Terrible place. Ancient dwarven tunnels, underground, obviously. They run across the entire continent - but they've been abandoned for generations. Overrun by Darkspawn. Horrible, tainted monsters, lots of shrieking and screaming and running at you full tilt and such. Carry a disease that kills you in a terrible way if you aren't a Grey Warden. They call it the Taint. And that's not even getting into the Broodmothers. Don't ask me to describe a Broodmother, you don't actually want to know. Picture your worst nightmare, and then give it tentacles.
Most of the time the Darkspawn stay down there. But a Blight had just ended - where all the Darkspawn surge out of the Deep Roads and swarm above ground. It's never safe to go down there, but it was the least dangerous time. Emptied out, you see.
Hawke sought me out because I used to be a Warden. The Wardens are the only ones stupid or foolish enough to go into that place, because we have a resistance to the Blight. And maps of the Roads. So they needed those, to find this place they were headed.
I swore I would never go back down there when I left the Wardens, but as soon as Hawke asked-- I did.
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[ he makes a FACE about the Deep Roads. ]
Terrible place. Ancient dwarven tunnels, underground, obviously. They run across the entire continent - but they've been abandoned for generations. Overrun by Darkspawn. Horrible, tainted monsters, lots of shrieking and screaming and running at you full tilt and such. Carry a disease that kills you in a terrible way if you aren't a Grey Warden. They call it the Taint. And that's not even getting into the Broodmothers. Don't ask me to describe a Broodmother, you don't actually want to know. Picture your worst nightmare, and then give it tentacles.
Most of the time the Darkspawn stay down there. But a Blight had just ended - where all the Darkspawn surge out of the Deep Roads and swarm above ground. It's never safe to go down there, but it was the least dangerous time. Emptied out, you see.
Hawke sought me out because I used to be a Warden. The Wardens are the only ones stupid or foolish enough to go into that place, because we have a resistance to the Blight. And maps of the Roads. So they needed those, to find this place they were headed.
I swore I would never go back down there when I left the Wardens, but as soon as Hawke asked-- I did.