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[barnsey881]

I know a lot of these threads have already been done but there's always a chance someone will come up with something new.

 

I tend to lean towards the headcanon that all three characters are related somehow, here's my own personal take on the story:

 

Ryland Amell was born to the wealthy Amell family of Kirkwall, living a privileged and noble life with his older siblings Leandra and Gamlen, until signs of magic began to manifest at his sixth birthday. His zealous, mage-hating parents spurned him and shipped him off to the Circle as quickly as possible, their only kindness towards their youngest child being to spare him the brutality of the Kirkwall Circle, instead sending him to the Fereldan Circle, at Lake Calenhad. The Amell's cut off all contact with Ryland, and he soon became forgotten, as if he had simply died as a child, a story his parents readily spread. Amell quickly asserted himself as a prodigy, becoming the personal apprentice to First Enchanter Irving. After the events of Jowan's attempted escape Irving had no choice but to recommend him to the Grey Warden Duncan, believing his finest student deserved the chance to make a life for himself. Amell readily agreed - even though he had no choice in the matter - for despite the relative comfort of the Circle he had always grated under the control of the Templars. Amell became known as the Hero of Fereldan, finding a kindred soul in the witch Morrigan, but sadly, their romance was not to be, as Amell concerned himself with rebuilding Fereldan's Wardens, and finding a cure for the taint. Throughout his travels he heard tales of the Amell family's fall from grace, but never bothered to attempt contact. He never even knew how close he came to his long-lost sister Leandra, and her family, who lived in the village of Lothering...

 

Evan Hawke was born the impoverished family of Malcolm Hawke and Leandra Amell. Due to the strong magical bloodline of both the Hawke's - from his father - and the Amell's - through his unknown uncle - both he and his sister Bethany began displaying magical aptitude at a young age. They were trained in secret by their father as apostates, taught not to fear their magical talents, but to embrace them. During the Blight they fled to Kirkwall, where on the way Bethany sadly died, causing a gulf to appear between Hawke and his brother, Carver. Hawke continued his magical training in secret, dabbling in magic's that would have seen him put to death had he resided even in the most lenient of Circles. Hawke, unknown to the society of Kirkwall, became one of the most accomplished Blood Mages to exist outside the Imperium, proving that no form of magic was inherently evil, just how it was used. Once Carver had been recruited into the Grey Wardens Hawke was left alone, where he ultimately found solace in the arms of Isabella, leaving to travel the world with her, after the events of the Gallows...

 

Maxwell Trevelyan was born as the youngest son of Lord Trevelyan, and his wife Felise Amell - aunt to the Hero of Fereldan. He grew up in a pious family, and became a believer himself, however, his natural intelligence caused him some harbouring doubts as to the literal truth of the Chantry's teachings. Despite his beliefs Maxwell took full advantage of his wealthy lifestyle, being known as something of playboy amongst the noble houses of Ostwick. Appalled by their sons behaviour they decided to put his natural weapons skill to good use, and he was forced into Templar training. There he built upon his natural skill to become one of the most formidable trainees the Free Marcher templars had seen in years. He was earmarked for future leadership, and was sent to the Conclave as an assistant to a Chantry representative. It was there his life would take a drastic turn...

 

 

If you read all of that I'm quite impressed . I know some of it borders on the stereotypical, but I just find that to me this fits the best with the story that Bioware is trying to tell. I mean, why switch between a bunch of different characters if they aren't all connected somehow?

 

I also like the idea that with every character, a party is being formed, and that they'll all come together in the final game. So, I decided to have a mage Warden and Hawke (for that dual-mage destruction), a warrior Inquisitor (I mean someone needs to tank for the other two), and with my hunch about where the story is headed (with Solas and the events of Trespasser) I think the final member of my four will be an elven rogue, probably an archer because I tend to like them better, or a dagger-rogue for balance, because three ranged and one melee character seems a little out-of-kilter .

 

These are just my thoughts, feel free to ignore or bash them in any way, but I'd love to hear some other interesting backstories! I find them fascinating.

