Birds of a Feather
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"Your Harrowing is tomorrow, isn't it?"
"Hm? Oh, that thing? I suppose it is." She cannot muster the energy to be as concerned about this as everyone wants her to be, even as the chantry maiden's fingertips clench gently around her skin.
"Are you truly so unbothered?" A scoff of indignation. "You could die, you know?"
"Either I fail and I die in the Fade or I succeed and spend the rest of my life locked away in a tower. Somehow both outcomes sound wholly unappealing to me."
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"Duncan's gone."
The way his voice trembles around those words makes her heart ache something fierce. She knows. She knows this agony. The agony of losing a loved one. And she knows there's nothing she can do to ease the pain. Nothing she can say that erases the loss. All she can do is stand beside him.
"The king... the Grey Wardens... they're all gone..."
All she can do is stand beside him as the world falls apart and hope the two of them will be enough to put it back together.
"I'm so sorry, Alistair. We'll get through this, somehow. I promise."
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Or, the story of a mage that finds a future for herself at the end of the world.
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- Part 1 of Birds of a Feather
- Part 1 of Scylla Diander (Mage Warden/Inquisitor)
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Avery never could forget the screams. The blood spattered on the walls. Nor the templars that turned them away at the gates, locked them in and left them to die. They remember the chill of Lake Calenhad as them and four other mages plummeted into the water below. How their bones ached as they swam the length of it, the terror that gripped their heart as Claire, swollen with child, had clung to them weak and terrified.
When they made it to the other side they ran. Fought through droves of darkspawn, of hunger and exhaustion until at last they reached the boats north of Denerim that would take them to Kirkwall.
Now, all these months later, whilst adapting to life in the Free Marches, word comes to them that the blight is over.
But Avery's story is just beginning.
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Or, the story of an enchanter that escaped Klinoch Hold during Uldred's uprising who not only lived to tell the tale, but would become the Champion of Kirkwall and leader of the mage rebellion.
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- Part 2 of Birds of a Feather
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Scylla Diander, Hero of Ferelden, Warden-Commander and once an advisor to the Independent Circle of Ferelden, attends the Conclave and leaves with a bitter, twisting feeling in her gut when the peace talks end in a stalemate. Compromise unwilling on either side.
It is on that same day, as she storms away from the halls of Andraste's Temple, that an old friend appears in her path. Leliana asks her to be the Inquisitior.
Her? The Inquisitor? How could she refuse?
And then something happens that shifts the tide of her trajectory.
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It is in the halls of Skyhold that Leliana, with her pained face and white knuckles, hands a document stamped with the seal of the Inquisition to Avery Nylund, Champion of Kirkwall and leader of the mage rebellion.
A document, penned in Scylla's own handwriting, that asks for Avery to take on the mantle of Inquisitor should the Calling take her before the goals of the Inquisition are brought to fruition.
Them...? The Inquisitior?
There's no room for them to refuse. Not now.
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Or, the tale of two mages, two dear friends - two Inquisitors.
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- Part 3 of Birds of a Feather