Ewan Cousland

The younger son of Teyrn Bryce Cousland, Ewan joined the Grey Wardens when Duncan rescued him from an attack from Arl Rendon Howe that would have seen his entire family be wiped out. Following the Battle of Ostagar, he and Alistair would unite Ferelden against the Blight and Ewan became the Hero of Ferelden.

## Overview

### **Physical Appearance**

Ewan has a slender face and light blonde hair that, as of 9:40 Dragon, has grown to shoulder length, some light stubble on his face and occasionally a beard. He usually wears a travelling cloak over a set of heavy warden warrior armor. He wields a silverite longsword and has a large round metal shield bearing the Grey Warden’s symbol.

### **Personality**

A devout Andrastian, Ewan always strives to do good and help others. He constistenly shows care and worry for even his most distant of travelling companions. It is because of his caring and quite quiet nature that he developed a deep emotional and romantic relationship with Leliana, a former Bard who joined him in Lothering. Thanks to his abilities to read people, he also developed a strong friendship with Morrigan, a Witch of the Wilds who joined them after Flemeth saved Ewan and Alistair from Ostagar. He managed to make Sten of the Beresaad come out of his shell by helping him find his sword, Asala, they even made plans for Ewan to visit Par Vollen at some point. He also gained a paternal relationship with Wynne, who often cared for him with her magic and showed concern and love to the young Warden. Oghren was a little rough around him at first but Ewan quickly grew to care for the drunken dwarf, so much so that when Oghren wished to be recruited into the Wardens, Ewan agreed without a second glance.

### **Talents and Skills**

A powerful warrior, known for having excellent prowess, he is fully versed in the usage of a sword and shield. He knows how to draw attention from his more weaker allies and can even shrug off hits from Dragons.

## Biography

### **History**

Born in 9:10 Dragon to Teyrn Bryce Cousland and Teyrna Eleanor Cousland, Ewan had a fairly boring upbringing of being pampered as nobility but he never let it go to his head. Growing up, he developed a crush on Delilah Howe, daughter of Arl Rendon Howe, but she often proved some dislike for Ewan. She would later call him stuck-up without even knowing she was speaking to him. In his youth he was trained as a Squire until he reached the age of fourteen when his father stopped his training in favour of teaching Ewan how to rule instead and, in the following years, would often leave Castle Cousland under Ewan’s rule. It always confounded the young noble as to why Bryce and the people always seemed to want Ewan ruling Highever rather than Fergus, the actual heir to the Teyrnir. Sometime in 9:29 Dragon, he visited Bann Loren’s lands where, at a party, he drunkenly hooked up with Lady Landra, Bann Loren’s wife and a friend of Eleanor. Later that same year, he fought and bested Landra’s son, Dairren, in a competition fought at Highever.

### **In-game**

Lord Ewan Cousland was set to take control of Highever with a token force while Fergus and Bryce rode off to aid the King, Cailan Theirin, against the Darkspawn at Ostagar. Arl Howe arrived and reported that his men had been delayed by wrathful weather. Ewan wished the Arl well and felt some excitement at the Arl’s claims that Delilah had asked after him. Before Ewan set off to find Fergus, he met the Commander of the Grey in Ferelden, Duncan, who readily admitted his wish to recruit the young noble but Bryce quickly denied Duncan from doing so, meaning he would have to seek out Ser Gilmore instead. Shortly thereafter, Ewan was forced by Ser Gilmore and Ewan’s Nan to fetch his mabari hound, Barnabas, who had raided the larder while hunting rats. Following the acquisition of his dog, he found his mother, Eleanor, who was speaking to Lady Landra, Dairren and Landra’s elven lady-in-waiting, Iona, who quickly proved to have a crush on the noble. After Landra went to bed early, Ewan told his mother that he loved her and went to find Iona where the two arranged to meet up in the night. Ewan would make love to Iona that night and later be awakened by the attack from Arl Howe, who’s men immediately killed Iona and almost killed Ewan if it weren’t for his combat skills. He then found his mother before the two checked on Fergus’ wife and son, who had both been killed in the attack. Fergus had already set off to Ostagar while Bryce had stayed up with Howe. After fighting their way through the Castle and obtaining the Family Sword of the Couslands, Eleanor and Ewan found Bryce bloody and nearly dead. Duncan entered shortly afterwards and promised to take Eleanor and Ewan to safety but only if Ewan joins the Wardens. The young noble accepted but Eleanor remained behind to die with her husband. Ewan expressed deep regret and sadness over the amount of death he saw that night and would never go into detail about it with anyone again.

