Author's Note: I don't have much experience writing fics, hopefully this will be the first one I finish… I really want to get back into writing, and Dragon Age Inquisition has been an obsession since the day it was released. Hope you enjoy this! I'm going to try and do the first person POV deal, if you guys don't think it works out let me know and I'll change it up.

Disclaimer: I do not own anyone but my OCs and Inquisitor.

…Elise's POV…

Knock, knock, knock.

Waiting, waiting, waiting.

The door finally opened after my knocks to reveal my best friend, Madison, who had a huge grin on her face.

"Elise! Get in here, you've got to see this game. My feels are already exploding and I've barely gotten anywhere!" Madison grabbed my wrist and dragged me through the door, pushing it shut behind me. She then continued to drag me upstairs toward her room.

I snatched my hand back from her and shook my head once we got to her bedroom. "Is it really so fascinating that you had to rip my arm off?" My tone was scolding yet teasing, so Madison seemed to dismiss it with a shrug. Sitting down in one of the bean-bag chairs, I picked up the case to Dragon Age Inquisition to examine it. I've been hearing about nothing but this game for days, it'll be great to see what the hype was all about.

I lived on a farm, with entertainment consisting of basic cable and my many books. I had an old Nintendo DS that Madison let me borrow, but that's about it. Consider my family not up to date on… life.

Madison plopped on the other bean-bag chair and picked up the controller, her grin growing bigger as she looked at me nodded vigorously. "Oh, yes. It's worth it. Haven't been able to get too far because I wanted to wait for you. You know this game has horses in it?"

The mentioning of horses had me instantly perking up about the game. Sneaky Madison figured I'd be interested after that. She was correct. "Two words. Show. Me."

"Yes, ma'am!" She got up and turned the light off, then the Xbox on. She sat back down and wiggled in her seat, way more excited than she needed to be, I'm sure.

The Xbox lit up the room, and once Inquisition got to the Start Menu, I heard the click of the A button select Continue. That was the last thing I remembered before everything went white, then black.

I opened my eyes and just stared for a minute or so. My body felt numb, and my head was killing me. Is it… Snowing? Where's my coat?

Hearing a groan beside me I turned my head to find Madison waking up, and I couldn't help but chuckle when a weird expression crossed her face, because that's probably what mine looked like a second ago as well. I sat up slowly, and instantly my arms were around myself and my teeth were chattering. "Madi, when did we go outside?" Looking at our surroundings, I added, "Where are we? There are mountains. Mountains!"

"Hell if I know, last I remember we were in my house. In my room, getting ready to play…" A gasp from Madison drew my attention from the surroundings back to her.

"What is it?" I was almost afraid to ask. This was weird enough already.

"I think we're in Haven."

The look of confusion on my face made her to continue.

"Haven, the village where the Inquisition is staying."

I tried to raise a brow and give her a skeptical look, but I was too cold to even feel what my face was doing. "That's impossible though, isn't it? It's a game. Programed. Physics just wouldn't allow it."

Madison sighed and rolled her eyes. "Stop being such a nerd. What if this is legit? We need to find help. If I'm right, the chantry should be that way."

We got up and slowly headed in the direction she believed would lead us to wherever she thought it would. After about the longest fifteen minutes of my life, we were looking at what looked like a training camp. With sparring soldiers.

"Tell me this is a dream, Madi."

"Want me to pinch you?"

"No, your pinches hurt."

"I think that's supposed to be the point, isn't it?"

"Shut it, let's just go ask for help already. My body is trying to die."

We made our way towards the big gates when the sound of metal scraping metal made us stop in our tracks. We turned and saw a man quickly heading our way from behind the tents, sword drawn, and boy did he look intimidating. Must be the fur pelt of whatever that was on his shoulders making him look broader. I heard an intake of breath from Madison, and glanced her way.

Where I felt we were about to be killed, she looked like she was about to start fangirling. Over someone who looks like he wants to kills us first and ask questions later.

"You two, who are you? Explain yourselves!" He seemed to note that we didn't have proper attire for this weather, and loosened up a little, though still on guard. Not so much trusting, just probably taking a guess that we were too cold to put up much of a fight. He'd be right.

