Dragon Age: Origins is a short web comic set in the world of Dragon Age by the Penny Arcade artists, released on September 4, 2009. It tells the tale of a band of templars who were tasked with finding Flemeth, the Witch of the Wilds. A second installment called Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening tells the tale of Nathaniel Howe breaking and entering into his ancestral home and serves as a background for the expansion Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening.