Narrator:
This is a story about a woman.
named Sylvia; she's a mage, but then some
She has long silver hair, but even so, the two
things that standout most are her ears witch to must human's
would think looked like knives, and her Vallaslin of Andruil on her forehead.
and she is Dalish. A human who is yet an elf, this is her story.

Narrator:

The year is 9:30 Dragon
Our story begins in a remote area.
In Ferelden, a kingdom ruled by humans,
There is Lake Calenhad, which has a tower of magi.
Ferelden's circle of magi, people born with magic go there.
Unless you are Dalish, but I will explain that latter.

There are the Frostback Mountains.
This is where you would go if you wanted to visit
Orzammar the kingdom of the Dwarves, who live underground.

and there is the Korcari Wilds.
It is said to be home to the Chasind wilders.
a group of humans who live in the forest
and there are the witches' of the wilds as well.

and there is Denerim, the capital.
of Ferelden, where you can find the Royal Palace.
of the Theirin Family, the ruling family of Ferelden, it is also where the
Annual Landsmeet takes place There is also the alien home of the city elf's
It also has a one-of-a-kind market; this city is also known as Holy
The Chantry believes that Andraste herself was born here.
Andraste being the bride of the maker the humans God
But one thing that everyone who isn't from here agrees on is that
Ferelden smells like a dog.

But enough of that, let's get on with the story.
Our hero is asleep in her Aravel when a woman with blonde hair and a staff on her back appears.
walks in.

?:Wake up Sis

Narrator: Sylvia's eyes are open and
They meet the face of the elf who opened
them.

Sylvia: Lanaya Garas quenathra?
Lanaya: Did you have a good rest?
Also, Keeper Zathrian has asked me to come get you.
He has a mission for you.
Sylvia: Yes, Da'len I did sleep well and thank you.
I should see what he wants at once.

Narrator: As Sylvia said, her little sister waves her goodbye as she leaves the Aravel.
Sylvia then gets up and puts on Delish boots, Delish gloves, and Delish Gloves with Delish armor.
It was hardened Tier 4; it was green and white, and she put a green like robe on it; it was cut at the bottom.
giving her legs room to run, and it had a hood so she could hide her ears when around humans.
After she was fully dressed, she went up to a wall where her Whitewood longbow sat and put it over her shoulder, grabbing her
Quiver, but she notices that she has no more arrows but thinks to herself that she will get some later and puts twin daggers in her clothes to hide them.
She leaves her Aravel
and makes her way to the keeper, but a middle-aged elf woman calls her name.

?: Sylvia? finally up.
Sylvia: Andaran atish'an Danyla
Yes, I have awakened. How is your mate?
Danyla: Oh, Athras is training with Fredi.
I think it is bow training.
Sylvia: I see, and how is your daughter?
I know she was sick not too long ago.
Danyla: She is all better now, thank you for asking.
Sylvia: Ok, then I must go now that the keeper has called me.
Danyla: Oh, Sylvia, before I forget, Sarel has asked after you.
something about telling the Da'len's a story.
Sylvia: Oh, I almost forgot Ma serannas . Danyla
Danyla: De Da'rahn and Dareth Shiral Sylvia

Narrator: Sylvia then walked away from Danyla and saw Sarel.
talking to a group of Dalish kids.

Sarel: Children, hear of the fall of the Dales! Hear the tale of what makes you Dalish.
Would you like to go, Sylvia?
Sylvia: long ago, we were imprisoned by humans and taken as slaves.
Sarel: We were slaves to a human kingdom called the Tevinter Imperium.
They did evil things and used magic to hurt people, then we were freed and given a new home called the Dales.

Sylvia: So we have begun the long walk.
We walked with what little we had on our backs. Some walked without shoes, for they had none. Whole families—women with infants, the old and young alike—all of them made their way across the land on foot. Many perished along the way. Some died of exhaustion; others simply gave up and fell by the wayside. A great number were set upon by human bandits, even though we had few possessions. Some turned back toward Tevinter. But most of us continued walking. And the gods rewarded those of us who did not waver by bringing us to the Dales. And for a time, it was home.

Sarel: We were free. For over three centuries. But the humans and their new Andrastian chantry would not let us be. They pushed against our borders. They sent missionaries to spread the word of their prophet. They sought ways to subjugate the people once more. When we refused, we angered them.

Sylvia: They destroyed us. Even the Emerald Knights could not stand against the might of their army, armored in faith. In the name of their Andraste, they burned Halamshiral, scattering us to the winds. They forgot that once, long ago, Andraste's followers and the elves marched together. They forgot that Andraste called Shartan "brother."

