History Characters / DragonAgeOriginsNonPlayableCharactersFereldanNobles

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-->'''Voiced by:''' Peter Bramhill

->''"I cannot wait for that glorious moment. [[GloryHound The Grey Wardens battle beside the King of Ferelden to stem the tide of evil.]]"''

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-->'''Voiced by:''' Mika Simmons

->''"We have been given the gift of freedom by our forebears. Let us not squander it."''

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-->'''Voiced by:''' Simon Templeman

->''"Lords and Ladies... [[LargeHam Stand with me and we will defeat even the Blight itself!]]"''

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-->'''Voiced by:''' Alyx Wilton Regan

->''"Some of us know what honor and loyalty are."''

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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TimCurry

->''"I think of the King as much as he thinks at all."''

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-->'''Voiced by:''' Graham [=McTavish=]

->''"Must we sacrifice everything good about our nation to save it?"''

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-->'''Voiced by:''' Louisa Patikas

->''"For the one who delivers the Sacred Ashes of Our Lady will have the esteem of Redliffe, and all the riches it is in my power to grant."''

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-->'''Voiced by:''' Michael Curtis Parsons

->''"I feel like I'm sleeping, but I guess I'm not."''

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-->'''Voiced by:''' Richard Laing

->''"We are Couslands, and we do what must be done."''

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-->'''Voiced by:''' Deborah Moore

->''"I'm no Orlesian wallflower - give me a sword and I'll use it!"''

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-->'''Voiced by:''' Shawn Dingwall

->''"Well, off I go! So many darkspawn to behead, so little time."''

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-->'''Voiced by:''' Nicholas Boulton

->''"You can't do this to me! I'll have you all flayed!"''

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-->'''Voiced by:''' Timothy Watson

->''"All of southern Ferelden covered by black clouds, the ground rotting beneath your feet, plagues and darkspawn raids going on until even the crows get sick of the smell of carrion."''

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-->'''Voiced by:''' Nicholas Boulton

->''"Rendon Howe was no friend of mine. The boy I knew... died at the Battle of White River."''

* BenevolentBoss: Iona admits it's not only strange to see a noble employ so many elven servants in one place, but to actually treat them ''well'' is nearly unheard of. Likewise, the Highever Alienage is said to be vastly more pleasant, prosperous and well-maintained than its Denerim counterpart.
** At least within the Cousland origin itself. It should be noted that Iona is a guest and [[EnslavedElves elven]] [[FantasticRacism servant]] of a close family friend, and she says this to Bryce's child's face, so it's just as likely she wouldn't say anything that would get her in trouble. (If the PC asks if she's angry about how humans have treated her people, shes gets very uncomfortable and begs you not to make her answer.) In the City Elf origin, word among Denerim's elves (the alienage that Highever elves frequently intermarry with to avoid KissingCousins) is that Highever Alienage is ''worse'' than Denerim--in part because it's much smaller and so it's harder for elves to blend into a crowd to hide from humans.
** That said, an elf in Denerim can used the silver the City Elf can give her to journey to the Highever alienage, and Higheverian elf brides are sought out--the woman you marry as a male City Elf is one--partly because their elves are actually richer. It could be that the Denerim elves simply want to maintain their insularity and view the more intermixed Highever community with suspicion. Soris, for example, is shunned when he becomes wealthier and marries a human. And, it's hard to make the case that ''any'' alienage in Ferelden is worse than Denerim. The place gets purged three times.
** The City Elf Warden's bride/groom is from Highever regardless of gender, and travel and marriage between the two alienages is implied to be fairly common. With such frequent contact between the two alienages, the rumors of humans treating elves worse in Highever holds water. Indeed, a female CE Warden who questions her groom about Highever learns that while the elves are on average richer there, the downside is the community is smaller and thus it's harder to blend into a crowd to avoid detection from abusive human masters. Thus, while castle guest Iona praises elven treatment to Bryce's child's face, Highever natives tell other elves a different story when the Couslands aren't in earshot.
*** Highever's alienage being smaller than Denerim's is hardly the fault of the Couslands, though. The fact that Highever elves are still generally better-off than the elves living in the larger, more expansive alienage in Denerim(the largest city in the nation by virtue of being the capital) has to count for something.

* NiceToTheWaiter: His good treatment of his elven staff and the Highever Alienage is apparently well-known.
** At least told to a Cousland PC in the origin itself. Outside the origin, Denerim elves hear tell of a different story.
*** Of the Alienage, sure, but Bryce's treatment of his elven staff is still laudable, especially when the general attitude toward elves is uncaring disregard at best amongst most other nobility.

*** Highever's alienage being smaller than Denerim's isn't really the Couslands' fault, though. Especially compared to Denerim, which is the largest city in the nation by virtue of being its capital.

*** Even so, Bryce's treatment of the staff(when most nobles' treatment of their elven servants is, at best, uncaring) is still something worth lauding.

