A Split Decision

A Split Decision is a Dragon Age 2 fanfic that diverges from the canon universe (the default one in Dragon Age: Inquisition) where a mage Hawke is killed by the ogre instead of Bethany, creating a world that lacks the champion of kirkwall and the discovery of red lyrium until 9:42 Dragon. In the prime timeline, it is assumed Hawke succeeded in recruiting everyone.
== Differences with prime timeline ==
*9:30: Hawke is killed by the ogre instead of Bethany. Despite this Carver, Bethany and Aveline are skilled enough to impress Flemeth and succeed in making it to Kirkwall, where the three join a smuggling group.
*9:31: Varric, failing to be impressed by the Hawke twins, does not offer them a chance into the experdition into the deep roads, instead looking into shadier contacts in the hanged man. This lets him meet Isabela earlier and recruit her, but postponing the trip by a week. Meanwhile, the twins don't complete Flemeth's favour, thus fail to meet Merril. Due to the twins joining the smugglers, they don't encounter Fenris. Meanwhile Anders fights Varric and Isabela when they attempt to steal his maps of the deep roads due to them not wanting to go through the hasle of helping him. While the two succeed in stealing the maps, Anders attracts templar attention and goes on the run, removing the much needed healer the poor needed, resulting in many deaths. Due to Carver not leaving, he was able to keep Bethany more hidden. Meanwhile, despite the maps, the experdition was a failure when they went a longer way, causing Bertrand to contact the taint along with some others during a darkspawn attack. Due to Hawke not having his impact on Kirkwall: the viscount's son is seriously scared during his rescue, making him withdraw from the world; the elf killer escapes to another city instead of dying and begins again in Denerim, killing Shianni; 
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