THE LEGACY DLC, PART 7
So be it!
Larius is a madman. Let's use every weapon we have against the Blight.
No! Would you destroy us all?
Do you turn on me, Dursten?
Alec? Roland? I led you. Who do you serve?
Wardens made their choice. They went with Larius.
You bastards...
With me, Hawke. We must beat them to the seal.
Three dwarves were waiting for Janeka at the lower level.
Janeka? And... the Hawke! Together?
Stop gawking, fools! Larius and those traitor Wardens are on their way to kill Corypheus.
Go down the other passage and deal with them. I want them dead!
Yes, Janeka.
A magical barrier emerged behind them. Goodbye, idiots, we'll never see you again.
Look!
This is Larius's doing. I'll deal with it! Go!
Yes, Janeka.
Enough chatter. Larius is making his way to Corypheus as we speak.
Agreed.
Larius wishes to bar my way? Laughs We'll see about that.
Not only dwarves have to deal with the barrier problem.
Destroying it will take too much time, but I can affect the flow of magic to the barriers.
Let's continue.
These thingies disable the barrier of the same color. Only one at a time can be disabled.
Larius with traitorous Wardens had a massive lead. There was no way to intercept them in time.
Larius knows this labyrinth better than anyone. Do we even have a chance of beating him?
Of course, no. We need to press forward still.
Fell to the stupid of 'Dex choice rather than evil monsters.
Disabling another power nexus provoked demons' anger. We are on the right track.
Ah, yes, the orange nexus is turned off. The path has been cleared.
This won't give us any more trouble.
Time to face Larius himself.
No further!
"No further?" Snorts Did you really think you could stop me?
I will reach Corypheus, and I will harness his power.
Bros I tell you what: you bet on the wrong horse. Despite looking untainted she's the one who is insane.
No. Never. Your path ends here!
He turned on the golems in a desperate attempt to slow Hawke down.
This fight is somewhat atypical. Each golem has unique properties. One is simply super fat.
Another is completely immune to magic.
The third is a shameless popamoler.
Thing is they don't attack simultaneously until the very end when it's too late to change anything.
Closer and closer.
Oh, that's nice.
What's so nice about it?
I was just wandering what someplace sinister and foreboding would look like. And here it is.
Sorry bros, you are an obstacle.
You can't stop me. Larius.
She clenched her fist, bursting with anger.
The Wardens will see I'm right about this. With Corypheus's power, we can end the Blights forever.
Hawke, you must listen! Janeka is blind to the truth! Corypheus is using her!
This is the last opportunity to flip-flop, but I won't go against the majority.
One step closer and you're dead.
Better to die than live with Corypheus free! Wardens!
They had no chance.
He sleeps now, but not for long. The last of the prison's magic still holds him.
The key alone won't open this seal. Use your blood. Free him now, so we can take him while he's weak.
Interestingly, Larius's body is unlootable. It's possible he faked his death.
So Hawke has to disable containment pillars by touching them. One.
Look, that seems to have weakened the spell.
Just three more to go.
Two.
I suppose he won't stop coming after us unless we do this.
Probably not.
Three.
You feel that? It's like... something is lifting.
Last chance to change your mind.
Be careful, Brother.
Too late to change anything.
Four.
The torches got ablaze with purple fire. The last part of ritual was about to complete, waiting only for Hawke's blood.
Several blood drops splashed onto the binding circle.
Ouch! Hawke was knocked back like a kitten with a powerful blast of magic energy.
Well, hello, he-who-cannot-be-pronounced.
He emerges. I will bind him!
Predictably, Corypheus deflected her spell without breaking a sweat, causing her to tumble.
Oh, shit.
Be this some dream I wake from? Am I in dwarven lands? Why seem their roads so empty?
You! Serve you at the temple of Dumat? Bring me hence! I must speak with the first acolyte!
The Wardens... they captured Corypheus just after the First Blight. This was part of the Imperium then.
You look human. Are you not citizens of the Empire? Slaves then, to the dwarves? Why come you here?
Whoever you be, you owe fealty to any magister of Tevinter. On your knees! All of you!
If Janeka can't control you, I won't risk leaving you alive.
You are what held me. I smell the blood in you.
Dumat! Lord! Tell me. What waking dream is this?
The creature seemed to be lost and confused. It didn't even pay much attention to his would-be captors.
The light. We sought the golden light. You offered... the power of the gods themselves.
But it was... black... corrupt. Darkness... ever since. How long?
He speaks of the Golden City. He was one of the, the magisters who violated the Maker's sacred place.
They became the first darkspawn. It was he and his kind who brought the Blight down on all of us.
