Two stories follow.
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This is my newest project. I felt a little dissatisfied with the ending of the game Dragon Age: 2, it was a little too rushed.
Therefore I have decided to try and make my own continuation of this story. This will still mainly resolve around the Champion of Kirkwall, but will also spring off to other characters situation.
I came up with the title "Two Stories" based on Dragon Age: 2's own semi-title "Story within a story." In the game Varric the dwarf told the story of the protagonist Hawke to the chantry seeker Cassandra Pentagast. This story will also aside Hawke have Varric as the other focus of attention but he will not tell this story, he will discover it.
In the story I will refer to "the wanderers" and "the followers" this will be the different groups and their basic goal.
I must now apologize if there's any errors in the text, point them out and I shall edit them.
For those of you who want my in-game decisions from all three titles, here they are:
Origins:
The Warden is named Thea Amell, she's related to the Champion.
She romanced (un-hardened) Leliana.
She did not kill Flemeth in Morrigan's personal quest.
The Circle of Magi was saved.
Connor was saved from the Demon using the circle's aid.
The warden did not defile the ashes of Andraste; she didn't harm the High Dragon either.
She cured the werewolves of the Brecilian forest and recruited the Dalish elves into the army.
She destroyed the Anvil of the Void and crowned Lord Harrowmont the new king of Orzammar.
In the landsmeet she spared Loghain and crowned Alistair king beside Anora.
For my own little edit to the story Morrigan never offered the ritual to Thea because Thea is openly against any sort of dark magic, she's a do-gooder but she can bend her morale depending on the cases she face. Instead Morrigan went directly to Loghain who later revealed to Thea what he had agreed to do.
Awakening:
The recruited all the possible companions.
She saved Amaranthine.
She killed the Architect.
Dragon Age 2:
My min character in this game is also named Thea, so I will refer to them each as Hawke and Amell when they meet, but as long as they are in each their companies they will be named Thea. (This will happen later on in the story.)
In Dragon age 2 Thea romanced Merrill and supported her through he entire process of restoring the Eluvian.
She managed to befriend all the companions max. (It's true!)
Bethany went into the deep roads with her sister and was made a Grey Warden with Ander's help.
Anders was later killed though due to his terrorist action towards the chantry. (Sorry Anders Fans)
She still sided with the mages and not one companion backed out on her. Not even Fenris. (It's true!)
Okay, so now that, that's been settled I can tell you that I do not plan to cross the paths of the warden and the champion too soon, and the warden will not be an active part of the story before this happens.
There will be mention of several know characters from all three titles in this story.
Pairings:
Important to a fanfic!
There will be several pairings. Of the friendly sorts you will see Varric/Leliana actually, as well as wardens hound/champions hound.
Of the romantic sort I will obviously follow up on the romances from both games which were Warden/Leliana and Champion/Merrill, both same sexes.
I'm also considering Sebastian/Bethany but that is just an idea so far.
There may come more, I'm not planning anything big up until now.
Progress:
I hope this will work better than my previous projects in Dragon Age: Origins and Harvest Moon, mostly it comes down to reviews, if you like my story please review it and share it if you know any who might like it, and I'm dying for a fan base!
I cannot promise that the story will always make sense, I am not big into all the codexes and the details of the game, but I am a huge fan of the series.
I hope this will be as great for you as it is for me. I'm quite a bit more excited about this project that the others I tried to work on.
Right then, sorry for the many details, please continue down to the actual story!
The seeker and the merchant.
Varric scratched his chin, he was uneasy about Cassandra's questioning about his dearest friend. "Oy, Edwina another pint!" He yelled from his room. To be true he did actually miss the girl. And all the others. The only one from the old gang he met regularly was Aveline who had stayed with the guard. Isabella came by now and then when she was in town. Actually, he felt lonely.
