I can't remember what happened after the last journal except for when I woke up in a jail cell. Holy shit that was scary. These two women came in and started asking about the temple and I found out it blew up and holy shit everyone is dead. They think I did it because I crawled out of the fade a while after the explosion. There was a woman in there too and now I'm apparently the Herald of Andraste.

Okay, I need to slow down and explain what's going on better.

So I woke up in a cell after I went to look for that noise I heard. I guess whatever it was had to do with the Divine's death and the explosion at the temple of sacred ashes. This woman, Cassandra, yelled at me and honestly with those scars and the armor she was wearing I was… a little more than disconcerted. Nothing made sense and now all those people are dead and they thought it was my fault. I may screw everything up but I wouldn't kill people for nothing. However what disturbs me is that… I might have done it. I don't remember.

Anyway, I managed to to be dragged out to be shown the Breach, but also discovered that my Mark -I have a new green tear looking thing in my hand now- was also killing me whenever the Breach expanded. It hurt like… well it hurt a lot and as we marched up to the temple so I could apparently use it on the Breach.

There were so many demons. I've never seen demons before but now I was fighting demons left and right. I don't even want to imagine the other kinds of demons I'll probably have to fight later. It's so much responsibility.

As we walked up, I met two other people fighting demons. A crossbow wielding dwarf named Varric Tethras and an elf named Solas.

Varric had this air about him, like he knew he was important and that others should know it too. I tried to not ask the questions I had about the Tale of The Champion and I'm amazed that I didn't just start excitedly yelling at him and hug him for writing my favorite books ever. Thankfully the attacking demons held me back and made sure I didn't dwell too long on Varric.

Then there's Solas. I wonder if he uses some sort of wax to keep his head so shiny. And there's the fact that he knows so much about the Fade. He knows so much for a guy who dresses like a hermit. Maybe he is one, he doesn't have a clan and I haven't heard of him before. However he did help me not die from the mark while I was passed out so he can't be all that bad. I guess I'm just overreacting but he seemed to know what was going on. More than he said.

But anyway we went up and encountered Chancellor Roderick and Lelianna arguing over what to do with me.

Lelianna scares me more than Cassandra does. It's her quiet way of moving, its seriously so quiet that she moved behind me and I had to not jump when she talked about the scouts in the mountains. I know that I should have gone with the soldiers but what if they noticed? I could feel my makeshift binder shifting and hurting. I couldn't take it off yet, so I went up to the mountain path and managed to get away from Cassandra long enough to readjust it and take a breath from all the monsters for a moment. I'm just glad they can't take my face and pretend to be me. They might be better at it than I am.

Anyway we got up to the temple after saving the scouts and holy shit there was huge floating green crystal. That spawned a giant demon that knocked out Solas in a few blows. I mainly focused on closing the crystal like the others so I could leave and go home away from the insanity.

I woke up three days after sealing the stupid thing to a screaming elf servant. I haven't gone outside yet but someone removed my binder while I was sleeping. Thankfully a better one was left for me on the table and I decided to grab the journal I keep with me and write in it before I head up to the chantry here.

Wish me luck and I hope they don't decide to hang me.