{Read at your own risk. I'm so tired I don't even remember half of what made this chapter so long.
But long standing tradition states i state the following.
I, The Legendary Reaper Present To You
The Second Installment for [A Harrowing Experience]
And Without Further Adieu! -The Legendary Reaper}
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Harry had, after peeking into the minds of those around him, decided that he was going to hitch a ride so to speak in the mind of the apprentice, Solana.
Why, because she was going to be dragged into quite the fight if things were to progress the way they were laid out and Harry had no intention of changing that.
Meaning that Harry had to modify some memories after all, they would know that Solana had an extremely violent reaction to the harrowing and that she had almost needed to be killed but had come out all the stronger for it.
They had proceeded to send her to the phylactery, off to wherever it was to go.
Harry made himself comfortable in her mind, leaving almost everything alone in her mindscape except for one thing.
Her connection to the Immaterium, or the Fade as these people called it, seemed to increase her body's receptiveness to it.
Sadly, perhaps not so much, was a side effect of this.
She would also be receptive to magical attacks, much more so now that he had increased her bodies receptiveness to it, but as he had learned over the Millennia, he had lived.
Absolutely Nothing Comes Without Price.
Even the power he had gotten in his younger years, the first fifteen actually had come at a price he hadn't noticed until it was too late.
But that's off point.
And so, Harry continued watching as the apprentice wake in the morning and was set upon by, surprise, surprise, a blood mage.
How he'd know?
He looked into the mage's mind from within Solana's mind because she had made eye contact.
If Harry had the inclination or purpose,he would show these ignorant mages what a Blood mage could do, not their pitiful attempts that in the face of a master equated to playing in a puddle of mud.
But he had been asked here and would comply for a favor from Fate.
Those were most valuable when used correctly after all, Fate didn't make all too many mistakes, and the ones she did that she couldn't fix were even more scant.
But who was to say he was going to play to her words?
He could have fun subtly nudging Fates chosen for this world off course and into many interesting situations.
Fate would change and adapt around his meddling but it provided amusement for both of them.
Him meddling with Fate's plans in interesting ways and her trying to correct what he did.
He knew however, when something should and shouldn't be meddled in.
Fortunately for him, this was something he could meddle in.
So Harry watched as she was dragged from blissful sleep and questioned thoroughly about her 'Harrowing' before basically being told to report to the First Enchanters quarters.
A short trip later through the monstrous tower that the circle resided in later, they had arrived.
Harry got his first glimpse of the world's defenders.
The Grey Warden.
Looking into the man's mind proved more difficult than the others due to the fact that something almost primal was defending the man's mind.
It was slightly harder but in the fact that it felt as though an ant was trying to stop him, it really says something about your ability if you actually notice something that small attempting to stop you.
That being said what the man's mind provided was gold as it was informative to the Millennia old god residing in the Apprentices mind.
He could certainly agree with the name, Grey Wardens, if the initiation ritual was anything to judge his expectations off.
The meeting was brief as was his time in the man's mind but it was enough for a skilled mind walker like him.
He had long ago transformed the subtle and useful art of Legilimency into something much more potent and almost three times as subtle.
But who was he to warn his host about the impending troubles she would be to facing.
Seeing as he was going to create many of them himself to test her mettle, he didn't.
The fact that she was set upon by the blood mage as soon as she had left the first enchanters office all but proved he wouldn't need to meddle in this.
Soon, the mage he was living in had all but promised to help them escape from this, what did these people call it… ah yeas, becoming Tranquil.
The removing of the connection to the fade by removing from their body the emotions they use to fuel the connection.
Forcibly turning the person into an emotionless husk that thinks it is happy because it is told it is.
Truly barbaric and utterly horrible but not altogether ineffective in dealing with the problem.
So he watched at the mage he was riding in went to the first enchanter and told him of everything to get her form signed, before she went and spoke to the other Senior Enchanters of the tower.
One of them, Harry thought, shouldn't have been given her position.
Not even a week in and she'd already bungled it all up, but in her defense she had only been given the job a week ago and adjusting to such a shift couldn't be easy at all.
But yes, she had a task, clearing out spiders.
Wonderful eight legged creatures composed of forty percent nightmare fuel, fifty percent legs and ten percent torso…
Such wonderful creatures.
Task completed in record time with most of it being spent simply walking around and waiting for the spiders to attempt to jump her, she killed them.
