What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

Dear Diary,

today Blackwall, Vivienne, Sera and I went to Redcliffe to see what Grand Enchanter Fiona had to offer. Strangely, Fiona denied having invited us and revealed, that the mages had pledged themselves to a Tevinter magister. Great, just what we needed.

We then met Magister Alexuius who wanted to negotiate. To my annoyance our talks were interrupted by his son Felix, who supposedly suffers from some kind of illness and the Magister hurried off to coddle him.
I was surprised to find out that Felix had slipped me a note, asking me to come to the Chantry and claiming we were in danger.

My curiosity got the better of me and so we went to the meeting. Of course, a rift had opened in there somehow and another Tevinter with a hideous moustache asked for my help.
Long story short: We did, I closed the damn thing and Dorian introduced himself. I told him outright that I did not trust him, but he didn't seem impressed. He claimed the time magic was Alexius' doing and that he had joined some fanatic cult. And guess what: All that just to get to me.

Back in Haven I consulted my advisors about all this and we decided to look further into the matter. [OOC: Just my luck, rolling IHW. Was hoping for CotJ. Meh.]

Alexius had invited us to Redcliffe castle to continue our negotiation and everyone knew it was a trap. I still decided to go and as if I had no word in the matter, Dorian insisted on coming along. I still did not trust him but since Leliana had found a way to sneak our people in as well, I wasn't too worried.
Oh how wrong I was.

Well. Alexius was pissed and started babbling about some Elder One and that I was just a mistake. He did not make much sense. He asked what I would give him in exchange for the mages and when I said 'nothing' Sera broke into a laughing fit. Which undermined my authority a little, but whatever.

Alexius tried to have us killed but Leliana's people were faster. So he threw a tantrum instead. Remember the weird time magic we encountered before? He used that again but on a larger scale and Dorian and I wound up in a dystopian future one year from now. Red lyrium and demons galore. It was not pretty.

Dorian proved to be helpful at least and we managed to locate Blackwall and Sera, or rather their future selfs, and convince them to help us find Alexius and reverse the spell so that none of this would happen. We found Leliana, too, and boy was she bitter. Almost bit my head off when I said that none of this had actually happened. She had totally lost it. In the end all three of them sacrificed themselves so Dorian and I could return and undo this mess. Of course only after Alexius, who had gone even crazier, put up a fight, opening rifts and shit. At least we made it back and he surrendered immediately. We put him in a cell in Haven, I'm not sure what we should do with him.

And if you now think, 'Well, Dagna, this was one hell of day' you just wait for it, because it got even better!

When Alexius stood down, Fiona asked me (and the King of Ferelden, who was there, too, btw!) where the mages should go now. I told her that the Inquistion could offer protection. Then I conscripted them and Fiona was not happy about that. Well, they had given themselves to Tevinter, for crying out loud, how were we supposed to let them run around freely? Blackwall shook his head in disapproval.

So, now that we had the power we went to close the Breach. Surprisingly it worked well enough and everything was rainbows and sunshine from then on.
Or not.



Because in the middle of our little victory party the the Elder One arrived, army in tow. Oh and also he brought an archdemon. I was SO close to just throw down my weapons and go home.

But I didn't.

So we did the only thing we could do: try to fight them. It didn't go too well, people died all around and it was basically a bloodbath. Mister 'bring that dwarf to her execution for killing the Divine' (I don't remember his name) took his sweet time to tell us about a hidden path that we could use to get away. Don't you just hate it when people try to tell you something important but start with the day of their birth? Yeah, but well, he finally came to the point that was actually important and so most of our people went. Not me though, I was determined to give them as much time as I possibly could.

Blackwall, Dorian and Sera accompanied me and we hacked and slashed and burned through lots and lots of Red Templars. Those guys are hardcore, actually eating the red lyrium! Some of them looked pretty freakish, I don't think it's healthy, but who asks my opinion, right?

Anyways, we managed to kill everything that threw itself at us and when we were just ready to fire that damned trebuchet, the Elder One cheated by sending his stupid dragon/archdemon thing again.

He then descended himself, telling me, again, that I was a mistake and that I should never have gotten that anchor and he was about to take it back. Well, what can I say, it didn't work.
He then told me he would kill me, which also didn't work. (Who would be writing this stuff then anyhow?) He was basically one of those fools who like the sound of their own voice too much. By the time he had finished his monologue I already had launched the trebuchet and he had to get rescued by his dragon.

Unfortunately, the blast pushed my into some cave or something and it took like forever to find the way to where the others had fled. I should have just followed the shouting. (Cullen, Leliana, Cassandra and Josephine were yelling at each other loud enough that even the guys down in Orzammar must have heard them.)

Mother Giselle bothered me with her Chantry talk and I barely listened. When trying to get away from her and have some peace and quiet she started singing. SINGING, of all things. For some reasons the others joined in. They sang at me and knelt before me. Which was weird.

Fortunately Solas pulled me away to talk. Then he said I should be the guide and scout to the north and so I did. It was nice of him to let me take the fame for finding Skyhold when it was in fact him who nudged me in the right direction.

They then decided that I should officially become the leader of that whole thing. At first, I did not want to since only a few days ago everyone hated me, but hey, more power to me. So I took the huge-ass sword and everyone cheered.

Later I used that sword to lopp of Alexius' head.


And that's all that happened today, my dear diary.

Tomorrow I will be meeting a mysterious contact Varric had conjured up. I'm curious who it might be.

See you then,
Dagna

[OOC: Sadly I'm really bad at remembering all the mood swings my little Dagne goes through, since it's a random PT and well, everything's random. She's causing quite a little confusion and her companions don't know if they love her or hate her. It's fun!

Not so much fun is that Solas told her yesterday that he cares about much in the world. Just not her. Ouch.]