[veeia]

I think it's a cool idea! I can't personally make it work because my two main world states include dwarven wardens and Inquisitors. No way to really connect them to Hawke, unless you want to go with Hawke's father actually being a dwarf. Which would be hilarious.

 

I do like to strand together my Cadash Inquisitors and Brosca/Aeducan Wardens. With Brosca-Cadash, I can't really justify them having met in any meaningful way, but I do like the idea of the legend of Brosca inspiring my dreamy, idealistic Cadash. And my other Cadash I have sort of an elaborate headcanon backstory (which isn't supported by the game, but totally possible to play it as) where he was not actually born a surface dwarf, but exiled from Orzammar, so he has very strong (negative) feelings about my Aeducan, who was a ruthless power player. The only real connection I've made between Cadash and Hawke is that I've toyed with the idea that Cadash was involved in illegal lyrium sales in Kirkwall.

 

I like your story and how your characters are connected! I think personally for me, even if I could connect all three of them, I might not want to connect them to that extent but I can also see how it'd be fun to play with.

[barnsey881]

Thanks! Yeah I can see how it would be a little difficult for Hawke to be related to a dwarf ahaha. I'm not saying this is the way you should play it either, you should play whatever is the most enjoyable for you, I personally just find the idea that they could all be related pretty cool.

 

I've never done a full playthrough as a dwarf either but I do have to say the the Dwarf Noble Origin imo is definitely the best, as a stand alone story at least. When I found out that Bhelen had backstabbed me I was like "Oh hell no" and went back to see him as soon as I was able to go all Sam L. Jackson on him, whereas in every other playthrough I kind of felt like the whole dwarven storyline was just something I had to do to progress the game.

[DarkAmaranth1966]

Trevelyan is a distant Amell cousin, noble birth and Andrastian. She liked things as they were but thinks both mages and Templars have lost their senses so, she conscripts the Templars.

 

Lavellan is a Dalish who would rather be more worldly, not a city elf but, wants to live more like humans. he or she values freedom so if male, he allies with the mages, if female, she romances Cullen and allies with the Templars.

 

Adaar is a Tal Vashoth Saerebas who is very glad his parents left the Qun before he was born but, he does not want to see the Qun or Qunari life ended for those in Qunandar. He respects and even follows many values of the Qun but, does not agree with their forced roles in life nor the treatment of mages. He knows well that a properly trained mage can be free and, be as productive in society as anyone else. Magic need not always be for combat, it can heal, lift heavy logs and boulders to build things, even call water during a drought so that the crops won't die. He allies with the mages in an effort to see them all properly trained and free at the same time.

 

Cadash is a dwarf who did not like her caste and wanted to be something else but, could not because that was her caste. Like Adaar, she respects her heritage and traditions but does not agree with the lack of choices. She also has a terrible fear of magic because it is so foreign to her so, allies with the Templars.

[vertigomez]

My Brosca, Hawke, and Adaar definitely aren't related.

The first two are easier since I know about their pre-game lives. I know their families and can make a good guess as to what their childhoods were like, what their motivations are, why they do the things they do (and choose the specs they do!). Adaar is harder to headcanon because we don't have the same kind of insight into what it's like growing up Vashoth. We know their parents were Tal-Vashoth, a mage Adaar was trained by a Tal-Vashoth apostate, and you have a history and a good relationship with the Valo-Kas mercs.

I imagine my Adaar was an only child because I imagine life on the run as a giant grey horned person is extra hard if you have a handful of kids to tote around. With the surname Adaar I imagine at least one of her parents was a cannoneer on a Dreadnought, maybe the other was aqun-athlok or a tamassran or something.

I can't decide if she grew up in the city or the country, but I imagine little!Adaar spent a lot of time in the Chantry and that had an impact on her role as Herald.

And it's totally not canonical but I had another Adaar whom I pretended was raised by an Avvar tribe, because why not.

