Dragon Age: The Grey Dawn
"Join us brothers and sisters.
Join us in the shadows where we stand vigilant.
Join us as we carry the duty that cannot be forsworn.
And should you perish, know that your sacrifice will not be forgotten.
And that one day we shall join you.”
The walls of Weisshaupt no longer sat in disrepair, no more chipped stone and worn banners lay upon the ancient fortress. The once crumbling mausoleum of the slayers had been repaired, statues to the five heroes of the blights with space for two more sat waiting their arms and armor placed within their crypt. The near vertical mountain trails were clamoring with Anders nobles, their entourage, Wardens of all nations, and visitors making their way to the grand fortress, as the warden commanders and first warden prepared for arrival of those that came to speak for the great powers of the world. The Tevinter Imperium has recently seen the Venatori come into power, Kirkwall's viscount spent most of his time away on business.
It is the year forty-nine dragon, the grey wardens have had years of strife and reconciliation, now they are growing some say it is a power play. Others claim that the stories Corypheus being an original Dark Spawn have set a fire under the order not seen in generations pushing them to go from waiting to proactively looking for ways to deal with the Dark Spawn menace for good. While the world seems to forget how on the brink it was just years ago, the Wardens have felt nothing but fury at the tricks played upon them and cowardice their leadership showed.
However, with the fourth generation of griffin's on the way the order has also stepped up taking in and training new griffin riders. The return of these mighty beasts have not only emboldened the wardens but helped return them to renown across Thedas as the only winged calvary to ever exist have returned. This also comes as new research into the blight and the many mages who joined to escape the mage-templar war shows promise in purging the blight from the land and healing it. While the circles have turned into homes of study where templars watch from afar, the grey wardens in turn have offered up newly freed mages a place to learn more forbidden skills and put them to use against the Darkspawn.
Now, as the summit for future Anderfels begins, the warden's arrive from across Thedas some who have never been to Weisshaupt before, others recalled. It appears the first warden has news for them after the meeting diplomats from across Thedas, one that could set the order a new path, for the fifth blight was gone in a year with no great loss of lives as before. Rumor's abound they will battle another returned magister sidereal or that they may even be marshalled to defend the Anderfels and make the entire nation their home. What is certain is this, whatever is coming, for the first time in centuries the Grey Wardens influence is on the rise.
Hello and thank you for your interest! As you saw above this RP will focus on the grey wardens about six years after the events of the Inquisition. I will be working a full timeline breakdown later but for now I want to get to the main focus of this, namely playing off little details in the world that should have had more impact than they originally were rumored too. There will be use of class archetypes and subclasses as ways to help bolster and focus character. As well as few new subclasses built around the grey wardens new friends and Avernus's research into taint as a source of power, as well as the Wardens own research into healing the blight.
I wanted to give a focus to all the information and understanding we have in additional content as well allow the wardens some degree of growth and adaptation. As over the course of three games there has been a massive leap in understanding of the taint and darkspawn, which I feel would help the wardens develop with their already long history of research and understanding of the taint. I am even toying with the idea of improved versions of the joining being given using Avernus's research. But that is to say the focus of this story will be on wardens or those working for them, I will be working on a character sheet soon I promise depending on what peoples level of interest is in this.
However, let us move on to the plot of this. A better description will come with main RP but in essence first major act of this story will be the Warden's embarking on a journey to try and locate, possibly kill an Old God rumored to be buried near Kal-Sharok. This would mark the first offensive step the grey wardens have ever taken, more importantly supporting this action is the dwarven holds who plan to use this offensive to retake territory with both sides planning to try out new weapons on the Darkspawn in hopes to finally gain respite by holding them at bay.
Obviously the story will have more beats and a wider plot than just going into the deep roads but I wanted to start us out on the warden's reacting to this emerging threat by being proactive rather than reactive.
((Thank you to Alfhedil whose CS design I modified for this))
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