renjility wrote...
Varric remains much of a mystery. I
don't think he is extremely rich, but has enough coin not to worry about
it. How he earns it though... When Aveline asks him if he does
anything, he says coin flows when he talks and when he shuts up, haha.
I kept wondering if Aveline was going to pay him to shut up
I was wondering if it was more to do with connectioins and blackmail. Hmmmm can't decide if Varric would blackmail someone.
It
seems possible that the coterie would be interested in catching Fenris
when they find out he has a bounty on his head. Or maybe they are not
pleased with him taking odd jobs around? Although Fenris is more
mercenary and the coterie smugglers if I recall correctly.
I remember in Legacy Varric said they were businessmen but he made it sound as if they didn't bother with actually hurting people. I wonder if Fenris was cutting in on their action somehow. Maybe working for Athenril?
Faerunner wrote...
Yeah, I think Varric is extremely wealthy. Doesn't he have his own personal spy network?
His elven urchins? ;D I think he does have contacts since he used one to help Anders. That guy he was talking to when Hawke walks in. That's why I got the impression he is looking out for Fenris too since he is suggesting he take some job we never learn about.
Plus he's pretty well known and has a lot of connections in the "underground," whatever that is.
Connections with the underground? There is a joke in there somewhere.
I know...it's some sad humor on this end.
Not to mention Varric made out just as well as Hawke after the Deep Roads expedition (they shared in the profits and Hawke went from poor to rich overnight, which should tell you something about Varric's rise in pocket money) and he probably got his brother's share of the cut after Bartrand went mad/had to be put down, to say nothing of the sales cost of the mansion, so there you go.
Good point. I always forget that Varric got a huge chunk of that money too.
I love Varric but why must he live in the Hanged Man? I'm not saying he should move in to a big fancy estate but something less noisy and smelly might be a nice change.
Coming back to Fenris, who can say? I think it's one of those random conversation bites to give an indication that the characters have lives outside of Hawke, and just like with real life, Hawke doesn't always know what's going on.
It would have been nice to see more of his life or at least understand some of the conversations going on around Hawke!
When you think about it, Fenris is squatting in an abandoned mansion without paying any taxes or doing any upkeep (he has to ask some of Hawke's other companions to keep officials away), and still keeping himself hidden from the world, yet even he needs money to live on. Before meeting Hawke, he'll mention how he had to steal coin, work with shady people and hire swords to get by (heck, it's how he meets Hawke), and he doesn't exactly get a day job after joining Hawke, so one can assume he still scrapes by that way. Given his line of work, it makes sense that he would end up on the radar of the Coterie, but how is up to the player's imagination.
My imagination is a scary place. Have you ever noticed that Hawke seems to be attracted to homeless men? The other thing I noticed is that all the women have or had positions of import. Isabela, a ship's captain, Aveline in the army and then guard captain, Merrill training to be the first and so on. But... Fenris and Anders from what I understand really the same cannot be said for them. Sometimes I look at the two male love interests and think they have never matured. I don't mean that in a bad way. It comes across that way to me especially when they argue. It's like two bickering children.
About a Varric romance: what's funny is I think Bioware was originally planning on installing a tiny little tidbit of a quasi-Varric romance if you chose the right options. I think I read somehere that if you didn't romance anyone else and consistently "jokingly" flirted with Varric, then at the very end, after Cassandra lets him go, Varric would meet Hawke outside. Hawke would say something to the effect of "Did you tell her everything?" and Varric would chuckle, "Don't worry, I didn't tell her about us..." xD
Oh yeah, I remember reading that too! I was so bummed when I found out they didn't include it
Did you ever get any flirt options for Varric? I did once and then I think they released a patch and you could no longer flirt with him :/ Why do they deny me my dwarven chest hair! Have to admit that I'd rather romance Varric as a fiesty dwarven woman than a human. I love Hawke, but I wish we could have chosen our race. Maybe Varric LI for DA3!
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) from Alistair in DAO, it's always to Zev. I just find the male LIs far more interesting - Fenris and Alistair are 2 of my favourite game characters ever, how could I NOT want to get it on with them. 
