Disclaimer: I own Legend of Zelda and Dragon Age, wait I don't? They Lied!

A/N: I've gotten asked twice about what game this Link is from. Link is an OC as far as background goes. However he is based on the OoT Link and TP Link.

Legend of Zelda: Dragon Age

Chapter 2: Origin Mage

Link and Duncan, Raziel staying behind to bury Kain, continued to walk to Circle Tower. Link and Duncan talked about the Gray Wardens, Hyrule, and a little about each other. Duncan was most surprised that there were people who never heard of the Wardens or a Blight. However it seemed Hyrule had its own problems.

"I'm surprised, "began Duncan, "that you would join the Gray Wardens when you didn't even know who we are. I'm ever more surprised that you are willing to help a country you know nothing about."

Link turned his head a little to the left, getting a better look at Duncan, before looking straight and spoke up, "I was sent here to reestablish contact with our lost brothers and sisters. Kind of a bad start if I just left them, when this 'Blight' is going on; without trying to help. Also, as a Hylian Knight it's my duty to protect those who can't protect themselves."

Duncan looked at the young elf, a solemn look on his face, before Duncan's face hardened.

"Just so you know, your people, are considered second class citizens." Duncan took a deep breath, as he continued. "They were slaves long ago, and then when freed, went to a new homeland and tried to reclaim their lost cultural. But many people were not happy about that, and once more laid waste to their homeland. Some decided to live under human rule and now live in poverty .While others, wanted to keep their freedom, began to wander the lands. With your return, many will expect you to help them rose out of poverty, others back to their true homeland, and many will want you to get revenge against humans."

Duncan looked at Link's face, eyes staring at the ground, deep in thought. But then Link's eyes shoot straight ahead; look of resolve in his eyes.

"I'll come to that bridge when I come to it. For now, we have other things we need to do."

Duncan just nodded his head, looking back upon the path they were traveling on. 'His right. The soon we get this done the soon we can get back to Ostagar,' thought Duncan.

Link stared at the large tower in front of him, as it stretching into the sky, letting out a low whistle.

"MAN," exclaimed Link, "That's a big tower. May be as big as some of the towers of the castle, or smaller, or bigger. Kind of hard to tell."

"You have towers this size back in Hyrule?" asked Duncan.

"Yeah, we have six attached to the castle or was it eight?"

Duncan looked at the young elf, a quick shake of his head, before he spoke up.

"Come, we have much to do." And with that Duncan lead Link to the small dock, where a man was working on a small row boat. The man seeing the two of them approaching, and stood up to greet them.

"Hello there. The name is Kester, own this fine boat here. How can I help you Gentlemen?"

"Greetings Kester," replied Duncan. "My name is Duncan, of the Gray Wardens; I need to go to the tower to speak to the First Enchanter about the war effort."

The man looked at Duncan, then at Link, before nodding his head.

"Alright, really don't know if you are a Gray Warden, but it's not my place to say. Also not a lot of people go to the tower without reason. So hop in! OH, and keep your hands in boat."

With that said all three of them climbed into the boat, as Kester brought the boat to the tower in the distances. After what felt like an eternity to Link, the boat reached the dock near the tower entrance. And wanting for them near the dock was a templar, dressed head to toe in his armor. And once more Link wondering what the hell was up with the purple dress/skirt. However the templar seemed to be all business.

"Why are you here?" asked the templar; most likely glaring at them behind his rectangle helm.

"I am Duncan of the Gray Wardens," replied Duncan. "I'm here to speak to First Enchanter Irving about the war effort."

The templar looked at Duncan, seeming to size him up, and then replied, "Very well. Come. I'll take you to see him. But stay close."

The templar turned around, and walked to the tower door; not even seeing if he was being followed. As the small group made its way through the door, Link got his first look at the inside of the tower.

"Wow! You guys really know how to waste space." Link exclaimed. "Also like the gloom and doom feel."

The templar, GLARED back at Link, and Duncan had to stop himself from chuckling. The templar quickly looked forward as he continued to lead the two. As the three passed some doors into, what looked like a dorm, Link saw another templar walking towards them. With something in his arms. This was Link's first really look at a Hylian, or elf as they were called here, in these new lands. The first thing he noticed was that she was much smaller than normal Hylian female was. A good four or six inch if he had to guess. She had an overall smaller build. Though Duncan had told him most elves were small. She also seemed to be wearing a green robe, a very fancy green robe, and had red hair. And she looked to be asleep.

