Dru Tabris was never meant to survive. After killing a nobleman in the name of vengeance, all that waited for her was dead. Until fate intervened. Conscripted into the Grey Wardens, she is thrust from the executioner's rope into a war against ancient monsters stirring beneath the earth. The Blight spreads like rot, and when betrayal from within leads to the king's death, Dru and Alistair, fellow warrior, are all who remain. Hunted by the crown they once served, they become fugitives in a land teetering on ruin. Their only hope lies in a fraying alliance of mages, mercenaries, and outcasts-each with secrets of their own. To end the Blight, Dru must unite a broken kingdom, face the ghosts of her past, and confront a destiny written in blood. Book 1 in the Dragon Age series © Bioware • Written by Korrindo Tale First Draft

Pippy Cadash was a Noble Hunter and a orphan with many secrets. passed from place to place as a child until she found herself in the Carta under the Cadash and made a Noble Hunter in order to gain the carta an in with the noble families below the surface. When Varric Tethras finds a miserable girl crying in The Hanged Man, he learns her story. Pippy being well learned, verses in the game, buisness, politics, arts, and combat gives the Storyteller Merchant an idea. To make his day to day a bit easier and hers as well, Varric hires Pippy as his assistant. After years now, Varric sends Pippy out on a job - to scout out ahead to the temple of sacred ashes as he is being taken to explain the events of years before to the Divine herself. However, neither expected what they found there and what they will learn.