"Buy me a drink?" A creamy accent came from the door to his room, it opened and he instantly recognized the uniform of the seekers. It wasn't Cassandra though. "Huh, are you 'seeking' me again?" He asked back to her. "What do you want? Your colleague already questioned me and I still have no idea where the champion is." The red haired woman sat down in front of him and tossed a small pouch of coins towards him. "You are a merchant, yes? This is a deal you and I make, not you and the chantry." Varric didn't hesitate to cut open the pouch, with his dagger, to reveal its contents. "I still don't know anything seeker, but I can perform other services if you need…?" She stood up and looked into the fireplace. "I think you can still help me though. I am going to bring you on an expedition to find her. I think she can lead me to what I search for." Varric now took the pouch and started counting the amount of cash in it. All the coins were sovereigns. "Well, I can go with you, but I cannot just summon her. Tell me what you have in mind." She turned towards him again, she had not expected the quick change of mind, but then again she had always had a hard time at predicting dwarves. "My name is Leliana, I am right hand to the divine, but I still need to find something I think your champion can locate. If you tell me the last thing you remember the champion telling you, I might be able to follow up the leads to get to her." Varric sat back, this was his comfortable stance, "Hrm, I will need to know what you search for first, I have been backstabbed a number of times where my partners had left out the details."
"The Hero of Ferelden." Leliana answered and turned her head, this even made Varric's jaw drop for once. "The Hero of Ferelden! Do you chantry people just assume they go to a heroes club somewhere or what? Why would the champion get you to her?" Leliana put down a poster sized piece of paper on Varric's desk and unrolled it. "Look at this, they share grandparents, they are related!" Leliana pointed at the names, both seemed to be sort of scratched out, like they were denied the place in the family records. Varric stood up from his chair and grabbed the edge of the table. "Thea Amell and Thea Hawke? By the beard of my brother, you're right… They share names too…" Leliana crossed her arms in triumph; she had heard rumors about Varric and was pleased to be able to surprise him. "I knew that the Hero of Ferelden was a mage, but that she should be an Amell? How did I miss that, they're almost cousins… How come she was in the circle of magi in Ferelden and not Kirkwall?" Varric pointed out. "I do not know, but I know… I need to find her, and it can't just be coincidence that the two most important women in recent history both disappear."
Varric sat down again and answered. "Your colleague said the same thing, now I'm starting to think that too… But I have a question. Cassandra was after the Champion for political and religious reasons, why do you seek the warden?" Leliana again turned her back to the dwarf; it was obvious she did this when she hid something. "I knew her once…" Varric suddenly got interested, "You don't say? Since you would go to these lengths to find her that relationship must be pretty intimate, no?" "Okay, okay," Leliana placed her hands on top of the table and looked down at the name of her friend, "We were lovers… Girlfriends even. We stayed together for a long time and then suddenly she… Vanished… Without a trace, the only known thing is that she took two wardens and her dog with her." Varric was not affected by the sad atmosphere, he was rather entertained actually. "No kidding? That's great!" Leliana looked up from the paper and into his eyes, "what?" Varric laughed, then stopped and continued. "Did you know the champion prefer women too?" "What?" "Yeah, so far as I know they would follow each other to the end of the world! Merrill was a charm…" "Merrill? Wasn't that the dark haired apostate that was with her and the Vael boy in the chantry?" Leliana remembered her encounter with the champion and the Starkhaven prince those many years ago. "The chantry?" Varric repeated her words. "You mean when she did that princely business with Sebastian? Probably, she took her girlfriend everywhere… Actually I think Sebastian Vael is our best link to find her too."
Varric brought up the book of the legend of the champion and hit a page that showed Sebastian and a detailed description of his involvement. Leliana looked at it and responded, "Prince Sebastian? Why?" Varric once more leaned back into his 'story telling' position and started. "Well, let me tell you the last I remember of the Champion, then we can discuss our deal further afterwards." "That will work," she replied, "Okay then, well, after the big showdown…"
So that's it for the first chapter, in the next I will begin the champions' further story; hope you'll look forward to that.