I love when people take their little guys and give them unique traits, so here's an ask game about what makes your Hawke different from canon!

1. Did anything notable happen in their childhood that isn't mentioned?

2. Are they human, or did you play with a mod, or just imagine them as a different race?

3. Are they blood related to their family, or are they adopted?

4. Did anything notable happen while traveling to Gwaren with Flemeth?

5. Did they lose only one sibling during the prologue, both, or neither?

6. Do they have any chronic health conditions or disabilities?

7. Have they developed any mental health issues related to their frankly extremely traumatic life?

8. Is their gender identity different from what the character creator limits it to?

9. Do they have any pets besides their mabari?

10. Do they identify with a sexuality other than what's in the game?

11. If they romance anyone, is it just one companion they're with, or are they poly?

12. Any irrational fears or phobias?

13. Did they run into the Hero of Ferelden when their party passed through Lothering?

14. Are they more involved with the Mage Underground than the game allows you to be?

15. Do they do anything to help their fellow refugees, once they have their money and status?

16. Do they have any other friends in Kirkwall besides their companions?

17. Did they have any adventures Varric didn't mention to Cassandra?

18. Any additions or omissions to how certain quests went down?

19. Do they practice Andrastianism, something else, or nothing at all?

20. Do they spend time comforting their companions after their quests, if something traumatic happened?

21. Do they do anything to make money besides their mercenary work?

22. Have they got any hobbies?

23. Any skills unmentioned in the game?

24. Did they struggle during the year they worked for Athenril/Meeran?

Mage-specific questions:

25. What was it like when they first got their magic?

26. Have the templars ever tried to capture them, and how did they escape?

27. Did they struggle while learning to control their magic?

28. Do they know any magic that canonically exists, but is not available in-game?

29. What's their relationship with spirits like?

30. Does their magic have any interesting effects on them?

31. Have they ever had a demon try to possess them?

32. Have they ever lost control of their power?

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um. i think it's interesting bc da2 is possibly the game that's most willing to be critical of the templars, that presents the most unpleasant view of them in the series, but it's also a game with Notably quite a few "good" templars, who are shown to go out of their way to try to be kinder to mages than their peers — thrask, emeric, and samson (who is no longer a templar when we meet him because he was fired for his transgression. of. passing love notes.) & of course carver's namesake.

& the thing that they all have in common is that they subvert their orders. the "kind" templars in da2, across the board, all defy orders and expectations— thrask comes to you behind his superiors' backs to plead for you to stop his own colleague from catching up to some runaway mages for fear of what he'll do to them, emeric begs you to help investigate a series of murders of young women after both the city guard and his own superiors have already expressly told him to drop it, and. samson passed love notes between mages. (and when you meet him he may also ask for money in exchange for information on feynriel, but iirc he expresses hope that you're successful). maurevar carver helps malcolm escape.

and pretty much all of them suffer immensely for it! thrask and emeric are both ultimately killed. samson spends the entirety of the game homeless and suffering lyrium withdrawal before ultimately breaking, turning on you and returning to meredith.

& i think these characters and their actions and the consequences they suffer for their, let's be real, Basic Decency... really highlight what it is to be a templar who is still comfortably employed. like. the existence of these "good" templars, and the specific things they do in order to be "good," highlights how the only Good, kind, compassionate actions in this position are to Refuse To Do what templars do, especially in kirkwall. because these acts — stopping mages from being slaughtered, even passing harmless notes between them — are fireable offences. so, like, the templars that remain employed, that are Not going behind their commander's back... what are They doing?

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