[jlb524]

The one Inquisitor background I put the most headcanon into was my Dalish Rift mage.   I don't like the idea that the Lavellan clan would send their First to spy on the Mage/Templar conclave, so I made her "not the First" (I don't know if she'd technically be the Second but whatever).  Her older sister was actually the Keeper's First (and they despised each other and never got along).  She never really got along with her family or most others in the Clan and decided to just leave one day.  I think her Clan came upon a group of Rebel mages one day and she just kind of joined them (she was interested in the different types of magic they could do and one of them was cute).  They eventually went to the Conclave and so did she...

 

Lavellan's older sister always saw her as a rival growing up and treated her like crap accordingly.   She had a little brother but he always sided with the eldest sister (sucks being a middle child).

 

She regrets running away at first as she's not too thrilled about being the 'Herald of Andraste' or later 'The Inquisitor' but eventually becomes somewhat comfortable with it.  On the other hand, she got to drink from the Well of Sorrows and now knows way more about ancient elven culture/history than her sister ever will.  

 

The end.

[Ghost Gal]

None of my protagonists are related. I don't put must stock in the whole "some genetic stock is superior to others" thing.

 

My Warden Tabris is a regular City Elf descended from a long line of regular city elves that date all the way back to the Fall of the Dales. Admittedly, the game hints that Adaia is descended from elves who fought to defend their home since her ancestral blade, Fang, saw action in the battle to defend the Dales. But I don't really think that means anything seven hundred years later. (In real life, seven hundred years ago I had family that was nobility in England. Guess how much that affects my life now?) Adaia was "beautiful, and full of life... and a bit wild" because that's who she was, not who she was descended from. And my gal was a trouble-maker who grew up "always scraping for food and ducking the guards" and helping elves in need because that's who she was raised to be. Her mother taught her how to fight, and both her parents taught her to love the alienage and always help other elves because they're all family.

 

The only real headcanon I have to the Warden Tabris background is this: I was bummed that our elf has such tiny ears compared to the big and beautiful ones Shianni and Cyrion had, so I headcanoned that, when she was a kid playing in an alleyway, some drunk humans got this hilarious idea to hold her down and cut off her ears in order to see, "If we cut the knife ears off a knife ear, does that make 'er human?" Her mother heard her screaming and beat them up, but then it was too late. She feels just as mutilated as if they'd cut off her lips or nose, and keeps her ear stubs covered with hair. I imagine that every time she experiences or witnesses humans being racist against elves, her ear stubs burn or itch, and she scratches them in agitation. (And I thought of this before getting to Redcliffe, so Demon Connor saying of the elven servants, "I had their ears cut off and fed to the dogs. The dogs chewed for hours! Muahahaha!" felt like a kick to the gut, and I imagine her phantom ears burned hearing that.)

 

Hawke: I'm still torn between the default Male Mage Hawke and Male Warrior Hawke. I don't really have any reason to headcanon their background because the game spelled it out for us. (And Amell is no one important in my worldstate.) If a Mage then he feels passionate about helping mages because he is one and his mage lover Anders is passionate about it. If he's a warrior (which I'm leaning towards), he feels very protective of his little sister Bethany and feels very protective of all mages because he sees them as being like his little sister, which extends to his romance of wanting to protect the mage elf Merrill.

 

Inquisitor Lavellan: I headcanon her parents were city elves who fled to the Dalish when their children started showing signs of magic, in order to keep them out of the Circles. Her dad died en route, and her mother took her grief and bitterness out on the very Dalish she had come to for protection. My gal was teased and bullied as a little kid for being "city born," so she grew up feeling torn between her city birth and Dalish upbringing. When she came into her magic she struck and almost killed another kid by accident. Being Andrastian, her mother tried to teach her to fear and suppress her magic, but her Keeper took her aside and taught her to accept magic as part of herself (and part of their heritage) and to learn to feel confident using it responsibly rather than being afraid to use it negatively. When the Keeper chose Shiara as her first over her older brother, her mother left the Dalish in disgust.

