Chapter 1- Ostagar: First Impressions
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Author's Notes: Right then...what I'm trying to go for as you read is a mix of genuine drama with audacious humor. I may fail horribly in the attempt, but I'm sure we'll both have fun seeing what kind of mess I make.In case having all six origins present wasn't a tip, a few things may change in future occurances from how they went in the game. Again, this is a parody of Dragon Age so don't expect it to be more than 80% faithful to source material. As for the storyteller, I'll leave that for you to figure out.
Chapter 1- Ostagar: First Impressions
Chapter 1- Ostagar: First Impressions
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Chapter 2: Ostagar-Camp Interactions
Question: Does self-defense count as murder if the victim was provoked into attacking?
Question: Does self-defense count as murder if the victim was provoked into attacking?
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Chapter 3 - Ostagar: Into the Wilds
Another Question: How come Duncan could only get close to a few dozen wardens within a 20 year time span?
Another Question: How come Duncan could only get close to a few dozen wardens within a 20 year time span?
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Chapter 4 - Ostagar: Demons, Darkspawn and Witches
Retrospect: When you sit down and think about it...that scout may have been infected. So killing him may have been the better choice or else he'd infect the already disadvantaged army.
Retrospect: When you sit down and think about it...that scout may have been infected. So killing him may have been the better choice or else he'd infect the already disadvantaged army.
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Chapter 5 - The Joining Before the Storm
Curiosity: I wonder if there's ever been a joining where nobody died...unlikely.
Curiosity: I wonder if there's ever been a joining where nobody died...unlikely.
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Chapter 6 - War Unto The Breach
Why did people think of the opening war scene?
Why did people think of the opening war scene?
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Chapter 7- Ostagar: Further Up and Further In
Question: Why didn't Cailan's men put Firebombs into the catapult boulders and use those on the darkspawn?
Question: Why didn't Cailan's men put Firebombs into the catapult boulders and use those on the darkspawn?
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Chapter 8: Ostagar: Signal the Darkness
It's kind of a pain to copy entire chapters onto one post, so here's a link like most other people are doing.
Enjoy.
It's kind of a pain to copy entire chapters onto one post, so here's a link like most other people are doing.
Enjoy.
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Chapter 9: In Death, Sacrifice
What do people think of my additions to the darkspawn horde? Out of place? Overpowered? Be honest.
What do people think of my additions to the darkspawn horde? Out of place? Overpowered? Be honest.
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Chapter 11: Bark Over To Lothering
One of the wardens aren't very stable, can you guess which one it is?
One of the wardens aren't very stable, can you guess which one it is?
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Chapter 12- Lothering: Cage in the Refuge
Am I the only one who ever tried to just pick the lock on Sten's cage?
Am I the only one who ever tried to just pick the lock on Sten's cage?
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Chapter 13 - Lothering: Chant of Song and Drink
Cheer up Amell, there are countries where marrying cousins is not only accepted but encouraged. So once you find a dimensional transportation spell, you and Bethany won't have any problems...
Legally at least...I think we've established that Amell's moral compass isn't...normal...
Cheer up Amell, there are countries where marrying cousins is not only accepted but encouraged. So once you find a dimensional transportation spell, you and Bethany won't have any problems...
Legally at least...I think we've established that Amell's moral compass isn't...normal...
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Chapter 14- Lothering: Bridge of Force and Spirit
And that wraps up Lothering...seriously, I remember completing this one in less than an hour even with the side-quests.
And that wraps up Lothering...seriously, I remember completing this one in less than an hour even with the side-quests.
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Chapter 15 - Travel Tales I
Author's Notes:
Just a short episode that shows what the wardens did in between cities for character development and humor.
Author's Notes:
Just a short episode that shows what the wardens did in between cities for character development and humor.
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Chapter 16 - Travel Tales II
Second of the Travel Tales complete!
Should be nearing/at the Mage's Tower at the end of the next chapter or the one after that.
Second of the Travel Tales complete!
Should be nearing/at the Mage's Tower at the end of the next chapter or the one after that.
