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Prologue

"So this is the Temple of Sacred Ashes" Wolf thought as she watched as Mages and Templars entered the Conclave, both eyeing each other with caution and hatred, Wolf could see their expressions from watching in a nearby tree that had great cover for her.

She had been watching for several hours, she watched as the ambassadors for both orders entered the Conclave, she knew that neither the Lord Seeker nor the Grand Enchanter would attend if what was happening here was a trap. She wondered why she bothered to be here at all.

The only reason she was here was because of her brother, he had asked her to come to the Conclave in his stead since he didn't want to go to this event, so as a favour to him she agreed though she guessed her step mother would have said something about it, she wasn't really a member of the family according to her though she had their blood and title thanks to her father.

Wolf was a half elf, a child born out of wedlock when her mother and father had been young and had fallen in love, her father had intentions to marry her and make a life out of the free marches away from his family but her grandfather had discovered the elopement and threatened her father that if he went ahead with this marriage he would have her mother killed.

Her mother had convinced him to go back to his family, not just for her sake but for their baby, after that her father returned to his family and marriage the woman his father had chosen for him and they had three children, the oldest being her younger brother Darren, the second Grace and her little brother Adrian.

Her mother had wondered around Thedas for many years before meeting her father, she was a Dalish elf and a mage and had for years been studying the history of the elves, she had never been the person to stay in one place for too long and would eventually move on to look for more information or history from all over Thedas.

She eventually came upon Ostwick to learn from the local Dalish Clans and to look into Ostwick history by searching the Fade, it was an uncommon practice by Mages to go willingly into the Fade but her Mother was well practiced in such methods that she didn't fear possession from demons nor causing trouble with spirits.

It was during that time that she had met her father who wanted to become a great warrior and escape his family's restrictive traditions, he wanted to see the world and study the many different forms of fighting that the warriors of old had learnt from all over Thedas.

She had found him the most interesting human she had met, his love of old fighting styles and it history had caught each other's interests and for many months they spoke and practiced together eventually one thing led to another and they fell in love but reality of this world had come down hard on them both.

For her father he had to follow his family wishes if her mother was to be allowed to live but his family knew he never stopped loving or caring about her so they tried to have her taken by the Templars and placed in the circle tower but her mother was cunning and quick, she knew how to hide from Templars when she was young and had avoided the circles for many years.

She remained in Ostwick to give birth and to let her father know that their child was born safe but her grandfather found out about the child and hired assassins to kill her without her father finding out, but her mother had anticipated this and hid from the assassins within the forest of Ostwick.

There Wolf was born beneath a clear starry sky where the full moon shone brightly, the Dalish around Ostwick had helped her mother and hid both of them from the Trevelyans and the assassins, when Wolf was old enough both she and her mother moved on and travelled around Ferelden, Orlais, and beyond for many years. It was during those travels that Wolf grew up learning about her mother race, her fathers and many other things that her mother had studied and learned through the years.

But she mostly learned about the Fade from the many journals her mother kept and when she journeyed into the mysterious veil with her, she met many spirits whom her mother had been quite close to, she herself also saw them as friends even if the Chantry said all spirits were wicked creatures she saw what the spirits and demon really were, though she was no mage like her mother she taught herself from watching other on how to use a dagger and many other weapons to defend herself.

Learning both how to fight and about the world was the most important thing to Wolf for if you were ignorant of one thing you were probably wrong about everything else, so she listened and learned, as she and her Mother moved from place to place seeing the history that had been left behind she thought she would live like this forever, but fate had other plans.

When Wolf reached 12 she and her mother returned to Ostwick, they had returned after hearing of her grandfather's death believing the contract on both their lives was now forfeit now that he was dead, but that was not so, one day when Wolf had been sent out to buy supplies she had returned to find her mother dead on the floor of their room in the inn.

Wolf heart broke that day, her mother had been her whole life to her she was the most brave and honest person in the wold and now she was gone all because two people love each other against the blood that ran through their veins.

News of her mother death reached her Father, he came to Wolf with the look of sorrow in his eyes as he saw what had happened, it was then that Wolf life changed, he brought her to the estate and told his wife and his family that she would be allowed to live among them and bare their name as was her right.