She began noticing changes too, for example her spells were much stronger than before but that was waved away as her enduring and coming out alive in the harrowing.
Solana noted that she seemed to be moving faster and her staff weighed much less than she felt it should, this too was written off as the harrowing changing her.
In reality however?
The truth was much more sinister, she had been given the power to by a bored being that was basically a god in his own right, in return?
He'd taken up residence in her mind making himself comfortable.
He also had many plans, thus he was going to influencing most if not all of her decisions with his logic, twisted as it was.
Perhaps not all as that was toeing the line of complete mind control a bit too much for his liking.
He never liked stripping humans of their wills at all, unfortunately he had enough been on the receiving end of it many times before.
Not that they had truly affected him but the thought remained, what if they had.
It was a sobering thought.
Back to the person he was inhabiting, the clearing of the cavernous repository of junk had gone well.
The reward for the task was a few health potions.
Not necessarily the best reward for a task as involved as it had been, but one of the nice things he noticed about the journey.
Solana had been struck with the venomous fangs of a spider, the fangs sinking into her supple flesh to their maximum length, during the retreat they were none to gentle either tearing a massive hole in her flesh.
Giving the human mage he was riding the common courtesy of having her memories remain exactly the same, until he got permission, he didn't know what her life was.
He was fairly sure that a normal human at least flinched when that happened to them.
Humans were not meant to catalog their wounds with efficiency better fitting a machine before treat them accordingly without issue, sometimes ignoring the injury for the rest of the fight she had received them in.
Attaining the so called, Rod of Fire, even knowing that it wouldn't work, having been told as much by the First Enchanter, she kept up with their little ruse.
Harry knew that soon, he would reveal himself to her.
They progressed, his host staining her hands with blood.
Upon closer inspection of her reactions to doing so, he concluded that this either wasn't the first time she'd killed or she simply didn't care that she was killing another human.
Both thoughts bore some scrutiny.
She played along, battling their way through the winding hallways of the basement of the tower finding the artifact room and blasting their way in using an amplifying statue.
The rather timely fight that followed was good, perhaps bad as the woman they were with managed to nearly get herself impaled by a sword.
Harry would give the girl a notch however, as she had deftly avoided that blow and turned it against her would be attacker.
Doing so with a simple knife, was definitely impressive.
Watching the mage pickup his phylactery, he acted, it was the perfect time to introduce himself he decided.
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{Please bear in mind that this was made ABSURDLY early in the morning with me almost of my rocker from sleep deprivation.
So I hammered this out tonight to get it out to you lot because I'll be busy for the indefinite future. I figured I'd get this out as a sort of 'last hurrah' to go with the massive amounts of omakes I've been pumping out on a semi-regular basis lately. This was to be the last before a small break, I'll still be around posting whenever I finish something that caught my fancy but probably not at the rate I've been doing so lately. Who knows, I might stay at the same rate I've been doing em' lately and not change at all. Time will tell.
Onto the story, for those of you who haven't figured it out, this is the second part to 'A Harrowing Experience' Poor Roughstar... He has to edit it all XD
Anyhow - This story is my imagined take on how Harry would interact with all the characters and how he would nudge the story along its intended path, fate had sent him there for a reason and that'll become clear in later updates along with why he's chosen to stick himself in the apprentices head, Solana Hawke.
Goodnight all, The Legendary Reaper signing off for tonight.
-A.N-
Small rant on the game's I've been playing recently, read at your own risk.
Shall explain the above statement about this being a somewhat of a 'Last Hurrah'.
So, I was looking through my Dragon Age Collection and I was astonished that I've yet to finish Dragon Age Origins in my own way.
What is my way you ask?
I've not yet finished a male and female for all of the origins.
You read that right - Twelve play-throughs before I'll consider the game finished. I've completed around seven last I checked. Three more to go, yaaay.
See, problem is that the content became somewhat stale after the sixth time through and I stopped around there, not before slogging my way through the opening for another origin at least. Urgh.
So I decided that this story would be about a Female Human mage turned warrior with Harry tagging along for the ride. Why not?
It alleviates my boredom and lets me channel my efforts into something different, when I'm not running a game into the ground that is.
I shall be getting Dragon Age Two, for the PC soon and I shall disappear for awhile, that game enthralls me like no other!- The Legendary Reaper}
(P.S. well good luck finishing all those games I suppose, not sure if I should feel relieved for not editing or feel bad at not reading more omakes - roughstar333)