Cosplayer embodies Morrigan from Dragon Age: Origins — battle with the Archdemon and an ancient ritual

Cosplayer Lada Lyumos transformed into Morrigan from Dragon Age: Origins and recreated scenes where the Witch of the Wilds fought the Archdemon Urthemiel and performed a special ritual.

Photographer Kira Mitenkova and model Lada Lyumos also decided to pay tribute to BioWare studio, which was closed in October this year as part of layoffs and restructuring at Electronic Arts.

During the photoshoot, the cosplayer appeared as Morrigan, the witch from the role-playing game Dragon Age: Origins and one of the many daughters of the legendary Flemeth. The team sought to recreate the battle scenes with the Archdemon Urthemiel from the story quest “The Battle of Denerim” and the performance of the ritual.

According to the ancient lore of the Grey Wardens, an Archdemon's soul cannot be destroyed with conventional weapons: it will simply jump into the nearest darkspawn. At the moment of the dragon's death, Urthemiel's spirit is drawn to the taint in the blood of the Grey Warden who struck the final blow.

Under normal circumstances, the souls of the dragon and the hero clash and mutually annihilate each other, leading to the Warden's inevitable death. However, on the eve of the assault on Denerim, the witch Morrigan offers a way to avoid this sacrifice using ancient blood magic taught to her by Flemeth.

The ritual is performed the night before the final battle: Morrigan must conceive a child with one of the Grey Wardens, who can be the male protagonist, Alistair, or Loghain.

After the Archdemon is defeated on the fort's rooftop, its liberated soul does not kill the victor, but rushes toward the unborn child in the witch's womb. The unborn baby absorbs Urthemiel's essence and cleanses the soul of the Old God of the taint. Because of this, all Grey Wardens survive and celebrate their victory in Denerim, while Morrigan herself disappears without a trace right after the battle to secretly raise her son named Kieran.