL GRUNTING) (BLADES SLICING) (OLLIE YELLS) NADIA: Ollie! Ollie!! (OLLIE SCREAMING)
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DRAYDEN: The spiders got her! GOFF: Davrin, you must go. DAVRIN: No! I will slay them all.
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GOFF: Davrin! There are some odds too great, even for you. (NADIA AND DRAYDEN GRUNTING) (MUSIC)
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Your duty remains unchanged. Press on and remember:
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In war...victory. DAVRIN: In death...sacrifice.
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GOFF: Go. Go! DAVRIN: (yells) Retreat on me. Let's go.
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NADIA: Davrin? DAVRIN: I said, let's go! (ALL PANTING) (CREATURES SQUEAKING)
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DAVRIN: Up there, head for that crevice. NADIA: It looks tight! DAVRIN: Then we will squeeze.
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(CREATURES SQUEAKING) DAVRIN: You two first. Go. DRAYDEN: Nadia?
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NADIA: It'll be fine, Books. Just follow me. (NADIA AND DRAYDEN GRUNTING)
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NADIA: Oh, it's a lot more than tight! Dig in and push! (NADIA GRUNTS) (SOIL CRUNCHES)
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(NADIA HYPERVENTILATES) DRAYDEN: Just breathe, Nadia. Come on.
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You're gonna be okay. (NADIA HYPERVENTILATES) NADIA: I think I'm stuck! Give me a push if you can.
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DRAYDEN: Coming! (NADIA GRUNTS) (NADIA BREATHES HEAVILY)
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NADIA: Damn it Davrin, stop fighting and come on already! DAVRIN: Bleeding thorns, they just keep coming!
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Watch out, I'm pushing through! (ALL GRUNTING)
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DRAYDEN: I see light! NADIA: We're almost there. (ALL GRUNTING) (EARTH CRUMBLING)
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(ALL PANTING)
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DRAYDEN: They're coming through after us! DAVRIN: Hold tight. (DAVRIN YELLS) (EARTH CRUMBLES)
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That should stop them. NADIA: Nice work. (ALL PANTING) (WATER DRIPPING)
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DRAYDEN: Whoa. NADIA: Whoa. DRAYDEN: This chamber, it feels different from the cave.
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I can sense something. DAVRIN: You feel all that lyrium coursing through the walls.
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DRAYDEN: No, it's more than that. The Veil is thin here. We should be careful.
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(WATER DRIPPING) DAVRIN: There's a tunnel over there. That must be the way out. Let's go.
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NADIA: Wait. DRAYDEN: What is it? NADIA: There's a mosaic here. Look at those figures. Wolves.
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DRAYDEN: Let me see. (WATER DRIPPING) Hey, Davrin, can you look at this inscription?
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I think it's Elven, but I can't read it. (WATER DRIPPING) DAVRIN: It's an ancient dialect.
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It says, "Guide me on the path that splits the land
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between sun and moon." DRAYDEN: Fascinating. NADIA: Okay, Books. What's your take?
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DRAYDEN: This is no ordinary mosaic. Look at the way the circle is split down the middle. The top half is onyx. It's like a mirror!
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(WATER DRIPPING) DRAYDEN: Look close. You can see your reflection in the darkness.
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And this portrait below, the figures are upside down and pointing to the stars.
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DAVRIN: Ah, see those small wolf totems? Those are just like the ones the Dalish place in their camps in Arlathan.
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They're for the Dread Wolf. (WATER DRIPPING) DRAYDEN: It's trying to tell us something, but I don't see it.
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(WATER DRIPPING) NADIA: Are those the stars? DRAYDEN: For the love of Andraste, you're a genius!
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NADIA: I am? DRAYDEN: The people are pointing to the sky! The stars are a clue. NADIA: A clue for what?
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DRAYDEN: Ah, for this! (MAGICAL TWINKLING) Push these tiles and it activates.
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(MAGICAL TWINKLING INTENSIFIES) (MUSIC)
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(MUSIC) NADIA: What's happening? DRAYDEN: I'm not entirely sure.
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(MAGICAL TWINKLING) (MUSIC) NADIA: Should the lyrium be glowing like this?
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DAVRIN: By the lost Dales... DRAYDEN: The mosaic is opening some sort of energy fissure.
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I think it's a portal! DAVRIN: No, it's a choice: The portal or the tunnel.
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(MUSIC) The floor is sinking to force our hand! We have to choose. We have to choose now.
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NADIA: We're not taking the tunnel. DRAYDEN: What? NADIA: The Dread Wolf! Whatever he was doing, he came for this portal.
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So wherever this leads, that's where I have to go. DRAYDEN: Well, if you go, I go.
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DAVRIN: If you go, I cannot follow. My duty is here to the Wardens.
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NADIA: I understand. DAVRIN: Are you sure this is what you want? NADIA: My love. He waits for me.
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DAVRIN: Then may Andruil guide you on your path. DRAYDEN: Hey, Davrin? I...
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Well, I... DAVRIN: (chuckles) I hope to see you again, too. (DRAYDEN LAUGHS NERVOUSLY)
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DAVRIN: Farewell, my new friends. (grunts)
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NADIA: You don't have to do this. You can go with Captain Shoulders if you want. DRAYDEN: And miss this adventure? You must be mad.
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Take my hand. We'll take the leap together. NADIA: (sighs) Thanks, Books.
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(DRAYDEN YELLS) (NADIA GRUNTS) (MUSIC)
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(MUSIC)
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(INTENSE MUSIC) (INTENSE MUSIC)
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(INTENSE MUSIC) NARRATOR: Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance
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is a production of Electronic Arts in association with Pod People. Based on the award-winning video game franchise
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from BioWare. Learn more about the world of Dragon Age in its latest game, Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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by visiting dragonage.com. Rated M for mature. (MUSIC)
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Directed by Matt Sav. Written by Will Melton and Jeremy Novick.
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Featuring the voices of Mae Whitman as Nadia,
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Brigette Lundy-Paine as Drayden, Armen Taylor as Elio,
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Ike Amadi as Davrin. Also featuring Jillian Kinsey as Ollie.
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Additional voices by Sabrina Fest, Roslyn Gentle, Damien Gerard, Daniel Lench,
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Isaac Gonzalez Rossi, Sean Thomas Simmons, Charles Halford, and Brandon Gill as narrator.
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Creative and narrative direction by Todd Stallkamp. BioWare narrative development and support
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by Mary De Marle and John Epler. Editorial direction by Will Melton.
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Producers for Electronic Arts, Alex Bader and Chris Beckett.
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Production Management by Bryan Rivers. Assistant direction by Ashton Carter.
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Story development by Todd Stallkamp, Will Milton,
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Matt Sav, and Jeremy Novick. Associate producing and script supervision
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by Hannah Rae Leach. Casting by Alaine Aldaffer, Lisa Donadio,
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Lindsey Ploussard, and Alex Vikmanis. Sound design by Michael Aquino,
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Morgane Fouse, and Carter Wogahn. Dialogue editing by Michael Aquino and Carter Wogahn.
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Mixing and mastering by Morgane Fouse. Featuring original music by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe.
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Executive producers for Pod People, Matt Sav and Rachael King.
