Bio.

GENERAL INFO.

Full Name: Marian Hawke
Aliases: Champion of Kirkwall, Ser Hawke
Gender and Pronouns: Trans Female; She/Her
Place of Birth: Unknown; Near Amaranthine, Northeastern Ferelden
Heritage: White Ferelden (Presumed English)
Date of Birth: 9:06 Dragon
Age: 24-34
Parents:

Siblings:
Children: N/A
Other Family:

Allergies: N/A
Addictions: N/A
Mental Conditions/Disorders: Arachnophobia
Physical Conditions/Disorders: N/A

APPEARANCE INFO.

Features: Strong, defined features with an angular jawline, long, straight nose, and focused eyes. Marian adorns a vibrant red tattoo across the center of her face, taking the form of a painted line.
Voice Claim: Jo Wyatt
Eye Color: Bright Blue
Hair Color: Black
Hairstyle: Short, choppy hair cut into a pixie cut.
Build: Lean and athletic, with a sturdy torso, broad shoulders, and strong limbs. Hawke has a less-defined hourglass shape and longer legs.
Height: 5 feet and 9 inches (approx. 175 cm)
Weight: 136 pounds (approx. 62 kg)

SOCIAL INFO.

Connections: N/A

Relationship Status: Single
Sexuality: Bisexual

MISC. INFO

Hawke has only truly told her family and Varric Tethras about her identity, though this is not due to shame. She simply has found the matter of her being irrelevant in her duty to fight the Blight.

Hawke has not used magic to “transform” her physical form to match her identity, nor does she trust such magic to be used on her.

Varric Tethras wrote a book about Hawke’s rise as Champion, aptly called The Tale of the Champion.

BACKGROUND.

Born near Amaranthine, Hawke’s father Malcolm was an apostate mage, while her mother Leandra Amell is a noble from Kirkwall. During her life within the small village, Hawke was raised as a typical boy, though she realized that she was different from the other boys that she knew. Hawke pretended to groom herself and adorn makeup with her mother. Hawke has two younger twin siblings — the mage Bethany and the warrior Carver. The family was forced to move to Lothering when Bethany’s magic manifested when she was nine.

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DRAGON AGE 2

She’d been living in Lothering for ten years when the Fifth Blight started in Ferelden. Upon the move to Lothering, Hawke (14 at the time) lived and presented as a woman. The townsfolk knew her as the “young village girl”, and her gender identity was concealed thanks to the Revered Mother’s benevolence. Upon the presence of the Fifth Blight, Hawke (now 24) enlisted into King Cailan’s army and fought during the Battle of Ostagar. Cailan and his troops waited by their defenses as the horde came out of the Korcari Wilds and, upon finding a small and cornered Fereldan force, mounted the attack. The darkspawn began their charge in earnest, while the Fereldans waited for them to come closer, further luring them in as planned. Once close enough, Cailan ordered his archers and ballistae to fire a volley to blunt the darkspawn’s incoming charge, cutting down many of the creatures. Next, Mabari hounds were unleashed to check the darkspawn attack, inflicting further casualties. And in that momentary confusion amongst the darkspawn ranks as the hounds robbed them of momentum, Cailan ordered his own counter-charge, seizing the temporary advantage in this close-quarters battle. A vicious melee between the defenders of Ostagar and the darkspawn forces then ensued. And the king’s men lost.

After the defeat at Ostagar, Hawke’s mother suggests that the family flee to Kirkwall, where her younger brother holds the Amell estate. On the road, they stumble into Aveline and her templar husband, Wesley, also survivors of the massacre. During their escape, they run into further bands of darkspawn. Though the party defeats many of these creatures, victory comes at a cruel price: Aveline’s husband contracts the darkspawn taint, and one of Hawke’s siblings is slain by an ogre. Surrounded by darkspawn and on the verge of death, Hawke’s party is rescued by an attacking high dragon. The dragon turns out to be Flemeth, the Witch of the Wilds. Flemeth offers her safe passage to Gwaren in exchange for a favor. Hawke has no choice but to agree.

Hawke’s party boards a ship to Kirkwall but finds that the city is filled with an influx of Fereldan refugees, all fleeing the Blight. The city guard has been turning these refugees away and banning them from the city. Worse, Hawke discovers that Gamlen has gambled away the Amell estate and fortune. Gamlen has contacts who bribe Hawke’s party into the city, but only if she agrees to work off a tremendous debt as indentured servants. Hawke has no choice but to agree to be under the contact’s employ.

One year later, Hawke has managed to work off the debt but still lacks the funds needed to properly care for the entire family. Hawke is persuaded by an associate, Varric, to become a business partner in his and Bartrand’s Deep Roads Expedition. Though Bartrand betrays both Hawke and Varric during the expedition, the treasures found within the Deep Roads have brought Hawke both fame and fortune. It is here that Hawke’s surviving sibling is tainted by the Blight and meets their untimely demise.

Three years after this event, Hawke’s status in Kirkwall has improved substantially since she assumed her role as scion of the aggrandized Amell family. Hawke is asked by the templar Emeric to investigate the mystery of the missing women in Kirkwall. Hawke’s mother, Leandra, is abducted by the white-lily serial killer while on her way to visit Gamlen. Following the killer’s trail, Hawke finds that Leandra has been murdered and pieced together with parts of other women. Her killer and the instigator of all the serial killings is a blood mage named Quentin. Keeping Leandra alive with his magic, Quentin aspires to recreate the image of his dead wife. Hawke battles Quentin and his demon and undead forces. After Quentin dies, Leandra also dies. Her last words are to tell Hawke how proud she is of her for everything. Hawke mourns the loss of her mother while being comforted by friends. Her mourning is cut short, however, as tensions between the Qunari, who have been stranded in Kirkwall for several years and refuse to leave without their missing relic, and the city’s denizens have also been escalating.

