Author's notes: So, the poll didn't lead anywhere but to a tie. A tie between the human Inquisitors, so I decided to use the Elven Inquisitor: Thea Lavallan, Dalish Elf Mage and a trained Knight Enchanter. She was in a relationship with Solas.

So, this story, as I said in the first behind the scenes chapter, starts of the last mission of Dragon Age Inquisition, Doom Upon All The World, where the Inquisition fights Corypheus. We'll get into that after this Star Wars text that sets out the current world state.

EDIT: The 'Before the Story begins' chapter is deleted for obviously giving the wrong idea of what kind of story this is. New readers, read this chapter, be shocked about it's cliff hanger and then read the Author's notes below for the actual explanation for it without making haste and incorrect deductions.

Fall of the Magister

In the beginning of 9:42 Dragon, Divine Justinia V had orchestrated the Conclave as peace talks and a chance for the Rebel Mages and the Templar Order to end their war. War that had lasted for for five years since Knight Commander Meredith had in her madness attempted to execute every mage in the in the Kirkwall's Circle.

In her madness, Meridith had believed every mage to have succumbed into the forbidden arts of blood magic, which was only partly true. In their fear, some mages had been forced to use in their defense, but the worst offender had been the First Enchanter Orsino, who had studied the art for his last resort. Both Meridith and Orsino met their ends in the hands of Aeryn Hawke, who had three years prior rescued Kirkwall from the Qunari, deed which had earned her the title ''Champion of Kirkwall''. Deaths of the Knight Commander and the First Enchanter were the final sparks that then ignited the Mage Rebellion and lead to the Mage-Templar War.

But the Conclave didn't help. It was invaded and the Temple of Sacred Ashes where is was held, was destroyed by an explosion that tore rifts to the Veil between worlds and killed everyone who attended, except for one. Thea, a Dalish Elf of Clan Lavellan, had been sent by Keeper Deshanna to spy on the Conclave and surviving the explosion, the First of Clan Lavellan had been marked by a mysterious Anchor, which held the power to seal that damage done to the Veil.

Thea Lavellan had become known as the Herald of Andraste by the Right and Left Hands of the Divine Justinia V, under whose orders, if the Conclave would not end the Mage-Templar War, restored the Inquisition of old. With time, the Inquisiton's influence grew with it's allies and once the culprit of the Conclave's destruction was revealed, Thea was put in charge as the Inquisitor.

Temple of Sacred Ashes... or what's left of it

''Tell me, where is your Maker now? Call Him! Call down His wrath upon me!'' called Corypheys, the ancient Darkspawn Magister, to the soldiers of the Inquisition at His mercy, the first ones at the scene after the Breach's reopening had been discovered.

''You cannot! For He does not exist! I am Corypheus! I shall deliver from this lie in which you linger! Bow before your New God and be spared.''

''Never!'' one of the soldiers yell back Corypheus in defiance.

''As you wish,'' Corypheys retorted not surprised and responded to the defiance by drawing rifts from the Breach and sent out terror demons to attack the soldiers.

Few were slaughtered by their talons before the rest of the Inquisition's forces arrived, lead by Inquisitor Lavellan.

''I knew You would come,'' Corypheus greeted the Inquisitor with a mocking bow.

''It ends here, Corypheus!'' Inquisitor Lavellan yelled at the Magister Darkspawn using her enchanted magical sword to land a final blow on the last terrors.

''And so it shall,'' Corypheus said in a bitter tone, before spreading his arms and lifted the Elven Orb above Himself.

Using the Orb's power, Corypheus lifted the ruins they were standing in and the ground they were all standing up and towards the Breech in the sky. An act to separate the Inquisitor from her forces and leave her alone to face Corypheus with only few of her closest allies in her inner circle.

''You have been most successful in foiling my plans, but let us not forget what you are; a thief in the wrong place in the wrong time,'' Corypheus spoke to the Inquisitor in the new situation. ''An interloper, a gnat. We shall prove here, once and for all, which of us is worthy of Godhood.''

''I'm didn't come here to become a God, Corypheus!'' the Inquisitor shot back showing that Corypheus did not frighten her and that she was not after the same thing as the ancient darkspawn.

