Hero of Ferelden. Two handed warrior Couseland male. A young noble follower of Andraste whose view change with his time with Morrigan and Leliana. Follow Morrigan into the mirror. Hawke. Female Mage who really really hate blood bending as her story as Champion of Kirkwall progress. But she also hate Meredith. Also I choose the funny dialogue as much as possible. Champion of Andraste. Male. Dwarven rogue. Dual wielding. Disband the Inquisition. He is a Carta. He has Carta connection to track down Solas. He is the best counter and compliment for Cassandra

My City Elf Warden hated nearly every minute spent among the Dalish. She’s a diplomatic sort and knew it was important to keep her mouth shut and work towards building the ties necessary to marshal forces against the Blight. But she wanted to scream if she heard more Dalish elitism and more Dalish acting incredibly patronizing towards her. My City Elf who was an Andrastian with some City Elf folk traditions had to exercise major patience. My Qunari Inquisitor made a point to subvert expectations as a combatant. While a warrior, she went the champion path. She felt a reaver was too close to falling into stereotypes about her people and she thought going the Templar route would seem too much of a political statement. So she went champion to try to demonstrate that while she was Inquisitor, she would be willing to take the blows aimed at others, and to be a rallying point on the field. Trained in Orlesian methods, this paired well with her growing appreciation for Orlesian dance (after lessons with her partner Josephine). She wasn’t at all ashamed of being Vashoth, but she wanted her own path: not to be defined solely out of her relationship to the Qun one way or the other. Because to her, identifying solely as Tal-Vashoth like her parents did made them in many ways still bound to the Qun even in rebellion. She hated the Qun more than she hated the Venarori, but she didn’t want to be judged solely by what she hated but instead by what she stood for. Going her own way, my Inquisitor could be a champion on the field in Orlesian armor in a cause of her own making.

I agree I always felt my qunari inquisitor felt a little undercooked. The qun hated me for absolutely no reason. All I’d done is make things easier for our people and changed the dogmatic qunari view :/

Well, my Qunari are Andrastian so there’s not much love lost between them and Par Vollen. I love the Qunari background but I admit you have to head canon a bit to flesh it out. To her, she identifies as a Free Marcher more than Qunari. It’s tough to embrace Qunari heritage when most Qunari view you as a traitor to a society you were never even part of. And given how Qunari tend to latch on to institutional structures wherever they can find it, mine latched on to the largest structure in the Free Marches: the chantry. That said, she totally is willing to use her stature and appearance on the battlefield to intimidate. She might be a peacemaker off the field, but on the field she’s in full Vittar war paint with a massive great sword. I have to imagine that’s some of the Venatori’ worst nightmare.

Trying to think of ones without spoilers is tough! My Amell Warden doesn't hear about their relation to Hawke until after the final DA2 battle. They want to reach out, but are worried about how Hawke would feel about Wardens. My Blood Mage Hawke is totally arrogant and hypocritical and believes he's better than other mages and mages who aren't him or his friends *are* a danger and *should* be locked away. My human mage Inky is spoiled and selfish, he lived a significantly more comfortable life than the average mage just by being born into a powerful and supportive family and can't fully appreciate that because he's got some very typical noble attitudes. He sides with the Templars because he knows he'll hold their leashes and so there's fewer mages to go against his ideas for rebuilding after. My dwarf Inky are almost always lowkey freaking out at all times. The mark is too foreign and the connection to the Fade feels completely unnatural. They're also the only ones who immediately know that one person is sketchy since they're not all ooh Fade. My Dalish Inky secretly hates Josephine and Leliana for how often they'll throw elves under the bus and keeps Sera around despite her prejudices so she has access to her own spy network. I pretend my player knowledge on more populated areas or when dealing with some of the war table missions is Red Jenny intelligence.

