Hii, this is my first Dragon Age fanfic, and English is not my native tongue, so I apologize in advance for unnatural vocabulary usage. Some details of the Dragon Age story might be inaccurate as I didn't properly check everything. But rest assured, I'll continue this story since it's my way of improving my vocabulary usage.
Disclaimer: Aside from original creation of Bioware, I owned everything else.
400 years since Garahel struck the killing blow that put the end to the Fourth Blight. People of Thedas immerged themselves in relative peace; they seemed to have slowly forgotten Fourth Blight's dreadful story. Nobles returned to their bickering while common folks continued with their meager life. Legendary tales of Gray Wardens' heroic deeds continually faded back into forgettable books within libraries.
Like always heroes have been forgotten in the stream of time, but threat has yet to be vanquished. Every year passed and Wardens stood vigilant against invisible hoards of darkspawn. Only the dwarves who suffered most since the First Blight appreciated this thankless sacrifices.
So it was unsurprising when the Fifth Blight returned in Year 9.30 Dragon Age that Thedas was wholly ill-ed prepared against the dark hoard. Old God Urthemiel unleashed waves of destruction against Thedas. Ferelden, the newly emerged kingdom known to the Orlesian as the land of doglords, was caught in its first strike. The blow destroyed most of Ferelden's assembled army and swept through the land seemingly unchecked. It would have been the end of the kingdom, and the Blight would have spread its taint far beyond a mere region had it been anywhere else.
Then she appeared.
A mere still-wet-in-the-ears mage who just undertook her hollowing. She should have been swallowed whole along with most of her companions by the Blight. Alas, fate seemed to have other plans, and Surana herself was anything but yielding.
Kathynia Surana was the last person who would yield to her doomed fate, and she was the first person to leap ahead of everyone simply to survive. She is an Elven girl with an ambition; one she's unwilling to let it die.
Thus, woven fabric of destiny bent to her will…
Urthemiel, the dreadful Old God of Beauty struggled and was killed atop Fort Drakon. Its army dispersed and scattered everywhere. Miraculously, she who struck the killing blow survived, along with most of her companions, even the well-intended but traitorous Loghain Mac Tir.
Newly crowned King Alistair and Queen Anora declared Ferelden Circle's independent to the Chantry in the following celebration. The events sent shock waves across Thedas.
Not only was Kathynia Surana the first ever Warden to survive the killing blow, but over the year she had been renowned as one of the brightest and most powerful battle mages in Thedas. Stories have been repeatedly told by the eyewitnesses and twisted into something more ridiculous about how powerful and invincible she was in the battle against the Old God.
Coupled with even more daring declaration of Ferelden Circle's independent, Divine Beatrice III was incensed beyond belief as mages' reputation gain foothold in the Southern land. Allowing the Chantry access into Andrastate's final resting place atop temples on the Frostback Mountain was one of Ferelden's saving graces against the Exalted March. Others was how general population and the Gray Warden themselves praised Fereldens for halting and eliminating the Blight before it even properly gained momentum.
But anyone probing for weaknesses in the land of doglords might be in for a nasty surprise as the Architect had found out himself. Armies of darkspawns unleashed upon unsuspecting city of Amaranthine and undermanned Vigil Keep; only to be both defeated and repelled while the Warden herself brought her companions to cut heads off.
On that day, a few unbelievable piece of histories were written.
But Kathynia Surana did not stop there. She advocated Elven rights in the stabilizing land, and the wandering tribes no longer need to move around while Alienage gained proper voice in the Ferelden's court.
All these were possible only because the nobles and traditionalists in the Chantry equally feared and respected her.
She who had survived more Crow's assassination attempts than anyone in Thedas history. She who crushed Tevinter's blood mages, and she who stood toe-on-toe against the feared Old God yet lived. Even the demons of the Fade took notice of her power as the woman herself defeated Pride Demon at its height of power at the haunted Knotwood Hills village.
In year 9.31 of Dragon Age, Kathynia Surana became the living legend as well as symbol of Power. But her true journeys had yet to begin.
