Entry 13 of Neiko Hawke. Qunari are tougher than they look.

I went with Aveline and some guards to see the Qunari Arishok, and when we did, he didn't seem too happy. We went to go bring in elf criminals in who ran to the Qunari to follow the Qun to evade being captured, since the Qunari would defend someone in the Qun. Upon hearing their story though, they had every right to do what they did in my opinion. A guard "forced" himself upon the elf's sister, and he reported it, but after weeks to months of nothing happening about it, they murdered the guard who "forced" himself upon their sister. A little extreme, but the law was doing nothing about it. The Arishok goes on about how terrible our society is, and I agree, and ask why he doesn't just leave if he can't handle our society. He states that he cannot leave without the relic that was stolen, which Isabela now has, and he can no longer stand by and watch our society. We are instantly attacked by ranged Qunari and we have to pull out, all the guards with us sadly died.

When Aveline and I escaped, Merrill was waiting outside for me. She was afraid I was hurt and was glad that I was fine (<3). I decided to change out Anders for Fenris, since his heals do help, but killing things before they can kill us might be the easier route. That and Anders and Merrill don't exactly get along well.

We started pushing our way to the keep to help defend, and along the way there were plenty of Qunari to fight. Any time a Qunari mage showed up, he was instantly our main target, their spells are really deadly, and are usually area of effect spells. We eventually found a Grey Warden named, "Alistair". We asked him to help us fight against the Qunari, but he stated that he cannot take sides on this fight. They did that in Ferelden apparently, and the Grey Wardens didn't like that. Oh well, he gave me an item a friend of his gave him, it wasn't that great of an item, but it still holds value being from a Grey Warden and all.

I eventually came upon some Qunari dragging humans down to the keep, so I intercepted them and started to fight, but a mage showed up from behind us and blew us all off our feet. It seemed like he was about to kill us all, but miraculously a sword goes right through his chest from behind him, and his spell is stopped. It was apparently the Knight-Commander Meredith who saved us, and said she knew me since my name came up in her papers more times than they should of. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing though.

 We kept pushing up toward the keep, and found the first enchanter Orsino fighting off Qunari. We helped him defeat all the surrounding Qunari, and once he realized what happened, he asked if everyone else is ok. I look around and see that everyone else is dead. He races over to a body, and at first I don't see who it is, but then I realize it was my sister! Orsino revived her, and they have a conversation about how she should have let them take Orsino. I wasn't too worried about the conversation, just if my sister was alright.

The knight commander met up with us and Orsino, and they started fighting over who is to lead and how we attack. They eventually decided that I should lead the little group we have going on. When we arrived at the main entrance, there were tons of Qunari guarding the entrance. We needed a diversion to get inside. Orsino volunteered to distract them while we ran in to save the hostages. I wasn't sure if he would make it, but I needed to not make his sacrifice in vain if it came to that.

I barged into the main room, and saw the Arishok was giving speeches to everyone, and killing anyone who said something against him. The Viscount was also dead, with his head severed on the floor. Everyone in the room was afraid they were next, and I'm not sure how much longer they would have been alive if I didn't show up when I did.

We have a conversation about how this is ridiculous, and it's not helping him find his relic. All he is doing is pointless slaughter on our race. He spouts Qunari religion and ways, just the same things they always say. We ended up having to start fight Qunari around us as a "Test".

Right as it seemed the Arishok was about to actually fight us, Isabela showed up with the relic. She goes on saying that half way to her destination, she had to turn around because of how I've changed her. We give the relic back to the Arishok, but he said Isabela had to go with her. She would be forced into the Qun, and then punished accordingly. I of course, objected this, and we started to fight.

The Arishok was a beefy and strong mofo. Fenris would occupy most of the other Qunari while I kept the Arishok's attention. It was a long fight, but surprisingly no one on our side was killed in this fight, and we had Isabela to help as well.

(There was a neat cut scene for killing him) Before I killed him, he goes on saying this isn't over, and the Qunari will return. We'll see about that.

Entry 09 of Neiko Hawke. Chantry Troubles.

I went to finally talk to the leader of the city about the Qunari, and he told me that more problems with the Qunari have come up. He told me to talk to his friend Bran about what has happened. He sounded very serious about this, so I went to go talk to Bran instantly. I was told that some Qunari went missing, no reports, no fighting, just disappeared. He said to look for guards who were weak on honor that could have done this.

I went into the Hanged man, and instantly saw someone who was throwing money around. I walked up and asked where he acquired all this money. He said he just had to look the other way for something and was payed handsomely. I tried to figure out what exactly he did, and I eventually got the word Qunari out of him.

When I tried to pry more information out of him, he started to act defensive, and eventually he started to get violent. He tried to rally his hired mercenaries, but most of them refused to fight, still a few fought with him. Isabela was drinking at the time, and helped us when the fighting started. He wasn't too tough, just being a normal mercenary and all. He eventually told us it was a mother from the chantry who was using the Grand Cleric's seal to confiscate the Qunari

I went to go see the Grand Cleric about this, but the Mother was in the way and would not let me talk to her. I eventually told her that she will eventually have to leave, and then I can talk to the Grand Cleric. She caved in and told me to meet her somewhere in darktown. An obvious trap that I needed to go to.

Upon entering where I was told to meet up with her, there were a bunch Qunari that were bound by a Templar. He was torturing the Qunari, and trying to rally a crowd for something. I walked in and told him to release the Qunari and fight someone who's weapons are not bound. He slits their throats before I could do anything, and I ended up fighting the whole mob lead by the Templar. Individually the people were weak, but in the mob, they hurt a good amount, and trying to push through them all to kill the Templar was hard. Not only that, but once we seemed to lower their numbers, more would come through to help them!