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Chapter 17 - Lake Calenhad: Drink the Bath
Okay! We've made it to Lake Calenhad! Will Durin kill Mairon? Will Mairon kill Durin? Or will this little incident become water under the bridge? Will the Lake residents get to witness Lily pole-dance and strip for them? Or will they end up indebted to the Grey Wardens? How will the wardens get pass a much more stalwart Carroll? Will they simply wait until he goes to sleep to sneak away with the boats?
All of these questions and more will be answered in Chapter 18 of Wardens!
Also, I've put some thought into where I'm taking this story and decided to bump up the rating to M for safety and because the base game that the story is based on is already M-rated.
Okay! We've made it to Lake Calenhad! Will Durin kill Mairon? Will Mairon kill Durin? Or will this little incident become water under the bridge? Will the Lake residents get to witness Lily pole-dance and strip for them? Or will they end up indebted to the Grey Wardens? How will the wardens get pass a much more stalwart Carroll? Will they simply wait until he goes to sleep to sneak away with the boats?
All of these questions and more will be answered in Chapter 18 of Wardens!
Also, I've put some thought into where I'm taking this story and decided to bump up the rating to M for safety and because the base game that the story is based on is already M-rated.
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Chapter 18: Lake Calenhad - Rowing On A Prayer
Oh hypocrisy...It's just...it's really hard to keep from seeming biased towards the Chantry when you sit and think about the stuff that it endorses.
It says that God loves us, but that mages and elves need to be caged off from the rest of society for the convenience of the common folk. They're both treated as second-class citizens because of something that a small minority of them may have done generations ago and Chantry-influenced law complete turns the other way when stuff happens to them.
Blood magic is evil, but using a mage's blood to track them if they decided to go on a run around the lake is okay...
Templars are trained in a branch of magic (This is canon, as I mentioned earlier Gaider confirmed this) and then given a substance that will enhance said "non-magic" at the cost of making the templar addicted to the substance and ending up as a mindless broken old man later in their lives...
Not to say that blood magic can't be a problem, not to say that magic is something to be taken lightly, not to say that the Dales weren't blameless in that situation...but still people, I'm surprised that no one else tried Anders' stunt earlier.
Afterall, we are dealing with a religion that actively endorses racism, prejudice, segregation, lobotomy, systematic addiction and mass murder! Kind of hard not to biased against them, you know? And even if you did compare them to say: the Tevinter Imperium or the Qunari and conclude that the Chantry isn't as bad as either of those two...it's still a depressing thought people...
Your choice for a major way of life are either a hypocritical chantry that does what I just mentioned; an empire run by power-hungry mages that is responsible for the existence of the darkspawn and still practices slavery; or serving under horned-giants that regulate every portion of your life and will kill you if you do not submit to the Qun.
Oh hypocrisy...It's just...it's really hard to keep from seeming biased towards the Chantry when you sit and think about the stuff that it endorses.
It says that God loves us, but that mages and elves need to be caged off from the rest of society for the convenience of the common folk. They're both treated as second-class citizens because of something that a small minority of them may have done generations ago and Chantry-influenced law complete turns the other way when stuff happens to them.
Blood magic is evil, but using a mage's blood to track them if they decided to go on a run around the lake is okay...
Templars are trained in a branch of magic (This is canon, as I mentioned earlier Gaider confirmed this) and then given a substance that will enhance said "non-magic" at the cost of making the templar addicted to the substance and ending up as a mindless broken old man later in their lives...
Not to say that blood magic can't be a problem, not to say that magic is something to be taken lightly, not to say that the Dales weren't blameless in that situation...but still people, I'm surprised that no one else tried Anders' stunt earlier.
Afterall, we are dealing with a religion that actively endorses racism, prejudice, segregation, lobotomy, systematic addiction and mass murder! Kind of hard not to biased against them, you know? And even if you did compare them to say: the Tevinter Imperium or the Qunari and conclude that the Chantry isn't as bad as either of those two...it's still a depressing thought people...
Your choice for a major way of life are either a hypocritical chantry that does what I just mentioned; an empire run by power-hungry mages that is responsible for the existence of the darkspawn and still practices slavery; or serving under horned-giants that regulate every portion of your life and will kill you if you do not submit to the Qun.