Sarel: So now we move from place to place, never staying too long.
to upset anyone, and one day when we find a home for us
We will teach our people who decide to live among
the Shemlen ways and history.

Sylvia: We are the Dalish keepers of the lost lore.
walkers of the lonely path.
We are the last of the Elvhenan .
and never again shall we submit.

Sarel: nicely said, Sylvia and Ma serannas.
Sylvia: De Da'rahn Dareth Shiral Sarel
Sarel: Dareth Shiral Sylvia.

Narrator: Sylvia then turns and walks up to Varathorn.
She went up to him to buy elf-flight arrows.
but he is talking to a redheaded female elf.

Gheyna: They've been missing for about 3 hours now.
Varathorn, can you not refill my quiver for me Varathorn?
Varathorn: no Gheyna not if you plan to look for them.
The keeper said for you to stay here.
Sylvia: Andaran, atish'an Gheyna, and Varathorn
Who is missing and why?
Gheyna: Andaran, atish'an Sylvia, Cammen, and Deygan are missing.
Sylvia: Why, how did this happen?
Gheyna: There is a human settlement.
being set to the west of the forest.
Varathorn: The keeper sent them to do recon.
to see if they may be a threat to the clan.
Sylvia: The keeper asked for me.
Gheyna: If you're sent to look for them, I'm coming with.
Varathorn: That is not up to either of you to decide.

Narrator: Varathorn then gave Sylvia 20 elf-flight arrows.
these arrows are Elvan made they have chance to stun there
target, then Sylvia walked off with Gheyna following close behind her.
The two walked to the keepers, Aravel.

Slyvia: Keeper Zathrian
You asked for me,

Narrator: a tall male elf with a bald head
sat there on the floor of his Aravel with his eyes closed.
but then he opened them.

Keeper Z: Yes, Slyvia I have an urgent task for you.
how ever Gheyna I have already said no on this.
matter, why do you stand before me again?
Gheyna: But keeper if your sending Slyvia.
I wish to be her backup.

Keeper Z: I have said no already, plus I have something.
else I need from you, Slyvia. I need to head west in the forest; there is a Shem Town.
being made outside of the forest, I need you to look within the forest.
have sent both Cammen and Deygan to scout the walls to look for weak points,
Once this has happened, you are to find them and bring them home.

Slyvia: understood keeper can I use Lethal actions?
Keeper Z: As a last resort, if you're ready to head out, go now.
Also, ask your sister and Mithra to come here once Gheyna stay.
Slyvia: It will be done at once, keeper.

Narrator: Slyvia then left the Aravel and let both her sister and Mithra know.
that the keeper told them to come in for a task; she then walked into the forest.
and stops, kneels down, and prays to Andruil, the Lady of the Hunt,
channels magic into herself and transforms into a wolf with brown fur and
makes her way deeper into the forest in her wolf state, she gains all the abilities of a wolf.
She tracks hunts and scouts using her powerful wolf ears, nose, and teeth.

While running, she picks up the scent of her clan members.
She follows the scent and sees humans, about 10, with three elves in a cage.
that is sitting in front of them. She sees something dead by a man's foot; it seems to have fur.
but a human-sized body then turns back to her natural self and hides in a bush and aims her arrow up, holding
about 9 with rope around them She says sleep is casting a spell on her arrows, and she fires some of the arrows.
fall on some of the humans, hurting but not killing any of them; the arrows that did not find a target
hit the forest floor, and a mist comes from them, putting the rest of the humans to sleep.
After all the men were asleep, she stood and exited the bush she was hiding in.

She sees one dead elf who was not of her clan.
and performs a Falon'Din enasal enaste, she then kills
the biggest human saying Fen'Harel ma halam
She then opens the cage gate, waking up her two clansmen.
saying Ar lasa mala revas, both elves woke up and stepped out of the cage.
they been beating up badly she said for them follow her back to the clan and to stay behind her
in case there are other shams around, but before they left they had
taken a closer look at the human-sized man with fur, but it was not a man but a werewolf.
she said with anger in her voice. Witherfang might be near.
Her two clansmen shivered with fear after hearing what she said, and with that, they made their way back to the clan with
out any more fights breaking out if there was still humans around they did not run into them

When they arrive back with the clan, she brings them to a
Aravel, where elves know how to treat wounds
could help them, she then makes her way to the keepers Aravel and enters.

Sylvia: Keeper I have bad news.
Keeper Z: speak what has happened.
are Cammen and Deygan alive?
Sylvia: Yes, they are okay; they were beaten but not bad.
enough that they wouldn't heal up with time and rest, I did
find a dead elf, though I think maybe he came with the humans.
but keeper there more I came across a dead werewolf.

