Miranda Hawke

*"So, you want to know about the High Dragon of High Town?"*

**Miranda Hawke** is a Warrior who came to Kirkwall in 9:31 Dragon as one of the many refugees fleeing the Blight. She would eventually reclaim her family's noble estate and become directly involved in many of the events that would shake the foundation of Kirkwall and all of Thedas.

## Overview

### **Physical Appearance**

*"If you want to gawk about my good looks, then talk to Isabela. She will just tell you the same thing she tells everybody about me. Muscles for Days. Melons for Weeks. Whatever that means...."*

Underneath all that armor, Miranda is a very muscular woman, having earned her body through years of battle and physical labor. As the years passed in Kirkwall, she added many more scars to her collection, including a rather enormous one on her torso courtesy of being impaled on the Arishok's blade.

Miranda styles her jet-black hair in a very short and messy bob. Her mother always wanted her to have long hair, but she continued to cut it and intentionally leave it messy out of spite. When Leandra Hawke died, Miranda finally decided to grow her hair out to a shoulder length, as a sort of compromise to her late mother's wishes.

### **Personality**

*"So how did I get the nickname, High Dragon of High Town? Simple! I act like a Dragon! I am viciously protective of the treasures in my house and the hatchlings under my care. That, and I have the overwhelming urge to kill or at least punch anybody who gets on my bad side. I still can't breathe fire though. What a shame."*

In her younger years, Miranda was a much gentler soul, which tempered her lust for combat. When her father was alive, she would joke around a lot and copy his brand of humor. Some people say that when Malcolm Hawke died, he took Miranda's sense of humor with him.

She developed a thirst for combat at a young age that couldn't be satisfied, and she knew she needed to train as a warrior. She imagined becoming a mercenary at a young age as a way to channel her aggressive side into something positive, and this carried over to her days in Kirkwall where she could feel proud of killing those who deserved to die because they threatened people who didn't deserve to die.

After drinking dragon's blood and becoming a Reaver, her personality began to change. Her bad temper became even worse, and her joking side became much harder to come by. The people of Kirkwall eventually gave her the nickname "The High Dragon of High Town", and they would refer to the Hawke Estate in High Town as "The Dragon's Lair."

### **Talents and Skills**

Miranda's skill as a warrior is unmatched by anyone in Kirkwall, which is only further reinforced by her specialization as a Reaver. She has a shocking level of pain tolerance, often to the point of enjoying it. If she takes a bad hit in combat, she's only going to grow more excited.

## Biography

### **History**

*"Wait, you actually want to know about the boring stuff?*

*"There's a reason my childhood in Lothering isn't in Varric's Books, you know. Not much to tell, other than the Scraps that Carver and I would get involved with, the near misses between Bethany and the Templars, and the dozens of times mother failed miserably in talking me out of a life of fighting and violence. Joke's on her! My violent lifestyle is what got all but one of us to Kirkwall in one piece and what gave us her Fancy Rich Estate Back. You're Welcome, by the way, Mother Dear!"*

*"Yes, I was at Ostagar! Carver wanted to make a name for himself Killing Darkspawn, and mother made me SWEAR to go with him. I protested at first. Who was going to stay and make sure Bethany didn't get taken to the Circle when nobody was looking? Ironically enough, Carver actually wanted me to go with him. I think my stupid little brother wanted me to be there so he could prove he was a better warrior than me. Idiot...."*

*"I heard the Hero of Ferelden and the future King Alistair arrived just as we were packing up to leave! I am still cursing how unlucky it was that I didn't get a chance to meet them at Lothering OR at Ostagar!"*

### **In-game**

*"You know, you could just read the book, or go ask Varric about this part. Varric tells the stories of my time in Kirkwall much better than I ever could, and in far more entertaining ways. I just tell it straight to the point with not much flair. He won't get through a few sentences without mentioning something ridiculous like how one of my Reaver powers include the ability to literally turn into a Dragon!"*

"*Actually, to be fair, I REALLY like it when people think the part about me turning into a Dragon is True!"*

### Act 1:

* Joined the Red Iron Mercenaries
* Kelder was Killed
* Danzig was Killed
* Sent Feynriel to the Circle
* Did Not Blackmail Sir Thrask
* Turned the Starkhaven Mages over to the Templars
* Defended Ketojan from the Qunari
* Killed the Dragon in the Bone Pit
* Drank Dragon's Blood and became a Reaver
* Bethany became a Circle Mage