Though many in the family argued this, her father had made it clear that he wouldn't turn away his daughter, he loved her just as much as her mother, her step mother whom had thought that Wolf and her mother was dead had threatened to leave with their children if he went through with it but he said she could go if she wished he loved all his children but he wouldn't abandon his child just because his family didn't see her as one of them.

Her step mother didn't leave but treated Wolf like she was just another common servant, her Father treated Wolf with kindness and respect, he had seen to her education and to her training, Wolf was a natural fighter much like her father was in his youth and was quite bright like her mother thanks to her years of learning from her about the past and about other cultures.

Both she and her sibling got along well even if her step mother didn't like her children interacting with her, she was mostly close to Darren who liked sword fighting and wanted to become a Templar when his was older, Grace was very academic and had a great fascination with magic, by the time Adrian was born Wolf was 19 years old.

By this time Wolf could tell she had outstayed her welcome, her step mother had support from the family and many within the Chantry who would have had her thrown out of Ostwick but she had gotten to them first by declaring she would travel alone to see the world.

Her father bid her farewell, as well as her siblings, and since then she had travelled from the free marches to the Qun landed to the north, to the strange borders of the Imperium to the west. She visited often to see her father and siblings but avoid coming often as she had gained fame as a famous wanderer who was also a hired mercenary and spy for anyone who could hire her.

It was this reason why her Bother had asked her to come to the Conclave to oversee the possible end of the war, his dreams of being a Templar had been crush by his mother and she had planned to send Darren to oversee the negation's with the other members of the family, but Darren didn't want to go he had already planned to travel to Orlais to see friends, since he was coming of age he wanted his last few days of freedom to be fun.

So here she was watching as twitchy Mages and iron clad Templars waited to see what would happen, would their leaders agree to a cease fire or would they continued to fight, "If they ever do agree on anything it will be when pigs can fly and the Sky turns red" Wolf thought as she quickly leapt from her position and ran along the nearby wall to get into the Conclave.

She never really put faith into the Chantry, they treated her with a silent disdain and hated because of who her mother was, her mother believed that the stories of the Maker and his bride were true; she had seen some memory in the Fade of the battles that Andraste had fought in when the Imperium controlled all of Thedas.

But she also believed in the eleven gods as well, saying that her ancestors once served them, but she also said that the story of their disappearance wasn't all true, she believed something happened in the past that resulted in the destruction of her races legacy and sort out this knowledge but found few memory of that time in the Fade and less from her own people.

She told Wolf to put her faith in whomever she believed in, Wolf was sceptical she did believe in the Maker but she also believed that there was more to the world then some great deity who had turned from Thedas long ago.

Grace had been interested in the history of the past and wanted to study such history's when she was older but when her magic manifested she had been taken to the circle in Ostwick, and now the circles were dissolved and Grace had returned to her family waiting to hear what would happen with the war, Wolf knew deep down nothing would change, both side feared each other there was no way they would set aside old fears for the sake of peace.

Whatever plans Divine Justinia had they were too idealistic, if she had a plan it would need to be a good one to convince the Lord Seeker and the Grand Enchanter to stop the war.

Wolf snuck into a nearby room and moved quickly around to find the main hall where the discussion would be held, she saw a mass of Mages and Templars waiting, the tension was building so Wolf moved on, she thought she could sneak into the Divines rooms and see what plans she had so she could take them back to her brother.

As she moved further down the Conclave she felt a strange feeling in her mind, it felt familiar like a spirit was trying to warning her of danger, but she pressed on but the further and further she went the more she began to hear voices in her head telling her to flee before it was too late, she recognized some as voices of spirits she spoke with often when she travelled but it didn't make sense what were they talking about.

As she cleared her head of the voice as her mother had taught her she heard a woman yelling for help. She ran towards where the yelling was coming from, what happened next would change Wolf life and Thedas forever, this is where the story begins and where our heroes will learn that not everything is as it seems and that not everything that they hear is true.

Hey guys, this is my first Dragon Age story, been playing the game and watching the online gameplay and wanted to write my own version, I played around with the Dialogue of the story so it might be different to the original story in the game, don't hate me if it not your type of story, hope you enjoy reading my story.

(having trouble with uploading my story to doc manger so using one of my story chapter to upload this, hopefully it will be fixed soon)