Corypheus responded to this with silence only broken by the hissing and growling of His Red Lyrium Dragon, which He eventually ordered to attack the Inquisitor and her remaining forces. But then-

''SCREEEEEEEEEEEECCHHHH!'' Guardian of Mythal attacked the Red Lyrium Dragon and stopped it from attacking the Inquisitor.

''A Dragon!? How clever of you,'' Corypheus said levitating from the ground and deeper into the temple ruins. ''It will avail you nothing! You will fall as a warning to all those who oppose my divine will!''

''Talks and runs away from fight like any other Vint,'' The Iron Bull spit out with his ax ready.

''I am going to ignore that,'' Dorian replied twirling his mustache.

''Whatever happens, I will go down like a Warden,'' Blackwall, AKA Thom Reinier, said taking his stance. ''Killing Darkspawn!''

''If we make out of this alive,'' Varric said locking an loading his Bianca-crossbow, ''my next book, covering all this, will be called This Shit Is Weird.''

''Grrrh, come on! Let's go hit 'im with arrows!'' Sera demanded reading her bow, before sniggering, ''This Shit is Weird, heheh, so funny.''

''Remember the Orb, Inquisitor,'' Solas said touching Lavellan arm. ''Recovering it is important to our People.''

Inquisitor Lavellan nodded before pointing her staff towards the Temple and they all charged inside ruins.

''Let it end here! Let the Skies boil!'' Corypheus' voice echoed through the air as they ran through the hallways to an opened are. ''LET THE WORLD BE RENT ASUNDER!''

In the darkness there was nothing. No directions where to proceed to, only what seemed to air to breath. And breathing was painful, felt in the muscles that felt like they had large holes ripped into them.

Pain was good. It helped focusing on being alive.

''I am not going to die yet.''

TZAAAHP!

Finally some into the darkness. Red light coming from the palm of my left hand. At least it helped seeing-

''WHAT is on my hand?!''

''My, well that is interesting,'' a voice said and another hand reached to the red glowing hand. ''How did you end up into the Crossroads?''

''Not like this! I have walked the halls of the Golden City, crossed the Ages...'' Corypheus yelled in outrage seeing his Red Lyrium Dragon slain with it's power returning to Him with His mortality and the Inquisitor advancing toward's Him.

In His desperation, the Magister Darkspawn grasped to the Elven Orb and begun to yell at it. ''Dumat! Ancient Ones! I beseech you! If you exist- If you ever truly existed- AID ME NOW!''

Only thing that did happen was the Inquisitor use the Anchor in her left hand to pull the Orb away from Corypheus' hands and to the Inquisitor. Channeling the magic of the Orb through her Anchor, Inquisitor Lavellan sent a powerful surge of magic up to the Breach, closing it once again and lowering the Temple of Sacred Ashes back to the ground.

''You wanted into the Fade?'' Inquisitor said dropping the Orb to the ground and approached Corypheys while pointing at the Darkspawn Magister with the Anchor.

And using the Anchor, Inquisitor Lavellan opened a rift inside Corypheus and it sucked the ancient Darkspawn into the Fade from inside out. As the dust settled, she saw Solas on his knees.

''Solas?''

''The Orb...'' was all that Solas could say and hearing that, Inquisitor Lavellan saw that the Orb had broken into pieces.

''I'm sorry, I know how much recovering it meant to you,'' Inquisitor Lavellan said realizing she had unintentionally broken it when closing the Breach. ''Could it still be fixed, if take the parts-''

''It wouldn't have recovered what was lost,'' Solas spoke in hollow voice, before rising back on his feet and looked at Lavellan with sad and sorry eyes. ''Know this, what ever happens, what we had was real.''

''Inquisitor?! Are you alive?!'' Cassandra Pentaghast's voice called from below, outside the Temple.

Inquisitor Lavellan had to report back and let her forces know that their leader was still alive and turned to leave the Temple ruins. Walking down the stairs, she found her forces and allies waiting for her.

''Then it's over? How lovely,'' Grand Enchanter Vivienne asked in her usual passive tone.

''And the sky is healed, healthy... whole,'' Cole said in his confusing spiritual looking up in the sky. ''There is just that left to remember.''

