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"Tales and legends are just fantasies."
"Do you suffer to think by yourself ?"
Listen carefully to the story I will tell you,
This may really interest you, my young friends.
This is the story of Morrigan, or as she is more commonly called,
the Witch of the Wild.
"Your world is cold, ruthless. The wild lands are my home. My body and my soul are belong to them."
Morrigan is supposed to be the daughter of Flemeth -
a legendary and formidable figure who roams into the Korcari Wilds since many centuries.
Morrigan is reluctant to reveal the true origin of her mother.
Whatever the story of Flemeth,
she raised our young apostate a rather isolated way of the civilized society.
"You contemplate the world and believe to understand it,
but the wolf I was smelled it, the cat probed it, over the course of many wanderings in a darkness you will never believe.
But my life is that of a human being. I never thought otherwise."
Although her ability to change shape has provided her some comfort in the company of animals,
it also allowed her to rummage in human lands.
Therefore, Morrigan had few interactions with her human fellows and is stranger to various codes and manners of the life in society.
Generally, Morrigan doesn't like humans, but exceptional specimens can intrigue her.
Let's talk about her connection with the Chantry,
because as an apostate, Morrigan had a very particular vision of magic, that others didn't necessarily share.
In fact, she saw magic as a form of freedom and power for the one who controls it,
an idea that the Chantry didn't wish to see emerge in the spirits of mages or templars because they feared their power.
She obviously rejected everything that was related, closely or from afar, with the Chantry, the Circle of Magi and the Templars.
Of course, Morrigan wasn't a believer at all and did it well know.
She clearly didn't understand how some people might resign to abandon their freedom by relying on the words of the Chantry's religious authority.
"There is no trial for apostates, no jail, no mercy, only absolutes. All that matters is survival."
Now, let's talk about a fact known by everybody in Thedas,
her investment within the quest of the Grey Warden who has fight the Blight.
Indeed, it seems that although she didn't ask to join the Grey Wardens quest, she didn't refuse either.
I will let you know few little things about her relationship with « her » Grey Warden.
Morrigan was a strong and free woman. In order to woo her, certain principles should be respected.
She recognized the value of the independence and the power, and her philosophy of the stronger wasn't stranger to that.
She disdained all sweetness, compassion, weakness, and other dripping feelings.
That being said, play the card of disdain of love overdose was not the right solution, on the contrary.
Because under her cold and sarcastic appearances, once the romance begun, she could be coquette, sensual, and even act as a sentimental girl.
She also appreciated those who have an open mind, especially about her status as an apostate, and the little "civilized" education of her origins.
A bit of humor could also be beneficial to coat.
She could even use the words "my love" or "my friend" in respect of his beloved,
which showed that, despite her attitudes, she was surprised by the depth of her relationship with the Grey Warden.
She even offered a present to the Grey Warden, a hidden pledge of their relationship and of her affection for him.
In the present case, a ring, a unique gift.
A ring that Flemeth gave her in order to find her wherever she was, if she should be caught.
Morrigan had neutralized its magic and has modified it in order to find whoever could wear this ring.
She added that this ring was a link, a link she had always suspected to be at two-way : between Flemeth and her, and then, between her and the Grey Warden.
Once the Grey Warden gained a certain friendship from her,
and he gave her the Flemeth's Grimoire, she asked him to kill her mother in order to save her life.
Indeed, Morrigan had made a gruesome discovery ...
Her mother, in order to obtain immortality, had raised many daughters the ones after the others.
as soon as she felt her body losing her strength, she possessed one of them to have a new body.
After a fierce battle against Flemeth who was in her ultimate form of dragon, the Grey Warden and his companions triumphed!
Then came the day before the feared battle against the Archdemon.
The Grey Warden was ready to sacrifice himself, but Morrigan proposed to him a ritual.
"Don't worry. This is just me, Morrigan."
But what is this ritual?
This alternative to the death of the slayer of the Archdemon, here it is:
let Morrigan conceive a child with a Grey Warden.
The essence of the Archdemon would be drawn into the unborn child, protecting the Grey Warden from the fatal blow at the end of the combat.
The Grey Warden accepted the conception of the child before the final battle.
After that, Morrigan asked him to never try to search her.
"Flemeth told me that temptation was nourished by the forbidden."
Morrigan had not completely disappeared because she was found two and a half years after the Battle of Denerim.
She was seen in Ferelden, and the Grey Warden tried to search her.
But was he went there in order to find a lost love? Punish her desertion? Or for answers?
As she was about to cross a magical portal, an Eluvian,
the Grey Warden finally caught her in the heart of wastes of dragons' bones.
She explained to him that major changes were coming in Thedas and that she had to leave Ferelden to prepare for it.
She invited all the same guard to come with her, something he obviously accepted.
What happened to them and where they went are unfortunately still unknown.
Where had she gone? Nobody knows for sure but there were rumors at the west of Ferelden.
Many people would view Morrigan at the court of Orlais, wearing an orlesian dress traditionally worn by the nobility.
"The winds of change will blow over the world."
"Many fear change and are ready to fight it with all their being."
"But sometimes, change is what they need the more."
"Sometimes change is what sets them free."
"Such preparation requires time and power. Two things I musn't miss if I want to succeed."
"I thought know what Flemeth had engineered, I thought she was trying to obtain immortality."
"And I was wrong ... "
"She is not a blood mage. Not an abomination. She is not even really human ..."
"Go. Tell your guards that they have to be ready. Tell them to prepare for what is coming."
"The ritual was nothing but a means to accomplish a purpose..."
"A harbinger of what is coming."
Morrigan and her child are they related to the tearing of the veil?
Or to the conflict between mages and the Chantry of Thédas?
The confrontation between Morrigan and Flemeth, which began with the Grey Warden, will it continue ?
Only time will tell ...
At last ... Let us hope so ...