Good news! Only the Chancellor from earlier wants me dead!

Which is a step up from everyone wanting me dead so that's something, let me tell you. However I did spend a large amount of time helping people and avoiding talking to Cassandra while she and the Chancellor spoke.

Turns out Adaan -Adan?- was the one responsible for the binder and taking care of me. There was a lot of awkward standing there talking and explanations that I didn't want to go into, but he gave me some health potions, a potion for my voice so I didn't, "sound like a ten year old", and asked me to look for some notes. I don't think he likes me very much.

Threnn is an interesting lady, I spent an hour helping her before she realized I was the Herald. I moved boxes around, looked for iron, and stumbled on an abandoned logging camp near an old house. I even found some notes for Adan inside that he appreciated me giving to him. Adan also kicked me out after I almost knocked down a shelf of potions onto myself.

Some Herald of Andraste huh? I don't even believe in the lady as the bride but... I admire her deeds. Cassandra seemed upset that I didn't believe in the Maker, so I didn't press the issue. Lelianna seems to hold him in high regard but I prefer my people's way of thinking of gods. Just as flawed and horrible as you are. At least then they're closer to you in some way.

All this talk of the Chantry and holy wars is giving me a headache, and every time I see a little kid call me the Herald I melt a bit inside. More people keep flocking here to see me and to escape the mage templar conflict. I'm just sad that they're going to leave disappointed. I'm not some great hero in this war like Solas and I joked about, I'm just a dumb kid swept up in these events.

I haven't told anyone but sometimes I stick my fingers into the Mark. It's tingly and kind of fun to see how much I and push through. Unfortunately I had a close call when I decided to stick my tongue into it, Cassandra walked by and I had to casually play it off but I think she bought it. At the very least she didn't question it.

Once arrangements were done Varric, Solas, Cassandra, and I headed out to the Hinterlands to find some priestess from the Chantry who wanted to talk to me. Through Cassandra's ability to read maps we all managed to get to the camp in one piece. Good thing I told her I can't read, otherwise we would have been lost for much longer.

I kept the party entertained by using my skills at ventriloquism, which didn't go over so well with Solas when I made his food start 'talking' to him. He thought it was a spirit at first and threw it to the ground. I got lectured for about an hour on why it wasn't proper for the Herald of Andraste to be startling mages and that was a terrible idea.

Varric slipped me five gold to do it again at a later date, preferably to Cassandra.

The walk to the Hinterlands was short and when we arrived I met scout Harding. Varric made a cheesy joke she didn't get and we fought Templars and mages. It was eerie, because I knew a few of the mages and templars from the Conclave. I guess a few managed to get away, and for a moment I thought they recognized me too.

I feel bad for having to kill them, and it was much easier to deal with demons -even with how ugly they were. At least then I didn't have to look them in the eye and see someone I knew. Not well, but I still knew them.

After the fight I talked to Mother Giselle, who is a very nice lady who I'd like to talk to more often. She still calls me the Herald, but I like her. She's wise and worse comes to worse I could do with worse advice from better sources. After I talked to her I started to trek over to Horse Master Dennet. After talking to everyone it was getting dark so I set up a small camp nearby to rest for the night. I wandered off to hunt for some rams only to slide down the cliff I was standing on.

The landing was soft. However it was soft because I was literally hugging the rear end of a bear. I scrambled away and screamed all the way back to camp for Cassandra. I'm pretty sure she's meaner than any bear. Once I crossed the threshold into camp she glared at it and I swear to the Dread Wolf that the bear freaking flinched.

We had bear for dinner.

Also I made an offhand comment about the Dread Wolf not even wanting to eat the bear and Solas seemed to perk up at the mention. He must be a minion for the Dread Wolf. I'm not longer sharing my food with him until she tells me which clan he belongs to and I can get Lelianna to confirm it through her network.

I have to go to Val Royeaux soon and talk to the Chantry. Why did I have to be picked for this I'm just lucky if I don't cause in interracial incident when I visit shemlen towns with my clan.

Then again, I don't remember anything about visiting any shem villages despite my clan being very shem friendly. I think this has to do with my memory loss from the Temple of Sacred Ashes, but I can't tell Cassandra this or she'll freak out like she always does. I'm not sure but I think Cassandra has a crush on me, but I'm more afraid that she'll just crush me when she finds out that the one she's pinning her hopes on is a moron who is only good at making fish talk to you.