 

My gal continued to feel troubled until the next gathering of clans (which Fenris hinted would soon gather not long after the events of DA2), where Dalish not of her clan mocked her for being city born, and sneered at her for being the Keeper's First when she's not one of their people. Fed up from a lifetime of back-and-forth, "What does it matter? Who cares whether I'm city-born or not? City elves, Dalish elves; in the end, we're all elves!" And as she said that it was like the fog cleared away, and she saw the world clearly, and she saw her Keeper standing a ways back, smiling and nodding approvingly, and the next time she saw her reflection it was red and swollen from getting her vallaslin. (Ironically, her "coming of age" moment for her Keeper was realizing it doesn't matter whether she's Dalish or not, as the important thing is that they're all elves and they're all struggling together. That being "Dalish" isn't as important as feeling elven and wanting to help move their people forward.)

 

That's why, by Inquisition, she's gotten over the "Dalish/city elf" divide (treating all elves she comes across with dignity, friendliness, and respect), and it's why she's distressed whenever Solas and Sera throw her Dalish heritage back in her face. Her stance is "We are both of the same people, Solas." His stance is "I thought you would want to tell me your interpretation of elven culture. You are Dalish, are you not?" and Sera's is "Don't you be getting elfy on me." For her, it's like, "I got past all this. I learned to stop getting hung up on petty differences that just divides us when we should be working together and helping each other out. If you want to keep throwing our differences back in my face, and telling me how racist and intolerant I am just because I'm Dalish, fine."

[Tidus]

Hunter Tidus Lavellan  is a outcast in his clan due to his belief that the Dalish will parish if they don't change their life style. The various Keepers can't see every year their clans grow smaller  due to illness, accidents and unnecessary clashes with humans and yet these fools clings to the past and dreams of the impossible.. Tidus true love was Ona until her parents forbid her to see Tidus because of his beliefs.

 

When the Keeper sent his second to investigate the Conclave Tidus was sent as one of the four guards  that escorted the second and would be the only survivor.

 

Second Carmin Lavellan is a idealist that believes the Dalish needs to improve their lot in life and live in harmony with the humans while maintaining their culture and history. Camin's love was Lieutenant  Paros until he was killed by a  bear while leading a group of hunters. The Keeper sent her and four guards to investigate the Conclave. She was the sole survivor.

 

Hunter Lieutenant Chasha Lavellan is a well respected Clan member even though she can be outspoken at times about the Dalish lot in life and blames the Keepers for holding to tight to the past and their impossible dreams of a kingdom restored. She has clashed with the Clan's story teller several times and once  as a teenager she shouted in his face to stop telling the same old fairly tales. Chasha's love was follow hunter Melya a short tempered fiery  redhead that hated  men as much as Chasha..

 

Chasha was put in charge of the eight men detail that was sent with the Keeper's first to investigate the Conclave. She was the sole survivor.

[LobselVith8]

These are just my thoughts, feel free to ignore or bash them in any way, but I'd love to hear some other interesting backstories! I find them fascinating.

 

Interesting read. My Warden was Surana; his mother was one of the Night Elves who fought under the command of Loghain during the Orlesian occupation; he was forcibly taken by the templars as a child when his magic manifested in the Denerim Alienage. He was atheist; he didn't believe in the Maker, and makes that clear in dialogue with the Chantry priest and Justice in Amaranthine. He leaned towards the Libertarian point of view; he thought the Circles should be independent of Chantry control. He was ethnically Antivan (the closest equivalent to Latino).

 

Morrigan was the person he romanced. The Circle mages were saved from Annulment. Avernus was encouraged to continue his research. He kept the Anvil around since it previously gave the dwarves a century of peace from the dwarves and the golems beat back the first Archdemon (he was an ardent believer in the idea that the darkspawn needed to be stopped at all costs); he supported Bhelen for the throne. He ended the curse that inflicted the werewolves. He convinced a personality hardened Alistair and Anora to marry, and brought Loghain into the Wardens. When he became the Hero of Ferelden, he tried to use his position to help the elves, and publicly asked for the Circle of Ferelden to be given its freedom.

