A mage starts to scream before Dorian clamps a hand over her mouth. Giant spiders at night is terrifying but they cannot reveal their position even more than the spiders have.

"Cast and protect them," he hisses as he yanks his hand away.

This time Dorian is not careful about his magic. He's comfortable with necromancy and leashes a spirit right away to infect the biggest of the spiders. It will leech away life and eventually explode the beast when it takes possession.

He almost shouts Cullen's name when he sees the man go down. The other Templars and Guards are closer but Dorian rushes forward with the blade of his staff. He swings it around and slices clean through a leg. The staff spins around his body as Dorian using the momentum to bring it around and stab through the open wound where the leg used to be. He finishes the spider off by causing ice to explode from within it.

"Get up. You're a horrible shield lying on the ground like that," he snaps as he grabs Cullen's arm to haul him up.