The moment the first arrow was fired, Thea found herself busy casting spells and making sure the darkspawn didn't manage to surround them or get any closer. Her sylvan was getting destroyed by swords and axes, but for each blow it received, the offending darkspawn was swatted away with just as much force and brutality. Just as the group of three ran past Kaitlyn, busy with her own opponents, to get to her, Thea swiped her staff in front her in a large arc and sent shards of ice erupting from the ground.

The wall of ice spears impaled one hurlock, and froze the other genlocks in place. With a blast of rock, Thea shattered them both with a well placed Stone Fist spell. She was fighting harder than ever before, not only because she was no longer fighting with a score of Dalish warriors around her, but also because she knew what happened to women the darkspawn took. She wanted to avoid that fate as much as possible.

She did not notice the Tranquil struggling with the darkspawn, forgetting that he had neither magic nor armor to defend himself with. She was too occupied with the darkspawn trying to get to her, realising that their enemy had a mage. She then cursed when she spotted a hurlock emissary striding through the trees and preparing to blast them all with a fireball. She whirled around to face the blasted creature and sent a bolt of ice magic right from her hand, freezing the emissary in place and interrupting its spell before it could send it their way. A bolt of lightning to follow up shattered the emissary's arm and a few more blasts from her staff ensured the darkspawn stayed dead and would not harass them further. It was at this point that a genlock dagger nearly found her side, had she not jumped out of the way as she spotted movement in the corner of her eye.

A retaliation blast for its effort was all it took to bring the genlock down, and it seemed they had defeated their first wave of darkspawn attackers. Unfortunately seeing one scouting or raiding party often meant others would undoubtedly catch their scent. The fight was over but they had a long road ahead. She turned to the templar. "That went well." She commented, just glad she had survived the battle.