### Act 2:

* Feynriel left to train in Tevinter
* Javaris Tin Top was Killed
* Gascard Du Puis was Killed
* Bartrand Tethras was Killed
* Did not side with Mother Petrice
* Did not side with Sir Varnell
* Aveline and Guardsman Donnic got Married
* Isabela returned to Kirkwall with the Tome of Koslun
* Earned the Arishok's respect
* Challenged the Arishok to a duel

### Act 3:

* Rescued Zevran
* Rescued Nathaniel Howe
* Reunited Gamlen with Charade
* Returned Emile to the Circle
* Merrill Destroyed the Mirror
* Merrill's Clan was not Killed
* Anders was Killed
* Sided with the Templars under the condition that Bethany's life is spared
* Spared the lives of any mage who surrendered during the Annulment

### **Post-game**

*"I can't believe my Fenris would do something so stupid as to run off to Tevinter by himself and recklessly slaughter any slave traffickers who get in his way..... WITHOUT ME! When he gets back, I'm going to make him prove to me how much he missed me, and then I'll show him how much I miss him right back with this wedding ring I have in my pocket. I'm not spending a second longer without that Elf as my husband!"*

"*Varric is now Viscount of Kirkwall. Go figure! I think part of the reason he took the job was so I wouldn't have to. You have NO IDEA how many people wanted me to be Viscountess, and much as I would love to cause a scandal by being a Viscountess with an Elven Husband and run the city in a way that would make the Nobles scream in terror, that's just not me. I'm still more than happy to "Advise" him on court matters, and by "advice" I think Varric just wants me to scare people."*

*"I did hear that The Dread Wolf, Fen'Harel himself is on the loose. Merrill freaked out after I told her, but I'm sure the Inquisition can handle him, and if he ever shows his face in Kirkwall, then he'll have to deal with me!"*

## **Relationships**

### Companions:

* **Fenris** **(Romance)** - *"OH, So you want to know about the Elf who became the Drake to the High Dragon of High Town? You want the juicy details about the glowing porcupine who calls himself an Elf with Puppy Eyes that make a Girl melt? I'm just going to set the record straight. There are LOTS of puppy eyes, and when he brings them out, it works every single time. Sure, we did get off to a rough start when he used his trademark Anti-Mage Glare on Bethany. He does paint all mages in the same color while I judge each mage based on who they are as an individual, but at least we both take pleasure in slaughtering Evil Blood Mages and Slave Traffickers.*
	+ *"When he left me the first time..... I was upset, but I get it. We were going too fast. Way too fast, but after we killed Danarius together and talked about it later... MAKER, those words he said to me! Men! Pay Attention! If you talk to a woman the way Fenris talked to me that night, then she will want to marry you ON THE SPOT!"*
* **Aveline (Friend) - "***What? You think just because I don't like to play by the rules that doesn't mean I can't be friends with the Captain of the Guard? I have been the big sister looking after my little family for years. Now I understand what it's like to HAVE a big sister. We have our disagreements, particularly in how I think doing the right thing and following the rules can be two different things most of the time, but at the end of the day, we both love making Kirkwall a better place, and creating a giant pile of corpses in the process."*
	+ *"I was the maid of honor at her Wedding with Donnic, as it damn well should be after all the trouble I went through to get those two hopeless romantics together!"*
* **Merrill (Rival) -** *"We never agreed about the Mirror, and sometimes we would argue about Blood Magic, but I could never stay mad at that elf. She is just too adorable. I still have no idea how we managed to get out of that Dalish Camp alive, but we did. Some people still think I should hate her because she's a blood mage, but Merrill went seven whole years without causing any harm to Kirkwall with her blood magic. If that's not a sign she knows what she's doing, I don't know what is."*
	+ *"At least she's not lonely anymore. She and Orana have been together for a while now, and unlike Aveline, I wasn't even trying to get them together. I just asked Orana to check up on Merrill, and then one thing led to another. I say good for her! With Merrill kicked out of her clan and Orana still having trouble adjusting to not being a slave anymore, they deserve a bit of happiness."*
* **Anders (Rival) -** *"Maker's Breath! Don't get me started about Anders. At this point, it's not even worth the effort to be angry about him. Some people say I should have killed him the moment I discovered he was an abomination (COUGH Fenris COUGH) but had I done that, then I would have been dead when the Arishok ran me through during our duel. He saved my life several times, and I always pay my my debts. That was basically our relationship. "A Favor for A Favor" just like he said all those years ago. So, when he destroyed the Chantry, I did the both of us a favor and put him out of his misery."*
	+ *"For the record, NO! I did not help him build the bomb. I turned him down the moment I suspected he was lying to me. I made the decision not to pry and interrogate him about what his plan really was, and that proved to be one of the biggest mistakes of my life."*
* **Sebastian (Rival) -** *"I'm not a fan of the chantry, and so I'm even less of a fan of somebdoy who parrots back the Chantry's teachings instead of forming his own opinions. I was especially annoyed with how he wanted to use the Chantry as an excuse to hide from his birthright. However, I am glad he finally took responsibility for his kingdom and took his throne back. I really am, and Kirkwall would have been in a much darker place if it weren't for him sending relief workers to aid in the city's reconstruction. I will always be grateful to him for that.*
	+ *"It's a good thing Anders didn't try to escape, and he simply allowed me to kill him. I shudder to think what Sebastian might have done if Anders had escaped. I saw the look in his eyes, and I knew exactly what was going through his head at the time. It was the same look I had when Quentin killed my Mother."*
* **Isabela (Friend ) -** *"Izzy and I hit it off immediately, and I know exactly why. It was refreshing to finally meet a woman with the same insatiable taste for adventure, and it was only a matter of time before our daily flirting turned into a night in the bedroom, and then another, and then another. Sweet Maker, she knows how to tame the High Dragon of High Town!*
	+ *"Ironically, I have Izzy to thank for making me realize how much Fenris meant to me. I ran crying and drunk to her after Fenris pulled that "I CAN'T" routine with me, but instead of trying to steal me for herself, she helped me back on my feet and encouraged me to keep trying. It's a shame Fenris became the jealous type when we got back together. Otherwise, I would have been more than happy to have Izzy join us for a wild night together."*
* **Varric (Friend) -** *"The best friend I ever had. That dwarf is a blessing from the Maker himself. I don't know what I would do without him. See! There! Now that you've heard it from me, you all can stop assuming he just embellishes just how much he helped me out. Every time my temper got the better of me, and I stormed out of the house, I knew what would cheer me up and stop me from smashing a wall, a Drink, a story, and a couple rounds of Wicked Grace with the one person in Kirkwall who never fails to make me smile."*
	+ "*I'm still mad at him for taking away my stash of Dragon's Blood So, what if I drank Dragon's Blood as often as a Templar consumes Lyrium? So, what if I went through two bottles a day after mother died? I don't have a problem, and No! Those bumps you saw on my arms were NOT dragon scales! I just have dry skin, and I am out of lotion! AND ANOTHER THING! I was planning on selling the leftover blood to some Draconologist in Serault! That Fredric was offering 50 Sovreigns for each bottle I had! WHERE'S MY MONEY, DWARF?"*