Link didn't get much of a look as the young girl was carried into the doors into one of the dorms.

Neria wake up with what was a very painful headache, shifting a hand to her head.

"Hey! Neria! Wake up!"

Neria opened her eyes and looked toward the sound of the voice, and spotted her friend Jowan. Jowan was a human male, with a loosely combed black hair.

"Jowan," Neria groaned out, "What do you what?" She slowly pulled herself up, her shoulder length red hair falling onto her back. Green eyes looking out of the pretty and young elf's face at her friend.

"Just wondering how you are doing," replied Jowan, sheepishly. "You were gone all night. I didn't even know you were gone at all, until they brought you in this morning. So, what was it like?"

Neria brought a hand to her aching head. "What do you mean?" she asked, as she used a healing spell for her headache.

"You know what," spoke Jowan, a bit more forward. "The Harrowing!"

The headache, starting to go away, Neria brought her green eyes and looked at her friend.

"You know I can't tell you," replied Neria, combing some of her red hair, behind her left pointed ear. "You'll just have to wait, just like everyone else."

"I know, I know. It's just; I've been here longer than you have. I don't know if I'll ever take my Harrowing."

Neria sat up straighter, looking at Jowan with a look of worry. "Why do you think that?"

"It's nothing," Jowan said quickly, waving her off. "Anyway, Irving wanted to talk to you as you were up to it."

"Thanks," replied Neria, as she got up from the bed she was sitting on.

Jowan then just gave her a wave and walked away. Neria looked at his back, as he walked away, a worried look on her face. Jowan had begun to act weird to her, and she couldn't figure out why. With that, Neria began to make her way to Irving's chambers to see what he wanted.

As Neria made her way there, many people, mostly mages and apprentices, congratulated her on passing her Harrowing. However she really didn't feel that special. The Harrowing was… interesting. The point of the Harrowing being, to see if she could resist a demon. It seemed straight forward enough, but after she had defeated the demon, the person who she thought she was helping her turned out to be a demon.

Before Neria knew it she was in front of Irving's room, and she walked in to see Irving and the Templar Knight-Commander Greagoir in an argument. However, the tall elf with golden brown hair and the funny looking green hat, saw her and spoke up.

"Sorry to interrupt, but it seems we have a guest."

At that the whole room looked at Neria, and she was beginning to feel self-conscious.

"Ah, yes. Neria. Our newest member of the Circle," Irving said, with a smile on his face. "If you don't mind Greagoir, could we pick this topic up another time?"

Greagoir looked at Irving, then at Neria, before he nodded his head and walked out of the room. Irving then began to congratulate her, and give her a staff and a Circle of Magi signal ring.

"Ah, yes I don't believe I've introduced our two guests here," spoke Irving with a small chuckle. "Many I introduce Duncan and Link of the Gray Wardens." Neria bowed her head, and said hello, with the two Wardens during the same. "Now if you don't mind, do you think you could show the two of them to the guest room?"

"Yes, First Enchanter," replied Neria with a small bow. "This way please."

Neria walked out of the room, the two Wardens in tow. As they proceed down the hall, she felt the eyes of one of the Wardens on her. Turn her head slight, walking down the bending corridor, Neria saw that the elf with the weird hat was looking at her. With he's ocean blue eyes and his… 'NO!' thought Neria. Those thoughts were bad. Bad thoughts! However the Maker seemed to want to send her a curve ball.

"Do you have your hair that length, so you don't accidently catch it on fire?" asked Link.

Neria stopped and turned around, putting some of her shoulder length hair behind her right ear. "What?" asked Neria.

"You hair," replied Link slowly. "Do you keep it that length so you don't accidently catch it on fire? If you do that's perfectly understandable. My friend once caught my pants on fire by accident. Or so she says," Link finished, rising a hand to his chin, now in deep thought.

"OH, so you're a mage?" replied Neria with a bit of shock in her voice. He didn't dress like one.

"In a way I am. But mostly no," Link replied with a shrug.

"What do you mean by that?" A confused look on Neria's face.