At Ostagar, Ewan learned from King Cailan himself that Fergus Cousland had taken most of his men on a scouting mission into the wilds and was beyond contact. While Ewan wished for Fergus to return before the coming Battle, he was not eager to inform him of the deaths of their entire family, minus his mother’s side and one another. Duncan informed Ewan that there were two other recruits, Ser Jory and Daveth, and that Ewan should seek them out and speak with the most junior member of the Wardens, Alistair. Ewan followed his orders and sought out each recruit before finding Alistair arguing with a mage. They then headed back to Duncan’s tent and were sent on a mission into the Kocari Wilds to obtain Darkspawn blood as well as ancient treaties within a decrepit Warden tower. Upon finding the blood and tower, they met a mysterious and beautiful apostate girl named Morrigan who invited them to get the treaties from her mother, Flemeth. Ewan agreed and took Alistair and his fellow recruits with them. They met Flemeth who gave them the treaties before telling Morrigan to guide them back to the camp.

They gave Duncan the blood and treaties and were sent to a small chamber where they awaited Duncan. When the Commander finally showed up, he had a chalice of Darkspawn blood and revealed that the recruits had to drink it in order to become Wardens. Ewan watched in horror as Daveth succumbed to the taint before seeing Duncan kill Ser Jory as the Knight attempted to back out of the Joining. Ewan then took the chalice and drank it, completing the Joining and becoming a Warden but not without feeling more pain than he could have ever believed.

When he eventually woke up, as junior member of the Wardens, he joined Duncan at a meeting with the King and Teyrn Loghain Mac Tir, legendary Hero of River Dane. At this council, Ewan was informed that, as junior member of the Wardens alongside Alistair, he and Alistair would be sent to light the signal fire to alert Loghain to charge into the Battle of Ostagar with his reinforcements. Ewan was reluctant to miss out on the battle but agreed to go along with Alistair, who also showed discontent at the idea of missing out on the fighting. While Duncan joined King Cailan on the battlefield, Alistair and Ewan were forced to fight through the Tower of Ishal which had been besieged by tunnelling Darkspawn. Thanks to the help of a Circle Mage and Barnabas, they managed to fight through the tower and even defeated a mighty ogre atop the Tower before lighting the signal fire. However, Loghain did not charge and instead fled the field while Darkspawn charged into the top of the tower and fired several arrows into Ewan, almost killing the Warden then and there while Alistair took cover only to fall and hit his head and Barnabas simply attempted to protect his master as best as he could, falling sick with the taint as he did so. However, Flemeth, in the form of a giant bird, arrived atop the tower and picked up Ewan, Barnabas and Alistair before flying them to the safety of her hut where Morrigan fixed up Ewan, Flemeth cured Barnabas and helped Alistair get back on his feet before he quickly fell into depression over the loss of Duncan and the Wardens.

It took a while but Ewan eventually awakened all healed up and, by the nudging of Flemeth, set off with Alistair and even Morrigan in tow to defeat the Archdemon, utilise the treaties to gain allies and save all of Ferelden from the Fifth Blight.

Their first stop was Lothering where they learned Loghain had accused the Grey Wardens of betraying the King and any surviving Wardens were now wanted by his men, several of which were in Dane’s Refuge where the Wardens met Leliana, a Chantry Lay Sister who joined them on their journey because of a vision she received. They then recruited Sten, a Qunari that had been locked in a cage as punishment for killing a whole farmhold of innocent people when he was attacked by Darkspawn and lost his blade. They convinced the Revered Mother to release Sten before leaving the town, rescuing Sandal and Bodahn Feddic from Darkspawn as they did so.

