#evandre trevelyan

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Sloppily drawn relationship chart for Evandre Trevelyan.

Couple of things too complex to fit here:

Sometimes Evandre finds herself having conversations with Cullen that come very easily and thinks in another life they could have been friends- or more. However, there's absolutely no getting past their relative histories with the circle, or his continuing to advocate for the circle when she would rather end her life than return there. So ultimately she can't ever get past her distrust, despite seemingly compatible personalities.

Varric is a friend, but I think what keeps it from being the best friend relationship he has with Hawke is how heavily she has to lean on him. Which sounds weird, but she's been locked in a circle and isolated from all but a small group of people for years, and she has a really hard time adjusting. Varric does a lot of smoothing over on her behalf, and a lot of guiding, and in that way it's almost more of a mentorship than a close friendship, despite their relatively close ages.

She likes Bull well enough, but they just don't have a lot of common interests beyond "don't let the world end"

It takes Blackwell a while to stop seeing her as younger than she is. He's a bit protective even though they aren't as close as she is to Dorian or Cole

Evandre has all the respect for Vivienne and is also absolutely terrified of her. Vivienne is the epitome of everything about a 'good' or 'powerful' Circle mage that Evandre couldn't be.

I almost put Cassandra as a best friends- in many ways she qualifies - but I think the religion thing becomes more of an issue the further in the timeline you go

Evandre sees Solas as much as a teacher as a friend

Evandre regrets recruiting Sera. Not because of the Jennies or because of the "little guy" perspective, both of which Evandre. But Evandre is a little bit too stiff and proper for Sera's crude remarks, she hates the entire idea of pranks, and she's exhausted that Sera never seems willing to consider a different point of view even in light of new information

Josephine and Leiliana both fall under the "respectful, friendly coworker" relationship with a side of "Leiliana is terrifying, and Josephine could be if she wanted to

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No game engine is gonna reflect the weird complexity of my imagined world state though.

Evanna Evandre Trevelyan, my gentle, overly cautious but angry pro-mage scholar of an Inquistor is the third of four children born to a man who's had five wives and loved none of them.

She has complicated political ties Antiva and Orlais through her step-mothers, Ansburg through her maternal family, and Antiva again through a paternal cousin.

Her living stepmothers are generally sympathetic. The youngest is terrified and hoping Evandre will hide her younger half-brother. Her father, however, despises her. So does her older sister. Her oldest brother is weak and doesn't care about Evandre one way or the other.

She was raised in the Ostwick Circle, then sent away to Markham when her presence in Ostwick became a barrier for her half-sister Catareen's Templar training. She preferred Markham, given its link to a major university, but was sent back just before the mage rebellion broke out. Markham is where, through the University, she became part of the Mages' Collective.

Niamh Amell, Warden Commander of Fereldan, and her husband, Zevran Aranai, showed up to take command of the Orlesian wardens, enabling Alistair to be left in the fade and Hawke to escape.

(Alistair's choice to stay is actually the final moment of his and Niamh's reconciliation, post dark ritual.)

Anora Mac Tir is Queen of Fereldan, with two daughters by Fergus Cousland, who she has an affectionate political marriage with. One of them is secretly a mage.

Cecily Cousland survived Arle Howe, badly injured and disfigured, and has become Anora's unofficial liason with the Wardens due to her under-the-table marriage to Nathaniel Howe. Their marriage purposefully childless, with the idea that Amaranthine will pass back to the younger of Cecily's nieces, and thereby the crown, after both their deaths.

Nathaniel Howe is in charge of the keep in Amaranthine because politics, but Therasenn Mahariel is Niamh's true second, and the one running things for most of Amell's wardens. Nathaniel's oversees the day to day, but listens to her orders.

Therasenn's remained single/considers herself a widow since Tamlen's death. If she had been in the fade, she would've insisted on taking Alistair's place as she sees herself as stuck in a holding pattern. It sets off some bad mental health moments that don't pass until Hawke connects her with Merrill.

Cattilara Tabris is put forward by Amell as the genuine liaison from the Wardens to the Inquisiton and is eventually in charge of overseeing a Blackwall who is sentenced to join the Wardens properly. She's dating Herah "Echo" Adaar. She oversees the Orlesian wardens in the day to day, whereas Therasenn has command of the Fereldan ones, and Amell outranks them both.

Herah "Echo" Adaar is literally just a merc who signed up with the inquisition to make things stop exploding and gradually gets promoted to help integrate the Inquisiton's other "non-standard" fighting forces and keep the Chantry-esque folks noses out of it.

Mahvirehn Lavellan was sent as a spy by his keeper and is now the Inquisition's formal liaison with the Dalish, a role which puts a target on his back from the beginning, especially as he's also a Keeper in training. That's fine though, because Dorian will absolutely explode anyone who tries to kill his boyfriend, and doesn't mind using the "big bad scary Tevinter mage" rep to keep it from getting there.

Rowan Hawke escaped Kirkwall, showed up in the Inquisition, and might possibly be dating the Inquisitor, Evandre Trevelyan. (If so, Varric is thrilled! But I haven't decided.)

Carver Hawke did not, in fact, go to Weishaupt. He's actually the one who finally managed to make contact with his cousin, Niamh Amell, and he's present at the battle for the Keep.