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Electronic Arts brand and marketing leads, Kari Hale and Olivier Tse.
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Electronic Arts design, Hugo Ugaz and Jacob Meyer.
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BioWare special thanks to Ashley Barlow, Cody Behiel,
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Hilary Hidey, Steve Lam, Crystal McCord, and Patrick Weekes.
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Electronic Arts special thanks to Kevin Maher, Jacklyn Gilson, Rick Dressler,
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Marcie Galea, Krysta Trezise, Joe Gatdula, Jon Bailey,
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Greg Joson, and Ritual Khanna. Dragon Age: The Veilguard, a single player RPG,
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launches fall 2024 on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.
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Begin your adventure at dragonage.com. Rated M for Mature.
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(MUSIC) NARRATOR: Next time on Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance.
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DRAYDEN: I've never seen anything like this. The forest shifts like a prism, magic rippling everywhere.
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I'm drawn to its majesty, but repelled by its unsettling power.
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BELLARA: I'm Bellara, and as you've probably surmised, I'm a Veil Jumper. This is Arlathan Forest, or what's left of it.
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(BRANCHES CRUNCHING) NADIA: I can't take this. I just wanna go home!
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Elio, I'm so sorry. I should have just said yes that morning. I should have never left or taken that job,
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I was just afraid, I- SPEAKER 1: Eyes on the portal, coming in three...
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Two... (grunts) One! NADIA: Elio, we're coming!
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SPEAKER 2: (laughs) And just where do you think you're going? (MUSIC)
(MUSIC) NARRATOR: This podcast features adult language, violent imagery, and mature themes.
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Listener discretion is advised. (METAL CLANGING) (PEOPLE GRUNTING)
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(PERSON SIGHS) GREER: Oy, how long are we staying down here for?
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MAREK: Until I say we go back to camp. Now, keep digging. (PEOPLE GRUNTING)
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GREER: It's not safe (grunts) being down here so late. OLLIE: It's not safe being down here at all,
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but think of the good this coin will buy our families. GREER: It won't be much use to our families
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if we're not around to deliver it. MAREK: Then you better quit your yapping and get back to work.
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Sooner we're done, the sooner- (EARTH QUAKING) (PERSON YELPS)
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MAREK: The sooner we can get out of here. GREER: Another infernal quake, and we still don't even know
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what we're down here digging for. MAREK: The elf said dig here, so we dig here. Now, for the last time, shut up and dig.
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(EARTH QUAKES) (PERSON YELLS) GREER: What was that?
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MAREK: Everyone call in. Greer? GREER: I'm right in front of you. MAREK: Shut up. Ollie? OLLIE: I'm here.
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MAREK: Trevor? TREVOR: Yep. MAREK: Mason? MASON: Yeah. MAREK: Holly? HOLLY: Here. MAREK: Kristoff? KRISTOFF: Here.
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MAREK: Calandra? CALANDRA: Here. MAREK: Ridley? (SILENCE) MAREK: Ridley?
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GREER: Don't even tell me we lost Ridley? MAREK: Ridley? MAREK: Pipe down. Everyone fan out, look for him.
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MINERS: Ridley! Ridley! MINERS: Ridley! Ridley! MINER: Where are you? MINER: Ridley, where are you? MINER: Where are you, mate? MINER: Ridley! MINER: Ridley, mate, come on!
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MINER: Ridley, can you hear us? Ridley! MINER: Ridley, let us know where you are! MINER: Ridley! (SUBSTANCE SQUELCHES) GREER:Ugh! What the Maker is this now?
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OLLIE: Oh, let me see. (WATER DRIPPING, SLOSHING) OLLIE: Oh!
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MAREK: Ollie, you got a read on it? OLLIE: Hard to say, but I don't think it's human.
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Definitely not remains. MAREK: Oh, thank the Maker. OLLIE: It's...warm. OLLIE: Whatever left this, (INTENSE DRAMATIC STING)
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it's still down here with us right now. (PERSON YELLS) MAREK: That's it! Everyone head for the tunnel.
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Hammers out, be ready for anything. GREER: We can't just leave Ridley! MAREK: We don't have a choice! Go!
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(GROANING) (RAPID FOOTSTEPS) (PERSON YELLS) MASON: It got Trevor!
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MAREK: Keep running! (HEAVY BREATHING) (RAPID FOOTSTEPS) (PERSON YELPS) GREER: You hear that? What the hell is that?
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MAREK: Torches! Light 'em! (FIRE WHOOSHES) MAREK: Anyone see anything?
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HOLLY: Nothing. Wait, over there! Kristoff, look out! (KRISTOFF YELLS)
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MAREK: Holly! What happened? You see it? (PEOPLE SCREAMING) HOLLY: Run!! (PEOPLE SCREAMING) (GRUNTING)
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MAREK: Holly! (PEOPLE SCREAMING) GREER: That's it, every man for himself!
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(ALL YELLING)
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OLLIE: Everyone! Everyone, this way! The exit, it's here! (RAPID FOOTSTEPS) (ALL YELLING)
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MAREK: Look out for the rocks! GREER: Ollie! OLLIE: Over here, Greer! Hurry!
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GREER: Ollie! (OLLIE YELLS) GREER: Ollie, don't leave me!
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(OLLIE YELPS) (ROCKS FALLING) (OLLIE PANTS)
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OLLIE: Hello? Hello?! OLLIE: Marek? Calandra?
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OLLIE: Anyone? OLLIE: Great Maker, please!
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OLLIE: Don't let this be it. (MUSIC)
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NARRATOR: This is Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance. Chapter 3: A Deadly Descent.
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(MUSIC) (HORSE GALLOPING)
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(HORSE GALLOPING) AFFIRMED BROTHER: We must seek penance before it's too late.
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Ask forgiveness for our prideful ways! The shaking grows stronger. We have all felt it.
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Something terrible is coming. We must unite and sing the Maker's praise.
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Renounce your pride! (HORSE GALLOPING)
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(GLASSES CLINKING) (PATRONS CHATTING AND LAUGHING)
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NADIA CARCOSA: (clears throat) Barkeep, I'll have one pint of ale and a, uh, Nordbotten Fruit Stew with brandy?
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If you have it? (PATRONS CHATTING) BARKEEP: You got coin? (PATRONS CHATTING)
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(COINS CLATTER) NADIA: Pardon me, I don't mean to interrupt your drink, but any chance you've seen an elf come through here?
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Really intense eyes, not a hair on his head. OLD MAN: Nah, just the same old faces.
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NADIA: Okay. NADIA: How about you? You seen- BLACKSMITH'S APPRENTICE: I ain't seen shite.
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BARKEEP: Here's your drinks. Now stop pestering my customers. NADIA: Just asking a couple questions, friend.
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BARKEEP: Questions cost extra. (PATRONS CHATTING) (COINS CLATTER) NADIA: There.
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Now mind your bar, not my business. (FOOTSTEPS)
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(PATRON BELCHES) (FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: Here you go, one mug of what smells like...
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Ugh! Rotten fruit sludge for your most refined taste buds.