### Family Members:

* **Leandra Hawke** - *"Alright, this is a sore topic, so I'll just get this one out of the way first. We didn't get along. Oh, we were one big happy family when father was around, but after that? That woman began wielding guilt trips like a sword, and in Kirkwall it was even worse. We were at each other's throats at least once a week. Oh, I'm sorry! Carver makes the choice to protect you and Bethany, and you blame me for his death? Oh, I'm sorry, you forced Bethany to come to the one city in Thedas where Templars are everywhere, and you blame me again when she is taken to the Circle? What did you expect was going to happen, you SELFISH ENTITLED..... No.... Sorry.... I lost control again..... give me a moment....."*
	+ "*Yes, I'm crying! Can a woman cry without being judged? This is why I don't like talking about Mother! She makes me feel like I let Father down, and not because I was too late to save her. It feels like I let Father down because we argued so much. Father would have wanted us to apologize to each other and reconcile. You think I wanted such a nasty relationship with my own mother? No! I wanted to go back to the days when I was a girl, and the two of us actually loved each other, but I was too Maker-Damned proud to make the first move, and now it's too late.... It's too late...."*
* **Malcolm Hawke** - *"Strict when he needed to be, Funny when he wanted to be, and full of love every minute of every day. That's the speech I gave to remember father when we laid him to rest under an Apple Tree in Lothering, and that's what I always say when people ask about him. Even if I'll never see him again in the waking world, I see him every time I go to sleep, and I dream of him reminding me to get back up every time something in this shithole of a world knocks me down. Father always believed in me, and I never want to prove him wrong."*
* **Bethany Hawke** - *"My sister.... My Little Ray of Sunshine.... Varric hit a bullseye with that nickname. She took father's place in cheering me up and calming me down, and in return I helped her conquer her anxiety towards her magic and kept her safe all these years. I respect her decision to come quietly when the Templars finally found her. I get that she hated having to run and hide all the time and wanted it to finally stop, but that didn't stop me from being worried sick about her for all those years. I swear! The fact that Bethany not only managed to survive in the Gallows but Thrive as well is a sign that the Maker does answer your prayers!"*
* **Carver Hawke** - "*My little brother.... Ironic.... He was always jealous of not having Father's attention. I was jealous of him always getting mother's attention. "She's not my sister, she's a bloody rage demon!" He would whine, and then run to mother's skirt whenever our childish games would inevitably turn into fights. Father would take my side. Mother would take his side, and then we would be forced to apologize to each other, even though we both knew we weren't sorry. Then came the day we fled the Blight.... Oh Carver, why did you have to pick THAT DAY of all days to try and be a hero? WHY?"*
* **Gamlen Amell:** *"Gamlen is a disgusting, incompetent pig of an uncle, but he is MY disgusting, incompetent pig of an uncle. You have no idea how many times I simply slept at the Hanged Man just because I knew if I stayed at that Lowtown Hovel, I would have crushed my uncle's skull in. After mother died, things started to change. Bethany and I were the only family he had left, or so we thought. I'll get to that part. I couldn't just leave him alone in that awful house of his, so against my better judgement, I would check up on him once a week. It felt nice to talk with him for once without wanting to hit him."*
* **Oscar the Mabari-** *"That's his Royal Majesty, King Oscar of Lothering, you uncultured swine! Living proof that dogs and cats, especially Mabari, make far better company than people. People are annoying and most of them give me the sudden urge to murder them and feed their remains to his royal majesty, King Oscar of Lothering."*

