When Only Two Grey Wardens Survived | Dragon Age: Origins

This original Dragon Age: Origins tribute follows the Grey Wardens after Ostagar, when the Hero of Ferelden and Alistair carry a broken order across a wounded kingdom and turn two survivors into Ferelden's answer to the Fifth Blight. From Ostagar's ashes to the Archdemon's shadow, the song turns treaties, grief, and divided peoples into one answer: the order survives wherever the living carry its oath. "Two kept the flame when the whole sky went dark." Which Dragon Age oath, sacrifice, or character should become a song next? Lyrics Ash on the wind, red under rain, A kingdom broke on a blackened plain. The beacon burned, the battle was lost, Two took the oath and counted the cost. The king’s gold lion sank into mud, The horde drank deep of the bravest blood. Old Duncan fell where the dark tide rolled, But his final charge would not grow cold. No keep behind us, no host at hand, Only old treaties and a wounded land. They called us remnants, certain to disappear - We bound our grief and sharpened it to spear. If one oath breathes, the order survives. If two still stand, ten thousand may rise. Stand through us, dead of Ostagar, Your silence is the thunder in our marching hearts. Two kept the flame when the whole sky went dark; Now leaf, stone, spell, and steel will bear the spark. The order does not die while the living bear its mark. Stand through us, dead of Ostagar. Beneath old boughs, the Dalish drew the bow, For wounds the ancient forests learned to know. In Orzammar, where the Deep Roads groan, The hammers rang their answer out of stone. From Circle halls came lightning in the hand, From Redcliffe walls came every shield that still could stand. Elven eye, dwarven arm, mage-fire, soldier’s shield - Four divided roads became one iron field. No blood stood pure, no banner stood alone; The Blight made kin of leaf and spell and stone. Stand through us, dead of Ostagar, Your silence is the thunder in our marching hearts. Two kept the flame when the whole sky went dark; Now leaf, stone, spell, and steel will bear the spark. The order does not die while the living bear its mark. Stand through us, dead of Ostagar. We crossed the roads where every village burned, Paid every debt and every treaty earned. Each life we saved, each promise we could keep, Became another war drum underneath our feet. The horde saw two where a kingdom saw a wall, Saw empty hands - then heard the treaties call. When drums of doom rolled over Ferelden, The fallen rose in those who marched again. Not as ghosts. Not as names carved cold. But in the archer’s breath, In the hammer’s hold. In the mage’s fire, In the shield line scar - Every soul left behind At Ostagar. We are not two. We are the oath they gave. The dead do not return - They advance in whom we save. Stand through us, dead of Ostagar, Your silence is the thunder in a hundred thousand hearts. Two kept the flame when the whole sky went dark; Now leaf, stone, spell, and steel have become the spark. The order does not die while the living bear its mark. Stand through us, dead of Ostagar. Stand through us when the final horns are raised. Stand through us till the blackened dawn is changed. The last two called - and all the land replied: Ostagar fell once, But tonight it stands alive. Ash on the wind, gold under dawn. The order was broken - The oath carried on. #DragonAge #GreyWardens #DragonAgeOrigins #TributeSong Notes This is an unofficial fan-made tribute. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Electronic Arts Inc..