Inquisitor Lavellan looked behind herself and up, seeing what Cole was talking about. There was a faint green scar-like line spread across the sky.

''Looks that way,'' Inquisitor Lavellan said turning back, catching a glimpse of Solas at the top of the stairs.

''What do we do now?'' Cassandra asked as Lavellan turned around again to look at Solas, but he wasn't there anymore.

Feeling conflicted about the situation, Lavellan looked back on her forces and said what she felt to be the right thing to do.

''We go back to Skyhold.''

Arbor Wilds

Even with this it still felt like being lost. Only thing guiding was the old woman who had found him in the darkness. But then when walking though what felt like light and water, it started to become clearer. Light that felt like it was blinding, but it was warmer than the darkness.

''You need to rest,'' the old woman said helping him lay down. ''I'll tend to your wounds in a moment.''

Laid to rest, he felt the pain being put to a stand still. He still felt his wounds present but they were not hurting anymore. Feeling of uncertainty rose as without feeling the pain and giving into it would have lead to his in usual circumstances. So he kept breathing as deeply as he could to keep his pulse as high as possible.

''I knew you would come,'' the old woman's voice spoke, not to him but to someone else who had arrived. ''You should have not given your Orb to Corypheus, Dread Wolf.''

''I was too weak to unlock it after my slumber,'' a male voice full of guilt and desperation responded. ''The failure was mine. I should pay the price, but the People, they need me. I'm sorry.''

''I am sorry as well, old friend,'' the old woman said before gasping for air.

That alone caused him to open his eyes and see what had transpired. The one called the Dread Wolf was holding the old woman(who was not as weakly built as he had imagined) in his arms while the Dread Wolf's eyes were glowing and he was emitting smoke.

''What did you do to her!?'' he growled trying to get up, but was still weak from his wounds.

The Dread Wolf walked closer to him with his hands behind his back and looking down on him.

''Who are you?'' the Dread Wolf asked looking down on him when

TZAAHP!

the left had begun to glow red again. The Dread Wolf reached to look at the hand and seeing it made him angry.

''Where did you get this!?'' the Dread Wolf asked in a bitter voice while twisting his arm. ''ANSWER ME!''

There was nothing to say. He had no answers to the Dread Wolf and was too weak to fight back. The mark on his hand was mystery to both.

''Fine, sleep,'' the Dread Wolf said rising back up on his feet and waved his hand, making it feel drowsy. ''Your dreams will tell me what I need to know.''

Skyhold

The Inquisitor's return to Skyhold was met with large applause. Forces under Commandeer Cullen, allies gathered by Ambassador Montilyet as well as the priests of the Chantry were all gathered to the lower courtyard by the gates and they were all clapping their hands as Inquisitor Lavellan and her inner circle walked past them and up to the upper countryard and met with her general, diplomat and spymaster, who all bowed to the Inquisitor for what she had accompliced.

''A moment, my lady?'' spymaster Leliana asked by the second the cheers had calmed down enough and lead her up the stairs.

''My agents have found no traces of Solas,'' were the first words out of Leliana's mouth. ''He has simply vanished. If he does not wish to be found, there's likely nothing we can do. But I will keep looking.''

''Why would he leave?'' Lavellan asked out loud in disbelief. ''Something must be wrong.''

''You said he was upset about the Orb,'' Leliana said referencing to a report Lavellan had given to her agents.

''That can't be the only reason,'' Lavellan said shaking her head as Leliana gestured them to move inside.

''Now that Corypheus has been defeated, we have a moment to stop and celebrate,'' Leliana said changing the subject as they walked into the Great Hall. ''Afterwards you will be busy. Every noble in Southern Thedas is glamouring to meet you.''

''The fighting's over,'' Lavellan said with her thoughts still elsewhere. ''Why do they want to meet me now?''

''Your joking, yes?'' Leliana basically chuckled in response. ''They wish to bask in the glory of your victory, hoping that some of it will rub off on them. Everyone knows Empress Celene owes you her life. And her throne. A thousand problems remain, and your opinion will be sought on each one- whether you give it or not.''

''Oh, now they're lining up to meet me,'' Lavellan said seeing the irony of the situation's past and future.