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DRAYDEN KIEL: This happens to be a very popular mix in the Anderfels. And quite sweet, actually. (SLURPING)
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DRAYDEN: Oh, also, did you know that historically, dried fruit represents- NADIA: Let me stop you there. I'm sure it's a riveting story,
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but I need to keep working the room. DRAYDEN: I'll join you. NADIA: Actually, can you stay put?
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DRAYDEN: Why? NADIA: (sighs) Look around. These are working people, not the nobles you're used to.
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Best to let me handle this. DRAYDEN: Whatever, suit yourself. Gives me time to catch up on my reading.
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(BOOK THUDS) NADIA: See? Who brings a book to a tavern? DRAYDEN: Harding's information was vague at best.
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We know only that the ones you seek may have been here, but not where or why.
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So perhaps I can find something in these writings about the Anderfels that will give us a clue
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about why he'd come here in the first place. If my studies of the Fade have taught me anything,
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it's that the future always hides in the past. NADIA: Yes, great.
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You...do that. (FOOTSTEPS) (PATRONS CHATTING AND LAUGHING)
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(NADIA CLEARS HER THROAT) (FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: Afternoon. I was- OLD WOMAN: What do you want?
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NADIA: Uh, just wondering if you've noticed anything strange around these parts?
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Tremors or- OLD WOMAN: Oh, everyone knows about the shaking.
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You ask me, something evil's coming. Another blight, but maybe worse.
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All this damn magic ripping the world apart.
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(GLASS SHATTERS) NADIA: Has anyone said anything about where it comes from? Like some place where things are really bad?
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MERCHANT: You asking about earthquakes? NADIA: Yeah. MERCHANT: I can tell you all about them.
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NADIA: Go on, then. MERCHANT: I take my caravan around the outposts in these areas. So I see where it's worse.
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You wanna find the source? You need to head deeper into the mountains. NADIA: Will you show me?
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I can pay. (COINS JINGLING) MERCHANT: I'm not one to say no to money, but I'm
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no guide either. MERCHANT: You should talk to that Harig over there. NADIA: Over where?
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MERCHANT: Over at the tables playing Wicked Grace. He's the big one. NADIA: Thanks. MERCHANT: Careful though.
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MERCHANT: He's been on a mean losing streak today. PATRON: Hey! Ooh! (COINS CLATTERING)
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PATRON: Harig, you're shit at this game! HARIG: What the fu-? Are you kidding? Ah, horse shit!
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Cheats, all of ya! (groans) NADIA: (clears throat) Gentlemen. Mind if I buy in?
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PLAYER 1: Piss off, table's full. NADIA: Well then, maybe I can sweeten (COINS JINGLING) the pot and get down to business.
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PLAYER 1: Or maybe you can piss off like I said. (PATRONS LAUGH) HARIG: Hey, quit the bullshit, okay? That's five coppers in for all of you.
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(COINS CLATTER) And you, little lady, go away. NADIA: (scoffs) I'm sorry. Did you just call m-? PLAYER 2: Looks like big man's in a bad mood.
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PLAYER 3: Oh, you would be too if you dropped the pile he said goodbye to today. HARIG: I'm going to drop my ax on your pig-kissing tongue
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if you don't watch your mouth. (COINS CLATTER) PLAYER 3: I raise. HARIG: (groans) We just raised.
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PLAYER 2: You in or not? HARIG: You miserable slack-jawed louse. NADIA: Seriously, I just need to find a guide into
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the mountains. I'm looking for an elf. PLAYER 2: (laughs) Got a thing for elves, do you?
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NADIA: (scoffs) No, it's not like that. I just... I need to know if any of you have seen one. PLAYER 3: Of course we've seen an elf.
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Do you think we're stupid or something? NADIA: (sighs) Not any elf. A specific elf!
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Goes by the name Solas? Some call him the Dread Wolf. PLAYER 1: Wait, the Dread Wolf? NADIA: Yes, do you know him?
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PLAYER 1: I do. NADIA: Where might I find him? PLAYER 1: Just up the old mining path. A little south of piss and a little west of off.
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PLAYER: Yeah! (PLAYERS LAUGHING) HARIG: By the tits of my ancestors,
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if you don't all shut up and play, I'm going to gouge everyone's eyes out.
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Now for the last time, little lady, go away! I've got money to win.
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NADIA: Oh, for pity's sake! Fuck the game already! I can pay you well to take me into the mountains. HARIG: If you don't go away,
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I will bury you in those damn mountains. NADIA: Fine!
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(TABLE CLATTERS) DRAYDEN: That went well. NADIA: Shut up.
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DRAYDEN: Maybe they didn't know you were their people. Perhaps- NADIA: Hey, this isn't a joke, okay?
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Every day we fail is another day Elio is lost to the Fade. DRAYDEN: I'm sorry.
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OLLIE: Excuse me, hello? NADIA: I swear, now is not the time.
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OLLIE: No, it's not like that. (PATRONS CHATTING) (FOOTSTEPS) OLLIE: I know the one you search for.
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NADIA: Here, have a seat. Drayden, move your book. DRAYDEN: Oh, yes. OLLIE: Thank you.
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OLLIE: I'm Olive, but my friends call me Ollie. NADIA: Nadia, and as you just heard, this is Drayden.
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DRAYDEN: Hello Ollie. OLLIE: Hello. NADIA: So how is it that you know him? (PATRONS CHATTING) (MUSIC)
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OLLIE: He came through town a few weeks ago, said he had work for us, but it was for something in the Deep Roads.
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The area's forbidden, but the pay was too good to pass up. NADIA: What were you doing down there?
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OLLIE: (sighs) Still not entirely sure. He kept everything real boxed up, like, everyone was focused on their own job,
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then one night something attacked us. I was the only one to make it out and back up to camp.
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I haven't heard from him since. NADIA: And where is he now? OLLIE: I'll give you a map to the camp.
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But Solas, he vanished right before things went bad. NADIA: Thank you. Come on, Drayden, we're going.
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DRAYDEN: I'll prepare the horses. OLLIE: Be careful out there. It's a bad place full of bad energy.
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And these parts are crawling with Darkspawn. NADIA: Ollie, by this ring, I thank you and-
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HARIG: You! The one with the mouth. We're gonna have a little talk. NADIA: Oh, as much as I'd love to stay and chat,
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I've got places to be. HARIG: All your dumb squawking cost me that game. So here's the deal:
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Now you're going to pay me double for whatever trip was so important you couldn't wait to discuss it.
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NADIA: Yeah, about that. Our plans just changed. We won't be going into the mountains anymore. Thanks, though!
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HARIG: (laughs) You best be yanking my chains. DRAYDEN: I'm afraid she's quite serious.
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HARIG: You stay out of this, little egg, before you get cracked. NADIA: You need to mind your tone.
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HARIG: And you need to make it up to me one way... ...or the other. NADIA: I'm afraid I don't catch your drift.
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HARIG: Either give me your coin or give me some alone time with this sweet little egg so I can-
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(METAL SLICES) (PATRONS GASP) NADIA: The next words you speak may be your last. So choose carefully.
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DRAYDEN: Nadia, I appreciate the sentiment, but he's not worth it. Put the dagger away and let's just go.
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We have what we came for. HARIG: Go on, do it. You won't make it two steps out of this tavern.