After having his first nightmare of the Archdemon, Ewan travelled to the Circle of Magi tower to investigate why the Right of Annulment had been called for. He discovered Kinloch Hold in terror as abominations had risen in nearly every mage to kill and slaughter everything in sight. Ewan fought his way through the tower alongside Alistair, Morrigan and Leliana before meeting a Senior Enchanter named Wynne who joined them to free the Circle. The battle was tough and many a demon was slain but when they reached a chamber, they found the decaying body of Niall, a young Circle Mage who was attempting to use the Littany of Adralla to stop Uldred another Mage who had been possessed by a Pride Demon, and a demon of Sloth standing over him. The Sloth demon sent the four into a deep sleep where Ewan broke free of his dream to find his friends. Once he finally managed to rescue them all, he let loose and killed the Sloth demon successfully before saying goodbye to Niall, who would be forever lost in the Fade. Ewan then travelled to the Harrowing Chambers, rescuing a tormented Templar named Cullen Rutherford along the way. Ewan, Wynne, Alistair and Leliana managed to kill Uldred without the loss of anymore mages and even saved First Enchanter Irving. They returned to Knight-Commander Greagoir who denied the Right of Annulment and accepted Irving’s word that everything was okay now. The mages joined Ewan’s forces while he set off to find out what happened to the Arl of Redcliffe, Eamon Guerrin.

On the way to Redcliffe, Alistair stopped Ewan and confessed that he was actually the illegitimate son of King Maric Theirin and, much to Alistair’s relief, Ewan simply joked about Alistair being a “royal bastard” before Alistair confirmed he had no wish to take the throne in the wake of his half-brother’s death and instead wanted to put Eamon on the throne due to his status as Arl of Redcliffe and the fact that he was Cailan’s uncle on the account Eamon’s sister, Rowan, married and conceived Cailan with King Maric before her untimely death in 9:07 Dragon.

Along the road to Redcliffe, Ewan was attacked by an Antivan Crow assassin named Zevran Arainai who, upon being defeated, joined the Warden against Loghain and the Blight and the two actually grew to be good friends over that period of time so much so that Zevran would even turn against his fellow Crows in favour of Ewan.

The Wardens found Redcliffe under siege by the undead who came down from the Castle every night. Not wavering in his good nature, Ewan got the smithy up and running before gaining some “protection” for the Knights of Redcliffe. Using his silver tongue he convinced Murdoc, Mayor of Redcliffe, that they would survive and beat the zombies. He then found and rescued Bevin before returning the boy to his elder sister, Kaitlyn. Ewan then gave the two as much money as he could before sending them to safety. When night fell, Redcliffe was as prepared as possible and, with the help of the Wardens, Leliana and Wynne, no casualties were reported that night and, with the help of Bann Teagan Guerrin, Eamon’s younger brother, and Lady Isolde, Eamon’s wife, Ewan snuck into the Castle and rescued the blacksmith’s daughter before discovering Connor, son of Arl Eamon, was not only a mage but also possessed by a Desire demon who had sought out young Connor’s desire to cure his father from the illness a mage named Jowan had cursed him with under orders from Teyrn Loghain. With the help of Jowan, Ewan enlisted the help of the mages to send Jowan into the Fade to redeem himself and save Connor from the demon. He was successful and the young Mage was freed from the demon’s hold but Eamon remained sick.

While in camp, Morrigan asked Ewan if he had seen a grimoire belonging to Flemeth lying around in the Circle Tower. Ewan confirmed he had and gave it to her before Morrigan soon reached out again and confirmed that Flemeth wished to possess Morrigan when she becomes powerful enough. She pleaded with Ewan to kill Flemeth before she could do anything and the Warden agreed, finding Flemeth transformed into a Dragon. He slew the bestial witch before returning the real Black Grimoire to Morrigan, who was eternally grateful.

Following in the footsteps of many knights of Redcliffe, Ewan sought out the Urn of the Sacred Ashes of Andraste which led him to Haven, a mysterious little town in the Frostback Mountains where he found Brother Genitivi, a scholar. Ewan helped Genitivi walk before they went their seperate ways at the entrance to the Temple of Sacred Ashes. Ewan fought his way through the Dragon Cultists who believed Andraste had been resurrected as a Dragon before eventually killing the Dragon itself. After facing their demons on the way to the Temple, Ewan proved himself worthy of taking a pinch of the Ashes and, with the Ashes in hand, managed to save Arl Eamon from his horrible illness and restored the Arl back to life. Grateful and vengeful, Arl Eamon swore himself to the Warden’s cause against Teyrn Loghain and the Blight.

On their way to recruit the Dalish, Ewan helped Sten retrieve his sword, Asala, which brought him all over Ferelden until they finally found it in the possession of Dwyn who they convinced to hand it over. Sten proved eternally grateful for his soul and sword back and was content knowing he could return home victorious if he helped the Warden stop the Archdemon and Blight.