* TheWoobie: Tavern chatter from the other nobles reveals that Wulff not only lost his Arling to the Darkspawn, but both of his sons were killed while evacuating West Hills.

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!!Bann Vaughan Kendels

* TheCameo: Assuming that she's still in power, she appears in ''Inquisition'' (potentially alongside [[spoiler:Alistair]]) at the end of the Mage plotline [[WhatTheHellHero chastising Fiona for her screw-ups]].

* HotConsort: To Cailan [[spoiler:and potentially Alistair. Inverted if she marries the Human Noble Warden, who acts as ''her'' consort]].

* OpportunisticBastard: Queen Anora will [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate]] or [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstab]] anyone so long as it satisfies her two goals: remaining in power and [[DaddysGirl securing the physical safety of her father, Loghain.]] Being a choice-based game, there are a number of options for how Anora will react if certain decisions are made. Should the Warden decide to back her at the Landsmeet, she will turn against her father, the regent, to secure power for herself. However, should the Warden decide to back [[spoiler:Alistair]] instead, she will betray the Warden and side with her father, despite the fact that Loghain arranged her husband's death, conducted numerous evil actions, and in doing so risked a civil war in Ferelden even as [[BigBad the Archdemon]] led [[TheHorde the Darkspawn]] to RapePillageAndBurn the country. In order to preserve her political power, Anora will also go through with political marriages, such as to a Noble Human Grey Warden, seeing him as a popular figure. She'd even go so far as to [[spoiler:marry Alistair, the bastard half-brother of her late husband]], and yet in another playthrough she would have the very same man she'd also [[spoiler: executed for being a threat to her]]. Anora has no master plan to get her way and few scruples, so she'll simply latch on to anyone who is most likely to give her the power she wants and do as they ask in return.
* PetTheDog: Anora gives Threnn, a soldier who was close to her father, a position as the Inquisition's quartermaster, because she had trouble with the army due to her UndyingLoyalty to Loghain and was unable to find work.

** [[spoiler: If the Warden allows themselves to get captured to ensure she escapes undetected, it's implied that her demanding that Eamon order a rescue attempt is less to do with gratitude, but because the Warden is politically useful and would give her enemies pause.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: In ''Inquisition'', if Anora is in power and the Inquisitor sided with the Mages, she appears to tell Grand Enchanter Fiona about how disastrous her actions were.

* AFatherToHisMen: He chastises Wynne for critizing his decision to abandon the Cailen's army on these grounds, claiming he wasn't about to throw away more lives of soldiers he knew and cared about for a lost cause. [[spoiler: In ''Inquisition'', Solas will note this is one of the impressions he got in the Fade while dreaming at Ostagar. If Loghain's still alive, the Inquisition's quartermaster, who used to serve under him, mentions that she got the chance to talk with him while he was at Skyhold. He recognized her and remembered her name, ten years later.]]

-->'''[[spoiler:Loghain :''' ''[sarcastic]'' Fine. I confess: It was entirely my idea that Uldred consort with demons. I had a dastardly scheme in which the utter destruction of Ferelden's best weapon would benefit me, personally.]]

* FallenHero: He gave up everything to restore Ferelden, and as a result began to resent the very people he won it for.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He makes the transparently evil Arl Howe his right hand man and believes his lie that the AlwaysLawfulGood Couslands are pro-Orlesian collaborators. Similarly, he's willing to make deals with Uldred, Jowan, and Caladrius, while distrusting the infinitely more reasonable Duncan. [[spoiler: If he's alive in Inquisition, he's on the wrong end of this, as Warden-Commander Clarel believes Magister Livius Erimond over him and tries to have him arrested or killed for speaking out against her insane plan.]]

-->'''Loghain:''' Honestly, elf, do you think that among all my crimes is the one that keeps me up at night? It's a bit ''egotistical'' of you, don't you think?

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: His retreat as Ostagar, according to him and his followers. The horde was simply too numerous, and the main battle line was already buckling when they got the signal. They still maintain this position almost a decade later in the third game. Basically no-one else believes this interpretation of events, though. As with most real life history, it's impossible to tell for certain if this is true, though it becomes increasingly clear to the player that at the very least, Loghain ''believed'' it was true and wasn't just lying to save face.

* MoralMyopia: Loghain will ''never'' forgive Orlais for "enslaving" Ferelden. After declaring himself Regent, Loghain sells Ferelden elves into slavery to fund his civil war. He never makes the connection. See FantasticRacism and {{Hypocrite}} above.

* NotSoDifferent: Loghain and the Grey Wardens (Duncan in particular) in their singleminded CombatPragmatism. Loghain's vendetta against Orlais and Duncan's against the darkspawn. The difference being, of course, Orlais is much more complex while darkspawn, especially during a Blight, have only one goal in mind.

