Disclaimer: I don't own Dragon Age or any of its related characters. This is just for my own enjoyment and the potential enjoyment of other fans like me, and no monetary gain was expected or received.

Rating: T

Spoilers: May contain spoilers for Origins, Origins DLC, Awakening, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age II DLC, Dragon Age Inquisition as well as the novels The Stolen Throne and The Calling.

A/N: I know the last chapter makes for an unsatisfying ending, but really the story is just beginning. It will continue in two pieces. A Bullshit Tale, Part the Second: The Blight; Loghain and A Bullshit Tale, Part the Second: The Blight; Envy. Coming soon! :-)

Epilogue

"Ah! This is bad, this is very, very bad! I never should have trusted to those blasted mages!"

"My beloved Empress, calm yourself, please! This is not the end of the world," Celene's advisor said, wringing his hands.

Celene spun to face him, almost spinning the golden mask off her face. She readjusted it before she spoke. "Not the end of the world? No, perhaps not, but it is the end of my great plan! That stupid demon was supposed to destroy that hellish man and his daughter only, not my beloved Cailan. Oh, what a gorgeous puppet he would have made! What a glorious legacy he would have given me, the Empress who brought the barbarian's fertile farmland back into the Empire's clutches! Now Cailan is dead, the mages are either afraid to report in or are dead themselves, Anora is still in power and that man may still be alive! All my plans are in ruin! I should have expected this the moment those mages suggested working with a demon!"

"All may not be lost. We don't know that Loghain isn't dead," her advisor said.

"Even if he is, what does it matter now?" Celene said. "Cailan is dead."

"But if Loghain is, too, and the demon still lives, it may simply be biding its time, rebuilding trust until it may strike. Chaos may still reign in Ferelden. Your chance may yet come, my Empress."