Ewan made a brief detour to the village of Honnleath where he, under the pleas of a man named Matthias, grandson of an old Mage named Wilhelm, freed a young girl named Amelia from the clutches of a demon known as Kitty. Afterwards, Matthias told Ewan how to activate the Golem that killed Wilhelm. Ewan did so and surprisingly found a good friend in the dwarf-turned-golem Shale.

The Warden then set out to recruit the Dalish elves of the Bracillian Forest which brought him to blows against a band of Werewolves led by a spirit known as the Lady of the Forest. Along the way through the woods on Zathrian’s quest to kill Witherfang, Ewan met a rhyming tree known as the Grand Oak and a mad Hermit living in the wilderness. They even got some fulfilment for Wynne when she met her old student. After fighting their way to the heart of the werewolves’ lair, Ewan convinced Zathrian, keeper of the Dalish, to lift the curse he had placed on them so long ago. Zathrian reluctantly agreed and, along with the Lady of the Forest, perished so that the werewolves could return to their former states of being again. The Dalish joined Ewan’s cause.

Along the road to Orzammar, they were attacked by a group of assassins sent by Leliana’s former mentor, Marjolaine. They sought her out in Denerim, stopping by the house of Alistair’s supposed half-sister Goldanna along the way, where Leliana spared Marjolaine. While in Denerim, Ewan had a brief sexual dalliance with a Rivaini Pirate Captain named Isabela. At the camp, Ewan and Leliana confirmed their love for one another and made love for the first time where Leliana discovered she found Ewan quite cute when he slept. She also secretly read his journal through the night, being flattered by his beautiful writing that was on par with most scholars.

Their final stop of recruitment was Orzammar, the ancient Great Thaig of the dwarven people. Accompanied by Shale, Alistair and Leliana sought out Prince Bhelen Aeducan, only surviving son of the deceased King Endrin Aeducan who had recently died to possible poison. Endrin’s Second, Pyral Harrowmont, and Bhelen were marred in a battle for the Throne of Orzammar. Seeing that Bhelen was younger and progressive, Ewan helped the young Prince take Harrowmont’s support before venturing into the Deep Roads, now joined by a dwarven warrior named Oghren who was hunting for his wife, Paragon Branka, who they needed to support Bhelen’s rise to the Throne. Along the way they saw the Archdemon, fought and killed a Broodmother and met the Legion of the Dead before finally finding Branka in a state of madness for the Anvil of the Void which could create golems. Along with her, they also found the ancient Paragon Caridin who pleaded with the Warden to stand with him to stop Branka. Ewan sided with Caridin and killed Branka, much to Oghren’s sadness. The young Cousland then destroyed the Anvil after Caridin created a crown for Ewan’s choice of King. Caridin then cast himself into the molten pits of larva surrounding his platform. Shale discovered that she was once a dwarf and had signed up to become a golem, she had a stirring memory of Cadash Thaig where she wished to visit. Ewan took her there on the way back to Orzammar, where she discovered more about herself and thanked the Warden for his help.

Back in Orzammar, Ewan and Oghren announced Bhelen as King of Orzammar before the young Prince immediately executed Harrowmont. Bhelen swore his troops to the Warden’s cause and even Commander Kardol of the Legion of the Dead agreed to join Ewan topside. Oghren, too, joined Ewan as he saw nothing left for him in Orzammar. Oghren made a place in Ewan’s roaming band of misfits and quickly rooted himself as the drunken uncle that everyone loved or hated.

Not long after he joined, Oghren expressed a desire to see a girl he used to know named Felsi who had moved topside a while ago. Ewan helped Oghren set up a date with Felsi and now that Oghren had a lover, he was all ready to fight for the Wardens.

The Landsmeet was called when Ewan arrived back in Denerim with Arl Eamon in tow. Much to Alistair’s shock, Eamon instead wished to place him on the throne which he most certainly did not want for himself. Ewan agreed with Alistair, wanting what was best for his friend and instead decided to back Anora’s rise to the Throne as she had also fallen into rough terrain with her father, Loghain. Ewan was sent to free Anora from Arl Rendon Howe’s clothes, as he had risen to be Arl of Denerim, Amaranthine and Teyrn of Highever. While freeing Anora, they helped release a Senior Grey Warden named Riordan who had scouted into Ferelden from Orlais. Ewan killed Howe in a bloody battle before releasing Anora. However, Ser Cauthrien, Knight of Gwaren, stopped them at the door and requested Alistair and Ewan come quietly. To her shock, Ewan did not wish more bloodshed and went with her to Fort Drakon where he and Alistair easily escaped by posing as guards on training.

