#hero of fereldan

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

So I went searching for special dialogue for a romanced Alistair, who stayed with the wardens, about a HoF who made the ultimate sacrifice. Specifically for what he says in DAI. For reasons.

I know what he says about her when she's alive in DAI, so I was curious if he'd saying anything about her if she's dead, like Leliana and Morrigan do. After reading through all sorts of forms and reddit posts where most of the answers were "huh I dunno what he says in DAI, I've never done that route," I eventually found out what he says.

Nothing.

Romanced Alistair says nothing about a dead HoF in DAI. At first I thought this was odd? Surely there's something referencing the fact that he and the warden were in love? even if just for fanservice like in DA2? Some of the comments on these posts blame it on Bioware doing bad writing again but it's hard to tell if they actually mean that, or if they're conflating "I don't like this" with bad writing because honestly? I disagree.

Intentionally or not, Alistair not saying anything about his dead lover is completely in character for him. He doesn't know the Inquisitor. Why should he tell them anything about the love of his life that he lost ten years ago? He's not as open about that stuff like Leliana or Morrigan.

You know what's actually out of character? Alistair giving a random stranger he met for two seconds an item that belonged to his dead lover because "she doesn't need it anymore."

Wasn't it enough to ruin his face, DA2? Did you really need to throw in some botched fanservice as well?

Wait a minute, Varric's telling this story...

Alright, new headcanon: Varric is, as per usual, full of shit. Alistair did give Hawke an item because he felt bad that he couldn't help them with the qunari except it wasn't anything special. But that's not interesting enough, so Varric lied and said Alistair gave Hawke an item that belongs to THE Hero of Fereldan for the sake of showing how super special Hawke is.

#alistair theirin #hero of fereldan #varric tethras #da2 hawke #dao #dragon age origins #dai #dragon age inquisition #imagine alistair reading tale of the champion and getting to this part where he gives hawke an item that belonged to his dead lover #how insulted do you think he'd feel? #also i bet he gets a lot of questions about her regularly because everyone wants to know what the hof was *really* like #but he knows that they don't want to actually know her. they just want an exciting story with a big heroic figure at the center #oh also i couldn't find anything in video or on those forms but if by chance i DID miss anything and he actually says something #and we've all just missed it then let me know and i'll correct this but i haven't found anything and given dai's been out for a while #you'd think there would be something to easily find y'know?

[asphy7]

I play one dynamic.

Also hawke being cousins with both warden and inquisitor makes me happy.

#myart #dragon age #lavellan #inquisitor #dragon age inquisition #pavellan #dorian pavus #Tyr lavellan #fenris #hawke #da2 #champion of Kirkwall #Nikolai hawke #fenhawke #hero of fereldan #cousland #Dimitri cousland #zevran #zevran arainai

[jopzer]

this just in: the king of fereldan and his husband cannot keep their hands off of each other, not even long enough for the royal portrait! scandalous!

#my art #dragon age #alistair theirin #dragon age origins #dragon age: origins #dao #da:o #mahariel #alistair romance #hero of fereldan #king alistair #the warden #alistair/warden #alistair/mahariel #theron theirin #theron mahariel #theralistair #art #digital art #fan art #fanart #your honor theyre sickeningly in love #not even the maker could change this. nor should he. #revamp of a piece i started two years ago and Did Not Finish LOL

[rainydaysie]

#i REALLY like them #fox surana #surana #dragon age #dao #dragon age origins #dragon age surana #surana dao #dao surana #hero of fereldan #drawing in the rain #alistair theirin #alistair dao #dao alistair #dragon age alistair #dao warden #warden surana #origins alistair #alistair origins

[transcommandershepard]

Keeses

#male surana #alistair x warden #alistair x surana #the warden #hero of fereldan #fanart #art #mlm #bi alistair

[fernacular]

So you know how it’s canon that warden Amell has four siblings who are also mages? But they’re never really brought up? I decided to flesh them out for Rizo! Meet his older siblings Faust, Leona, Margie, and Marza. Little bios for each of them under the cut if you’re interested :y

Faustus (Faust) Amell II -  The oldest of Revka Amell’s children, born 9:04 Dragon, Faust was at first raised with the expectation of inheriting his father and grandfather’s lands, titles, and legacies. An intelligent and good natured child, he was adored by his parents, in particular his mother. It broke her heart when a six year old Faust sent objects flying across the room while having a tantrum. 

