Morwen Hawke

> "Hero or screw-up? You decide!"
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> Morwen Hawke is an ordinary woman who wields a big hammer, and yet somehow she became the Champion of a city. How did this happen? Who knows, because she certainly doesn't.
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## Overview

### Appearance and Personality

Morwen is a tall woman, easily 5'11", and has a sturdy build as a result of years of combat training and working on a farm. She has long, often messy reddish-brown hair and bright sky-blue eyes, often said to be her most striking feature. Sure, she doesn't have Bethany's more classical Amell beauty, but Morwen has her share of admirers; she has quite a pretty face and a nice smile.

Morwen can come across as a bit silly at times, what with her love of cheesy one-liners and awful puns, which she deploys whenever she can. A lot of them involve her weapon of choice (a large hammer) or slams against the various awful people she meets in Kirkwall. To her friends, however, Morwen is unfailingly loyal, deeply protective, and quite kind and cheerful. She rarely gets angry, but when she does...*run.* She's not shy about breaking out the hammer, both figuratively and literally. She loves animals of all kinds (well, except spiders) and plays the lute in her spare time, but while she's a pretty decent musician, she can't sing.

Morwen is a dedicated supporter of the mages and their rebellion and is inclined to believe that most Templars are awful, especially in Kirkwall. Even after all of the blood magic she sees in Kirkwall, that opinion never changes and she generally finds the southern reaction to magic to cause more problems than it solves and make a lot of people miserable. Her interactions with Anders and the atrocities committed by the Templars in Kirkwall definitely serve to reinforce this view.

## Biography

### Early Life

Morwen Hawke was born in 9:06 Dragon to Malcolm and Leandra Hawke, in a Ferelden village so small that it's not on most maps. Her family moved around a lot, but finally settled in Lothering after Malcolm bought a farm there with money he earned on mercenary jobs.

Morwen was a excitable, outgoing girl who dreamed of going on adventures of her own one day like the ones her father had, and she was constantly pestering him to tell her all about his mercenary work. Her most prized possession as a child was a toy warhammer she bought from a dwarven merchant, and she and Carver (when he got old enough) spent many days together sparring and playing with their toy weapons, which eventually transitioned into Malcolm formally training them as warriors when he wasn't helping Bethany master magic. They were about on par as fighters, but Morwen was always a bit more popular than Carver and looked up on by her parents as the "responsible" older sibling.

And she was responsible, at least to an extent. She'd wake up, do her chores, and keep an eye out for Templars or nosy villagers who got too close to the magic that defined the family's life. Not that she ever minded, because Malcolm's horror stories about the Circle were convincing enough to little Morwen to make her want to protect her sister. She went to Chantry school once a week, but their lessons about magic always rubbed her the wrong way; if it was really so evil, why did her loving father and sweet little sister have it? In fact, their views on magic were entirely the reason that Morwen stopped attending Chantry services as an adult.

In any case, her life was pretty uneventful up until the death of her father from a wasting disease, which left Morwen to take up the role as head of the family with some reluctance. She was grieving just as much as the rest of her family and now *she* had to be in charge? It was pretty tough for her, and her tendency to leave the farm for long periods of time to get away from it all caused a lot of friction in her family relationships, especially with Carver and Leandra.

Perhaps it was the stress of running a farm and heading up the family that made Morwen so eager to enlist and fight at Ostagar, with Carver soon following suit. Fighting the darkspawn seemed exciting, and how could they know what was to come...

### In-game

#### Act One

* Carver died leaving Lothering
* Joined Athenril and her smugglers
* Vouched for Keran to stay in the Templars
* Lied to Ser Karras so the Starkhaven mages could escape
* Feynriel sent to the Dalish
* Defended Ketojan from the Qunari
* Let Pryce keep the goods, lied to Athenril about it
* Killed the mature dragon and convinced the miners to return to the Bone Pit
* Rescued Saemus
* Killed Kelder
* Recruited all possible companions
* Lied to Ghyslain about Ninette
* Bethany was left behind - she was turned into the Circle by Magistrate Vanard

#### Act Two

* Spared Javaris
* Didn't side with Varnell or Petrice
* Killed Gascard
* Feynriel went to Tevinter to study
* Isabela returned; Morwen dueled the Arishok to protect her

#### Act Three

* Sided with Orsino in Showdown
* Let Emile go free; blamed Meredith for the whole mess
* Bethany was kidnapped by conspirators. Let Keran go, asked for mercy for Alain
* Rescued Nathaniel Howe
* Let Zevran go
* Reunited Charade and Gamlen
* Killed the high dragon at the Bone Pit
* Spared Anders
* Sided with the mages

### Post Game

Flees Kirkwall with Anders, the two of them start spreading word of what happened in Kirkwall to the other Circles. Morwen survives the Fade and the two eventually settle down

## Relationships

### Anders

Yep, she loves him despite everything and would do anything to protect him. She finds it hard not to be attracted to the "sexy rebel mage", but she also loves his passion and dedication to his cause.