Later, he gets put in charge, and is pissed at Therasenn for making it about his name rather than his abilities and for forfeiting the role despite her experience levels. She mantains that she needs more flexibility than the role would entail. Appealing to Niamh makes it worse, not better.

Therasenn and Merril get an off screen reunion and cry about it because they both miss home. Merrill doesn't become an Inquisition agent, but Therasenn forwards bits of her letters as war table operations sometimes.

Rowan Hawke might go back to help throw Sebastian Vael out of Kirkwall, idk. But she's largely decided against living there. (Unless she romances Evandre, in which case Varric offering Evandre a title and estate in Kirkwall becomes a lot more of a calculated gesture lol.)

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Well... they got me.

Trying to do a new, more-lore/RP focused "perfect" run, as opposed to a "I am a completionist who must master everything and befriend everyone" "perfect" run to set myself up for Veilguard.

Finally gave into a little voice that's been nagging me and removed my inquisitor's tattoos for the purposes of "in universe she was on the run and facial tattoos would be a death trap".

Currently changed her hair to something shorter and practical, with the idea that it grows out and she starts being in a position to wear it in the complicated bun-braid modded style around Wicked Eyes as opposed to when she was on the run. Black Emporium mirror, my savior.

I am not going to cheat and lie to bump Sera and Vivienne's approval this time, and this version of the Inquisitor is dramatically less faithful than she was in 2014. (So am I! Imagine!)

I even changed her name very slightly, from Evanna (like the actress, unfortunately) to Evandre (a very minor Greek Amazon who only showed up to get killed), but I spent a literal decade with the first version, so we'll see what happens.

She's still probably gonna hang out with Dorian, Cass, Cole, Varric, and Solas the most; I don't see that changing. But again, I'm gonna try to RP this in a way I haven't done since my second or third run of her. (To competitive for a single player open world game even!)

And if I'm RPing, she probably won't romance anyone because Cullen has the tropes I like, but the Templar thing isn't gonna work. Josephine is sweet, but the dynamic is wrong for my character.

My inquisitor can't even maintain friends level with Sera because she doesn't get the whole pranking thing and the impulsiveness annoys her.

Iron Bull is again, interesting writing but the wrong dynamic. I can almost see some one-sided interest with Blackwall but nothing that would go anywhere.

🤷‍♀️Maybe I'll make the idea of her and my similarly single Hawke together canon for this playthrough, idk.

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I will say, it's funny with everyone updating their headcanons for DA:TV. I keep seeing post listing each Warden or Hawke or Inquisitor's spouse and, for the most part, their several children.

Good for them, and I'm not being facetious. 100% these characters deserve whatever a happy ending looks like for them.

But it's very funny to me because not one of Dragon Age protagonists, alternate universe protagonists, or potential protagonists turned into supporting characters via multiple origins and the power of head canon, has had children.

Their happy ending, is so much as they have or haven't achieved it, generally involves running in the opposite direction from the possibility of having kids.

Of my big three ("canon" protagonists) two are single (Rowan Hawke and Evandre Trevelyan) because I didn't think the romance options available worked for the characters because who the fuck has time to date with everything going on?

Niamh Amell, who managed to fall deeply in love despite having the coldest personality and least social skills of the three, is perfectly content that the Joining left her sterile. She and Zevran haven't lived in the same city for more than a few months since before they both met, and what on earth is she meant to do with an infant under the circumstances they always find themselves in?

More than that, what is the general appeal of infants anyway? She'll readily help the orphans they encounter, but raising them is out of the question.

For my side characters derived from potential protagonists...

Cattilara Tabris and Echo Adaar are lesbians who'd rather stab things than care for a child, and Cattilara 's Calling is fast approaching regardless.

Therasenn Mahariel never sought out another romantic relationship after having to end Tamlen's life with her own hands. There just wasn't much coming back from that, even if the Wardens weren't one of the worst places on earth to start a family or try to raise a child alone.

Cecily Cousland can't have children after being poisoned by one of Arl Howe's men. Ironically, neither can her husband, his son, Nathaniel Howe, due to the Joining. They both agree that given the uniqueness of their families' history, it's probably for the best. Besides, he has a city to run and Wardens to lead, and she is busy providing political support and physical might to her older brother and his wife, the annointed Queen of Fereldan.

Her nieces, the Crown and Second Princesses of Fereldan, are cute though. Since the Crown Princess will inherit the country, the Second Princess is Cecily's heir. Generally it's much more fun to be the favorite Aunt than the parent anyway.

Mahvirehn Lavellan loves Dorian Pavus. There might have been a world where, if Dorian asked, they adopted a child together and Mahvirehn was happy with that.

But in this world, a child would be torn between Mahvirehn's leadership of a Dalish clan and Dorian's push for Tevinter reform. Not to mention the Tevinter traditionalists and the assassins out for Dorian 's blood would likely carry a particular scorn for his half-Dalish child. In the end, in this world, the world that actually is, they both decide against children and are no less happy for it.

Arsinoe Lavellan, who is very new to my brain and therefore underdeveloped, is nonetheless out for Solas's blood.

It doesn't take a pregnancy to make it a tragedy, and isn't the loss of a potential future family that makes her blood boil. Mainly, she just wants to stab him before he kills all the people who already exist in the world. Possibly with a few extra stabs in there for feeling used and missing him anyway.