"Link means," Duncan spoke up. "That he has had different type of magical training."

"Oh," replied Neria softly, and once more the group made their way down the hall. After a few minutes, Neria lead them to the guest room, and into the room itself.

"This is the guest room. Please make yourself at home." The two Wardens gave a polite thank you, and Neria left the two to rest; from what was most likely a long journey. As she left the room, she was surprised to see Jowan outside.

"Does the First Enchanter need you for anything else?" asked Jowan.

Neria looked surprised at Jowan's question, before responding, "No, I'm free for the moment. Do you need something?"

At that, Jowan moved closer to Neria, before leaning closer to her, and whispered, "I need your help with something."

Neria leaned closer before also whispering, "What is it? Is it important? Are you feeling okay? "

"Why are we whispering?"

At that, both Jowan and Neria looked toward the owner of the voice. Neria saw the golden brown, green hat, and pointed ears; Link. Link was leaning close to them, all within the same eye level. The two of them continued to just stare at the Gray Warden. Then Jowan spoke up, "Maybe we should go somewhere private to speak."

And Jowan took Neria and left. Leaving Link, arms crossed and head angled a little to the side, confused.

Link finding himself bored and with nothing to do, decided to practice his stealth, and followed the red head, and her friend. And boy! What a conversation it was! It seemed that Jowan needed her help escaping from the tower, so he could be with his lover, Lily. Apparently he was never going to get his, 'Harrowing', because he was going to be made a 'tranquil'. Now, from Link got from the context and Neria's reactions was; that a mage loving someone was a big no-no, Jowan didn't want to become a tranquil because he'd lose his love for Lily; meaning tranquils had no emotions or something similar, and finally escaping from the tower was also a big no-no.

Neria seemed to take this pretty hard, and told them that she needed time to think about this; but not before Jowan and Lily asked her to promise not to say anything. As Neria quickly came out of the back corner in the chapel of the tower, Link quickly hide, but she seemed too distracted to notice him. Link stood there for a few moments before going after the young red haired mage.

After wandering around for a few minutes, he found her in one of the libraries on this level; sitting at one of the tables. Link walked over to the table and sat on it, next to her.

"Don't know what to do, do you?"

Neria looked up, stared at Link.

"What are you talking about?" asked Neria, trying and failing to put up a convincing smile.

Link looked down at Neria, clam and composed look, before sighing. "I heard," he said voice low.

At once Neria stared at him wide-eyed before quickly deflating. Then the two elves were quite, and it lasted for a few minutes.

"What should I do?" finally replied Neria, voice barely above a whisper.

Link just looked straight ahead, before replying, "I don't know enough about the customs or culture to really say." Neria seemed to deflate even more upon hearing that. "But, what's the worst that could happen if your friend doesn't go through this 'Harrowing' or becoming a tranquil."

Link looked down at the girl, as she was deep in thought, before her eyes widened.

"Looks like you came to a decision," stated Link, as he got up off the table. "If you don't mind, I think I'll go do something else."

Link walked out of the library and once more began to wander the halls. He'd greet the mages he passed and nodded his head to the templars who just nodded in return. When he came into one of the rooms, he noticed a middle-aged, female, elf that looked like she had a problem. 'Time to work your magic problem solving powers' thought Link, as he made his way over to her.

The elf in question, seeing Link coming over to her, quickly spoke up. "You're one of the Gray Wardens, right? Do you need something?"

"Not really, just looking around," said Link, now standing in-front of the elf mage.

"If you don't need anything, could you leave me alone? I'm quite busy."

"Ok, Ok," replied Link, as he looked around. He then caught sight of the large double doors next to them. "What's behind those doors?"

Leorah got a nervous look on her face before answering. "Those are the storerooms of the tower."

"Oh, really?" said Link, with a look of curiosity. "Mind if I take a look around inside. Promise I won't take anything."

"No!" exclaimed Leorah. "I'm in the middle of… cleaning and taking stock."

At that Link tiled his head and crossed his arms. "If that's true, then why are you out here and not in there?"

Leorah froze at being caught in her own lie. "I'm… um, taking a break."

Link raised a brow at that. "Got a problem?"