This fight was really tough, Anders was eventually taken down by archers, and Varric was literally swarmed by the mob. I tried as hard as I could to stand my ground, but the Templar was healing everyone nearby him with an aura, making it hard to kill him, and anyone else nearby.

I eventually fell, and Merrill had to run around in circles throwing fireballs, freezing them with cones of ice spikes, and sending lightning doom on them. She eventually killed them all, mostly by herself.

We were too late to save the Qunari though, and the leader of Kirkwall came to me thanking me for my help. He says that even though things are bad, they could have been much worse without my help. I'm not sure about that, but I was payed for it.

Entry 05 of Neiko Hawke. Flower Picking

 I went looking by the beach for a flower the alchemist asked for. On my passages through the beach I found a random patrol of guards who were ambushed by raiders. Being the fool I am, I told the guards to stay while I handled it myself. Not only that, but I went charging in without thinking about it. Traps were everywhere. Flaming death traps, huge spikes of doom, you name them. I took them all to the face. Not only that, but there were archers. TONS OF ARCHERS. Anders was back stabbed almost instantly, and we were left without a healer. It was a long fight of potion drinking, but we won in the end.

 The guard leader couldn't believe that we just took them out, she said she would make sure the captain rewarded me. Not bad I guess.

I went up the Dalish mountain looking for the other two plants, and on my trek upwards there were a few fights of fade creatures. One of the hardest ones though, was near the top. At first there was just a blood mage and a bunch of undead. Soon after a shadow rogue showed up and was a constant menace. She would constantly stealth and back stab one of us, mostly Anders.

Things only became worse. A revenant and a shadow mage appeared not too soon after. I was instantly knocked off my feet and across the field upon the entrance of the mage.

The mage was a priority target, he could almost instantly kill any of us with his spells. Anders and Varric were dropped in the fight, but we eventually beat them.

Further up the hill, we found some dragonlings. Not much problem here, but once we reached the peak there was a corpse. I walked up to it, and a large dragon jumped down on top of us. I charged him instantly to try and make him want to attack me, while Varric, Merrill, and Anders tried to scatter.

Anders was able to get away fast enough, but Merrill and Varric were not fast enough. The dragon blew fire all over us and Merrill and Varric were instantly out of the fight. I stood my ground as best I could, but the dragon was just too strong and ended up throwing me around like a ragdoll.

With the help of Anders and potions, I was able to stay alive long enough for Anders to bring the other back into the fight. It took a long time, and a lot of potions were chugged, but we eventually killed him.

Only finding one of the two plants we were trying to find, we disappointingly started to head down. We thought we would be done and could just walk back down the mountain. The undead had other plans for us. Upon entering the graveyard, and revenant and some undead were waiting for us. This wasn't too bad, until another shadow mage showed up across the field. I instantly changed targets to keep him occupied, and we mostly went on with this fight easily. It was a lot easier since there wasn't a shadow assassin.

Entry 04 of Neiko Hawke. Friends Family.

I was told by Varric that his brother Bartrand has come back to Kirkwall, for what we don't know. We ended up going to a mansions that seemed deserted for a long time, but upon entrance we found fanatic guards who seemed to have lost their minds. The first few waves were quite easy, I'd just bop them back with a shield slam, and then a fireball or an arrow lance would take them out once they were clumped.

We eventually came to a room that had a bunch of decaying corpses laying around. Something really wrong has been going on here.

We eventually went into the main entrance room, the only room we haven't been to yet, and holy crap was there a fight here. As soon as we entered the room a bunch of fanatics came charging down the stairs screaming. I charged up the stairs and slammed my shield into the group while The leader was stuck floating in agony in a rune prison made by Anders. I then taunted everyone while Merrill used tempest and chain lightning to bring swift electric death to everyone but the leader.

If only it was that easy though. After we killed all the lower fanatics, more came barreling out of the other rooms upstairs. This fight started to get grim. Anders became separated from us in another room, and there were just too many for us to handle in the main room. I kept taunting whenever possible to keep Merrill and Varric safe while Anders slowly fought his way back to us. I was about to fall from the constant pummeling I was receiving from all of the fanatics, when Anders rejoined into the fight and put an immunity shield around me. After that he healed me a bit and we slowly fought through all the fanatics till every last one was dead in a bloody mess.

We thought the worst was already done with when we fought the horde of fanatics, but once we found Bartrand, it only became harder. Once we found him he slipped into the shadows and we were left clueless while another horde of fanatics came charging up the staircase to us. Merrill was caught outside, so I charged to the door and taunted all of the fanatics outside. Merrill quickly ran inside the door behind me to start fighting in a safer spot, but we still didn't know where Bartrand was. Unfortunately he came out of the shadows and instantly slayed Varric. I was unaware of this while I was still dealing with the fanatics with Merrill, and by the time I realized it, he was already on me. Anders was about to attempt to ressurect Varric, but Bartrand came out of the shadows again and instantly dropped Anders.

I started to panic, but at least we killed all the fanatics, so all we have left is Bartrand to deal with. I called my hound to aid me, and I taunted him with shield wall up. He hurt so much from the constant stabbing, I had to run around and drink health potions from time to time while Merrill was constantly chugging lyrium potions. I was eventually slain when I became overconfident, and Merrill sent him on a chase around the mansion until she finally brought him back to his senses.

We all woke up, but Bartrand was confused and hardly in control of himself, I thought about just killing him there, but I asked Anders if there was anything he could do to help. He said he could help, but it would only be temporary. We are unsure of what is causing Bartrand to act like this, but he's a dwarf so he cannot be taken control of by a normal demon. Varric asked me to let him live, and we would try to find him another healer who could fix this permanently, I agreed to this, seeing that if there is some chance of saving him, that we should take it.