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(NADIA GROWLS) DRAYDEN: Nadia... (NADIA SIGHS) (BLADE SHEATHING)
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NADIA: You're lucky my companion has a forgiving heart. (HARIG GRUNTS) (NADIA GRUNTS) HARIG: You were stupid to drop your guard!
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Now give me my coin! (BOOK THUDS) NADIA: Whoa! Drayden! (HARIG MOANS)
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DRAYDEN: Apologies, but I hate bullies. NADIA: Did you just knock him out with a book?
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DRAYDEN: Oh dear, I think I've split the binding. BARKEEP: God, hey! What did I tell you about stirring shit up in here? Huh?
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Get out before I send for the law. DRAYDEN: Ah! NADIA: We were just leaving anyway. Drayden, we should probably...
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DRAYDEN: Yep. (HARIG MOANS) BARKEEP: Ah man, you okay? Here, let me.
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HARIG: Get your grimy ale-shilling hands off me. BARKEEP: Whatever you say. (HARIG GROANING)
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PLAYER 1: Hey Harig, look at this. (PAPER RUSTLES) It's from that new crop of wanted posters.
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HARIG: (groans) Let me see that. PLAYER 1: That's her, right? Looks just like her. HARIG: "Wanted for murder, treason,
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high crimes against the Imperium. Large reward-" Son of a bitch! You!
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OLLIE: Me? HARIG: Yes, you. You're coming with me. OLLIE: Ow! HARIG: We're going to go find us a guard and you're going to tell them everything you know
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about where those two are headed. Now, let's go! PLAYER 1: Hey, we're splitting that reward!
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(MUSIC)
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(METAL CLANGING)
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(HORSE GALLOPING) GOFF: Something troubling you, Davrin?
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DAVRIN: Yeah. (HORSE TROTTING) DAVRIN: Why are we down here in this outpost wasting our time?
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You heard the same rumors that I did. (HORSE TROTTING) GOFF: Because for now, they're just rumors.
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Plus, our duty as Grey Wardens dictates that we are here.
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The quakes, the storms, (MUSIC) something is going on and we have to find out.
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DAVRIN: Come on, we're talking about real griffins. They're supposed to be extinct.
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GOFF: You still have much excitement in your heart, monster hunter.
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But remember, duty is duty even when it's not exciting.
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DAVRIN: Goff, I assure you, as long as the ale is strong and there's darkspawn to slay,
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my heart will be content. GOFF: (laughs) Fair enough, Davrin. Fair enough.
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OLLIE: Harig, please! HARIG: Shut up! HARIG: Aye, Wardens, either of you two seen a
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guard around here? GOFF: What are you doing, you oaf? Unhand her. HARIG: This woman is guilty of conspiring with a criminal!
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Look here. DAVRIN: Give me that. GOFF: What's it say? DAVRIN: "Nadia Carcosa, wanted by Tevinter authorities
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for crimes of theft, high treason, and murder." (MUSIC) Yeah, because we know we can trust Tevinter.
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GOFF: Yeah, see, I don't give a rat's dick about Tevinter and their accusations.
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Take your bounty to Radcliffe. See if they care. HARIG: But they were just in the tavern
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talking about the Deep Roads and cooking up Maker knows what! I think they're involved with the anomalies.
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GOFF: Deep Roads, eh? And what do you say of this? OLLIE: We weren't planning nothing, honest!
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I have never seen her before today. She asked for information, I had some. That's all.
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GOFF: What sort of information? (OLLIE SIGHS) GOFF: Okay, look, you're not in any trouble.
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Just tell us. OLLIE: She was looking for someone that hired us to do a job
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over by the old mines. DAVRIN: It's not safe in those parts. OLLIE: I know. I'm sorry.
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But I warned her about the darkspawn. (EERIE MUSIC) DAVRIN: Did you say darkspawn?
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OLLIE: They were crawling all over that place. I barely made it back.
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GOFF: Well, Davrin. Looks like you get your adventure after all.
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Can you show us the way? OLLIE: I can. HARIG: Hey, what about my bounty?
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DAVRIN: I guess you better hope she hasn't already been ripped to pieces by those beasts. HARIG: Then I'm coming, too. (HARIG GRUNTS)
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DAVRIN: Fine. But listen to orders and stay out of the way. (ADVENTUROUS MUSIC)
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(MUSIC) (MUSIC)
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(HORSES GALLOPING) (HORSES GALLOPING)
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NADIA: Whoa, whoa. (HORSE WHINNYING) (HORSE GALLOPING) NADIA: There. The crumbling face protruding from that cliff.
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It's the statue of The Green Guardian marked on her map. We're close. DRAYDEN: (sighs) Such a sight.
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The way it juts right from the stone, like Grunsmann himself is trying to break free from time's prison.
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Makes for a haunting effigy. NADIA: Everything about this place feels haunting. (BUGS BUZZING)
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DRAYDEN: Imagine what these lands might have been like before the blight. Such splendor.
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But now it's just this. Desolate and indifferent. (HORSE GALLOPING)
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NADIA: Look, just ahead. It's the camp. (HORSE WHINNIES) (HORSES GALLOPING)
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(MUSIC) (HORSES GALLOPING)
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(HORSE SNORTS) (SADDLES CLINKING) (NADIA GRUNTS) (DRAYDEN GRUNTS)
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(NADIA SIGHS) (HORSES SNORTING) NADIA: Nothing here but ghosts.
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I'm surprised there's no bones sticking out from the ground. DRAYDEN: Oh, that's not possible.
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You'd never find a skeleton way out here. NADIA: Ugh, if you're about to tell me of some demonic creature that roams the night feasting on bodies,
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please don't. Just help me search for anything that looks to be a clue. The daylight is dropping fast.
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DRAYDEN: It's actually quite the opposite. According to the writings of Ferdinand Genitivi, (NADIA SIGHS) not even insects and worms can survive these lands.
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A body would never decay. NADIA: Ugh. Must you speak so freely about death?
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It gives me the creeps. (DRAYDEN LAUGHS) NADIA: What? DRAYDEN: Nothing.
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I've just never understood why people have such an aversion when it comes to discussing the beyond. Our deaths follow us like a shadow,
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seems only natural to make its acquaintance. NADIA: (sighs) That's the thing, Drayden. Normal people don't want to make its acquaintance.
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We prefer to focus on the living. So can we please just- (ROCKS CLATTER) What was that?
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DRAYDEN: There! Did you see that? NADIA: Where? The sky's too dark now. DRAYDEN: That way. Look. NADIA: I see nothing!
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DRAYDEN: Stand to my back. We need eyes in all directions. NADIA: Where is that coming from? DRAYDEN: I fear we've stumbled upon-
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NADIA: Don't say it. DRAYDEN: But- NADIA: I said don't say it! (CREATURE ROARS)
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DRAYDEN: Darkspawn. NADIA: Just had to say it! DRAYDEN: Blight magic, look at the eyes behind it.
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Oh no. Genlocks! (SPELL CASTING) (SPELL STRIKING) (NADIA GRUNTS) NADIA: Shit!
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DRAYDEN: Any ideas? (BLADE UNSHEATHS) NADIA: Stick close, swing freely, and hope we survive.
