#the champion of Kirkwall

[tragicblondie]

thinking about the ending of dragon age 2 as a mage hawke who sided with the mages at the end of the fifth blight, the warden defeats the archdemon and saves ferelden. they are paraded through denerim to the sounds of cheering crowds. if they don't survive, their memory lives on in a tale of great heroism and sacrifice for years to come. the inquisitor celebrates at skyhold with the rest of their companions after they beat corypheus, the threat finally ended, the inquisition a success.

but not hawke. you can fight with everything you have to support the mages, but there is no grand fanfare when it is over. the villain succumbs to corruption and dies unceremoniously - you don’t even get the satisfaction of striking the killing blow. you can’t get a round at the hanged man to celebrate. it’s time to go. you and your friends can never sit around your table at the hanged man again. you can’t be seen here when the templars come to clean up the mess. nothing will be the same. you have given seven years of your life trying to hold kirkwall together, accepted your accolades and played the part of champion, and you watch it fall apart anyway. and how much of that is your fault? this city has been stained in your blood since before you could remember, since before the blood was your own.

you lost your sister when you lost your first home. even so, you tried to live by the advice you gave fenris - when you stop running, you build a life. the estate that you clawed your family back into stands looming and empty. it is the last place you saw your mother alive, and you still can't bear to touch her things, and you will never even see her room again. bodahn and sandal are making preparations to leave for orlais, orana will find other work with the skills she's learned, and the house will remain, a hollow testament to your family's legacy. gamlen will hear only the stories. your brother fought by your side when it mattered, despite everything. even so, he will stay behind, and you might never see him again.

no, there is no time for a celebration. instead you get a cautious acknowledgement from the templars, a tense goodbye, and then you can never go home again. for the second time. you thought you could build a life, and you tried. you held on as long as you could, you made friends, you fell in love, you clung to the last vestiges of your family, but most of them will be forced to leave your side anyway. you won, but even that wasn't enough.

[bemp0]

The Warden, the Champion and the Inquisitor

[bloodybiohazard]

rook: i’m a hero because i chose to be one!

HOF, hawke, and the inquisitor: you had a choice???

[possessiveandobsessive]

[asphy7]

Played through the dragon age games with my wife. We just have the inquisition dlc to go.

But I wanted to pay tribute to all the time spent with her, watching her excitement and frustration by drawing our player characters in portraits with their love interests.

I had to play with their designs first and yay, she liked them!

[elfroot-and-laurels]

Elodie Aubert-Amell, one of the Champions of Kirkwall, court performer to Empress Celene, Advisor to the Inquisitor.

[sigfost-hold]

[Champion of Kirkwall, Bautista Hawke]

Reintroducing my silly Hawke for my current world state. He's a mage and his specializations are Spirit Healer and Blood Mage (that's later in Act 3 and late Act 2). He's also romancing Anders, he does help around his clinic. Bautista is very friendly and a ray of sunshine, he's very enthusiastic about magic and the fade. He is very sweet and would do anything and everything for his friends and family.

[wylldebee]

I feel like my Wardens, Hawkes, and Inquisitors would be jealous of my Rooks because their mages never kept secrets and blew up shit, or fucked off into parts unknown without a goodbye and with the best mage gear.

[pickleforstony]

The Champions

[bumblewarden]

For those of us already with something of an idea of who we're going to play when Veilguard releases at the end of the month,

[thenevarranaccord]

Enough time has passed that Rook can be the warden or Hawke’s child.

[elfroot-and-laurels-moved]

The most accurate Elodie yet is here folks and they're ready to slay.

[seizethemage]

Continuing my drawings of my DA protagonists we have all four of my Hawke’s! My Champions Of Kirkwall! My Menaces to Society. Will I ever play DA2 as a warrior? No more questions.

Group Photo:

[herald-divine-hell]

I’m curious: how does your ocs decorate their rooms? Can be Wardens, Hawkes, or Inquisitors, or even side ocs as well.

[asphy7]

For my wife