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Spoilers: Some of Origins and most of Awakening

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She saw them. The bastard king and the Warden followed by a small group of other people. Sharp pain hit her heart. She didn't even know his name, to be honest didn't even want to know. It was enough for her to know he was going to die… and that somebody has to replace him added her mind without hesitation.

They chose to wander all over Denerim to get rid of bigger groups of darkspawn. Such a waste of time. She would go straight to the Archdemon. Instead she was hiding here, watching as they were losing their powers in the Market district.

Then another ogre showed up and this time she could see her help is needed. It was quite easy to freeze that ugly thing from her position and luckily the Warden was bright enough to shatter it instead of searching for the source of spell. She stopped hiding and fully joined the fight.

When all was quiet once again all eyes turned to her, for the first time that day she felt nervous. It was here. "I will join you." There was more truth in that simple statement than any of them could realize at the time. The bastard king, Alistair was his name, started to ask something but the Warden shouted "we have no time" and hurried to Fort Drakon. She was glad for it.

The Archdemon was huge and scary. The fight was complicated by many darkspawn running up the tower. She knew it called them. For help? Maybe but from her point it seemed they didn't even hurt that huge dragon yet. Honestly, she didn't help much in the fight. All her actions were reduced to her own protection and also she kept an eye on the Warden.

And all of a sudden the bas… Alistair climbed the Archdemon. She saw the moment like she saw it many times before. Her heart was cold now, her brain in perfect concentration. She knew the beast is going to shake him off and during that his head will be close to the ground.

And finally it happened. She unleashed all her powers in one massive paralyze spell and shouted NOW in the Warden's direction. He grabbed his sword and in one move sank its blade into the Archdemon's head. It exploded with gold light and then all went black.

I made it! was her last thought before she happily passed out.

In her dreams, she has seen it all over again. The first vision, she liked to call them that way, and how she was scared after.

The very first vision showed her how to escape. She would never believe it could be that easy. Only one innocent spell and a bit of coincidence. Coincidence in a body of a Warden who came to help the Tower with... what specifically? She didn't even know what happened there.

She remembered her Harrowing and then she woke up to the Tower full of abominations. The only reasonable thing was to run down to the gate. And she did. Luckily the gate opened to let the saviours in and nobody mentioned elven mage sneaking out of it under invisible spell.

She was free but before she even could think of what to do next second vision came. There was darkspawn, so many of them in some city and to make her totally scared she was there with it!

She was quite quickly guided to Alienage in Denerim. It was logical place to hide in. Nobody cared what happens there and another poor elf couldn't look very suspicious.

More visions came. Most of them shown her fighting darkspawn but one, very interesting one, was of her helping the Warden she saw in the Tower. At first she just helped with an ogre, it was later on when she realised she will fight the Archdemon with him. And even later when she saw becoming one of the wardens herself...