Keeper Z: a dead werewolf? You mean she has found us?
Sylvia: Yes, I believe Witherfang has found us again.
Keeper Z: I see. Then we must go.
Sylvia: Where too?
Keeper Z: back to the Brecillian forest where this has started
We must find a way to end this once and for all. I have two tasks for you.
Sylvia: and they are?
Keeper Z: One is for you to tell Ellora
Get the Halla ready to go at a moments notice.
and for her to hook them up to the Aravel's and
tell the rest of the clan to get ready to move

Sylvia: And the second task?
Keeper Z: I sent Lanaya Mithra and Gheyna
with two others to the Shem town to let them know we
want no trouble, just let us be.

Sylvia: You did what?
Why the fuck would you send my sister to the
Shems town!
Keep Z: keep your voice down and
It had to be done, and she asked for it instead.
of swearing at me, go and retrieve them.

Narrator: Sylvia had left the Keepers Aravel in a huff.
but did what she was told to do; she let Elora and the rest of her clan
know they need to be ready to leave, and she made her way to the city.
She had shapeshift again, but this time into a Prairie Falcon.

In this form, her eyesight becomes much better.
Being able to stay in the sky and mainly scout
Sometimes she does use this form to attack.

Sylvia had found her targets, both Mithra and
Gheyna, who was being surrounded by six men
with one sitting in the back giving orders, the rest of the
street was clear of humans, probably staying in doors.
till the fight is over.

She then swoops down, clawing her talons at the seventh guy.
who looked to be giving orders, taking his eyes out, and going back up
into the sky only to come back down in mid-air, she transformed back, taking out her
Dual Dar'Misus falls on one guy with her foot on his neck, killing him.
and threw one of her Dar'Misus at one of the men's faces, hitting him dead in the forehead and killing him.
on impack she then sprung around slicing the first guy who eyes are now gone neck open
Blood squirted out getting on her clothes.

Mithra then pulls out Sylvia's dagger from the dead guy's skull.
turn to another man who was still in shock and stab him.
4 times in the gut, killing him.

Gheyna pulls out an arrow and
fire putting the arrow through a man
She shot at his eye, then shot a second time, hitting his heart.
The last guy just gave up, but Sylvia was not hearing him she grabbed his head.
and snapped his neck.

Sylvia: now with that being
taken care of where is Lanaya?
and the other two clan members you came with?
Gheyna: We got separated from them.
Sylvia: Just what in Pantheon happened here?
Mithra: We were talking, but then 10 guards came around us.
saying we knife ears killed there guy in the forest we
Try to explain to them that it was not us, but one. Try to drag your sister away.
I think he may have broken her arm.

Sylvia: Okay, what the hell?
the Shems started this.
Gheyna: What do you mean
Sylvia?
Sylvia: It's nothing, okay. Gheyna return
to the clan, inform the keepers.
Gheyna: right away, 2nd.
Sylvia: Mithra, your with me. We will go and help the others.

Narrator: Gheyna left to inform the keepers.
and Sylvia and Mithra made their way to the center of the town, and it is begging to rain.
They pass one dead elf. He was shot in his knee with an arrow and in his head.
The other clan member was fighting a tall, big human who had a shield and an axe.
he kicked the clan member down and brought his axe down on him, killing him.

Lanaya saw the bloodshed. and Cried firing a lightning bolt out of her hand, hitting one of the men.
The big guy with the axe turned his head towards her, saying this filthy knife ear bitch is also a mage.
break her other arm. mages can't do magic without them.
another male human charger at Lanaya who is on the ground with a broken arm with his sword, but Sylvia ran
and jumped in front of Lanaya and jumped back, pushing Lanaya back and falling on her.
kicking the sword up and casting the spell winter grasp, freezing him in solid ice.
The sword itself cut deep. into Sylvia's face, giving her right Eye a deep gash that goes from cheek bone up past her eye to above her
Eyebrow then stops

The big guy with an axe says to Sylvia
Why would you save that knife ear?

As Sylvia stands back up, blood is pouring.
down her face, but she can still see well enough to fight.
Mithra came to the sisters side, looking at Sylvia.

Sylvia: Mithra, take her back.
With you to the clan, tell the keeper to leave.
without me.
Lanaya: No, as'lin, we can't leave you here.
Sylvia: Lanaya enough! Look around us, we have two of our own dead already.
We killed many Shems already; do you think there king will just let this be?
I would rather take the blame and die than let our clan and people face another Exalted March.
Mithra, do as I say, take her, and go!

