She's back.

(Spoilers ahead regarding Dragon Age:  Inquisition.  Yup, I'm still writing about it.)

Morrigan, the character I was most excited to see returning to Dragon Age:  Inquisition has finally made her appearance.  So what has she been up to for the last ten years?  Unsurprisingly, she's pretty vague but she has managed to ingratiate herself with Empress Celene of Orlais.  Apparently as a "magical adviser" she has been teaching the empress about all types of magic.

You first run into Morrigan while attending a ball held by the empress at a beautiful and very Orlesian palace.  In your previous mission to court the mages or templars it is revealed that in the future there is a plot to kill the empress to throw the empire into chaos.  It is your job to attend this fancy party and figure out who is plotting against her.  Of course there are several possible candidates who all have some reason for wanting her out of the picture.  As you navigate the Orlesian social scene, chatting with nobles and dancing with strange ladies, you also explore the palace in your efforts to find the assassin.  It's after a few rounds of exploration that you run into Morrigan.

It seems strange that Morrigan would end up in Orlais.  To go from being extremely isolated and living in the Korcari Wilds with her "mother" to the Orlesian royal court seems like quite a leap.  Morrigan is not a party member who will accompany you on quests, but takes on the role of another adviser.  I have attempted to chat with her a few times and it has yielded nothing interesting.  She very vaguely recounts travelling with the "hero of Ferelden" during the blight, but reveals little else about what she has been doing.  After storming Adamant fortress she does drop a pretty big bomb--in her travels she has managed to piece together an eluvian--an elven artifact (possibly soul sucking and demonic as indicated in previous games) that allows travel into unknown realms.  She leads you into a zone she calls "the crossroads" where many eluvians seem to meet up.  It's not quite the fade, but it's somewhere close.  She states that she hid out in this weird realm for sometime after the events in the first game.

I'm not completely sure what to make of her return.  She's seems to have important knowledge, but at the same time it feels like she is hiding things.  I have a feeling she's going to wind up being much more important than what she currently seems to be.  Her return has not been as exciting as I had hoped.

I still have many hours left to go in my adventures and hope to unravel the mysteries of Morrigan (and her creepy mirror).