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Act 1

An Unfamiliar Sense

Harding: Imagine if I could master this new ability! I could really make a difference in people’s lives. I wouldn’t feel so powerless.

Rook: Do you really feel powerless?

Harding: Compared to someone bigger? Or someone faster? Someone with traditional magic? Yes.

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Harding: I’m good with a bow, and I can move quick and quiet. I know that.

Rook: You have skills that they don’t. |

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Rook: Does that happen a lot? Getting feelings that you can’t suppress?

Harding: I don’t know what you mean by “a lot?” Once a week? Once a day?

Harding: Not so far. Maybe if I tried to reach that feeling more often?

Rook: Maybe. Your guess is as good as mine. | Rook: Is it changing you? Is it telling you to… kill… people?

Harding: What? No! Of course not.

Rook: Just being careful. |

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Harding: Sometimes I get these feelings, these words that must be said.

Rook: Right… do they just… come out?

Harding: Sort of.

The Waiting Stone

Meeting Stalgard

Rook: Didn’t Harding want to meet someone from Kal-Sharok here?

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Rook: Harding would have a better sense of where we’re going.

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Rook: I think that’s Harding’s contact, but we shouldn’t meet him without her.

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Stalgard: None of you are Lace Harding. I am here to meet Lace Harding. Tell her to come, and we will talk.

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Rook: Did we take a wrong turn somewhere? Where did Stalgard go?

Bellara: Maybe retrace our steps? See what we find?
Davrin: Let’s backtrack. Find where we went wrong.
Emmrich: Let’s retrace our steps.
Neve: If we’ve lost the trail… let’s retrace our steps.
Lucanis: Should we go back? See if we can find his trail?
Taash: Gotta be back the way we came.

Kal-Sharok Outpost

Harding: I… ah, I’ve never met a Kal-Sharok dwarf before.

Stalgard: That is what we want you to think.

Harding: Oh.

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Kal-Sharok Warrior:Do not try to sneak away from me again. I swear I will put you on a leash.

Kal-Sharok Scholar:(Gasps) You wouldn’t.

Kal-Sharok Warrior:Watch me.

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Kal-Sharok Warrior:So what’s this about red lyrium in the depths?

Kal-Sharok Scholar:Oh, it’s not the same as the red lyrium that showed up a decade ago. The red lyrium down here isn’t blighted. It’s just… connected to something. That’s what I hear, anyway. And this is why I want to see it for myself.

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Grey Warden: But there must be blight in the depths below?

Kal-Sharok Dwarf: Of course, it’s the Deep Roads.

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Grey Warden: Does Orzammar know that the Kal-Sharok has laid claim to a Titan?

Kal-Sharok Dwarf: (Laughs) We cannot lay claim to a Titan. It isn’t land, it’s… a being. We can’t own it, even if it’s no longer alive. And if Orzammar objects, they’re welcome to send envoys to grumble about it. Probably in about five years, once they’re weary of arguing over it in the Assembly.

The Deep Roads

Stalgard: Tezpadam! Deepstalkers!

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Stalgard: Something follows! Prepare yourselves!

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Rook: Something’s down there! Let’s go!

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Harding: I wasn’t expecting to see creatures like this in the Deep Roads!

Bellara: It makes sense, I think? With Solas and the other gods messing with the Veil, lots of stuff is coming through.
Emmrich: A result of the gods’ actions. Disruptions to the Veil have far-reaching consequences.
Neve: Solas tampered with the Veil. That leads to consequences.
Rook: Magic. Probably from the Fade. A result of the gods messing with things.

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Rook: Right. This way. I… think.

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Rook: Wait, you can feel the blight?

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Bellara: Oh, well. Those corpses are fresh. There’s something around here.
Davrin: These darkspawn corpses are fresh. Something else is skulking around.
Emmrich: These darkspawn died just recently. Who took their lives? Or what?
Harding: These bodies. They’re… fresh. Something was just here.
Lucanis: The bodies are still warm. Whatever killed them is close.
Neve: Bodies are warm. Now… how close is the killer?
Taash: Fresh kill. Something was here not long ago.

Rook: I don’t like the sound of that.

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Bellara: Okay. Was that Harding? It looked like Harding.
Davrin: Was that…? I swear I saw Harding.
Emmrich: Just a moment… was that Harding?
Lucanis: Rook. I’d swear I just saw Harding.
Neve: Wait… huh. I thought I saw Harding.
Taash: What was that? Looked like Harding.

Rook: What? Are you sure?

Bellara: I mean. I thought I was?
Davrin: Couldn’t be, right?
Emmrich: Perhaps I imagined it.
Lucanis: I’m sure of nothing down here.
Neve: No. And I don’t like it.
Taash: Nah. Must’ve been another cute dwarven lady.

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Rook: This must be the source of the blight that’s blocking the door.

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Rook: Let’s destroy this blight and get out of here. This place gives me the creeps.

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Stalgard: But where is Lace Harding? She is the reason we are all here.

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Stalgard: That switch, there, will open the way.

Harding: Oh, I think we can get that!

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Harding: What is this place? It feels… holy.

Stalgard: Yes. Come.

Harding: Yes, sir!

Back at the Lighthouse

Act 3 completed:
Rook: Don’t let it distract you from our work.

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Varric’s narrative:

Red Lyrium Harding: (Soft sobs) Help me. I don’t want to be alone.

Stalgard: Who’s there? You? You’re back? But—

Red Lyrium Harding: (Angry cry)

The Inquisition

Harding: He used to say “It’s why you don’t miss.”

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Harding: Speaking of the South, it looks like whatever we unleashed hasn’t made it past Nevarra.