Faust spent the rest of his adolescence and early adulthood in the circle tower of Markham, studying creation magic and joining the Aequitarian fraternity upon reaching the rank of enchanter. A natural leader, it was all but certain within the circle that he would one day become the First enchanter. 

When the Mage Templar war broke out and the Markham circle fell to conflict, Faust joined a coalition of Free Marches enchanters working on finding safe refuge for non-combatant mage refugees; in particular apprentices, the elderly, and the newly harrowed. He helped insulate hundreds of vulnerable mages from combat, and upon the inquisition’s resolution of the war, was given the rank of senior enchanter at the newly formed College of enchanters. He remains a voice of reason within the college, and always endeavors to remind his fellow enchanters of the most vulnerable members of their community when they speak of more radical action without consideration for their protection.  

Leona Amell -  Second eldest, Leona was born during a thunderstorm in 9:05 Dragon. It was said that the spirit of the storm itself possessed her that night, as she grew to show a fierce willfulness and even fiercer temper. Her magic manifested at nine years old, four years after her elder brother, when she badly burned a stable boy who she believed was beating her pony Adelaide. She and Adelaide made it almost twenty miles before the templars caught up.  Initially taken to the Ansburg circle in the free marches, in just three years she was deemed too volatile to ever be allowed to undergo the harrowing, and was made Tranquil right before her thirteenth birthday. She was then transferred to the Cumberland circle of Nevarra to work as an archivist’s assistant. Cumberland was somewhat insulated from the fighting when the Mage Templar war was declared, and the tranquil were allowed to continue their research and upkeep more or less undesterbed. Upon the resolution of the war, Leona was sought out by her younger sister Margareta to undertake the cure for tranquility recently discovered by Seeker Cassandra Pentaghast.  Leona is now slowly recovering from her almost two decades of tranquility with her sister in the reclaimed Ostwick circle. After the first time she yelled at Margie in anger for knocking over her inkwell, they held each other through tears of relief. 

Margareta Amell -  Margie was born on a quiet night in 9:08 Dragon, a full hour before her twin sister Marza. The twins were two when their older brother Faust was taken away, four when their mother disappeared, five when their father moved the remaining family to a secluded estate outside Wildervale, six when stubborn Leona was captured, and finally seven when they were caught in the garden playing with the small glowing green lights they conjured into the air. The twins would never see each other again after that day. 

A meek and intelligent child, Margie did well at her new home in the Ostwick circle. Naturally inclined to introversion, she mostly avoided the Templar's watchful gaze and excelled at her studies in the arcane arts, in particular the schools of Spirit and Creation. She quietly passed her harrowing, quietly worked her way to the rank of enchanter, and once the Mage Templar conflict began, she quietly voted for their circle to remain neutral and hoped the trouble would quickly pass them by. 

It was to a deafening howling wind that Margie awoke the night she felt her sister die, the aching pain in her chest suffusing down her limbs and a cold certainty settling in her mind. 

She left the next day, it could hardly be called an escape as the circle was already coming apart at the seams. She became an invaluable healer in the Mage rebellion of the Free Marches, and eventually became an agent of the Inquisition itself, working tirelessly to help save all of Thedas from Corypheus’ threat. After the Inquisition’s victory she began her quest to reunite all of her lost siblings once again.

Marza Amell - Marza was born on a quiet night in 9:08 Dragon, an hour after her twin sister Margie. Despite the fragile and despairing home to which she was born, Marza was a cheerful and friendly girl, often leading her shy twin into new adventures and singing and dancing to raise her sad father’s spirits. She idolized her willful sister Leona and adored her little baby brother Rizo. Her heart overflowed with love.

As she grew though, a seed of anger grew too, watered with every new heartbreak. First, her mother’s abandonment. Next, When Leona disappeared and no one would tell her where or why. Taking Margie away from her and dragging her to the cold and echoing White Spire of Orlais was a significant blow. The Templars who were always watching her, crowding her into corners and leering. The mages and enchanters who scolded her whenever she spoke her mind, and whispered among themselves when she developed a talent for entropy magic. Every Maker damned fool in a mask who toured the tower and tittered and gawked at them like they were animals in a zoo. The anger grew and grew, violent red leaves streaked with decay. 