 

He helped rebuild the Wardens in Ferelden, make sure that statute in his likeness was built in Orzammar (and helped out one of Bhelen's allies find a missing thaig), and reunited with Morrigan and their son.

 

Some stuff happened in Kirkwall.

 

Revas, of Clan Lavellan, was sent to the conclave. He was the First of Keeper Deshanna; his line descended all the way to the Dales and Arlathan (something that I recall human mage Finn commenting on when he needed Dalish blood for the scrying ritual). I imagined them as mother and son; a more literal parallel to Merrill and Marethari. He held the same views as most Dalish - wanting autonomy from Chantry and human control, and wanting to live without living in servitude to one of the Andrastian rulers. Due to the Chantry outlawing the elven religion, he was technically a criminal like all Dalish are because of his religious beliefs. He dealt with intolerant humans who tried to attack the clan and templars who threatened the mages in the clan.

 

During the events of the Breach, the mages fight for autonomy was supported, Briala was backed to become the new leader of Orlais (especially after he learned about the massacre of thousands in Halamshiral), and the Grey Wardens became allies. The Champion of Kirkwall sacrificed his life to bring Nightmare to an end. Revas drunk from the Well of Sorrows because he wanted to share the knowledge of the past with the People.

 

Since it's my last Dragon Age, I pretty much verge outside of whatever direction canon might take and go in my own direction. My Surana would become involved in the formation of the College of Enchanters (logically, I imagine the proposed Magi Boon would have made him a hero of the mages who fought for their independence, and likely helped spark the mage rebellion that took root), and he would vehemently oppose Vivienne's attempts to re-create the Circle of Magi; he doesn't want to see the "oppressive system" return in any form.

 

With the (recton) failure of the Magi Boon, perhaps Gwaren was given to Surana by King Alistair. He was owed, after all.

 

I like to think that, after the dust settled, Revas and Merrill established a homeland for the Dalish - an autonomous sovereign state where the elves can be masters of their own destiny. Perhaps settling southern Dales, near Skyhold, or maybe near Kirkwall given Varric making Lavellan a noble of the city-state (which would also put him not too far from Wycome, now governed by a council that includes Clan Lavellan). I also picture Asha'bellanar sending the "divinity" of Mythal through the Eluvian to Merrill - one of the People.​

[GoldenGail3]

Queen-Consort Angelica Cousland is the daughter of Bryce and Eleanor Cousland, and younger sister of Fergus Cousland. She was born in the month of December in Highever. She like her brother, was raised to rule when necessary; she was also taught to defend herself, by her Mother, who taught her how to use the sword and shield in her youth.

 

I guess that wasn't really a headcount, but it's hard to know with the Couslands though, not really going into detail with the Blight though, besides for the fact she married and romanced Alistair in the aftermath.

 

Alexander Hawke continued to snark and help people whenever the reason occurred; he also attempted to steal a Griffin in Wessuapt before Cousland found him and jokily told threatened him to put back the Griffin or she'd kill him; he complied with her. He now spends his time with his love, Isabela, and younger Grey Warden brother, doing whatever Hawke is doing... He probably at least visited Kirkwall at the least.

 

Quiz and Cassandra got married. Drops mike. That's all I sort of headcount for him, lol.

[Sifr]

The Valo-Kas were actually one of the many mercenary groups operating in Kirkwall prior to the Fifth Blight. Unfortunately, they were forced to abandon Kirkwall when the Qunari landed in 9:31, due to the increased racial tensions in the city putting many of their members at risk. They spent the next decade scraping by in other Marcher city-states, but the lasting impact of the Qunari's actions in Kirkwall meant they found it hard to find stable work.

 

Ever since Shayle, the female members of House Cadash have traditionally held a lot of power. At present, the family is lead by a coalition of extremely terrifying old ladies, each acting as head of the various branches of the family, who overseeing their Merchant's Guild and Carta operations.