"It's fine," Alley shrugs, and folds her arms. Well, arm and bar.
"So without going too far back in the story, I was sent by my Clan to spy on this big conclave between the mages and templars, being hosted by the human church, the Chantry. The mages and templars were in an all-out war, so my Clan wanted to know what came of this meeting. World-shaping stuff, and all, and no one sends the Dalish elves the news if they don't seek it out themselves."
So, that's what she'd been doing.
"I went snooping around and came across something... weird. This... thing was holding the Divine -- the leader of the Chantry -- in the air by her throat, and had this... orb in its other hand."
A little alarming, that.
"She knocked the orb out of its hand and it rolled over to me, so I... picked it up."
Like you do.
"It seared this... mark into my left hand. Everything blew up, literally, and I found myself in the Fade. The Fade's like... like the demon realm here, sort of. Another world, but closely linked to the one I'm from. People do not go there physically, the last time that happened the world almost ended."
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"So without going too far back in the story, I was sent by my Clan to spy on this big conclave between the mages and templars, being hosted by the human church, the Chantry. The mages and templars were in an all-out war, so my Clan wanted to know what came of this meeting. World-shaping stuff, and all, and no one sends the Dalish elves the news if they don't seek it out themselves."
So, that's what she'd been doing.
"I went snooping around and came across something... weird. This... thing was holding the Divine -- the leader of the Chantry -- in the air by her throat, and had this... orb in its other hand."
A little alarming, that.
"She knocked the orb out of its hand and it rolled over to me, so I... picked it up."
Like you do.
"It seared this... mark into my left hand. Everything blew up, literally, and I found myself in the Fade. The Fade's like... like the demon realm here, sort of. Another world, but closely linked to the one I'm from. People do not go there physically, the last time that happened the world almost ended."