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Chapter 1
The blast could be heard for miles. A small town at the border of the Free Marches and Nevarra was no place for the beginning of a disaster, and yet, it was there that the sky opened up and the fade descended.
Cassandra saw the rip not long after she left Kirkwall. At first, the sky darkened, causing she and her men to look up in search of storm clouds. A storm was brewing, in fact, but it had little to do with the gasps escaping her men's mouths. To the west the sky ripped open in a green glow. At first, the light was almost pretty. It shown so brightly that it was almost clear. After a few moments, small figure descended slowly to the earth into a valley across the hill. As the figure fell out of sight, the light behind it grew darker and began pulsing. Soon the pulsing grew heavier, and the roars of demons could be heard escaping the tear in the sky. Cassandra raised her sword and pointed towards the stream of demons descending from the sky towards the ground where the figure had fallen. "To arms, men!" She screeched. The men ran up the hill towards the battle, only to be halted by a blast that knocked them off their feet. There, less than a kilometer away an explosion shook the earth and sent waves of force across the land. Cassandra looked on in horror as thousands were burned before her eyes in the nearby valley. Her men stood, gaping at the massacre before them.
Demons continued to pour from the sky.
Cassandra shook herself. She turned towards her men and raised her sword once again towards the valley, "For Thedas!"
As her men rushed towards the field, Cassandra surveyed the damage. Many of the demons simply fled the scene. The few that turned towards the seeker's army were quickly cut down. Cassandra's attention was diverted to the center of the valley, however. There, among the corpses, a figure began to rise up. The figure was difficult to discern, as a cloak covered the body. It stood with its back to Cassandra, slowly raising its left hand towards the sky. The hand glowed the same green as the tear, and pulsed in rhythm. Cassandra began to call out when a flash shot from the figure to the sky, and the tear began to close.
The seeker's army cheered in victory. The last demon had fallen just as the cloaked figure stooped to the ground.
Soot floated innocently over the charred corpses left strown around the battlefield. The scent of burning flesh tinged Cassandra's nose as she inched towards the stooped figure. With one hand she gripped her sword as with the other hand she turned the figure towards her.
There, in front of Cassandra, was a small human woman crying softly. She gripped her glowing hand towards her body as she looked towards the ground.
Cassandra pointed her sword towards the woman. "Who are you? What have you done?"
The woman shook her head and looked up as she sobbed out, "I don't know."
Cassandra froze, taken aback by the fear she saw in the woman's eyes. After her time with the mages and her questioning of Varric, she had grown soft. She began speaking slowly, yet accusatory, "It is difficult to bear what happened here. You walked out of the fade, and our soldiers found you… the only one that escaped a blast that killed thousands. And you have no idea how you survived?"
The woman dropped her hands, shaking. She gestured around her and stuttered out, "I don't know what is going on, but those demons killed everyone." The woman turned her gaze back towards Cassandra and her eyes narrowed. "Did you get them? Did you stop the threat to these people?"
Cassandra's face hardened and she raised her sword back towards the woman's neck. She gestured towards the woman's glowing left hand and practically spit out, "At this moment, you are the only threat I see."
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