Once there, they must work for shady groups for a year in order to pay their way into the city, being unwanted refugees who the city's ruling class care little for. Hawke agrees and they finally get to the ship and sail for Kirkwall, a city in the far-off Free Marches. She then offers them a deal to deliver something for her to a band of wandering Dalish Elves, and in return, she will get them to the port city of Gwaren safely, so they may leave their homeland, Ferelden. They run into a group of pursuing Darkspawn, but are saved when a strange, powerful witch called Flemeth intervenes. Hawke and Hawke's family are on the run from the rising Darkspawn monsters sweeping up from the south.
