What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

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Not exactly spot on, but the darn PC in the CC kept fidgeting!  

Ok the, The Heralds log (haahaahaa seth she a bit uppity). Feels a bit weird all this. Herraaald of AndrASSti(t). So, the dasher sent me to infiltrate this big meeting the chantry divine was holding. The divine was hoping for a truce or at least cease-fire between the mages and the templars. I’m not sure what we wanted because selling to both sides had been somewhat lucrative but on the other hand hazardous and unstable. Anyway, I went there and was doing my snooping around.
And then I woke up in iron and chains.



Accused of murdering the divine, blowing up the temple of sacred ashes and killing thousands of innocents along with a fair number of not so innocent mages and templars. By the stone, I’m certainly no innocent little girl but blowing up the divine would be pointless and stupid. For me that is.
Well something happened up there and I was like the only survivor. I also had a strange green mark on my left hand. It would constantly fluctuate and pulse and as the pulses grew stronger so did the pain. Take one look at my face and you´ll know I´m no stranger to pain. I´ve dealt pain and I´ve taken pain in abundance but this…this is something else entirely.



Well, long story short there was a breach through to the fade were the temple of sacred ashes used to be, and a lot of smaller rifts all over southern Thedas apparently. Through the rifts and the breach demons kept coming. I guess it´s raining demons. Halle-effing-lujah. Talk about being on loose sand.
My jailors were a hard case chantry soldier called Cassandra and someone called Leliana. They were doing good cop-bad cop. I told them to stuff it.



Leliana soon spilled the beans with “we need her Cassandra”. My ace turned out to be my mark. Not my broken nose, my scars, or my carta tattoo but my green glowing hand.



Someone called “Solas” believed my mark could be used to close the rifts. Cassandra released me under the condition that I came with her to the nearest rift to see what could be done. Yup, didn’t run. I mean where to anyway. That’s when I saw the Breach myself for the first time and it was huge. Stone´s balls. We had to wade through demons just to get to the closest rift and there were even more there. Well I closed the rift.



Or the mark did. I’m not sure if proximity was enough to do it because the energy didn’t start pass between mark and rift ´til my mind screamed CLOSE!
So Solas turned out to be an elven apostate. This bald guy had kept me alive after the soldiers found me up at the temple. Stone-met knife ear. Nah just kidding. Not the stone-met part. Thanks’ Solas. There was one other noteworthy person there. A shifty looking cloud gazer called Varric. Yeah, I know. THE Varric Tethras.



Together we made it up to the forward camp where I had the displeasure to meet chancellor Roderick. He hated my guts. Well, he was full of sod anyway. Between him, Leliana and Cassandra it was clear that no one was really in charge even though seeker Cassandra seemed to pull most weight. So, I began to assert myself.




We made it up to the temple or what was left of it following a path through mines. We rescued some soldiers, killed some demons, and closed yet another rift on the way. The place was just molten rock, ashes, and corpses now. The breach was a loooooooong way up. We could reach the primary rift however. While making our way down to the bottom of the crater we all had the same vision. Solas said that it was the fade bleeding into the area. A memory of what had happened. Someone had been there to sacrifice Divine Justinia and I had heard her plea for help. Well it sorts of proved I was innocent to her killing anyway.



That´s a way to blow off the dust to find a vein of silver.
So, the primary rift was closed albeit temporarily (Solas´s wording not mine ha). To close it permanently I had to open and then close it. Which of course meant guests from the other side. With the rift open several shades and a huge pride demon came through from the fade. We sent them back to other side and I started channeling the rift but the energy that was released as I closed the primary rift was enormous and I blacked out. The next time I woke up I was in a bed. Dressed in a doublet and no iron and chains. The mark felt different, stable. There was an elf servant who called me “lady”. It seemed my station had changed.

So Southern Thedas has been cleared of all High Dragons the Inquisition has any intelligence on. They each went down magnificently, but they did go down, and now I am one of the greatest Dragon Hunters in Theadas history.

Also I have done a bit of Tomb Raiding. The Tomb of Fairiel might be one of the most fascinating archeoloigical discoveries in recent years. And the Inquisition was a part of it. Not sure why the Venatori was so interested in it or what practical means it has. There is even still a few holes in the history but with all due respect it was still fine.

Solas meanwhile...respects me. But it still seems he is holding something back. Like he wanted to tell me something. Honestly his respect for me troubles him a lot more then him not respecting me...I don't know why.

And...we got information that One of my mercenary companies...led by Sutherland...is in trouble. Sending Josephine off to investigate.