Valkyria Chronicles and Dragon Age Origins belong to their respective creators. I do claim the story of my fanfiction though.
PROGRESS LOG
This story has been in hiatus for about a year now, because I was focused on my primary story throughout last year.
But since my main story "Holy Grail of the Gods" is approaching its closure, I am confident that I will be able to resume this story sometime next year.
GENERIC INFO
This is my second fanfiction and it's something that I came up with once I finished playing the game Valkyria Chronicles 1 back in 2015. As of this day I have also played the Valkyria Chronicles 3 which happens at the same time with Valkyria Chronicles 1 and I liked it a lot. So, even though it was not planned at first, I am quite certain that the Nameless will also be making their appearance in this story, one way or another.
FUN FACTI realised that all this time the cover image for my story has been Riela from Valkyria Chronicles 3 and not Alicia
TIME AND PLACE OF THE STORY
The fanfiction take places at the Valkyria Chronicles universe and more precisely a little before the battle at Naggiar Plains, the most important battle in Valkyria Chronicles1. The prologue contains mild spoilers for both of the games. Also, I decided to change how Alicia discovers that she is a Valkyria in order to better fit it in my story.
Warden's Character Sheet
Sex: Female
Race: Elf
Class: Mage
Specializations: Arcane Warrior/Blood mage
Alignment: Chaotic neutral.
Warden's Party
Warden
Alistair
Leliana (romanced)
Morrigan
Denerim, Fort Drakon, rooftop.
The Archdemon let out a loud cry of pain as a large fireball from Morrigan's staff f hit him right between the eyes. "Now it's your chance!" The black haired witch shouted at the female gray warden.
Sinseer saw her signal, she strapped her staff her behind her back and pulled out her magical sword, the Spellweaver, from its sheath. White sparks came out of its blade as she poured her magical energy into it. She gripped it tightly with her two hands and charged at the Archdemon. Scattered darkspawns all over the rooftop were glaring at her with bloodthirsty eyes, eager to put an end to her, but her comrades weren't going to let them have it their way.
"Move aside!" Her friend Alistair shouted as he bashed the skull of a hurlock with his shield, knocking it away from her and then finishing it with an overhead swing. "Go, go, go!" The future king of Ferelden encouraged her.
"Maker, guide my hand." Leliana the red haired bard of the party said a short prayer as she shot three flaming arrows in quick succession from her bow. Each arrow found its target and three darkspawn who were charging at Sinseer fell instantly dead on the ground. "Go, my love" She mumbled under her teeth.
Sinseer thanks to the help of her comrades had managed to approach the Archdemon unscathed. The Archdemon was flailing, he was still in pain from Morrigan's spell, she ran up below the beast and with nimble moves she climbed gracefully on its neck, her slim and flexible elvish body made it easier to move around. She grasped her sword with her two hand s and plunged it downwards through its neck impaling it from side to side. "Ar lasa mala revas! *(You are free now)" The sword emitted a radiant blue glow and then it exploded killing the dragon as magical energy enough to destroy a small building was forced upon the dragon's spinal cord smashing it into bits.
The dragon's legs collapsed upon his weight, Sinseer hung on to the dragon's neck to protect herself from the fall. A cloud of dust arose as its body hit the ground. Voices of concern and approaching footsteps reached Sinseer's ears. When she lifted her head, she was still dizzy from the fight, she blinked a couple of times before her vision cleared, the first thing she saw was the face of Leliana crying tears of joy over her, beside her was Alistair with his usual smirk on his face. "We did it…." She said faintly with a small smile on her lips. She looked left and right "-Where's Morrigan?" She asked.
"Hum? She was right behind….Morrigan!" Alistair shouted. Morrigan was on her knees holding her belly. It seemed that she was in great deal of pain.
In the blink of an eye everyone had gathered around her. "Aw, aw…the taint is spreading…argh….the ritual didn't work." She said.
"What? How? Last night, you claimed that the ritual was successful." Sinseer said.
Morrigan gritted her teeth, every word came out with much difficulty. "I thought so too, but I was wrong and now I pay for my foolishness…cough…I must drive away the taint before I lose control of it."
"How will you do that?"
"You'll have to help me. With the elven magic that you were taught by that Elven Keeper we've met, Zathrian t'was his name; you have to create a portal to another dimension and I will channel the taint's essence there. Do you remember how the spell goes?" Sinseer nodded.
Immediately, she unstrapped the dark red dragonbone staff and started chanting a spell in ancient elvish. Morrigan placed her hand on Sinseer's staff and began mumbling an aria. Soon a white whirling vortex appeared on the air in front of the staff. "Now, channel the taint away from your body." Morrigan clenched the staff with her left hand and shortly after a black stream of magical energy started flowing from the tip of the staff inside the portal.