The older elf mage looked around nervously, before specking up. "Fine, I'll tell you if you promise not to tell anyone." Link nodded his head, and Leorah began. "The storerooms have been infected by giant spiders, and I've been so busy with my new position as a Senior Enchanter, that I haven't gone back there and cleared them out yet."

"I could take care of them."

"I'm sorry, what?" replied the shocked elf.

"I said, I'll take care of them. I don't carry this sword around for nothing, "said Link, pointing his left thumb at the sword on his back.

Leorah took in the tall elf's appearance. He was a Gray Warden; he could handle a few spiders, right?

After Link had left, Neria made her way to the First Enchanter's room, and told him of what Jowan was planning. It seemed that Irving had known about Jowan and Lily for some time, and he was very proud that Neria had come to tell him of this. However he wanted Lily to also get in trouble for this too. He wanted this affair to be as embarrassing to the Chantry, as it was to the Circle. And to do that he wanted Neria to play along. Help Jowan to escape so that both of them would be caught in the act.

So Neria had found herself agreeing to help Jowan, and heard the plan for how they were going to escape. Jowan need to destroy his phylactery or else the templars could just hunt him down and Lily had a plan on how to get to it. Apparently there were two door need to get to the phylactery chamber. The first one was simple enough to get through with Neria's help, but the second door required two keys that were carried by the Irving and Greagoir. So to get pass the door they were going to burn it open, with a Rod of Fire.

Then Neria found herself going off to get one from the supply room. However Owain required her to have a form filled out in order to check one out. She THEN, went to the First Enchanter to get the form signed. AND THEN, the Irving told her that the Rod of Fire wouldn't work on the door in question. There was a way around this though, but told her not to be so forward with the information.

After getting the Rod of Fire, Neria made her way back to Jowan and Lily, and they made their way to the basement. After Lily said a password and Neria used some magic, the first door was opened. However the group quickly found out that magic didn't work around the second door, explaining why keys were used on the door.

"There must be another way into the room," said Neria. "Look at that door there. Maybe it leads somewhere." This was quickly becoming too much work.

Elsewhere

Link was hanging upside-down ten feet from the ground, covered from the neck down in webbing. He watched as twenty giant spiders moved on the ground toward him. Looking up, or was it down, Link saw two more spiders moving down the string of web holding him to the ceiling.

"This may be more difficult than I thought."

Back to Neria and Friends

The small group of three found themselves in a repository of some sorts, with many old and odd artifacts. Looking around the room, Jowan spotted a wall behind a bookcase that looked old and bitter. Neria and Jowan quickly moved the bookcase out of the way. Now, how to destroy the wall? Neria looked around the room looking for something to help them with destroying said wall.

That's when Jowan spotted an old dog statue artifact. Using the Rod of Fire on the statue, the wall was soon destroyed.

"We did it!" Jowan shouted. "We're almost home free. I can feel it."

Moving down the path that they had created, they soon found themselves in the phylactery chamber. And once more they were attacked.

Three animated armored statues soon attacked. Neria charged a lightning bolt, and sent it flying at one of the suits. The blast sending the armored suit flying, and hitting the biggest of the three suits. Jowan, seeing this, sent a fireball at the pair, hitting and then exploding. Both suits damaged, and no longer moving.

During this, Lily fought the last suit of armor, holding a mace. The suit swing horizontally with its sword, to which Lily dropped to the ground, and swept the suit's legs out from under it.

"Move!" yelled Neria, to which Lily quickly obeyed. Once she was a safe distance away, Jowan and Neria both sent a freezing wave of ice, freezing the suit of armor before it could get up. Lily moved in and slammed the mace onto the suit's chest, shattering the armor.

All three caught their breaths, as they moved further into the chamber, looking for Jowan's phylactery. It was just sitting there on a table, a vial of Jowan's blood.

"There it is," said Jowan, picking up the vial. "Who knew something so small could hold so much power over me. And with this gone," the vial fall to the ground before shattering, "I'm free!"

Neria stared at her friend, doubt entered her mind again.

"Jowan, there's something you need to know," started Neria.

"What's that?" asked Jowan, turning to he's friend smile broad on his face.

Neria only took one look at that before she smiled sadly.

"I'm going to miss you."

Link walked out of the storerooms and walked up to Senior Enchanter Leorah.

"You problem is taking care of," stated Link.

