If the Grey Warden agreed to help Dagna, they could travel to the Circle of Magi and speak with First Enchanter Irving, providing her a place to learn, study and eventually become a remarkably skilled arcanist who combined her knowledge of magic with her family's knowledge of smithing. RELATED: Dragon Age: How to Save Josephine Montilyet's Family from Ruin

For Dagna to so eagerly cast off her station made no sense to the more practical and traditional dwarves in Orzammar. The Shaperate considers surface dwarves to be casteless, ranking them among the lowest of the low in their society. When asked why he was so unsupportive of his daughter's dream, Janar explained that, for Dagna to travel to the Circle of Magi, she would have to sacrifice her place within the smith class and become a surface dwarf. If anything, her hunger to learn more only fueled her fire, and when the Grey Warden arrived in Orzammar with their party seeking dwarven aid against the Fifth Blight, Dagna saw the perfect opportunity to follow that dream.ĭagna's father, Janar, was firmly against her plans to join the Circle and told the Grey Warden player character as much when they spoke to him. Regardless, Dagna's lack of connection to the Fade didn't stop her from daydreaming about magic, even though she knew she'd never be able to manipulate the forces of nature to do her bidding. They don't dream the way elves, humans and Qunari do, and this lack of connection makes them perfect lyrium miners since lyrium doesn't affect them the same way it does everyone else. The unique thing about Dagna (and the reason no one thought her dream was worth pursuing) is that dwarves have no magical abilities or connection to the Fade. RELATED: Dragon Age: This Tragedy Is Why You Can't Romance Vivienne, Madame de Fer Fortunately, Dagna potentially had the Hero of Ferelden in her corner, and with their recommendation and influence, this young dwarf who dreamed of working with magic saw that fantasy realized. In fact, most of the dwarves, including her father, thought it was a passing whim she'd grow out of before taking up a hammer and joining the family business as a smith.

Traveling to the Circle of Magi on Lake Honreath and studying to become an arcane scholar was Dagna's dream, but no one in Orzammar took her seriously.

And yet, without Arcanist Dagna's knowledge and expertise, the Inquisitor might very well have failed in their fight against the Darkspawn Magister's army.

No one could have guessed that the somewhat irritating dwarven girl in Dragon Age: Origins who wanted desperately to leave Orzammar and join the Circle of Magi would go on to become a powerful arcanist essential to the Inquisition during Corypheus' terrifying attempt to rise to power.

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