First act
Start
Start noun - The point at which something begins.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- It appears as a fully developed song at the start of first act as "Gonna Be Another Hot Day" and at the start of the second as "Evenin' Star" (though this latter one was a Cut Song for many decades).
Source: Recurring Riff -
One of Hawke's sibling's dies to darkspawn at the start, with the other either falling to the taint or being forcibly recruited by the end of the first act.
Source: I Let Gwen Stacy Die - Her first act during the Battle of Hogwarts was to have her seventh year students start throwing potted mandrakes out the windows.
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