They were then sent to the Denerim Alienage where a plague had been spreading, they discovered that in truth Tevinter slavers, under orders from Teyrn Loghain, had been selling elves to Tevinter. Ewan put a stop to a it by killing the Slaver Leader and freeing those that remained. Making a good friend in an elf named Shianni while doing so.

After everything they had been through and all the allies they had gained, Ewan arrived at the Landsmeet where Loghain was shocked to find the Wardens having more allies than him thanks to Ewan revealing Loghain’s traitorous actions. Ewan and Loghain duelled with Ewan being the victor. Riordan instead proposed that Loghain join the Wardens. Without even thinking of that future, Ewan gave Alistair the nod to execute Loghain and their brotherhood was set in stone from that day forth. Anora Theirin was named Queen of Ferelden. The Wardens then travelled back to Redcliffe where they fought the Darkspawn before Riordan sensed they were travelling north to Denerim. The Senior Warden revealed to Alistair and Ewan that he would kill Urthemiel because whoever lands the killing blow on the Archdemon is also killed by the Archdemon’s soul trying to enter them. Due to the Archdemon’s natural abilities to enter the nearest tainted being at the time of it’s death. Ewan confirmed that he would take the killing blow regardless of what Riordan says. However, upon returning to his room, Ewan found Morrigan who told him that she could save him through a Dark Ritual that would need them to copulate so she would fall pregnant with his child. Due to the natural infertility of tainted beings, some light blood magic would be used to help with that aspect. When the Archdemon is slain, it’s soul would instead seek out the baby within Morrigan, still stopping the Blight and killing the Archdemon while saving Ewan. He reluctantly agreed and the two slept together that fateful evening before the battle.

They marched to Denerim where they fought through each section of the city before Riordan died crippling Urthemiel. Once they reached the top of Fort Drakon, they found Urthemiel and, using every ally they could muster, Ewan killed the Archdemon still half-expecting it to kill him and survived to live another day. The Darkspawn fled back beneath the surface and into the Deep Roads to search for another Archdemon while celebrations erupted all across Ferelden and Thedas.

Anora was crowned Queen of Ferelden and she granted Ewan the title of Teyrn of Gwaren although he didn’t need it, he too didn’t refute it. Ewan also discovered that his elder brother, Fergus Cousland, had just barely survived Ostagar and the wilds and had been healing up the past year as a prisoner of the Chasind before he escaped and fought through Denerim to find his brother, who he learned had survived and become a Grey Warden. Ewan was named the Hero of Ferelden and, less than a full year later, was met by a Senior Warden named Argyle, formerly Warden-Constable of Ferelden, who formally gave him the position of Commander of the Grey in Ferelden during the Thaw that Alistair was sent off with his own Garrison to fight across southern Ferelden while Ewan was forced to deal with increasingly intelligent Darkspawn in the north, in Amaranthine which had been given to the Grey Wardens as a replacement for the Denerim HQ.

Following his ascension to Commander of the Grey, he was sent to command a garrison of Orlesian Wardens at Vigil’s Keep in Amaranthine only to discover that all the Orlesian Wardens had been killed by intelligent Darkspawn, leaving next to no survivors. Along the road, Cousland met a Warden-Recruit named Mhairi, an apostate named Anders and later found his old friend Oghren surviving the battle for Vigil’s Keep with a laugh and a smile. They then rescued the Keep’s Seneschal, Varel, from an intelligent Hurlock known as the Withered.

After kicking the Darkspawn out of Vigil’s Keep and a brief visit from the Queen of Ferelden, Ewan and Varel recruited Oghren and Anders into the order while Mhairi died during the Joining. Ewan was given a task: investigate the intelligent Darkspawn operating in the area and stop them at any cost. The new Commander was informed of a Senior Grey Warden named Kristoff who had travelled to Blackmarsh on Warden business. However, before leaving to find Kristoff, Ewan met Nathaniel Howe, eldest son of Arl Rendon Howe, who had returned to his ancestral home to steal back some of his family’s items. Ewan allowed Nathaniel to leave a free man but Howe would soon return, volunteering to join the Wardens under Cousland’s command, to atone for his father’s crimes.