She was practically part of the rebellion already, before the first stone of the Kirkwall chantry even hit the ground.

She was a scourge on the battlefield, weakening and draining anyone who stood in her way, filling their enemies minds with nightmares, forcing them to feel the same anger and fear and pain she held in her own heart. A pain that lasted until a Templar’s sword finally ran it through. 

Her last thoughts were of Margie, sleeping peacefully in the eye of a storm.

Rizo Amell - The youngest child, born 9:11 Dragon just a few months after his older brother Faust was taken to the circle. Rizo’s arcane ability was discovered when he was seven years old, after freezing a glass of water that wasn’t cold enough on a hot day. It was hardly a surprise to his father at that point. He was the last of his siblings to manifest, almost an inevitability. It was the first and last time Rizo saw his father cry. It was also the last time Rizo saw his father at all. He barely remembered his mother. 

Rizo was sent to the Ferelden circle on Lake Calenhad, where he excelled at primal magic and was a favorite pupil of the Grand Enchanter. He was known as a capable, friendly, and accommodating young mage, bookish and maybe even a bit of a pushover, but well liked among his peers. Until, that is, his assistance in his friend Jowan’s failed escape and subsequent conscription to the Grey Wardens. He rose to prominence during the fifth blight, defeating the Archdemon by his own hand and becoming the Hero of Fereldan, as well as Arl of Amaranthine, a close friend and advisor to Queen Anora, and Warden Commander of the Ferelden grey wardens. 

What followed was a few years of peace, rebuilding and recruiting, and relaxing with his comrade and lover Alistair whenever they could both grab a spare moment. Rizo had even started idly researching the ancient grey warden griffins, on the off-chance there was a clue to if any had survived, though he was always too busy to consider it a priority. He found little hope for baby griffons, but he did find strange allusions to an escape from the taint... That peace ended abruptly and violently with the destruction of the Kirkwall chantry. The mage templar war was a violent few years for everyone, but especially for Rizo, juggling as he was not only his status as warden commander but also senior enchanter of the Fereldan circle and advisor to the queen. It took peace being brokered by an upstart organization calling itself the inquisition for him to finally slow down and take a moment to breathe... at which time he finally noticed the whispers starting in the back of his mind. He may have survived slaying the arch demon but he hadn’t escaped all consequences, his calling was coming, sooner than it had any right to. He left that very night to seek out a cure, Rizo was not ready to lay down and die.

#Dragon age #Dragon age origins #hero of fereldan #warden amell #Rizo amell #my art #blood cw

[vabonesyart]

#Shameless dragon age fanart #The amount of titles the hero of fereldan can get never ceases to amuse me #artists on tumblr #dragon age #dragon age fanart #Hero of fereldan #My warden #Doom Upon All the World

[lunalorien]

I’ve sadly not had heaps of time for drawing lately, but I’ve had this drawing of my Warden sitting in my iPad for so long and I finally got around to finishing off the details!

#dragon age #dragon age origins #Brosca #petra brosca #my art #my oc #fan art #dwarf warden #warden Brosca #hero of fereldan #dragon age fan art

[samcadoodles]

It was about time to redraw her face!!

Emma, Hero of Fereldan, and her 2 main hairstyles, because they are both very gay and I can't pick

#my art #emma #FINALLY GETTING THINGS DONE #warden tabris #dragon age #hero of fereldan #dragon age origins #DAO #tabris #original character #female warden

[leanmeangenie]

Revenge attack on @/lamalpacca on art fight ⭐

#dragon age #dragon age origins #hero of fereldan #dao #dragon age oc #dalish #dalish oc #elf #sketch #digital sketch #sketchbook #digital sketchbook #commissions open #art fight #art fight revenge #art #artwork #illustration #illustrator #original art #small artist #art fight attack #dai #dragon age inquisition #da2 #dragon age 2 #fantasy oc #fantasy art #commission me #elves

[championsandheroes]

Oh, urgently flipping through a dictionary as your would-be god rages on is all fine and well at first, but if he wants to be understood by his followers he's going to have to actually learn a language that they understand. There are many ways to learn a new language, of course, but I prefer to picture him going about it via baby's first words books, as John Marshall over at Patreon suggested.