Corypheus must have been controlling me, whispering in my mind...
That's what the Wardens meant. He can speak through the corruption...
If he could reach the Black City, who knows what else he's capable of. We need to kill him.
The city! It was supposed to be golden! It was supposed to be ours!
If I cannot leave with you, I will leave through you! I seek the light!
The Warden bitch turned her tail. So much for help.
He's pretty weak in straight combat. In fact you don't need anything more than regular autoattack. Obviously, there is a catch.
Dumat! Grant me your powers!
Ah! The fire in my veins!
Dude becomes totally invincible after praying to his dead(?) god, fanning flames around in spinning motion. Fortunately, the party has fire protection runes which make the whole thing irritating rather than dangerous.
In order to deprive him from invincibility Hawke has to touch all the containment pillars again. Oh, and as soon as you touch one, two fade monsters are spawned.
So the ritual is done, Corypheus is in our reach again. Can I just whack him and end this buffoonery?
Perhaps a little something more...
Burn, you miserable insects!
What? He has fire, now?
He absorbed it from the statue!
Har har, no so fast. This is a next-gen encounter design, after all. You have to repeat process two times in more challenging conditions.
The power is mine! I am restored!
Scurry, little rats. The maze closes in.
So Dumat gives him a power of earth. Now he can erect obstacles, stressing shitty pathfinding engine and causing massive butthurt from needless clicking.
Now what?
If only...
All done.
Here he comes!
The walls are closing in...
We need to stun him, disrupt his protections!
Pointless. This coward runs to his god's protection after taking a beating. How the fuck his prayers are being answered considering that his god is dead?
Shit, he adds ice and lighting to his arsenal.
Feel the chill. You cannot outrun it. You cannot escape.
Sweet mother of pearl!
Watch out for the ice!
And the rocks as well!
If he pulls a dragon out of his ass, I'm leaving!
Heh, it's not all that unreasonable to expect. Here goes another round.
What is going on out there?
He's summoned a storm around the entire tower!
Be careful!
Almost dead.
The dark magics weren't fast enough to counter Hawke's awesome jump strike.
One powerful swing and the creature is gone for good. Or is it?
The matter with Janeka is still unresolved. I'd grab her collar and throw her from the cliff, because she doesn't deserve anything better for her recent behavior.
Hawke, I-I'm so sorry. I feel like such a fool.
I really thought I could do it. It never... entered my mind that Corypheus had planted that thought.
You should fall on your sword before you shame the Wardens further.
You're right. The call... I hear it now, even with him gone.
I'll return to the commander, report on what happened here. Then it's time for me to take the long walk.
My gratitude you have, for returning me to myself. I feel like... a whole new person.
Now bros, you've just seen the potential sequel hook walking away. Note the inverted Yoda speak in the last sentence and the part about "whole new person". Corypheus didn't die the final death when Hawke cut his original body. Similar to archdemons he transferred to a new host. Anyway, the Hawke's part in this mess is over.
And for Redgar and Vaarna_Aarne: it plays *exactly* the same if you choose Larius except he's the one who gets possessed in the end.
I said you wouldn't believe me.
When the Seekers arrived at the structure, this prison... it was destroyed.
The Grey Wardens were there, but they said an entire unit had been lost. They did not mention this Janeka.
And now you claim the Champion was not only there, but defeated a magister... one of the magisters of old.
Left there by the Wardens themselves.
A curious tale. I wonder if there's more to it.
A small matter.
A moment for the last of the family, and an echo. You'll forgive me if I take a liberty or two.
Back at the mansion
It's amazing how the past haunts us. All this hardship because of what happened so many years ago.
That was a big risk to take without Mother's consent. Tempting the Blight is apparently a theme for our family.
One glorious day, we'll learn to leave well enough alone.
Look, I know it's been hard, but would you really rather be dead?
You don't know. And if the Maker has mercy, you never will.
I have to go, Brother. Give everyone my best.[/size]
Farewell, sister. Until the next DLC, that is.
Hawke turned to the fireplace and closed his eyes, dreaming about long lost mother.
You know Malcolm wouldn't want you two to fight. He sacrificed so we'd have a life free to choose, not always agree.
His burden must have been very like yours.
I bust my tail, and for what? We deserve better. Yuo deserved better.
You know, your father got angry like that. He had doubts, but he was always moving forward.
The best of him is still with you. The best of all of us. It's what makes you try so hard.
You will always have that. We will always be family.
It'll be all right.
The vision faded and Hawke opened his eyes. He was alone in his mansion, having no one to console his troubled soul.
THE END.
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