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River is a little lost -- in every way possible.
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“I don’t want to remember," says Susan. “I just want to live.”
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That Untraveled World by CollectorOfWonder
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
15 Aug 2025
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I spent my first year here in Thedas, in a world I know from video games I first played during the pandemic lockdown, trying to get back home. Well, okay, no. I spent the largest part of the first year alternately sobbing and staring into space in a Chantry hospice, having a fun little emotional and mental breakdown as all of the laws of reality as I know them were broken.
I spent the second year trying to get back. I searched out people I thought could help, but I couldn’t even get to Kirkwall. There’s only so many odd jobs you can do for money, and that money does not get you far in a post-Blight Ferelden. I managed to get enough coin and favor to barter for a message to be carried into Orlais. It would result in either my murder for being a threat or hopefully the formation of a powerful acquaintance, but as no reply ever came, I lost hope.
I have spent the last two years resigned. I am not a Chosen One. I am an accident of fate or chance, and neither matters much when I’m gaunt from hunger and living in a drafty shack in one of the coldest places I’ve ever been to.
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SPOILERS for Veilguard lore and information. This story takes place during Inquisition.