''Such is the way of things,'' Leliana said as amused. ''Previously you were an upstart, a Dalish Elf in charge of rebels and heretics. Until Corypheus revealed himself, they could not see the single hand behind the chaos. Once they did, they knew: a Magister and a Darkspawn in one creature, The Ultimate Evil.''

Lavellan nodded to that in agreement.

''Now you are the only power left standing,'' Leliana said ready to end their conversation and enter the celebrations. ''Enjoy the evening while you can, Inquisitor.''

And enjoy she did. Lavellan spent the rest of the night joining in the company of the Iron Bull and his mercenary group who were celebrating their defeating of toughest Vint so far, while Dorian told that a servant girl had hugged him for being part of fighting against Corypheus and how a blacksmith, that had spit on him for being from Tevinter on their first meeting, had given him respect. Varric was still torn on believing anything that had happened and being happy it was all over now, still sticking up on writing his book about everything. He also said that he expected to hear from Hawke soon, most likely that she would be walking out of the Grey Wardens' fortress as it explodes.

Sera was just happy for everything going back to normal again and Josephine stressing out in with the celebrations and how they had been planned in the retrospect, with Leliana telling her to relax. Cole was enjoying the calm that had landed as did Cassandra. Blackwall, or Thom Reinier as his name had been revealed to be, was pleased with what they had managed to accomplice and was ready to be surrendered to the Grey Wardens as a recruit with no fear for the Joining.

Before retiring to her quarters, Lavellan exchanged a few words with the Vivienne who was discussing about the future of the Circle of Magi with enchanter Fiona. As a mage Lavellan listened them for a bit before tired of all the fighting retired to her chambers.

With all the good she had done as the Inquisitor, Lavellan still felt empty inside.

''Interesting,'' Solas said opening his eyes and stood up.

He had not learned much from this man's memories about how he could bear this red Anchor, similar yet different from the one on Inquisitor Lavellan's left hand. Only thing that had been managed to be uncovered was the man's name, which had raised more questions about the man origin.

This was something the Solas could not work out alone, which was why it was providence that an old friend had answered his call and arriving through the Eluvian.

''Avallac'h, it has been a long time,'' Solas said greeting another elf walking through the Eluvian with young girl with ashen white hair and carrying a long sword.

''Fen'harel,'' Avallac'h said as removed his mask greeting Solas, ''it is unlike of you to dress like a peasant.''

''Semantics of the moment at hand,'' Solas replied. ''Who is with you?''

''This is Zireael, child of the Elder Blood,'' Avallac'h said introducing his companion. ''You know how important that makes her.''

''Yes,'' Solas replied with a nod. ''Had I known you were on the run from the Wild Hunt-''

''I'll just not use my powers and the Wild Hunt won't be able to sense us,'' Zireael said in the tone that made it clear she didn't like being spoken of like she wasn't present. ''Who is that?''

''He is the reason I called you out,'' Solas said turning back to the man with the red Anchor. ''I need to discuss this with Avellac'h and have his wounds treated. There is a clan of Dalish Elves that will help if you take him.''

''Me?'' Zireael asked confused.

''Yes, you,'' Solas repeated. ''Tell them who you are and who sent you. They will do as you ask.''

Zireael walked to the wounded man and looked down on him.

''Does he have a name I can call him when he wakes up?''

''While he has slept, I have used the connection to the Fade to learn more about him,'' Solas said summoning a Halla to carry the man. ''As for his name, it is Bruce Wayne.''

Author's notes:EDIT: Yes, this guy with the red anchor is named Bruce Wayne. He is the same version of Bruce Wayne who I have written on in my previous stories Traveler Among Wizards, Outsiders Beyond Good and Evil and in Arcane War between Gods and Men, which had it's final scene taking place in the next chapter. AWbGaM story is the why and how Bruce Wayne is in Thedas. And he is just a man here, the words 'Batman' or 'superhero' mean nothing in the world of Thedas. Make no mistake, This is a Dragon Age story set in Thedas before the Trespasser DLC and a Witcher story telling Ciri's adventures with Avallac'h before the events of Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, NOT A BATMAN STORY!

In the next chapter Ciri will take Bruce Wayne to a Dalish camp and that scene I mentioned from the end of Arcane War between Gods and Men will play out from the elves' point of view.

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