#also feat. a warden queen who doesn't have a name yet

[melongumi]

OH speaking of possible origins of the nightmare as an alamarri spirit of courage or perseverance or valor or etc specifically in the face of the blight, which we know was unleashed on the world after the magisters sidereal breached the fade, which we kinda suspect happened in Kirkwall,,,

if you took that and ran with it, you could write a fic where hawke was dodging it, fighting it, running around its lair, discovering these pertinent details...

and then you could write that The Nightmare devours Hawke -- and does not, however, destroy Hawke -- 

and then you could write that Hawke becomes The Nightmare. Except it’s not The Nightmare anymore, is it. it’s an abomination of grief and loss and old forgotten fears -- and a promise of endurance, of protection, of bravery towards overwhelming odds, of harsh, irreverent laughter in the face of death

It’s The Champion of Kirkwall.