The game does something interesting with the character of Hawke. The approach to Kirkwall: Not the most welcoming sight. With extremists on every side, confrontation is inevitable - and Hawke has arrived just in time to end up at the center of all of it! Meanwhile, the real power in Kirkwall rests with Templar Knight Commander Meredith, whose increasingly harsh treatment of the city's Circle of Magi is resulting in runaways, leading to rampant incidents of forbidden Blood Magic throughout the city. The city is nominally ruled by a weak viscount, but his already-limited energies are consumed in dealing with a shipwrecked Qunari Arishok and his people, who have all but taken over the docks. Kirkwall is overrun with refugees fleeing the Blight, which has led to rising crime that has spilled over from the slums of Lowtown to even the expensive residences of Hightown. Though one of Hawke's siblings falls to the Darkspawn, the rest are saved by a chance encounter with Flemeth, the Witch of the Wilds, who transports them to safety in exchange for delivering a message to the clan of Dalish elves camped near the port city of Kirkwall. He tells Cassandra the story of the rise of The Champion of Kirkwall.ĭuring the Blight, Hawke (the player character) escapes from the Darkspawn invasion of Lothering with the family: mother brother Carver, a veteran of the Battle of Ostagar and sister Bethany, an apostate mage.
Varric protests that he has no idea where The Champion has gone, but he agrees to do the next best thing.
A Seeker named Cassandra demands to know the whereabouts of "The Champion," the one person who might be able to fix an unspecified crisis - and who it's strongly implied might have caused the crisis in the first place. Varric, a Dwarven storyteller, has been captured by Chantry forces.
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