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Chapter 19: Circle Tower - Born of Blood
And so with this next installment in the Mage Arc, the story continues!
As for the cliffhanger, this is actually something that happened to me in the game. Anyone else whose played Origins has to recall that one frustrating occasion where two to three mages would be waiting for you and as soon as you were seen, one would cast Blood Wound while the others hammer you with chain lightning or fireball and when that Blood Wound expired, the other two would just use Blood Wound again, rinse, lather and repeat until game over.
The only difference is that these blood mages are relatively and canonically new to this newfound ability, which will be the only reason that the Wardens found a way to escape and kill them before they were unceremoniously murdered.
Also, you'd think that the team would stop letting Mairon touch magical stuff with all the bad things that happens when he does? Will this trend continue or will this Arc give plenty of reason for the wardens to be wary of their resident blood ma- I mean Force Mage! Force mage is what I meant!
And yet again, I'm finding it difficult to not be ticked and bias against the Chantry. But they're making it so hard! Why do you even need templars when we have the Litany of Adralla?
And so with this next installment in the Mage Arc, the story continues!
As for the cliffhanger, this is actually something that happened to me in the game. Anyone else whose played Origins has to recall that one frustrating occasion where two to three mages would be waiting for you and as soon as you were seen, one would cast Blood Wound while the others hammer you with chain lightning or fireball and when that Blood Wound expired, the other two would just use Blood Wound again, rinse, lather and repeat until game over.
The only difference is that these blood mages are relatively and canonically new to this newfound ability, which will be the only reason that the Wardens found a way to escape and kill them before they were unceremoniously murdered.
Also, you'd think that the team would stop letting Mairon touch magical stuff with all the bad things that happens when he does? Will this trend continue or will this Arc give plenty of reason for the wardens to be wary of their resident blood ma- I mean Force Mage! Force mage is what I meant!
And yet again, I'm finding it difficult to not be ticked and bias against the Chantry. But they're making it so hard! Why do you even need templars when we have the Litany of Adralla?
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Chapter 20: Circle Tower: Arcane Desire
To those who are wondering why Lily is suddenly being controlled by a Desire Demon don't worry it's not an asspull. Remember that Desire Demons thrive on screwing with people's desires, envy, lust, fears and other emotional baggage and using those emotions for their own ends. Considering that any single warden could have a multitude of psychological issues, then it shouldn't be a surprise that a Desire Demon can warp those issues for it's own amusement.
Kudos to the hunters who hunted down and sealed those revenants that you free from the black vials by touching them...but I have a small question...
WHY WERE THEY IN FRAGILE PHYLACTERIES?
Whose bright idea was it to seal a Revenant inside of a fragile phylactery? Are you high? And to seal six of them in different phylacteries? Within places that any ordinary person can stumble across them and accidently shatter the phylactery, releasing the potently dangerous revenant from within it?
Why couldn't they just seal them inside of lamps and send them to Orlais as a sick joke? Disguise themselves as merchants and have people pay thousands of sovereigns for lamps that contain genies which grant wishes. You'd never have to worry about people wanting their money back unless anyone rich enough to pay for the lamp or steal it happens to be a badass who can go toe to toe with a demonic warrior and live to tell the tale. Anyone else would be screwed and you'd make a fortune.
Or how about sealing them within little gems like the one in the Elven Ruins? They're easy to hide and aren't easily destroyed like fragile glass phylacteries are. Why not exorcise the demonic spirit from the Revenant, place it within a willing mage and immediately kill the mage, destroying the demon along with them? Why weren't these phylacteries placed under Chantry Supervision? Did the Chantry not believe the hunter's story about sealing revenants inside of glass bottles? Or were they pissed off that a random muggle was able to perform a feat that most templars could only dream of accomplishing? Not to mention actually containing and ridding the world of a legitimate force of evil?
To those who are wondering why Lily is suddenly being controlled by a Desire Demon don't worry it's not an asspull. Remember that Desire Demons thrive on screwing with people's desires, envy, lust, fears and other emotional baggage and using those emotions for their own ends. Considering that any single warden could have a multitude of psychological issues, then it shouldn't be a surprise that a Desire Demon can warp those issues for it's own amusement.