I was frozen, both figuratively and literally. At least I had a jean jacket on; Madison didn't have anything but a tank top and shorts on, with knee-high socks. She needs to get inside some place and warm up or she'd get frostbite like no other.

When I thought Madi was going to start spazzing out, she remained calm and said with a shaky voice, "we need help. May we come in? We're no threat."

I didn't think it was going to work, but next thing I know the man had commanded three guards to take us to the chantry.

On the way to the chantry, I leaned closer to Madi and asked, "Who was that?"

"That was Commander Cullen." She sounded so smug, I almost wanted to shake her.

"So we're really… In the game?"

"In Thedas, it appears so. I know I should be freaking out in a bad way, but I'm about to freak out in a good way."

"I think you're in shock, because you should be flippin' out right now."

A guard turned his gaze toward us as they were leading us up to the massive building that had to be the chantry.

"You two, stop whispering!"

I instantly stared at the ground as I walked, trying not to get on anyone's bad side. Madison rolled her eyes and shook her head. If this is really medieval times and whatnot, she'll wind up being executed.

The doors to the Chantry opened and we walked inside, already feeling a bit warmer than we did outside. Thank goodness!

There were what had to be nobles standing around talking amongst themselves, and when we walked in all eyes were on us and the talking ceased. At the back of the large hall by a wooden door two women were talking. One had short dark hair and stood a bit taller than the other woman, who had black hair down to her shoulders and pointed ears. An elf? This has to be a dream, 'kay thanks bye.

The women saw us and quickly waved for the guards to bring us into a room to the left. We followed them in and the elven woman shut the door behind us, then began to speak.

"Who are these girls?"

The guards spoke after a minute of mine and Madi's silence. "They approached the gates. Are they apostates? Their clothing is," he paused, and after a second continued, "strange."

"We're not apostates! We have no magic capabilities at all. It'd be awesome though. Not gonna lie." Madison got a dreamy look in her eyes for a brief moment, before realizing that she was about to freeze to death.

"We don't know how we got here, ma'am. Honest. We just woke up out in the snow outside the camp, and we're freezing." My eyes were pleading as I tried explaining what I could without making us seem insane enough to lock up.

"How do we know you speak the truth? Herald, I wouldn't trust these two." The short-haired woman had a scowl on her scarred face that would have had me shaking if the cold wasn't already doing so. She looked more threatening than the Cullen guy.

The elf, or Herald—why ever she's called that I had no idea—raised a hand in a dismissive manner. "Cassandra, I swear you leave the worst first impression ever. These girls have no weapons, and are clearly freezing their asses off." She walked up to us and met our gazes. "I'm going to ask you this one time, and you're to answer truthfully. Are you mages?"

Her tone was much calmer and warmer than Cassandra's. Madison and I both shook our heads no.

The Herald elf lady turned to the guards and said, "Take them to Solas, have him get them warmed up. He can keep an eye out for any funny business. If you feel it necessary, station yourself and another guard outside the shack. Go on, and get them warmer clothing." She gave Madison a look with raised brows, clearly thinking Madi insane for wearing such revealing clothes in this weather.

The guards nodded and led us out of the room. On the way out I heard Cassandra questioning the sanity of the other woman.

Madison groaned after we got outside, and I gave her a questioning look.

"We're going to see Solas. He's kind of an ass, always thinks he's smarter than everyone." She whispered. After a second of consideration she added, "Actually, you two might get along."

I threw her a glare. "I haven't met anyone here yet who is dripping with kindness and puking rainbows." The elf woman seemed nice, but still had an air of authority about her. Either way, this world was about as welcoming as a rabid badger.

We need to get the hell out of here.

Okay, hope this first chapter wasn't TOO boring. Okay it was boring. I'm sorry! It'll pick up I promise. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions let me know, I have an idea where this is going but it's pretty much going to be an adventure for these two. Romance will happen eventually. I'm wanting to hook up Cole with a lady love in this one. He needs love.

Also I'm in college so I will try and update as often as I can, but I'll have chores and school work to do, so yeah (:

I haven't, by the way, abandoned my other fics I'm working on. I don't currently have my xbox 360 right now and I'd rather have the creativity flowing while I play the games, for inspiration and detail.