They arrived at the ruins to find a group of werewolves standing guard. Hadrian had to stare at them in awe. They were each well over seven feet tall. The fact that they were all taller than Sten intimidated Hadrian to no end. One stepped forward and said.
"I am to tell you that there are two ways to the lady of the forest. The first is through a door that is sealed shut. The second is to brave the ruins and delve into their deeps to a tunnel that leads to her chambers as well. Are you willing to brave the depths?"
Nria sighed. "It seems that for a peaceful solution it is the only way."
"Very well we hope you prove worthy to help with the removal of this curse on us." The werewolf said which caused many howls of approval. The group walked into the ruins and straight down the large broken staircase. The ruins were overrun with trees and plants. There were many old tevinter statues gazing around the place. There were also huge spider webs around every corner. They had to burn quite a few webs down just to go forward. They were making good time though. It was only a few times were they had to stop and fight anything.
They were making their way down a large spiraling staircase. There is no sound coming from anywhere around them, but they have gotten used to this by now. As they reach the bottom of the staircase however they find the bodies of various knights and templars.
Alistair gazed over the bodies. "Please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks trying to cross this room is a bad idea."
"Your not." Morrigan said nonchalantly. "However we have no choice but cross the room for what we seek is on the other side."
Hadrian nodded at her logic, and followed behind her as he was followed by the rest. Everyone was on high alert. Sten had his hammer out looking all around. Alistair had his shield held high. Leliana had an arrow knocked. And Hadrian could feel the waves of magic being pooled inside of Nria and Morrigan, though while Morrigan's was like unto a raging inferno, Nria's was like a quiet gust of wind. It kind of made Hadrian wonder what his own felt like. Unfortunately for him he was nowhere near ready to try to pool so much magic at one time. His body just wasn't able to handle such a thing.
They trod quietly across the floor eyes roaming around for the slightest hint of trouble, until they heard it. A deep rumbling growl that bounced around the room and seemed to echo until it was a defining roar. Hadrian drastically paled as a dragon roughly twice the size of a Clydesdale horse landed in front of him. He freaked out and did the first thing that came to mind. He threw a fireball at the dragon's face. Needless to say, it was not impressed by his display of power over the element of fire and decided to show him exactly why. It opened its mouth and spewed out a torrent of white hot flames. Thankfully the flames where nullified by morrigan who was casting her cone of cold technique. The two attacks met each other and made the air thick with fog.
Nria chose then to blast the beast's side with a bolt of lightning from the tip of her staff. The bolt impacted like a boulder, knocking the dragon to the side. Sten, Alistair, and Fen'harel charged in and were attacking every available opening. Fen'harel latched onto its right wing and seemed to be trying to shred it. Alistair was trying to slash out its eyes with his sword. And Sten was slamming his hammer into the beast's legs. Hadrian was at a loss as to what to do. He was in awe of Nria and morrigan casting such high level magic's. Suddenly Hedwig swooped in. her snow white feathers made no sound as she dropped from the sky, claws outstretched. She slashed across the beast right eye. Alistair and Sten both moved to capitalize on this by Alistair slashing at its other eye when it jerked to the left, and Sten slamming his hammer down on it head with all of his might. The combined attacks had a very happily desired effect. As Alistair's sword struck the dragons eye, Sten's blow forced it's skull down the length of the blade. The dragon died with Alistair's blade impaled in its skull.
When everyone was sure that the trouble had passed, they relaxed. They soon were looking around the room at the horded treasures the dragon had stashed there. They found roughly twenty-five gold sovereigns, some a pair of glove that obviously belonged to the set that Alistair was collecting, and a bow that appeared to be made of dragon bone. It depicted a man leading a group across a great river, and through an archway. Leliana was ecstatic. She explained that this weapon was a century's old lost relic of the Dalish people. It was called Falon'din's Reach. She explained it was named after the Dalish god of the dead stating when it is their time no one escapes Falon'din's Reach.
They left the room with the dragons corpse. They had debated the pros and cons of trying to take the dragon's corpse with them but it was decided that it would be to time consuming to break it down into cartable pieces. And to space consuming even then, their expanded packs could only expand so much after all. So they continued onwards. It was already very taxing on them all but again they were on a schedule with a blood thirsty horde of monsters on their buts so they pushed onwards.
They soon came across a large hallway filled with skeletons and the ghost of a small elven child crying out for his mother. Nria tried to talk to him only for him to freak out and run away. Then the skeletons began to climb to their feet. Stem was the first to action. He swung his hammer and crushed the skull of one to dust. Its body followed to the ground. As if this was the release they all were waiting for they all begun to attack with fever. The battle lasted an hour in which all the skeletons were disintegrated and all the party was running on their last legs. Facing a skeletal army as well as a dragon in one day was a bit much. So it was decided they would bar the entrance and exit to the hall. Nria used a spell to make a wall grow out of the floor, only leaving it enough room for oxygen to circulate through then they promptly made camp and went to sleep.