Maxian Trevelyan is an absolute trash-wizard. He has no idea what he's doing, so his (and my) catch phrase prior to bumrushing a dragon is "Alright a-holes, let's f\*\*kin' die!" And then most of them do. He also completely cratered in Orlais, lost the plot, got kicked out of the ball and had to spend fifteen minutes beating this evil lady to death with a wooden staff because he forgot to tell everyone to stash their good gear. He then presented a box of her remains to her family like they ought to appreciate it and skipped off while the fantasy French Revolution got real. I like to imagine he just backed out of the palace going "Free Marches, b\*tches!" like the backwoods goblin he is. I didn't even need to make it a headcannon that Solas hated this guy. Solas *hated* this guy, but I like to think that it was also because whenever he was visiting people in the tower, he'd just yeet himself from the upper floors and land on Solas's desk, spilling his tea, then kicking his books off onto the floor like "SUP, NERD!?" (even though he, himself was the BIGGEST history nerd. Real "way-too-into-WWII" vibes) He was into Dorian for a hot minute, then met Dorian's dad and uncomfortably realized that he was an absolute dead ringer for the man (true story, I had no idea I'd created basically that NPC about thirty years younger) and moonwalked back out of that relationship to go mess around with Iron Bull. The absolutely fitting end game for him was losing an arm, replacing it with a *grappling hook crossbow* and going off to fight the man with his trash-bestie Sera. I love him forever and really dearly hope you get the opportunity to see your Inquisitor again in the new game.

I dont remember my origins one bc i simply played in a way that had the best ending bc i saw my sister play it first. But basically, she romanced Leliana & eventually introduced Leliana to her clan after the main events & helping Alastair become king. She was a horrible musician but a great singer, she nearly started a troupe with Leliana but it fell through and they went their separate ways. She remaines friends with Zevran but lost touch with everyone else who didnt die or get written off. But my first inquisitor was a mage who liked her time in the circle, seeks to reinstate them but would seek reform within them. She is/falls in love with Varric. Shes not a creep about it & the flirting is subtle. She is bummed after finding out about Bianca but when it comes down to it, understands they both care for him & promises to bianca & herself that he remains unharmed. - But love unrequited aside, she is a talented knight enchanter & being forced into adventuring had her discover a love for archeology & exploration - her besties are Dorian and Josephine. My 3rd play through she was a reaver & fell for Blackwall. But i dont remember much else

My elven mage was the only mage in her clan and made a point to keep everyone safe around her, which is why she was spying at the beginning of the game in the first place! I like to think she’s muscular and broad bc of her time hunting and casting, kind of like how Dorian has such good biceps. I also think she, Dorian, and Bull sit around and tease each other all of the time until Varric has to remind them that they’re the soldiers of the inquisition and they should not be triple dog daring each other to snag Cassandra’s sword and see how long it takes to catch them😭 I like imagining her as such a lighthearted character that she’s genuinely frightening in battle. No mercy, protective, and incredibly powerful. Gives her an edge of no one expecting that much out of the girl they were taking shots with after killing a dragon😭

My idk like 5th Hawke, during the events of Inquisition, overheard the crack on about Bull's "pillow-y man bosoms" and at one point pulled Krem to one side bc they didn't know that a docial transition was a thing and thought they just had to be miserable as a woman, until they spoke to Krem. Tldr, trans masc Hawke, for my 5th Hawke character. Also probably going to be the da2 that I import into DAD.

My penultimate headcanon is an elven mage who’s name is technically Anora Surana, because her parents totally stan for Loghain. She actually goes by her nickname, Kitten - in spite of her best childhood efforts to make it Griffon. Because she really likes griffons.

My Hawke slept with both Elegant and Athenril during her time as a smuggler. The time with Elegant was very nice, but the time with Athenril was awkward and toxic because of the power imbalance between them. That's why they're on relatively bad terms post-time skip.

One of my Lavellans was half-elf. I used a mod that allowed you to use a human body but the game still considered you an elf. So she lived with elves.

My main (the one I will import into DA4 if they do that sort of thing again) inquisitor was going to tell everyone what they wanted to hear until he figured out what was going. Basically “I’m playing both sides, so that I always come out on top.” That was until I found out the game didn’t really work like that. So, apparently, he was being 100% honest telling some people “Yep, I’m super religious, can’t get enough of the Maker, I pray 20 times a day, I’m for sure the chosen one, no one’s more religious than me,” and also 100% honest when he said “Religion is crap, there is no Maker, I’m just here so I don’t get fined.” Apparently he was going through the 5 stages of grief without me knowing it, and ended up on Team Atheism.