Narrator:
Mithra did as she was told.
She picked up Lanaya with tears in her eyes.
Lanaya herself was also crying, saying, Ar lath ma.
as she was carried out of town.
Sylvia then said, Ar lath ma. back and Dareth Shiral.
crying as the rain pours down even stronger.
She hangs her head and begins to pray to Elgar'nan, and Mythal.

The big guy with the axe says, You might as well give up this nonsense.
I don't see why you would let those creatures go.
but we will find them and kill them all.
Sylvia: I let them go because they are my people.
and I only see us two left standing.
I'm one of the last of the Elvhenan.
and I will not submit!

Narrator:
Sylvia then touches the frozen man, who is still in solid ice.
the ice begins to turn red and red blood vessels appear
on her hand and wrist, she begins to see more clearly.

The man saw this and calls her a bloodmage and chargers at her .
Sylvia then points one of her hands out, and blood drips from it
while pointing the other at the ground, the man with an axe got in close and swung.
his axe at her head, but she ducks and taps both of his wrists and neck.
and dashes to the side of him and jumps back, saying Checkmate, the man with the

Axe turns his head and body toward her, saying, What do you mean by that? He then notices he can't move all of his body.
Sylvia then says, "Bloodpop. She has cast a blood magic spell.
she snaps her fingers once the man with an axe wrist's bust open
opening with a pop .

His hands fall to the ground. He screams, crying, with a terrified look in his eye as he remembers that
She touched his neck, saying, Please don't.

Sylvia walks up, taking off her hood, so he
could see her elf ears and Vallaslin, she said to him, You killed two clan members of mine and
try to kill my sister, and as far as what happened in the forest, that was also me, not them, but
You also killed an innocent elf, yet you don't want me to kill you? I think not human now die
She then snapped her finger again, and the man's neck popped, making his head fall from his shoulders.

She then sits down and waits on the
authority to come but passes out

Later the next day, sometime in the afternoon
She woke up in a cell and saw two guards standing in front of her cell.
looking at her with serious looks on their faces, but then a door opens and a tall
A bearded man with light brown skin walks in.

?: open her Cell
I'm using the right conscription.
for her to be released.

Guard 1: She's to be a warden?
Guard 2. She's a Meleficar

I don't care about that.
stand aside, templars

Narrator: the two guards
who were templars Knights of
the Chantry who hunt apostates
Apostates are mages who live outside of the Circle of Magi.

the two had stepped to the side for the man, he said for Sylvia to leave her cell.
And Sylvia, did he say so your one of the Dalish I see?
You may call me Duncan. I'm commander of the gray wardens here in Ferelden and
you are to join our order.

end of chapter.

Doing this since 13:
So comment on this if you like it.
And yes, I'm still writing my other stories.

So I'm only typing this once.
Andaran atish'an: Enter this place in peace. A formal elven greeting.
Ar lasa mala revas: "You are free. More literally "I give you your freedom.
Ar lath ma, vhenan: "I love you,
Dareth shiral: farewell; literally, "Safe journey.
Falon'Din enasal enaste: A prayer for the dead.
Fen'Harel ma halam: "dread wolf ends you." A threat.
Garas quenathra: "Why are you here?/Why have you come?"
Da'len: Little child; little one."
Shem/Shemlen: The original name elves use for the human race; continues to see use as a slang among some elves.
even though its meaning has largely been lost literally quick children
Aslin: sister
Vallaslin: :When the children of our people came of age, they earned the privilege of wearing the Vallaslin, the blood writing. It sets us apart from the Shemlen, and from the elves who have thrown in their lot with them. It reminds us that we will never again surrender our traditions and beliefs. —From Codex entry: Vallaslin: Blood Writing
2nd: a 2nd in Dalish culture
is an elf who must be a mage.
when the keeper of a clan
steps down or dies, the 2nd is to become the new keeper.

Elven Gods mention so far

Elgar'nan: the All-Father, god of fatherhood and vengeance,
Mythal: the protector, goddess of motherhood, and justice.
Andruil: Goddess of the Hunt

now with new spells
Blooddrain, a spell I made
It allows the mage to take the blood from
people who either allow it or if the person is asleep or unconscious.
To dispel the spell, the person must only move away.
warning This spell can make some people feel fatigued after using a 2nd spell like Bloodpop.
at the moment
Only Slyvia has this spell.

Bloodpop: a spell I have made
First, the mage must use Blooddrain.
but Bloodpop is by touching a vain or pressure points on the body think of
gentle fist from Naruto, but instead of chakra, you use the blood you have gathered from using Blooddrain.
By pushing more blood into a person's body, the part you hit turns into a blood clot now, unlike
Normal, this blood is alive, and when a caster snaps their finger, it pops and busts open, taking a limb, head, etc. you get the idea

Now that I'm done type to you later