Darkness. It is so dark, dense, nearly suffocating. You struggle to move, and your body will not humor you. You go to cry out, and your voice cannot be found. It is all lost within this darkness, neither cold nor warm, just empty. Vacant of anything, everything. You think you hear the softest of whispers before a voice startles you, deep and alluring. A voice that stirs you to your core.
" It began in the darkness before time. The Maker always created, The Destroyer always abolished. Great beings, they are rival brothers. Eternally at war...
Eventually, The Maker created the world and kept his hold against The Destroyer, protecting his creation. And The Destroyer keenly watched, awaiting his chance to demolish the world. But the impasse drew on.
The Maker became confident this world could last and populated it with many peoples. He did not realize that being kin with The Destroyer, some of his brother's blood would infiltrate the beings he birthed with his power. Before long, The Destroyer's influence took hold upon some of his creations, and they began to destroy."
Your stomach twists, sour and sick.
"This appeased The Destroyer, fed him power, strengthened him. And he found a liking for this world.
War began again between the Void and the Heavens. The darkness and the light.
This time, The Destroyer sought to seize The Maker's creation, driving it's inhabitants to constantly separate and destroy to appease and empower him. And The Maker fought to defend it and encourage his peoples to create and spread. Filling the Void which appeases and empowers him."
You don't understand, you *can't* understand. You try again to move, but there is no response from your limbs.
"In their struggles to overtake the world, their power was great, devastating. And it nearly wiped the peoples they fought to claim for themselves from the world.
Seeing near waste laid to the world in their battles, they grew exceedingly desperate to revive the dying creation. Barely did The Maker succeed in breathing life back into its frame. And the world endured.
But The Maker and The Destroyer still wanted the world for themselves. Yet, they could not risk overpowering the fragile creation in their conquest. Without choice they struck a treaty.
The peoples of the world bore both brothers' blood. They would let the world's peoples decide for themselves which brother dominated the creation through their nature. And peace ensued for but a moment in the endless eons."
There is a laugh, a sound ringing with danger.
"The process is slow, and both grew impatient."
You want to yell, to demand your freedom from whatever it is that holds you. And still you cannot speak, cannot even flinch.
"The Destroyer sent agents to gift his divine power on the peoples and influence their nature. Eventually, he swayed them to attempt to usurp the Heavens. His followers broke into The Golden City.
The Maker cast them down, turning them to Darkspawn, forever damned. His domain damaged, he acted quickly so as not to lose his ground. Sending agents of his own to guide the remaining peoples.
More chaos erupted. The conflict waged by the agents in each brothers' stead. And the world suffered again."
You grow weary of your struggles, surrendering to the dark. Your heart still pounding like a hammer driving a nail through your chest.
"At some point, you, the peoples, could take no more. You took up arms and fought the agents, fought The Destroyer and The Maker. You drove them back, staunching the flow of war.
From then on, both The Maker and The Destroyer had to struggle against one another in subtle ways. It became a matter of wits and influence."
At some point you become numb to the dread. Your ears just listen, taking in her, for its voice is old but feminine, next words.
"Agents remained lurking in the world, speeding the process to decide which nature would prevail. But, always, there is the threat of war. In the brothers, in the agents, in you."
Your consciousness slips away.
Alright everyone, this is my first AU (Alternate Universe) for Dragon Age. I've seen so many, I've decided I wanted to give it a try.
This switches between perspectives and is basically a DA universe that mixes with heaven and hell, angels and demons, and vampires and werewolves. Kind of a clash between DA and Van Hellsing type stuff. (Yay.) And you (yes, YOU) have a destiny important to this story.