Commander Ewan, also Arl of Amaranthine, travelled to Blackmarsh where he discovered Kristoff had been murdered by a Darkspawn known as the First, who worked for the Mother while some worked for an entity named the Architect or Father. Ewan was sent into the Fade alongside Nathaniel, Oghren and Anders where they found the people of Blackmarsh trapped by the Baroness. Ewan and his party joined Justice, a spirit from the Fade that had recently arrived to aid in freeing the people from their evil mistress. After a brief confrontation, the Baroness used the life force of the First, who had also been brought into the Fade, to banish them all back to Thedas. Justice, lacking a body, was forced into the rotting corpse of Senior Warden Kristoff, together they fought and killed the Baroness once and for all and Justice, without a purpose, joined Ewan in his mission to stop the Architect and the Mother.

Ewan, Justice, Nathaniel and Anders then travelled to the Wending Wood to investigate murders, which were quickly revealed to be done by an exiled Dalish elf known as Velanna who had been tricked into slaughtering nearby humans by the Darkspawn, who had taken her sister, Seranni. The Wardens joined Velanna and ventured into a nearby silverite mine where they were captured by the Architect, a Silent Sister turned Grey Warden known as Utha and Velanna’s sister Seranni. They broke free from the Architect’s trap and Velanna joined the Wardens in order to find her sister.

The Commander and his companions then ventured into the Deep Roads after meeting a Legionnaire of the Dead known as Sigrun who had barely escaped Kal’Hirol with her life. She enlisted the help of the Wardens who joined her into Kal’Hirol where they finished the Legion’s mission and slaughtered the group of Broodmothers in the ancient Thaig. Following their survival and success, Sigrun, now lacking a purpose, volunteered to join the Wardens and continue fighting the Darkspawn, which Ewan agreed to.

With an assassination plot thwarted, Vigil’s Keep properly upgraded and prepared for anything from another Darkspawn attack to a full on Blight, a Darkspawn attack on the city of Amaranthine broke out and Ewan immediately answered the call of duty. With Justice, Anders and Nathaniel by his side, Cousland charged forth into Amaranthine blade slashing to protect her citizens. Not long into the siege, a Darkspawn Disciple known only as the Messenger, claiming to be working for the Architect, arrived and warned the Mother’s forces were encroaching on Vigil’s Keep. Hoping that the Wardens and armored men could handle themselves, Cousland stayed behind in Amaranthine and fought to protect the people with the help of Captain Garevel and the Disciple’s Messenger. They fought the Mother’s Children until nightfall when Ewan and his allies set off to the Dragonbone Wastes to finally kill the Mother.

When they finally arrived at the Wastes, Ewan was confronted by the Architect who pleaded with the Warden to help him. Cousland agreed, much to the disdain of Justice who, thanks to Ewan’s loyalty and friendship, agreed to stay by his side. Ewan, Justice Anders and Nathaniel fought through legions of Darkspawn until they finally reached the Mother where Ewan fought and killed the dreaded Broodmother once and for all, driving a dagger into her face to put her down.

Almost a year after the defeat of the Mother and disappearance of the Architect, Warden-Commander Ewan Cousland was contacted by a dwarf named Jerrick Dace who asked for help in finding his brother, Brogan, who had gone missing in the Deep Roads. Yearning for excitement, Ewan agreed to help and, after a confusing battle of mind and mettle through the Amgarrack Thaig, they found Brogan before finding what had slaughtered the good people of Amgarrack - the Harvester, a golem made from the flesh of innocents. Ewan fought and, although the battle was hard, successfully killed the dreaded Harvester before leaving for the surface while the Daces returned to Orzammar.

In 9:32 Dragon, over a year after Ewan killed the Archdemon, he set out on a personal mission alongside his faithful hound, Barnabas, to find Morrigan and his long-lost child. He started where he had heard of the rumours - Flemeth’s Hut where he had almost died and where he had slain the Shapeshifter Flemeth so long ago. Cousland entered the Hut to find a Dalish elf known as Ariane, also searching for Morrigan but purely for a book she stole from her clan. They agreed to team up and the three ventured to the Fereldan Circle of Magi, Kinloch Hold, where the acting Knight-Commander gave permission for Finn, a mage, to leave with them as the young mage was highly interested in the Eluvian they were tracking. Once the mirror was found, Finn used a spell to see through the corrupted glass where he saw Cadash Thaig, which Ewan already knew the way to.