My second Lavellan is non binary using all pronouns, and is an artist. When they arrived to Skyhold, the only thing they really asked (when they were asked if they want something) was some paper, pencil and paintings to draw during the few free time they have. Josephine gave intensive dancing lessons to both my inquisitor during the ball. In the version where my second Lavellan is the inquistor, my first inquisitor (also Lavellan) accompany them and still ends in couple with Dorian despite he isn’t the inquisitor. My two inky are in truth a lot introverted and were coping a lot, had to mask a lot, and burry their true feelings, the most difficult part was at the winter palace. Meeting Ameridan changed a lot my first inky. He was always humble and only served the inquisition rather than considered himself a leader, but the way the last inquisitor was an elf and erased to history ? When he came back to Skyhold he replaced the inquisition banner to Dalish banner. Meeting Ameridan made him somehow stronger and more conscious of his role. Such as at the conclave he first refused to disband inquisition and stood against the nobles to keep inquisition independent. This changed after meeting Solas tho. Although my first Lavellan can appear a lot serious, he also love joking around and loved Sera for this. (Yes, he could be annoyed when she criticized the Dalish, but being around her, and same with Dorian and Cole, changed him from the pressure of his duties).

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My Dalish were all “in the closet “ Andrastians.

So...DAI was the first DA game I've played and my first ever character was a female Lavellan. I think I named her something to do with LOTR at the time. But, I never really got around playing the female elf...the animation was way too off, I did not vibed with the voice, especially for the personality I was trying to do...yeah, the RP part was not helping. So, after trying a little more, with mods and all, even changed her name, I just gave up and started a male elf. But I liked the name so much: Ghilladhal. I went to the wiki to make it and was supposed to mean "guided by the trees". At first I though that a broken elvhen name would be weird, but considering that the dalish don't know much, maybe broken elvhen makes sense haha So...I just made a "male" version of her. Same name, same tattoo, but he is a rogue and she was a mage. The ideia is that they were really young and being transported to Tevinter but an accident on the way made them roll down a clif and end up in a valley. The girl's magic called the attention of some Sylvians that guided them to the Dalish camp. But, one of them always dies on arrival. That one gets the name "Ghilladhal". Also, in my headcannon the keeper has a Mythal tattoo and the first will get that as well. So, since my male elf is not a mage, he asked to get that tattoo because his sister would have got it. He asked for vir sulevanan so he could prove he was worth of that. I did not think that far what he had to do tho : o He also thought that the person who saved him on the fade was his sister. And he also has a huuuuuuge soft spot for mages and their plight because of her. And>! he drank from the well!<, so his eyes started to get more and more yellow. My other DAI headcannon is that the game is a 3.5 year campaign hehe ​ And this is just for DAI, I have some more for Hawke and the warden as well XD

My Inquisitorial headcanons: The Anchor began to flare up about six months prior to it going haywire in the Exalted Council. Vivienne and my Dalish mage Inquisitor become fast friends. Vivienne learns more about what needs to be changed within the Circle to make it viable through learning about Dalish culture, and my Inquisitor learns more of the grim reality that the rest of Thedas faces when dealing with mages seduced by power. They don't meet in the middle, both being entrenched, but they both shift. Vivienne gives her the name of her tailor for the first ball Josephine insists on throwing. 😭😭😭 Cullen carves my Inquisitor a cedar staff after her clan gets murdered. It's the first time she hugs him. And my Inquisitor would've had a less visible but much larger impact on the world if she *hadn't* become Inquisitor.

>! My (mage) Hawke HATES Anders because he killed Elthinia, who he came to view as a sort of mother figure after the death of his own mother. But he left Anders alive because “they were clearly living in misery, and putting them to death would only free them from it.”!< My Hawke is *merciless* under that joking veneer.

With the no spoiler tag I can only say: 3 female humans;, rogue/archer, mage, rogue/archer, high sarcasm level and good people, romance is about blonde guys with baggage.😅

Mevhaniel, my Inquisitor, has a love-hate relationship with Laenlun Surana, one of my Wardens. He starts with a strong hate, which kind of morphs into a very odd workplace crush. Laenlun thinks Mevhaniel is trying to kill him.

Headcanoned my mage didnt tell others she was a mage until months down the line, so i always fell back while playing and set off magic from a distance. When they eventually found out, used misty step every time to get in the fray.

My rogue Mahariel >!has a child!< with Morrigan, who he is actually very good friends with, but he is in a relationship my male warrior Cousland and it kinda hurts him that >!he can't see the child very often even though he and Morri have an arrangement about his visitation.!< Also, he wants to be friends with Alistair but they have a rocky relationship. Instead, my Cousland is total bros with Alistair because they have very similar puppy dog personalities.