Kudos to the hunters who hunted down and sealed those revenants that you free from the black vials by touching them...but I have a small question...
WHY WERE THEY IN FRAGILE PHYLACTERIES?
Whose bright idea was it to seal a Revenant inside of a fragile phylactery? Are you high? And to seal six of them in different phylacteries? Within places that any ordinary person can stumble across them and accidently shatter the phylactery, releasing the potently dangerous revenant from within it?
Why couldn't they just seal them inside of lamps and send them to Orlais as a sick joke? Disguise themselves as merchants and have people pay thousands of sovereigns for lamps that contain genies which grant wishes. You'd never have to worry about people wanting their money back unless anyone rich enough to pay for the lamp or steal it happens to be a badass who can go toe to toe with a demonic warrior and live to tell the tale. Anyone else would be screwed and you'd make a fortune.
Or how about sealing them within little gems like the one in the Elven Ruins? They're easy to hide and aren't easily destroyed like fragile glass phylacteries are. Why not exorcise the demonic spirit from the Revenant, place it within a willing mage and immediately kill the mage, destroying the demon along with them? Why weren't these phylacteries placed under Chantry Supervision? Did the Chantry not believe the hunter's story about sealing revenants inside of glass bottles? Or were they pissed off that a random muggle was able to perform a feat that most templars could only dream of accomplishing? Not to mention actually containing and ridding the world of a legitimate force of evil?
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Chapter 21: Circle Tower: Reconcile and Fade
Author's Notes:
Thus we enter the Fade!
Seeing as that the Mage Arc is primarily Mairon's Arc since that is his Origin Home, I started out the Fade Dreams with his. All of the Wardens will have their own unique dreams since the Duncan scenario was weak within the vanilla game anyway. Each dream will focus on the wardens darkest fears, desires and dreams from the past and present. Some will be aware that it is not real while others will be too blind-sided to even try to find the seams.
With Mairon, this is an insight into his past and his "connection" to Kirkwall that he claims to have had nothing to do with when he first met Bethany.
To those who were confused about how Revan defeat Desire Demon addled-Lily, he used her own emotions against her. First pissing her off to get her off of him and then her conflicting emotions would cause her to lash out at the first thing that she saw or touched. Sadly, that was the desire demon and from then on, Revan just had to talk down Tabris and break down the Demon's spell by showing Lily that he was not the source of Lily's anger.
I'll conclude this note with a warning for the following section of the Circle Tower Arc: The Fade Dreams will likely be the climax of the arc and will involve an event that will amount to at least 10% of non-faithfulness to Canon. I'm not going to confirm if this has anything to do with the codex that Mairon was reading or if it's an event that will positively affect the wardens. I'm just giving out the warning.
Later folks!
Author's Notes:
Thus we enter the Fade!
Seeing as that the Mage Arc is primarily Mairon's Arc since that is his Origin Home, I started out the Fade Dreams with his. All of the Wardens will have their own unique dreams since the Duncan scenario was weak within the vanilla game anyway. Each dream will focus on the wardens darkest fears, desires and dreams from the past and present. Some will be aware that it is not real while others will be too blind-sided to even try to find the seams.
With Mairon, this is an insight into his past and his "connection" to Kirkwall that he claims to have had nothing to do with when he first met Bethany.
To those who were confused about how Revan defeat Desire Demon addled-Lily, he used her own emotions against her. First pissing her off to get her off of him and then her conflicting emotions would cause her to lash out at the first thing that she saw or touched. Sadly, that was the desire demon and from then on, Revan just had to talk down Tabris and break down the Demon's spell by showing Lily that he was not the source of Lily's anger.
I'll conclude this note with a warning for the following section of the Circle Tower Arc: The Fade Dreams will likely be the climax of the arc and will involve an event that will amount to at least 10% of non-faithfulness to Canon. I'm not going to confirm if this has anything to do with the codex that Mairon was reading or if it's an event that will positively affect the wardens. I'm just giving out the warning.
Later folks!
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