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Wardens' griffons through a Joining ritual. This ritual ultimately led to the creatures' corruption. As Garahel and the Wardens attempt, along with the dwarven Warden-Commander of Antiva, Turab, to secure Antiva City and also make diplomatic ties with Starkhaven's ruling family, the Vaels, Isseya also begins to regret condemning the griffons to madness and death. In secret she contrives a way to remove the taint from griffon hatchlings and contain it within herself, sacrificing herself by accelerating the taint within her body. This effort becomes particularly poignant after her brother falls slaying the archdemon Andoral during the Battle of Ayesleigh, along with the deaths of many of the mature griffons and their Warden riders in the final battle of the Fourth Blight.
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the Wardens are the only safe harbor for both neutral mages and templars seeking to flee the conflict. Upon reaching Weisshaupt, Valya is tasked to search the fortress' library for accounts of Wardens abandoning their posts and behaving unusually, as well as records of talking Darkspawn, beginning with the Fourth Blight. From these instructions, Valya locates a lyrium-laced war map inscribed with Elvish, which leads her to a hidden journal detailing the last days of the elven blood mage Warden Isseya and her brother, the legendary hero Garahel who ended the Fourth Blight.
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Isseya manages to purge the taint from a clutch of eggs obtained from Amadis Vael's griffon. Amadis was Garahel's lover and the eggs of her griffon, Smoke, were sired by Garahel's griffon, Crookytail. Convinced the Wardens of her era are not fit stewards of the griffons and hoping those of the future
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As she reads Isseya's first-hand account of the battles during the Exalted Age, the journal reveals that during the Wardens' struggle to defend and evacuate Antiva City, as well as secure the assistance of the Free Marches in ending the Fourth Blight, Isseya was tasked by the First Warden to put the
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Driven by her research to find this treasure in the present day, Valya then travels with a small group of companions to the site and is able to reanimate the eggs. They hatch, one chick in particular looking identical to Garahel's Crookytail. The hatchlings appear to be free of the taint, bringing
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In the year 9:41 Dragon Age, the elven mage Valya and a group of mages from the Circle of Magi in Hossberg join the Grey Wardens at Weisshaupt for safety from the ongoing Mage-Templar War. With rebel templars rampaging through Thedas and rebel mages assembling a terrifying army at Andoral's Reach,
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will be, Isseya uses magic to hide the eggs in suspended animation in a remote location that would later become home to a statue of Andraste, the "Red Bride." Isseya hid her journal away somewhere in Weisshaupt and left with her griffon, Revas on one last flight.
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by giving away three copies of the book. A deluxe edition was released by Dark Horse Books in September 2019, featuring new illustrations by Stefano Martino, Andres Ponce, German Ponce and Alvaro Sarraseca.
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answered a very important question about the fate of the griffons; she noted that the creatures feature very prominently in the heraldry and lore of the Grey Wardens throughout the
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setting is inspired and has resonant environmental themes, and that the novel itself had quality art inserts, but claimed that the reader "wouldn't know it thumbing through
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for being "much better written, and much better put together, than any of the previous tie-ins", and that its narrative did not rely on prior knowledge of the
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series, but noted that it is "not a perfect story" and the mileage the reader get out of the novel is contingent on their interest and/or familiarity with
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is a solid tragic adventure story with "compelling characters, plenty of desperate last stands, and a fair amount of hack-and-slash". She praised
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franchise, or book collectors who might want to add an engaging new fantasy novel to add to their collection. Dominika "Mara" Bieńkowska from the
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7 out of 10. In her "Sleeps With Monsters" column on Tor.com, reviewer Liz Bourke commented that
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7.8 out of 10, commenting that the novel covers an important point in the Grey Warden's
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setting, "while successfully managing to avoid the worst flaws of RPG tie-in novels".
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indicated that there appears to be a future for these creatures. Honea recommended
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story for two different protagonists, calling it a must-buy for enthusiasts of the
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and rated it 4.5 out of 10, questioning "Who is this book for?" He noted that the
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Stefano Martino, Andres Ponce, German Ponce, Alvaro Sarraseca (deluxe edition)
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is a fantasy novel released on September 16, 2014 and written by
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Liane Merciel
Dragon Age
Fantasy
Tor Books
Titan Books
Dark Horse Books
Paperback
Hardcover
ISBN
978-1-466-83134-6
OCLC
1466831340
Liane Merciel
Dragon Age
griffons
backstory
coming of age
Polish
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Mass Effect
"Win Dragon Age Last Flight"
"REVIEW: DRAGON AGE: LAST FLIGHT IS A MUST-READ FOR ANY SERIOUS DRAGON AGE FAN"
"Recenzja książki Dragon Age: Last Flight"
"Sleeps With Monsters: Again With The Book"
"A Little Look at Lore: But Where Have All the Griffons Gone? – Dragon Age: Last Flight"
"Dragon Age: Last Flight Deluxe Edition Review"
Last Flight
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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