### Others:

* **Cassandra -** *"Nobody attacks my best friend and gets away with it. She tries to assault Varric for keeping me hidden from her, and then the next time we see each other, she has the nerve to ask me for an autograph like a fan-girl? Yeah, I gave her something alright, and it was a black eye. Oh, I still gave her an autograph later, but not before making it clear that I would do worse to her if she messed with Varric ever again. By now we have forgiven each other, and I guess we can call each other friends now. She reminds me of Aveline, and that's good I suppose."*
* **Cullen -** *"I will always have Cullen's trust. He took care of Bethany and made sure none of the other Templars laid a finger on her, which is a miracle considering how many other mages in the Circle weren't so lucky. I like to believe if he was in charge, and not Meredith, then things at the Kirkwall Circle may not have been so bad. He's a good man, whether he believes it or not."*
* **The Arishok -** *"I will never understand the Qun, but I think I understand him. His situation is kind of like what happened to me. He was forced to come to Kirkwall, forced to stay in Kirkwall. He missed his home so much, but duty forced him to stay even though he hated Kirkwall so much. I may not follow the Qun, but I can relate to that."*
* **Knight Commander Meredith -** *"Sometimes I wonder how much of Meredith's tyrannical regime was brought on by herself, and how much of it was that damn idol doing the talking. I know Bethany keeps telling me, "Miranda you shouldn't blame yourself", and for the most part I don't. We had no way of knowing the idol was bad news, but sometimes I wonder. If we hadn't found the idol, would Meredith have behaved more rationally after Anders destroyed the Chantry? Would she have been satisfied with my execution of Anders instead of declaring the Rite of Annulment? I don't know. We will never know."*
* **First Enchanter Orsino -** "*Orsino! There is nobody I despise more than him. Just saying his name makes my blood boil. Kirkwall's Mage Situation made no sense to me. How could there be so many blood mages running amok in a city which has the strongest level of Templar control in all of Thedas? Then I got my answer. It was him all along. He was helping them hide from the Templars, including that monster, Quentin. I don't care about his excuse that Meredith's control over the innocent mages would have been stricter if she had found those blood mages. Orsino is equally responsible for every single victim Quentin killed, including my mother."*
* **Corypheus -** *"Maybe I should have realized that Larius was acting strange. Maybe I should have suspected he possessed the same body jumping trick that Archdemons have. End of the day, what happened with Corypheus is over and done with, but Maker's Breath! I wanted to be the one to kill him a second time to make up for the fact that I didn't kill him the first time! I know it seems selfish of me to say this, but could the Inquisition have just waited until after I had returned from Weisshaupt to finish him off? Was that too much to ask?"*

## **Miscellaneous**

* Miranda became a Reaver by drinking the blood of the dragon she killed during her first visit to the Bone Pit.
* Varric went behind Hawke's back and sold all of the Dragon's Blood she hoarded in her estate after realizing she was continuing to drink more of it on a regular basis like a drug addict.
* Miranda wanted to stay and kill Corypheus herself, but Varric wouldn't allow it. She only went to Weisshaupt after a long argument with Varric where her best friend finally talked her into it. She was hoping to make it back in time for the final battle, but by the time she returned to Skyhold, Corypheus had already been defeated.

## **Gallery**

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