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== Legend ==
 
== Legend ==
No one knows how many stories about Dane are true, but there was once an Alamarri [[warrior]] named Dane. One of his legends says that he owned a pack of [[wolves]], from which [[mabari]] are descended.<ref>[[Codex entry: Mabari War Hound]]</ref> Dane is also credited with killing a dragon and orchestrating a major campaign against [[werewolves]] during the [[Black Age]], which dramatically reduced the werewolf threat in Alamarri lands.<ref>[[Codex entry: Werewolf]]</ref>
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No one knows how many stories about Dane are true, but there was once an Alamarri [[warrior]] named Dane. One of his legends says that he owned a pack of [[wolves]], from which [[mabari]] are descended.<ref>[[Codex entry: Mabari War Hound]]</ref> Dane is also credited with killing a [[High dragon|dragon]]<ref>[[Codex entry: Yusaris: The Dragonslayer]]</ref> and orchestrating a major campaign against [[werewolves]] during the [[Black Age]], which dramatically reduced the werewolf threat in Alamarri lands.<ref>[[Codex entry: Werewolf]]</ref>
   
 
According to the story of ''[[Codex entry: Dane and the Werewolf|Dane and the Werewolf]]'', Dane had killed a rare white hart when he encountered a werewolf, who demanded tribute for the kill that had been made in his woods. Surrounded by a pack of werewolves, Dane had no choice but to strike a bargain: he would exchange lives and bodies with the werewolf. Dane lived as a werewolf for a year and a day while the werewolf lived the life Dane had left behind. The truth of this tale has never been proven however. While Dane himself almost certainly existed, Fereldan scholars doubt that he spent a year as a werewolf. [[Flemeth]] is also said to appear in many versions of ''Dane and the Werewolf''.<ref>{{Cite wot2|32}}</ref><ref>{{Cite wot2|29}}</ref>
 
According to the story of ''[[Codex entry: Dane and the Werewolf|Dane and the Werewolf]]'', Dane had killed a rare white hart when he encountered a werewolf, who demanded tribute for the kill that had been made in his woods. Surrounded by a pack of werewolves, Dane had no choice but to strike a bargain: he would exchange lives and bodies with the werewolf. Dane lived as a werewolf for a year and a day while the werewolf lived the life Dane had left behind. The truth of this tale has never been proven however. While Dane himself almost certainly existed, Fereldan scholars doubt that he spent a year as a werewolf. [[Flemeth]] is also said to appear in many versions of ''Dane and the Werewolf''.<ref>{{Cite wot2|32}}</ref><ref>{{Cite wot2|29}}</ref>

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Dane is a legendary Alamarri hero and reportedly the father of Hafter. Many Fereldan nobles claim their descent from his line.

Legend

No one knows how many stories about Dane are true, but there was once an Alamarri warrior named Dane. One of his legends says that he owned a pack of wolves, from which mabari are descended.[2] Dane is also credited with killing a dragon[3] and orchestrating a major campaign against werewolves during the Black Age, which dramatically reduced the werewolf threat in Alamarri lands.[4]

According to the story of Dane and the Werewolf, Dane had killed a rare white hart when he encountered a werewolf, who demanded tribute for the kill that had been made in his woods. Surrounded by a pack of werewolves, Dane had no choice but to strike a bargain: he would exchange lives and bodies with the werewolf. Dane lived as a werewolf for a year and a day while the werewolf lived the life Dane had left behind. The truth of this tale has never been proven however. While Dane himself almost certainly existed, Fereldan scholars doubt that he spent a year as a werewolf. Flemeth is also said to appear in many versions of Dane and the Werewolf.[5][6]

The River Dane in Ferelden, which is best known to modern Fereldans as the place where the rebel forces of Prince Maric Theirin under the command of Loghain Mac Tir defeated two Orlesian legions of chevaliers, is named after the hero Dane.

Notes

Trivia

  • The legend of Dane's encounter with a werewolf while hunting and his subsequent exchange of positions with the wolf bears many similarities with Pwyll's relationship with Arawn in the Mabinogion.

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