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(CREATURES SNARLING) (BOTH GRUNT) (BLADES CLASHING)
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(CREATURE GROWLS) NADIA: Watch out for those fucking axes! (BOTH GRUNTING) DRAYDEN: There's too many of them!
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(NADIA GRUNTS) NADIA: Stay focused! (HORSES NEIGHING)
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NADIA: Stay focused! DRAYDEN: Do you hear that? NADIA: Oh, by mercy. If this is someone else come to kill us-
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DAVRIN: For the Warden! (CREATURE GRUNTS) DRAYDEN: Who. Is. That?
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NADIA: I have no idea but he's kicking the snot out of those darkspawn. DAVRIN: Leave none standing! NADIA: Hurry! Let's help finish them off.
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DRAYDEN: Can't we watch him a little longer? NADIA: Drayden! DRAYDEN: Sorry. (ALL GRUNTING) (BLADES SLASHING)
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(CREATURE GROWLS) (ALL GRUNTING) (CREATURE GROWLS) (ALL GRUNTING)
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(ALL PANTING) NADIA: That's the last of them. DRAYDEN: Oh, Nadia, look out! DAVRIN: Get down! (CREATURE ROARS)
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(ALL GRUNTING) (NADIA PANTING) DAVRIN: That's the last of them.
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(ALL PANTING) NADIA: I don't know who you are, but thank you.
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DAVRIN: No thanks needed. Killing darkspawn is my sacred duty. HARIG: That's her! She's the murderer!
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Come on. NADIA: Oh, shit. HARIG: This little one here. NADIA: Okay, one, people need to stop calling me little,
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and two, whatever this guy told you, it's a pile of stinking road apples! DRAYDEN: Nadia, what are they talking about?
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GOFF: Oh! Then you are Nadia Carcosa? NADIA: (sighs) Thanks, Drayden.
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DRAYDEN: Sorry... GOFF: This man, Harig, seems to think that you are involved with the anomalies that plague these lands.
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Any truth to that? NADIA: (scoffs) That's insane! I'm not doing anything but trying to stop the one
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who really committed those crimes. The one they call the Dread Wolf. (SWORD CLANGS) GOFF: Whoa! Davrin!
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Davrin, easy there. DAVRIN: Tell me how you know that name. NADIA: Because I'm telling you,
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I think he's the one responsible for this. I was just caught in his trap! (MUSIC)
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DAVRIN: We're taking these two into custody and we're headed back to Weisshaupt, immediately. GOFF: What's wrong?
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DAVRIN: There's a legend among my kind, the story of Fen'Harel. He who hunts alone and the Lord of Tricksters.
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He's an Elven god that betrayed the ancients. He's a harbinger of chaos and rebellion.
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If this one speaks the truth, then something much bigger is going on and the Wardens need to get to the bottom of it.
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GOFF: All right, then get the chains. DRAYDEN: (gasps) What? NADIA: No! Wait! (grunts) You don't understand!
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GOFF: Give me your hands also. DRAYDEN: Oh, what did I do? GOFF: You're her companion so you are coming too.
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DRAYDEN: Well, if you're going to cuff me, can you at least let the other one do it? NADIA: Drayden! DRAYDEN: What?
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Did you not see his shoulders when he swung that sword? NADIA: Who are you right now? GOFF: Silence, both of you!
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HARIG: Come here, come here. (OLLIE GRUNTS) And what about this one? GOFF: She did nothing except offer conversation to a
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stranger and now she's free to go. GOFF: I suggest you do the same.
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HARIG: Ugh! (OLLIE GRUNTS) OLLIE: I'm sorry Nadia, NADIA: It's okay, Ollie.
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HARIG: This is a load of pig squat. GOFF: Oaf, you test my patience.
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HARIG: Just give me my reward then and I'll be on my way. DAVRIN: You would be wise to mind your tone
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when speaking to a Grey Warden. HARIG: I only want what's coming to me.
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DAVRIN: Men like you will always get what's coming to them. HARIG: (laughs) I don't need a lecture
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from a glorified exterminator. Just give me what's mine. GOFF: We are Wardens, not money lenders nor bounty hunters.
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If you want your reward, you'll need to make the trek to Weisshaupt Fortress and wait for their release.
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NADIA: Weisshaupt? (CHAINS RATTLING) No, we need to stay here! GOFF: This matter is settled!
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Davrin, chain them to the horses. Let's march. (FOOTSTEPS) (NADIA GRUNTS) (FOOTSTEPS)
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(MUSIC) (HORSE WHINNIES) (CHAINS RATTLING) (PEOPLE SIGHING)
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DAVRIN: Long ride ahead. Keep up. (FOOTSTEPS) (CHAINS RATTLING) (DAVRIN GRUNTS) (GOFF YIPS) (HORSES TROTTING)
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NADIA: Please just stop! Listen to me! (HORSES TROTTING) (CHAINS RATTLING) NADIA: Hey! GOFF: Would you please shut up?
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NADIA: I will shout every step of the way if I have to. (HORSES TROTTING) DRAYDEN: Excuse me, Wardens, if you don't stop
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and listen to her, it's going to be like this for the entire journey. I'd advise you to save your ears and not test her resolve.
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GOFF: (sighs) Fine. Hold up. (CHAIN RATTLING) (HORSES TROTTING)
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(HORSES GAIT SLOWING) GOFF: Say what you have to say. HARIG: You're not actually going to listen to this nonsense,
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are you? DAVRIN: Another word and you'll get a matching set of chains. NADIA: (sighs) Elio, my partner,
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he wasn't just some magic wielder, he was an Altus mage and part of the Magisterium.
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But the Dread Wolf put a plan in motion to turn the Templars against him. He wanted to force Elio into a corner
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so he'd have no choice but to help him perform a dangerous ritual.
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NADIA: (sighs) But the Wolf betrayed us. And now Elio is trapped somewhere in the Fade.
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Me and my companion here seek only to rescue him before it's too late. And we received information from the Inquisition
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that led us here. But now we walk away from the very tunnels that may reveal the Dread Wolf himself!
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GOFF: Hmm. The Inquisition knows of this? NADIA: Not widely, no.
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I get the sense this is kind of new for everyone, but I can tell you for a fact that he was here.
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That is, Ollie can tell you. OLLIE: It's true. He was the one who hired us for that job.
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GOFF: Hmm. OLLIE: The entrance is just back there, down the mining path. GOFF: Hmm, hmm, hmm.
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GOFF: Davrin? DAVRIN: Gut tells me she's speaking the truth. A lot of conviction behind those words.
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So let's search the tunnels. GOFF: (sighs) Yeah. Unchain them. HARIG: What?!
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(DAVRIN DISMOUNTS) (FOOTSTEPS) (CHAINS RATTLING) DAVRIN: Don't make me regret this.
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NADIA: (sighs) Thank you. (FOOTSTEPS) (CHAINS RATTLING) (DRAYDEN GRUNTS)
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DRAYDEN: Hi. DAVRIN: Hi. NADIA: Now is not the time for that! DRAYDEN: I'm just being friendly.
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NADIA: Is that what we're calling it now? Friendly? HARIG: You are all crazier than a sack of dried nuts!