Hearing this Leorah turned to look at him. "You have no idea how grea… your sleeve is on fire," pointed out Leorah looking at Link's left sleeve. Link looked down, and sure enough his white under shirt at the elbow was on fire.

"Would you look at that," replied Link, quickly putting out the fire. "Well, better getting going. Oh, next time you go back there to clean you may want to use a mop and a shovel. "

Link waved goodbye to the Senior Enchanter, as he made his way back to the guest room. But as soon as he walked out into the hall, he spotted Duncan.

"There you are," said Duncan, as he made his way toward Link. "We need to get going. We won't be getting any more help from the mages, but there is still much we need to do." Link only nodded and the two made their way to the entrance of the tower.

The two Wardens moved through the first floor and came upon a unique scene. There surround by templars, Knight-Commander Greagoir, and First Enchanter Irving, was Neria and her friend, Jowan, and his lover, Lily. Greagoir quickly told the templars to arrest the mage and his lover.

"NO! I WON'T LET YOU TOUCH HER!" yelled Jowan, jumping in-front of Lily. Jowan pulled a dagger out of his sleeve and cut opened his hand. Blood flowed out of the cut and gathered in the air, and then a shock wave of energy leaped out; knocking all the people gathered on the ground. However when he turned to Lily, she wore a shocked and horrified look on her face. After an exchange of words Jowan left her behind, and ran.

To say Greagoir wasn't happy would be an understatement. Greagoir yelled at Irving, blaming him for not allowing him to stop Jowan sooner. Then the topic came up on what to do about Neria. At that Link looked to Duncan. "Duncan we," but Duncan was already making his way over to the group.

"First Enchanter, if I might make a suggestion. I came here looking for aide against the Blight, but I'm also looking for Gray Warden recruits. Why not let young Neria join? We always need more mages in the Wardens," said Duncan.

"Umm, that may be a good idea,' replied the Irving, stocking his gray beard. "This one has served the Circle well, and could be of use to the Gray Wardens. What say you child?"

Neria's green eyes stared down at the floor. She didn't want to join the Gray Wardens, but if she joined she could look for Jowan. Her mind made up she looked Duncan in the eyes.

"I'll join the Gray Wardens."

The small boat made its way slowly back toward the shore. Link looked at Neria, as she looked sadly into the water. Feeling like this was kind of his fault, Link tried to comfort her.

"If it makes you feel better, I think you did the right thing."

Neria turned and looked at Link, a small smile forming on her lips.

"Thanks."

The boat continued to make its way towards the shore, when a thought hit Link.

"If this is the only way to reach the tower; HOW THE HELL DID JOWAN ESCAPE?"

Profile

Name: Neria Surana

Age: 18

Class: Mage

Sub-class: none at this time

Equipment: Standard mage's robes and staff

Personality: Neria is bright and cheerful, with a vast knowledge on magic, the Fade, and many topics related. However do to living in the Tower her whole life, is very naive to the world beyond the tower walls.

Profile: Neria was discovered to have magic at a young age, and was quickly given to the Circle; her parents hoping she would get a better life there. Considered a genus by her teachers with great potently, she was able to quickly pass her Harrowing. Neria dreams of traveling the world and find her, 'true love', however she knows that it will never happen, being a mage.

Threat Level: 5 out of 10, due to lack of combat experience

Co-op Level: 8 out of 10

Effective against any size group, her lack of combat experience may be her downfall.

Codex

Hylian Magic

Much like Thedas, Hylians were limited to magic drawn from the Fade and Blood magic. However after experimenting with both, it was quickly discovered that the two could be combined. With 'magical blood', Hylian magic was stronger than Fade or Blood magic, and allowed all Hylians the ability to do magic. Of course some are better than others. A nice side effect was it made Hylians immune to demon possession, the existents of the Fade was slowly lost. However a negative side effect is that since magic is in the blood, the magic power runs extremely close and parallel to the life force of the individual. If magic is drained from the person, the life is pulled out too, killing the individual. Only avid magic users can subconsciously separate the two, but still causes crippling and painful damage to them.

A/N- Here's chapter two. hope you enjoy. Sorry if it seemed rushed, but there's a lot of talking with it going really no where. Just needed to get through this so we can get to the main story. Please review if you like, or have questions.

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