Harle Cerulean wrote...
Fenris' age is something I waver back and forth on on a bit, but I find it difficult to say early 20s even at the start of the game.
He's been running from Danarius for three years at that point; we don't know how long he served Danarius after recieving the tattoos, but presumably it was a decent amount of time. Before that, he was likely fully-grown when he won the competition for the boon. So assuming he was 18-20 when he won, he then served Danarius for an unknown amount of time.
Don't forget that adulthood comes much earlier in a time setting like this. Fenris could certainly have been as young as 15 when he fought in the competition. For all we know, the competition was composed of all similarly aged young men for the reason that the martial training (post-lyrium) would take better on a younger person, and that Danarius would have the perfect weapon in the prime of his (the recipient's) life for as long as possible, making the most of the investment.
As far as ages go in general, I would say that it's difficult to gauge the ages of most of them, particularly Fenris, Anders, Isabela, and Hawke. The default male Hawke certainly seems to be in his late 20s to early 30s based on appearance alone, and the beard makes him look even older than that, but that is just because of societal norms in mostly Christian Western cultures where young full-bearded men are uncommon (to us as players). The remaining three are problematic in that from what we know of them, they have
lived a lot of life.
It is times like this that I really wish they had been more consistent with the time lapse from Awakening to DA2 in relation to Anders. The time overlap is really bad and requires considerable hand waving that is not required for anyone else. It's irritating. We don't even know
when mages undertake their Harrowing, whether it's based on age alone, level of skill and training, or a combination of the two (which I think most likely), also putting into question the possible age of our DAO mage Warden. We know that Anders made several escape attempts, but not over low long a period. The only other clue to Anders's age is that he talks about Karl as if were a peer (they were apprentices together), and Karl has grey in his hair (some people age worse than others, and again the beard does not help).
The time lapse of the game is also problematic because the appearance of Hawke and all of Hawke's friends does not change. It's easier to consider that a person might not change too much from 23-30, but seems less likely from 33-40.
The only other thing I can point to as to how the writers use ages, David Gaider specifically, is in
Asunder when Rhys is described as "rapidly approaching his fortieth" year, putting him from 37-39. In addition, if you examined the timelines carefully in his novels, you would be able to figure out how old Maric was when he ascended to the throne, how old Cailan was when Alistair (we assume it was Alistair, yes I know this is not confirmed) was born, the age Cailan was when he died, and infer how old Alistair was in DAO... All of which I'm not really going to examine at the moment, but it is possible through careful reading. (A disclaimer should be added the David says the timeline between the novels and the games is somewhat inaccurate.)
My point with the above paragraph is that unless it is specifically mentioned that a character is young (because of their experience or maturity level), like Maric in
The Stolen Throne -- I also got the impression that Duncan was very young in
The Calling, younger than 20 -- Dragon Age characters are skewed as older, mature people who have the considerable life experience to influence their personalities and opinions.
Read into that what you will about the ages of our various followers.
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