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If you won't do your duty, I'll return to the town and send word to the Templars.
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I know they'll enforce the law. (COINS RATTLING) NADIA: There's your blasted coin!
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Now go back to whatever mountain cave you crawled out of and say hi to your goat wife for me.
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(COINS JINGLING) HARIG: (chuckles) There we go. Was that so hard? All I wanted was restitution for my losses.
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I'll be on my merry way now. (FOOTSTEPS) Let no one say I am not a reasonable man!
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(EARTH RUMBLING) (HARIG YELLING) (NADIA EXCLAIMS) (EARTH RUMBLING) DRAYDEN: Earthquake! (EVERYONE YELLING)
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NADIA: Everyone watch out! (EVERYONE YELLING) GOFF: The world, it split open! NADIA: Sinkhole! DAVRIN: Mind the cracks and grab what you can.
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DRAYDEN: Nadia? (NADIA GRUNTS) NADIA: I got you! Hold on! OLLIE: Help! (NADIA PANTS)
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NADIA: Ollie! (OLLIE YELLS) (ALL GRUNTING) GOFF: Go! Save yourself!
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(EARTH CRUMBLING) (GOFF YELLING) DAVRIN: Noooo! GOFF: Go! (ALL GRUNTING) (EARTH CRUMBLING)
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DAVRIN: My story does not end here! NADIA: What are you doing? DAVRIN: I'm going down. See you on the other side.
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NADIA: Wait! (DAVRIN SCREAMS) DRAYDEN: Nadia, I can't hold on. (NADIA GRUNTS) NADIA: Don't think about it! Just do it.
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DRAYDEN: I'm slipping! NADIA: Just a little longer! (DRAYDEN YELLS) NADIA: Drayden!
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NADIA: I'm coming! (grunts) (NADIA YELLS) (BODIES THUD) (NADIA GRUNTS)
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(NADIA GROANS) (MUSIC) (ROCKS CRUMBLING)
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(MUSIC) (MUSIC)
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(DISEMBODIED VOICES WHISPERING) DRAYDEN: (distant) Nadia, are you okay? Hello?
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(SINISTER VOICES ECHOING) Nadia? Nadia, Can you hear me?
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DRAYDEN: Nadia? (NADIA GASPS) NADIA: I'm here, I'm alive. Everything's working.
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How about you? DRAYDEN: Oh yeah, I'm okay. A few bumps. Nothing bad. (WATER DRIPPING)
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NADIA: Ollie? OLLIE: Over here! (WATER DRIPPING) OLLIE: Got an unfortunate case of deja vu, but
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otherwise good. DRAYDEN: Wait, Davrin. Where's Davrin?
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DAVRIN: (grunts) Relax. I'm here. DRAYDEN: Oh! Here, let me look at you. Are you okay? How's your shoulder?
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DAVRIN: (grunts) Stiff but ready for action. DRAYDEN: Oh! (WATER DRIPPING)
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(DRAYDEN CLEARS THEIR THROAT) DRAYDEN: By the way, we never officially met. I'm Draven. I mean Drayden!
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You're Davrin, I'm Drayden. There we go. Kind of meshed our names together. Oops.
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(stammers then coughs) I'm gonna shut up now. DAVRIN: (chuckles) You're...cute, but has anyone seen Goff?
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Goff? Goff! Goff! (NADIA CHUCKLES)
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DRAYDEN: Please, just don't. NADIA: What was it you said to me? Oh yes, "That went well."
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DRAYDEN: And what did you say to me? Oh yes! "Shut up." NADIA: At least now I know there's actually a human in there.
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DRAYDEN: I hate you. NADIA: Nah, I'm like Elfroot. (DRAYDEN GROANS) (GOFF YELLS)
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DAVRIN: Over here! It's Goff. (DRAYDEN AND NADIA PANTING) (RUNNING FOOTSTEPS) NADIA: What's wrong? DAVRIN: His leg is pinned beneath this boulder.
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(DAVRIN GRUNTING) GOFF: Just leave me! DAVRIN: You know that's not an option. (DAVRIN GRUNTING) GOFF: Look at me.
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If you move the boulder, you'll have to take my leg. There's no way I'm walking out of here.
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DAVRIN: Then I'll carry you out. GOFF: Oh, Davrin! DAVRIN: With respect to rank, sir, but that's an order.
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(METAL CLANGS) (GOFF GROANS) NADIA: Come on, everyone push! (ALL GRUNTING)
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DAVRIN: It won't budge. GOFF: I'm telling you- DAVRIN: And I told you no. GOFF: Maker! Your blade is about to snap in two.
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(DAVRIN GROANS) DAVRIN: Do any of you know magic? DRAYDEN: I don't mean to be morbid, but could we possibly just sever the leg?
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NADIA: And they're back. DRAYDEN: What? I don't mean to be curt, but he said so himself!
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He's going to lose the leg one way or the other. NADIA: Drayden! DAVRIN: No, they're right. It's our best option.
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GOFF: I don't suppose anyone has any brandy. OLLIE: Actually, chew this.
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NADIA: What is that? OLLIE: Snailroot. We use it to get through long days. It numbs the brain, slows everything down,
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and it helps block out the pain. GOFF: It's better than nothing. Give me that. (GOFF CHEWING)
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DAVRIN: Drayden. DRAYDEN: Yes? DAVRIN: Take this and tie it around his leg. Make it as tight as you can.
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(GOFF YELLS) DAVRIN: Now, you other two must hold his feet down. The chop will be swift and clean, but don't let him move.
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NADIA: Got it. OLLIE: Will do. GOFF: This root tastes like boiled ass water!
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DAVRIN: Then focus on that because this next part won't be any better.
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DRAYDEN: All tied off. DAVRIN: On my mark. Three, two, one!
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(DAVRIN GRUNTS) (NADIA SCREAMS) (INTENSE RINGING) DAVRIN: (muffled) Hold! What happened?
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DRAYDEN: (muffled) Nadia, come here. I got you. (NADIA MOANS) DAVRIN: (muffled) What's wrong? DRAYDEN: (muffled) We're not sure.
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She's been afflicted by some strange ringing in her mind. It comes and goes.
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DAVRIN: (muffled) Can you stop it? DRAYDEN: (muffled) It usually passes in a few moments. (RINGING CONTINUES) (NADIA GROANING) DAVRIN: Ollie, how long does that root last?
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OLLIE: Oh, he'll be feeling the effects for hours. It's not even peaked yet. GOFF: (laughing) I have to say, despite the taste,
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I very much like this root. (chuckles) DAVRIN: Nadia, are you okay? Look at me.
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NADIA: Sorry. It's uh... I think it's passing. DAVRIN: Give it a few moments to be safe.
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Then we'll try again. NADIA: (panting) Sorry about that. I'm good now.
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DAVRIN: Are you sure? NADIA: Don't worry, I've got this. DAVRIN: You better. (WATER DRIPPING) (OLLIE GASPS)
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OLLIE: Oh, no. Oh, no! DAVRIN: "Oh, no," what, Ollie? OLLIE: They're back! DAVRIN: What is?
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OLLIE: The deep crawlers! DRAYDEN: I'm sorry, but when you say deep crawlers, do you mean- OLLIE: Spiders, yes!
