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words. However, she ends up reneging on her promise to Byron when she immediately decapitates him after he suddenly gets up and desperately tries to attack her by surprise. The rogue mages then complete their ritual and send dragons to attack the Divine and other high-ranking Chantry members in the middle of a festival, and a massive fight breaks out, with Cassandra saving the Divine and taking out the dragon killing her. At the end, Cassandra is named the "Hero of Orlais", and the Divine's new Right Hand.
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fells the mage's dragon, though the leader of the rogue mages escapes. Later, Cassandra finds Byron taking the girl from the other Seekers, and accompanies him as he warns of a possible conspiracy. The rogue mages ambush them, kill Byron, and re-kidnap the girl, with Byron's last words telling Cassandra "Hate can only breed more hate".
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Cassandra discovers another mage in the woods, named Regalyan (nicknamed "Galyan"), who claims to be unaffiliated with the other mages and is instead a contact of Byron, intending to take the girl to safe place. Cassandra is initially suspicious of him for being a mage, but after they escape from the
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other Seekers and he heals her wounds with magic, she becomes less hostile. Eventually, they discover a templar to be conspiring with the rogue mages' help. They try to tell the High Seeker of the plot, but the templar kills him and frames them from it, capturing them and slating them for execution.
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The film begins just before the Seekers launch an attack against a group of mages who have kidnapped a young girl for an unknown ritual, with Cassandra being warned to watch her fury by Byron, a fellow Seeker and a mentor/paternal figure to her. The Seekers successfully rescue the girl and Cassandra
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Galyan's fellow loyalist mages rescue them, and reveal that the templar is part of a conspiracy to assassinate the current Divine, which would transfer power to the current Right Hand, also in on the plot. Cassandra confronts the templar, but spares him to be taken into custody, citing Byron's last
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could build specific sets for the film's scenes and focus on picture making. The choice to center the film on Cassandra as it tied into the themes the series had been building, giving "a new take" on the events and groups of the franchise. Mike McFarland, voice director of the film, felt the
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was chosen for its practicality, as it wouldn't obstruct vision during a fight. In addition to her heavy armor, the need for stealth led to the creation of light armor for the character. Early sketches explored the possible designs for these armors. Laidlaw called the Cassandra of
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takes place after Cassandra has become a Seeker, but before she has become Right Hand of the Divine. Being younger, Funimation lengthened the character's hair and lightened her make-up in order to give her a "more innocent" appearance. A
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character had been well received in the second game, so seeing her again would be good for fans. The choice to use a female protagonist was to then-
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and praised "the expression in her eyes", saying the character "looked fierce and every bit the dangerous and elite knight she is supposed to be".
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The character's design and personality differs from the video games, and is grounded on her family's legacy as a dragon hunting clan.
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universe, and how she became known as the Right Hand of the Divine. It was co-produced by
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setting largely gender-blind and placing her gender secondary to being a "badass".
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is younger, with longer hair, and wears largely light armor.
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In contrast to the games, the CGI-animated Cassandra in
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and released in Japanese theaters on 11 February 2012.
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Fumihiko Sori
Justin Cook
Colleen Clinkenbeard
J. Michael Tatum
Monica Rial
Chuck Huber
Christopher Sabat
John Swasey
R. Bruce Elliott
Brina Palencia
BioWare
Electronic Arts
FUNimation Entertainment
T.O Entertainment
T.O Entertainment
Japanese
Hepburn
anime
Fumihiko Sori
Dragon Age
Cassandra Pentaghast
BioWare
EA
Funimation Entertainment
Cassandra Pentaghast
Chiaki Kuriyama
Colleen Clinkenbeard
Shōsuke Tanihara
J. Michael Tatum

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