Society6 hasn’t offered any suggestions, but it does contain an illustration with Corypheus flaunting his striped stockings if that’s your thing.

#champions and heroes #dragon age inquisition #corypheus #Samson #Calpernia #if he wants to conquer Ferelden it IS essential that he learns the word for dog #it might even be the most important word in that langauge #if it's just a single word #it might be a case of 50 different words to describe one thing but with nuance #the Orleians have cheese #the Fereldans have dogs #is what I'm saying

[pappadu]

ronya “if these bitches turn me into a devotional martyr i’m coming back as a rage demon” amell

#girlie had all of the fereldan nobility pull a ''i don't see'' while she beat the shit out of their national hero using blood magic #grey warden #warden amell #oc: ronya amell #cw: nudity #cw: blood

[jopzer]

[wip]

local fool redrawing unfinished piece from two years ago and once again attempting to paint in csp with nothing more than a can-do attitude and a dream

#wip #revisiting this piece again after two years really just like #damn. you progress whether you realize it or not lol #art #my art #theralistair #real husbands wear capes #dao #da:o #dragon age: origins #dragon age origins #hero of fereldan #the warden #alistair theirin #dragon age #mahariel #theron mahariel

[basketcased]

been thinking a little too hard about a dalish mage warden recently.

#dragon age #dragon age origins #warden commander #hero of ferelden #mahariel #my art #yeah okay so just please consider that if the warden was dalish and a mage. #you believe that YOUR connection to the fade etcetc leads to tamlens death. and then you have to keep it a secret that you can use magic #because of the fucking circles #AND ON TOP OF THAT your ass is saving fereldan like come the fuck on. its compelling okay #you meet cullen and ur like. lol yeah. mages amiright fuck those guys #dahlia

[transcommandershepard]

#male surana #fanart #alistair x warden #warden surana #warden #male warden x alistair #dao #hero of fereldan #dragon age #art #HoF

[ziracona]

I didn’t know literally all the companions you can take to the Fade in DA2 sans Anders will sell you out and try to kill you and their friends for a demon deal I’m losing my shit. I knew Merrill did bc she did it to me but apparently anyone but JustAnders will ditch your ass to make a deal with a demon and I’m absolutely going insane

#Fade day must have been a real win for Anders. the high ground to gloat @ Fenris & Merrill over long term arguments. at Aveline for hopping #the abomination train after 8 fucking seconds. UNREAL her takeaway from it was ‘Mages should all be locked up’ bc she gave in and not ‘I #suck for selling out’ like get fucked for that Aveline real bitch move. rip to you but I would simply not kill my friends for a demon wish #and did not!!! you know what’s not hard?? saying no & walking your ass away. Feynriel said no and he’s like 13 and a dreamer which is the #highest risk type of mage. it’s not impossible to say no u just kinda suck #EVERYONE but Varric and Merrill deals with it by going 😌 ‘actually this is either Hawke’s fault or demons can’t be faught against and not #my fault at all actually fuck you either Mages Hawke or both 😌😌😌’ like actually fuck you guys #shoutout to Varric and Merrill at least for going ‘ha ha :’-)) sorry for suckiiiing haha :’-))) this was real bad huh? mb bro haha :’-))))’ #like I can respect that. the rest of y’all get your unable to accept blame or responsibility for your actions asses off my damn porch #literally everyone in DAO said fuck off to deamons with little effort & several were too smart to even start to be tricked #‘it’s impossible to fight back!’ Uhhhhmmm tell that to Alistair Wynne Morrigan Sten Zevran Ohgren Leliana & the Hero of Fereldan Fenris and #Aveline!!! maybe your willpower just sucks ass and you should fuckin learn how to say the words ‘I’m sorry and I was wrong’ did u think abt #that???? did u? #dragon age 2 #every other companion: ‘You didn’t give in to the desire demon???’ #Anders & Justice: ‘what like it’s hard?’