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DRAYDEN: No, no, no, don't tell me that! NADIA: Now is not the time to lose it.
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DRAYDEN: You don't understand. I don't do spiders. I hate them. Like, hate! With a capital H! Just, no!
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NADIA: Well, hate them or not, they're coming! DRAYDEN: (whimpers) I do not like this!
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NADIA: All the same, get your sword ready. OLLIE: You guys? NADIA: Because here they come! (CREATURES SHRIEKING AND CHIRPING)
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DAVRIN: Ollie, stand watch on Goff. The rest of you, what do you say? Most kills wins.
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NADIA: Oh-ho, you're on! Come on, Books! Now's your chance to impress the shoulders! DRAYDEN: I seriously hate you today!
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(NADIA LAUGHS) DRAYDEN: You can do it, you can do this! (ALL GRUNTING)
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(DRAYDEN YELLS) (SQUELCHING) DAVRIN: That's 18 for me! NADIA: 17! Right behind you, Warden.
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DRAYDEN: Did I mention that I hate this? (DAVRIN LAUGHS) NADIA: One left and he's all mine! DAVRIN: Mine!
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(CREATURE SCREAMS) NADIA: You jerk! That was my mark. DAVRIN: Next time, kill first, brag later.
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(ALL PANTING) DRAYDEN: Hey, did you see that? I got three of 'em! (NADIA LAUGHS) (GOFF YELLS)
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DAVRIN: Goff! (INTENSE MUSIC) (ALL PANTING) (CREATURE BELLOWS)
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OLLIE: It's too big! I can't fight it! (CREATURE ROARS) DRAYDEN: What in the name of the holy mother is that thing?
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NADIA: It's monstrous! DAVRIN: It's dead is what it is. GOFF: Davrin, this is mad! Just leave me.
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DAVRIN: I can kill it! NADIA: We need to circle it. Attack from all sides. DAVRIN: Do it. Coordinate your attacks!
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DRAYDEN: Why didn't anyone tell me spiders could get that big? (DAVRIN GRUNTING) NADIA: (grunts) It's too big, I can't get a clean stab.
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(CREATURE SCREAMS) DAVRIN: Target the weak spots! DRAYDEN: What weak spots? (DAVRIN GRUNTS) DAVRIN: Those weak spots.
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NADIA: Got it! (ALL GRUNTING) (BLADES SLICING) DAVRIN: That's it! Keep going!
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DRAYDEN: Just make sure to keep an eye out for more. (ALL GRUNTING) (CREATURES SHRIEKING) NADIA: Stop saying that shit! (DRAYDEN HOWLS)
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(ALL GRUNTING) (BLADES SLICING) (OLLIE YELLS) NADIA: Ollie! Ollie!! (OLLIE SCREAMING)
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DRAYDEN: The spiders got her! GOFF: Davrin, you must go. DAVRIN: No! I will slay them all.
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GOFF: Davrin! There are some odds too great, even for you. (NADIA AND DRAYDEN GRUNTING) (MUSIC)
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Your duty remains unchanged. Press on and remember:
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In war...victory. DAVRIN: In death...sacrifice.
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GOFF: Go. Go! DAVRIN: (yells) Retreat on me. Let's go.
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NADIA: Davrin? DAVRIN: I said, let's go! (ALL PANTING) (CREATURES SQUEAKING)
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DAVRIN: Up there, head for that crevice. NADIA: It looks tight! DAVRIN: Then we will squeeze.
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(CREATURES SQUEAKING) DAVRIN: You two first. Go. DRAYDEN: Nadia?
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NADIA: It'll be fine, Books. Just follow me. (NADIA AND DRAYDEN GRUNTING)
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NADIA: Oh, it's a lot more than tight! Dig in and push! (NADIA GRUNTS) (SOIL CRUNCHES)
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(NADIA HYPERVENTILATES) DRAYDEN: Just breathe, Nadia. Come on.
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You're gonna be okay. (NADIA HYPERVENTILATES) NADIA: I think I'm stuck! Give me a push if you can.
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DRAYDEN: Coming! (NADIA GRUNTS) (NADIA BREATHES HEAVILY)
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NADIA: Damn it Davrin, stop fighting and come on already! DAVRIN: Bleeding thorns, they just keep coming!
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Watch out, I'm pushing through! (ALL GRUNTING)
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DRAYDEN: I see light! NADIA: We're almost there. (ALL GRUNTING) (EARTH CRUMBLING)
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(ALL PANTING)
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DRAYDEN: They're coming through after us! DAVRIN: Hold tight. (DAVRIN YELLS) (EARTH CRUMBLES)
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That should stop them. NADIA: Nice work. (ALL PANTING) (WATER DRIPPING)
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DRAYDEN: Whoa. NADIA: Whoa. DRAYDEN: This chamber, it feels different from the cave.
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I can sense something. DAVRIN: You feel all that lyrium coursing through the walls.
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DRAYDEN: No, it's more than that. The Veil is thin here. We should be careful.
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(WATER DRIPPING) DAVRIN: There's a tunnel over there. That must be the way out. Let's go.
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NADIA: Wait. DRAYDEN: What is it? NADIA: There's a mosaic here. Look at those figures. Wolves.
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DRAYDEN: Let me see. (WATER DRIPPING) Hey, Davrin, can you look at this inscription?
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I think it's Elven, but I can't read it. (WATER DRIPPING) DAVRIN: It's an ancient dialect.
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It says, "Guide me on the path that splits the land
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between sun and moon." DRAYDEN: Fascinating. NADIA: Okay, Books. What's your take?
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DRAYDEN: This is no ordinary mosaic. Look at the way the circle is split down the middle. The top half is onyx. It's like a mirror!
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(WATER DRIPPING) DRAYDEN: Look close. You can see your reflection in the darkness.
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And this portrait below, the figures are upside down and pointing to the stars.
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DAVRIN: Ah, see those small wolf totems? Those are just like the ones the Dalish place in their camps in Arlathan.
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They're for the Dread Wolf. (WATER DRIPPING) DRAYDEN: It's trying to tell us something, but I don't see it.
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(WATER DRIPPING) NADIA: Are those the stars? DRAYDEN: For the love of Andraste, you're a genius!
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NADIA: I am? DRAYDEN: The people are pointing to the sky! The stars are a clue. NADIA: A clue for what?
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DRAYDEN: Ah, for this! (MAGICAL TWINKLING) Push these tiles and it activates.
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(MAGICAL TWINKLING INTENSIFIES) (MUSIC)
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(MUSIC) NADIA: What's happening? DRAYDEN: I'm not entirely sure.
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(MAGICAL TWINKLING) (MUSIC) NADIA: Should the lyrium be glowing like this?
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DAVRIN: By the lost Dales... DRAYDEN: The mosaic is opening some sort of energy fissure.
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I think it's a portal! DAVRIN: No, it's a choice: The portal or the tunnel.
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(MUSIC) The floor is sinking to force our hand! We have to choose. We have to choose now.
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NADIA: We're not taking the tunnel. DRAYDEN: What? NADIA: The Dread Wolf! Whatever he was doing, he came for this portal.
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So wherever this leads, that's where I have to go. DRAYDEN: Well, if you go, I go.