The group set off and reached Cadash Thaig soon enough where they fought their way through Cadash Thaig to obtain the Lights of Arlathan and, with the Lights, they tracked the Eluvian down to the Dragonbone Wastes where Ewan had killed the Mother what felt like so long ago. They fought their way through Dragon Cultists and a Varterral to reach Morrigan who, despite wishing to leave, was happy to see Ewan again.

The conversation between the two was brief but both parted on good terms and Ewan had some contentment in knowing that his son was growing up happily and in safety. The two friends parted ways with Morrigan leaving Ewan a gift - the book that belonged to Ariane’s Clan and a smaller journal within those pages, written in an unknown ancient lexicon.

**Post-game**

In 9:37 Dragon, Ewan sought out an elven blood mage known as Illianor who was notoriously experimenting on Darkspawn, attempting to discover more about the taint and the Blight. After a brief discussion about Illianor’s unlikely survival alone, the elf joined Ewan on his mission to cure the Taint. Ewan disappeared from Thedas on his quest to the west for several years, much to the panic of the Grey Wardens, who sent several hunting parties after him.

In 9:45 Dragon, Ewan returned from his quest, which turned out to be a failure. He immediately visited his beloved Leliana before reluctantly returning to his duties under strict observation from the First Warden of Weisshaupt. He immediately took up recruitment efforts throughout Ferelden, appointing the position of Warden-Constable to Oghren, his close friend, and started searching for recruits.

Ewan soon travelled to the Deep Roads to speak with Warden Caesar, leader of the Bownammar Outpost. As he left the Deep, Ewan recruited the long lost son of Endrin Aeducan, Kairon, who had been framed for the death of Trian and sent to the Deep Roads where he became a near-ghoul and joined the Legion of the Dead. The mad Kairon Aeducan would soon go through his Joining and begin the road to recovering his sanity.

Cousland eventually visited the Loghain memorial once more, which he had taken up doing several times a year. As he spoke to the statue, Queen Anora arrived and Ewan revealed he had always regretted executing her father and she forgave him, despite Ewan never forgiving himself. As per Anora’s request, Ewan conscripted Ser Cauthrien who had been arrested and imprisoned for serving the traitorous Teyrn Loghain and abandoning King Cailan at Ostagar. Ewan conscripted the Knight into the Wardens where she went through her Joining to become a fully fledged Warden.

## **Relationships**

Alistair and Ewan were best friends during the Blight, they remained friends and comrades in the years following the Blight but drifted apart due to years of silence between the two and, despite Alistair’s best efforts to find Ewan, the two would not make contact again until Ewan’s return to Ferelden in 9:46 Dragon where the two hugged any differences out.

Leliana and Ewan are lovers and have been in a romantic relationship since the Fifth Blight where they met. Despite spending years apart, they both remained faithful to one another and, despite Ewan conceiving a child with Morrigan, Leliana loves them both and would adopt Kieran in a heartbeat. During the Crisis of 9:42 Dragon, Leliana told Inquisitor Trevelyan the Hero’s whereabouts and even established contact between Ewan and the Inquisition.

Morrigan and Ewan were distant at first but she immediately liked him more than Alistair, Daveth or Jory. During the Fifth Blight they grew to become friends and he even fought and killed her mother to save Morrigan’s life. On the eve of the final battle, Morrigan came to Ewan with her proposition entirely to save her friend’s life, not to manipulate him as her mother had intended. She searched for Ewan in the years following his disappearance and she even questioned Inquisitor Cain Trevelyan about Ewan being at Adamant Fortress, worried for him, but was relieved to know he was not there or a casualty.

Sten and Ewan were distant but grew to respect one another greatly as warriors, little more came from their friendship but they considered one another good people and better fighters.

Oghren and Ewan were good friends from the get-go, so much so that Oghren even eventually named his and Felsi’s son after Ewan. The Commander recruited Oghren entirely because of their friendship and due to him already knowing how impressive Oghren’s fighting skills were. They remained good friends and Oghren was even named Warden-Constable of Ferelden upon Ewan’s return as Nathaniel had been established as Warden-Commander of the Free Marches.