As soon as some of the taint went inside, the portal started twisting. "Keep the portal steady!" Morrigan said in a commanding voice. Sinseer tightened her grip stabilizing the portal for a while, but as more energy went in she lost control of the spell. "Fenedhis lasa! (*Crap)" Sinseer shouted as the portal before her grew larger and larger with each passing second.
"T'is not possible! Run!" Morrigan said distressed.
"What about you?" Sinseer asked.
"It's too late for me. Flee, while you can!" Morrigan shouted as she shoved away Sinseer.
Nobody moved "Idiot! Do you think I can just leave you here after everything we've been through? Alistair, give me a hand." Alistair rushed to help. "If it is any comfort to you, I wouldn't have had a problem leaving you behind, but you know….circumstances force me." Alistair said jokingly.
"Tsk…a fool to the very end." Morrigan snorted as they picked her up.
"Hurry, it's growing bigger." Leliana shouted. They picked up their pace and fast walked towards the rooftop's exit.
"Curses!" We won't make it." Alistair said as he looked behind. The glowing vortex was sucking the world around it. Debris, fallen darkspawn; it even sucked the body of the fallen Archdemon and finally the floor itself.
"Maker, preserve us! " Leliana said as the whirling white disaster caught up with them. They instinctively hugged each other to protect themselves. The white vortex expanded rapidly into a whirling sphere which consumed the upper part of the fort Drakon leaving nothing but dust in its place.
The Elven phrases were taken from Dragon Age Origin wiki.
Gallia, Naggiar Plains, after the first battle.
"This is lieutenant Welkin Gunther from militia squad seven, we managed to occupy the Imperial base camp, but we are under heavy pressure. The Imperial have a Valkyria and are preparing a counterattack. We need reinforcements, I repeat we need reinforcements to hold the camp. Over! "
"Let's hope the rest of the squads and the army will respond quickly." Alicia mumbled.
"Seriously though, what is this power? This is ridiculous! How can we even beat that monster?" Rosie said exasperated.
"I had heard the rumors, but seeing it in person, it's something else. I never would have thought that a single person could cause so much havoc." Largo said as he lit his cigar. He drew in a breath of smoke and puffed out a small cloud "I'm sure Elle will send help soon."
"But what if our combined forces are not enough to stop her?" Alicia asked worried.
"Let's hope they will be enough to at least slow her down then, until we find a way to stop her." Zaka said, as he jumped off the Shamrock's hull where he was sitting on.
"Alicia! Go gather the rest of the squad and tell them to start repairing the fortifications around this perimeter. This is strategically the best spot to defend the camp."
"Right away Welkin!" Alicia ran off to the camp; without realizing it Welkin was staring at her pigtails moving left and right as she was running, when he noticed something peculiar. Alicia's pace changed, it became slower until she stopped moving and fell on her knees "Alicia!" he shouted. Everyone turned their heads and saw her collapsed on the ground; they ran to her side.
"Alicia! Can you hear me? Are you okay?" Welkin asked her in a panicked voice.
"Sniper?" Rosie asked.
"Couldn't have been, we took care of everyone before we occupied the base and there was no shooting sound. Keep your eyes open!" Largo said in a commanding voice.
"Someone, call a medic." Welkin said. "I'll go" Zaka said and ran off.
"Largo, help me turn her around." Largo nodded. They placed her facing upwards when they saw something unexpected.
"Is that an arrow?" Rosie asked as she pointed at the wooden stick that protruded off Alicia's chest.
"We're here, where is she?" The blonde medic of squad seven arrived along with Zaka and several others squad mates who heard the commotion.
The medic examined Alicia and shook her head disappointed "I can't risk pulling it out! She may bleed to death if I pull it out and her blood starts circulating again. I have to remove it surgically. Put her on the stretcher and carry her inside my tent."
"You heard her! Move out Sevens!" Welkin commanded his squad. "Largo, Rosie, Zaka, organize small teams and send them to scout the surrounding area. The perpetrator couldn't have gotten far."
"Commander! You're not thinking clearly. We are already spread thin. If we send out so many of our soldiers, our position will be compromised." Zaka said in a serious tone, Largo nodded agreeing silently with him
Welkin took a deep breath and exhaled "You're right, but we need to scout again for enemies nevertheless; send only one team of three and tell the rest to be on standby. Reinforcements can't be too far now." Welkin ordered his squad as he watched with sad eyes Alicia being carried away. "Hang tight Alicia!"
With that our story starts
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