A fireball flew past his face close enough to singe his beard. He would’ve been angry at the spellcaster, but they’d done this many times before. They’d fought together for decades, which is something he never would have expected when he was younger. Fighting side by side with someone from the surface was something unheard of when you grew up in The Commons of Orzammar.
The fireball exploded in the middle of a group of Hurlocks. He turned his axe toward the next darkspawn coming at him. He didn’t thank the mage for the assistance. Surviving this fight wasn’t a priority for them. They’d had their Calling and they knew that death was approaching. The only thing they could do now was take as many darkspawn with them as they could.
After taking down a Genlock with a well placed cleave of his axe, the rest of the darkspawn parted. Coming through the gap was an ogre, a monstrous creature easily twice as tall as him. He looked back to his elven mage companion. They nodded to each other before turning to face this newest threat. They weren’t going to back down from it, even though it was one of the toughest creatures in all the world.
They were Grey Wardens. Dying fighting the darkspawn was what they did.
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Come on, we can take ’em!
Now I want to play Origins again…
Well…go for it.
Yes. Go for it.
I may, my dear Jaded, if I can ever find the time.
More more more! What happens next?
Once they receive the Calling, Grey Wardens go down into the Deep Roads specifically to die fighting the darkspawn. So, even if they were to somehow survive this encounter, they’d eventually fall to their enemies.
So this is based on a game?
Dragon Age
Cool, cool. I’ve never heard of it. 😛 I really wasn’t much of a gamer, I guess. Only system I had was the original playstation. And I really only played like five games on that. Only games o played on my PC were doom, counter strike, unreal tournament, and … Some WWII game I’m drawing a blank on the name.
I seriously doubt they’d have any of them in your library, but there are a number of Dragon Age novels. I’m pretty sure that you’d like them if you read them. They do a good job of explaining the world so you wouldn’t need to play the game to understand what’s going on.
I’ll take a look.
The first 3 are written by a man named David Gaider, who was the lead writer on the first video game. The first 2, (The Stolen Throne and The Calling) cover events and or characters that were mentioned in the game, but never shown. If you can find them, you should start with The Stolen Throne. It comes first.
Sadly, you called it. No dice with the library.
Bummer
Frickin darkspawn. You are really making me want to play Dragon Age again, lol!
You and me both. After I finished writing it, I wanted to put Origins in my Xbox.