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DAVRIN: If you go, I cannot follow. My duty is here to the Wardens.
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NADIA: I understand. DAVRIN: Are you sure this is what you want? NADIA: My love. He waits for me.
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DAVRIN: Then may Andruil guide you on your path. DRAYDEN: Hey, Davrin? I...
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Well, I... DAVRIN: (chuckles) I hope to see you again, too. (DRAYDEN LAUGHS NERVOUSLY)
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DAVRIN: Farewell, my new friends. (grunts)
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NADIA: You don't have to do this. You can go with Captain Shoulders if you want. DRAYDEN: And miss this adventure? You must be mad.
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Take my hand. We'll take the leap together. NADIA: (sighs) Thanks, Books.
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(DRAYDEN YELLS) (NADIA GRUNTS) (MUSIC)
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(MUSIC)
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(INTENSE MUSIC) (INTENSE MUSIC)
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(INTENSE MUSIC) NARRATOR: Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance
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is a production of Electronic Arts in association with Pod People. Based on the award-winning video game franchise
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from BioWare. Learn more about the world of Dragon Age in its latest game, Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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by visiting dragonage.com. Rated M for mature. (MUSIC)
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Directed by Matt Sav. Written by Will Melton and Jeremy Novick.
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Featuring the voices of Mae Whitman as Nadia,
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Brigette Lundy-Paine as Drayden, Armen Taylor as Elio,
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Ike Amadi as Davrin. Also featuring Jillian Kinsey as Ollie.
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Additional voices by Sabrina Fest, Roslyn Gentle, Damien Gerard, Daniel Lench,
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Isaac Gonzalez Rossi, Sean Thomas Simmons, Charles Halford, and Brandon Gill as narrator.
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Creative and narrative direction by Todd Stallkamp. BioWare narrative development and support
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by Mary De Marle and John Epler. Editorial direction by Will Melton.
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Producers for Electronic Arts, Alex Bader and Chris Beckett.
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Production Management by Bryan Rivers. Assistant direction by Ashton Carter.
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Story development by Todd Stallkamp, Will Milton,
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Matt Sav, and Jeremy Novick. Associate producing and script supervision
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by Hannah Rae Leach. Casting by Alaine Aldaffer, Lisa Donadio,
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Lindsey Ploussard, and Alex Vikmanis. Sound design by Michael Aquino,
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Morgane Fouse, and Carter Wogahn. Dialogue editing by Michael Aquino and Carter Wogahn.
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Mixing and mastering by Morgane Fouse. Featuring original music by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe.
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Executive producers for Pod People, Matt Sav and Rachael King.
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Electronic Arts brand and marketing leads, Kari Hale and Olivier Tse.
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Electronic Arts design, Hugo Ugaz and Jacob Meyer.
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BioWare special thanks to Ashley Barlow, Cody Behiel,
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Hilary Hidey, Steve Lam, Crystal McCord, and Patrick Weekes.
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Electronic Arts special thanks to Kevin Maher, Jacklyn Gilson, Rick Dressler,
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Marcie Galea, Krysta Trezise, Joe Gatdula, Jon Bailey,
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Greg Joson, and Ritual Khanna. Dragon Age: The Veilguard, a single player RPG,
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launches fall 2024 on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.
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Begin your adventure at dragonage.com. Rated M for Mature.
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(MUSIC) NARRATOR: Next time on Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance.
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DRAYDEN: I've never seen anything like this. The forest shifts like a prism, magic rippling everywhere.
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I'm drawn to its majesty, but repelled by its unsettling power.
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BELLARA: I'm Bellara, and as you've probably surmised, I'm a Veil Jumper. This is Arlathan Forest, or what's left of it.
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(BRANCHES CRUNCHING) NADIA: I can't take this. I just wanna go home!
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Elio, I'm so sorry. I should have just said yes that morning. I should have never left or taken that job,
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I was just afraid, I- SPEAKER 1: Eyes on the portal, coming in three...
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Two... (grunts) One! NADIA: Elio, we're coming!
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SPEAKER 2: (laughs) And just where do you think you're going? (MUSIC)
Set in the vast world of Thedas, Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance was created in collaboration with BioWare and based on their award-winning video game franchise, Dragon Age. This 8-episode immersive fantasy series features a pair of heroes brought together by fate as they embark on a journey of revenge, redemption, and love.
The series stars Mae Whitman as Nadia, Brigette Lundy-Paine as Drayden, and Armen Taylor as Elio.
Nadia, a retired cat burglar, is lured back into action for the thrill of one last score. Unknowingly employed by the Dread Wolf, Nadia tracks down a powerful ancient artifact and both she and her lover, Elio, find themselves caught in a web of lies that threaten the entire world. When Elio is seemingly banished to the Fade - a mystical magical plane - Nadia desperately searches for answers on a rescue mission across Thedas.
Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance
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A New Weekly Narrative Podcast Starting August 29th
Hey everyone,
We’re back with more Dragon Age: The Veilguard news! We know that you’re excited to get to know more about our companions and embark on your own adventure to save Thedas. Starting August 26th, we’ll be hosting Companions Week on our social media to give you a deeper dive on our seven allies. In addition to that, how about another little side quest?
We’re happy to announce our upcoming immersive fantasy podcast series, Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance, where you’ll meet a new pair of heroes, along with the 7 Veilguard Companions, brought together by fate as they embark on a journey of revenge, redemption, and love - all set in Thedas.
Beginning on August 29th, this eight part weekly narrative series stars podcast-exclusive characters voiced by Mae Whitman, Brigette Lundy-Paine, and Armen Taylor, and also features all of our companions from Dragon Age: The Veilguard: Harding (Ali Hillis), Davrin (Ike Amadi), Bellara (Jee Young Han), Neve (Jessica Clark), Taash (Jin Maley), Emmrich (Nick Boraine) alongside Manfred (Matt Mercer), and Lucanis (Zach Mendez). Throughout the series, you’ll be able to learn more about each of their extraordinary backstories. This podcast is written by Will Melton and Jeremy Novick, with BioWare narrative support from Mary De Marle and John Epler. Check out the teaser for it here.
When the first episode airs, you’ll meet Nadia, a retired thief unknowingly working for the Dread Wolf. Nadia and her lover, Elio, find themselves in the midst of something much greater than them - a threat to the entire world - until Elio is seemingly banished to the Fade. Enter: Drayden, a writer with an interesting connection to the Fade. Drayden and Nadia team up on an arduous adventure to rescue Elio from the Fade with a little help from some familiar friendly faces.
Don’t miss a single episode - mark your calendars with the full podcast release schedule below:
8/29 - Episode 1: Featuring Nadia and Elio
9/5 - Episode 2: Featuring Harding
9/12 - Episode 3: Featuring Davrin
9/19 - Episode 4: Featuring Bellara
9/26 - Episode 5: Featuring Taash
10/3 - Episode 6: Featuring Lucanis
10/10 - Episode 7: Featuring Emmrich
10/17 - Episode 8: Featuring Neve
Join us in the BioWare Discord Server for weekly “listening parties” in #Vows-and-Vengeance, where we’ll set up a discussion thread for each episode to listen and speculate together.
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