Hawke was asked to intervene with Qunari affairs several times but the discord reaches a boiling point when Aveline, now captain of the guard, enlists Hawke’s aid in trying to arrest some criminal elves who have been granted religious sanctuary in the Qunari Compound. The Arishok, who has had to endure a series of provocations from Kirkwall’s anti-Qunari sect, takes a final offense to the attempted arrest of his new converts and counterattacks; marshaling his forces to conquer the city and convert it to the Qun. Hawke is able to rally the templars and Circle mages and fight back against the Qunari. She reaches the Viscount’s Keep where Hawke defeats the Arishok. Having saved the city, Hawke is crowned the new Champion of Kirkwall.

Another three years pass. Knight-Commander Meredith has taken control of the city and prevented the election of a new viscount. Meredith’s stance against the mages has become harsher and much crueler. After several more mages escape the Circle, Meredith orders more raids, crackdowns, and unwarranted incarcerations. Meanwhile, tales of insurrection from the Mage Underground have become more frequent but have steadily declined to the point of almost utter annihilation due to Meredith’s harsh tactics. First Enchanter Orsino accuses Meredith of being a tyrant and urges the citizens of Kirkwall to revolt against her. The citizens of Kirkwall look to Hawke to keep the peace between the Templars and the Circle. Meanwhile, Hawke is also requested to protect the city from Maleficarum. After one of her loved ones is kidnapped by insurgents, Hawke becomes embroiled in a conflict with rebel mage-templar conspirators seeking to overthrow Meredith. Things reach a boiling point when Anders blows up the Kirkwall Chantry in order to remove the chance of peaceful compromise. Meredith immediately orders the Right of Annulment and demands that the Champion stand with her and her templars in executing every mage in the city. First Enchanter Orsino pleads with the Champion to defend them against the templars, citing that the Circle had nothing to do with the attack on the Chantry.

Hawke chooses to support First Enchanter Orsino and the mage causes.

The final battle ends in the Gallows. Desperate to defeat the knight commander’s forces, Orsino uses Blood Magic to become a harvester. Meredith, driven insane and paranoid by her Red Lyrium-forged sword, also turns on Hawke. Both are eventually defeated by Hawke, and Hawke’s name becomes a rallying cry for oppressed mages everywhere.

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DRAGON AGE INQUISITION

Fearing that Divine Justinia V was planning an Exalted March on Kirkwall, Hawke and her companions left Kirkwall to spare its denizens and divide the Divine’s forces that might hunt them down. As all the Circles of Magi were rising in rebellion, Hawke and their companions helped a lot of them take that final step.

Eventually, Hawke contacted Ser Stroud to help with the investigation into Red Lyrium. However, the Grey Warden contact was concerned about corruption in the Grey Warden ranks and went into hiding.

After Corypheus’ identity as the Elder One is revealed, Hawke is contacted by Varric, who introduces her to the Inquisitor. After answering the Inquisitor’s questions about Corypheus and how he may be related to missing Grey Wardens, Hawke and the Inquisitor rendezvous with the Warden contact in a smuggler’s cave in Crestwood to see what his investigation uncovered.

The Warden contact explains that he was investigating whether Corypheus could have survived fatal wounds just like an Archdemon can. When every Grey Warden in Orlais began to hear the Calling, the Warden contact suspected that Coreypheus was the cause. Believing that their end is near, Warden-Commander Clarel planned on using a blood magic ritual that would end all Blights before they all perished. The Warden contact was branded a traitor for protesting Clarel’s plan and went into hiding. The Warden contact, Hawke, and the Inquisitor scout the ancient Tevinter ritual tower in the Western Approach to investigate a Grey Warden congregation.

At the tower, the party witnesses Grey Warden mages sacrificing their fellow Wardens to summon demons. They are being led by Lord Livius Erimond, a Venatori Magister who convinced Clarel to use his blood magic techniques to raise a demon army to invade the Deep Roads and kill the Old Gods before they wake. The demon binding rituals Erimond taught the Grey Warden mages, however, has the side effect of enslaving them to Corypheus, who will use them and their army of demons to conquer Thedas. Erimond escapes to Adamant Fortress while the Inquisitor’s party confronts the enslaved Wardens of the tower.

Hawke and the Warden contact join the Inquisition as they lay siege to Adamant Fortress. They confront Erimond and Clarel about the truth of the demon binding ritual and attempt to sway the Wardens against Erimond. When Erimond summons Corypheus’ dragon to deal with the Inquisition, Clarel has a change of heart and attacks both Erimond and the dragon. After dealing with the other Wardens, the Inquisition pursues Clarel. She inflicts her wrath on Erimond but is fatally wounded by the dragon. Clarel’s last act is casting a spell that subdues the dragon, but its crash causes the ground beneath them to crumble, resulting in the party falling off the ramparts. The Inquisitor uses their mark to open a rift that takes them all physically into the Fade.

The Inquisitor finds a spirit that poses as Divine Justinia V who briefs the Inquisitor that they are in the realm of a Nightmare demon and that the Inquisitor must recover the memories it took from them. As the Inquisitor recovers these memories, they remember how the mortal Divine was bound by Grey Warden mages and sacrificed to power an orb—an orb which the Inquisitor picked up and which gave them the mark— and how the spirit in the Divine’s form was the one who led the Inquisitor out of the Fade after the creation of the Breach. Once Hawke realizes that the Grey Wardens had a hand in sacrificing the Divine to further Corypheus’ schemes, they become incensed and accuse the Grey Wardens of being out of control and needing to be checked. Hawke chooses to sacrifice herself and distract the Nightmare in a final attempt to atone for freeing Corypheus.