* NouveauRiche: Despite being one of the most powerful noblemen in Ferelden, he's common-born, and has very little respect for Fereldan political tradition (or, indeed, ''the law'') as a result, having never been raised in that culture. Therefore, as a result, the royal court under his regency becomes a tyrannical den of corruption and abuse.

* TheStrategist: A military planner of great renown, having acted as a commander and planning campaigns for the kings Theirin since before Ferelden independence.

** Loghain always froths in moral outrage at the mere mention of Orlais due to its subjugation of Ferelden ("How fortunate Maric did not live to see his son ready to hand Ferelden over to those who ''enslaved'' us for a century" and "Which of you stood against the Orlesian emperor when his troops flattened your fields and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] your wives?!") and uses it to justify most of his crimes, but if [[spoiler: an Elven Warden spares him and, later at Camp, calls him out on selling alienage elves into slavery]], he is dismissive at best, contemptuous at worst.

* MoralMyopia: Loghain will never forgive Orlais for "enslaving" Ferelden. After declaring himself Regent, Loghain sells Ferelden elves into slavery to fund his civil war. He ever makes the connection. See FantasticRacism and {{Hypocrite}} above.

* AFatherToHisMen: He chastises Wynne for critizing his decision to abandon the Cailen's army on these grounds, claiming he wasn't about to throw away more lives of soldiers he knew and cared about for a lost cause. [[spoiler: In ''Inquisition'', Solas will note this is one of the impressions he got in the fade while dreaming at Ostagar. If Loghain's still alive, the inquisition's quartermaster, who used to serve under him, mentions that she got the chance to talk with him while he was at Skyhold. He recognized her and remembered her name, ten years later.]]

* BerserkButton: Take Loghain with you to Ostagar in the ''Return to Ostagar'' DLC, and he blows up when he reads those letters between Cailan and the Orlesian Empress Celene, which seem to indicate that he was going to dump Anora to marry Celene to unite Ferelden with Orlais. The dialogue between him and Wynne becomes even more heated, especially when Wynne's arguments become weak, realizing that the StrawmanHasAPoint.
-->'''Loghain:''' ''[roaring]'' '''''The cheating bastard!!!'''''\\
'''Wynne:''' Watch your mouth, Loghain Mac Tir, unless you have forgotten the company you now keep!\\
'''Loghain:''' It's not my company I worry about, madam, but my former son-in-law's! Do you see the familiar tone with which the empress writes him, as if my daughter were not already his wife?\\
'''Wynne:''' Cailan loved Anora with every ounce of his heart. It was plain for all to see. The only thing that ever stood between them was you.\\
'''Loghain:''' Are you ''blind'', old woman? The plot is plain as day within this letter! Love or no, Cailan was going to cast my daughter aside and wed himself to that bitch, Celene. In a single vow, Orlais would claim all that they could never win by war! And what would Ferelden gain? Our fool of a king could strut about and call himself an emperor.\\
'''Wynne:''' And what of peace? Would it not bring us that, at least?\\
'''Loghain:''' Peace? I would have thought your age might have granted more wisdom, madam. Peace just means fighting someone else's enemies in someone else's war for someone else's reasons.

** He's more subtle about it than a lot of other Fereldans, but he's also clearly bigoted against elves. If you call him on [[spoiler:conspiring with a Tevinter magister to sell the elves in the Alienage into slavery]], he'll try to justify it with his usual "IDidWhatIHadToDo to save Ferelden" line, neatly glossing over the fact that the elves are Fereldans, too. That said, he also makes it a point to say [[spoiler:after being recruited]] that his goal, while not [[spoiler:ideal on the slavery front]] (understatement), was to replenish the nation's coffers. He says that by the time of the Warden's intervention, the coffers were 1/3 of the way full and [[spoiler:a few dozen Elves had indeed been shipped off]], but he would've made it a point once the army was fully supplied and the war chest filled completely to supply the rest of the Elves in the Alienage so they could defend themselves. He's not nearly as racist as one might think, and taking solely the Landsmeet dialogue as being indicative of his stance isn't fair to his character. Granted, you have to pick the right options to hear this.

* GuideDangIt: It's difficult to have Loghain join but keep Alistair on the throne without some quick research.

** During the Landsmeet, Loghain [[spoiler: accusing Eamon of bringing Alistair forward just to put a puppet king on the throne to gain power]] would hold more weight if [[spoiler: Loghain himself hadn't locked Anora away for increasingly questioning and disapproving of his decisions, thus reducing her to a puppet queen for his own regency.]]
** Loghain froths in moral outrage at the mere mention of Orlais due to its subjugation of Ferelden, ("How fortunate Maric did not live to see his son ready to hand Ferelden over to those who ''enslaved'' us for a century" and "Which of you stood against the Orlesian emperor when his troops flattened your fields and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] your wives?!") and uses it to justify most of his in-game actions, but if [[spoiler: an Elven Warden spares him and later at Camp calls him out on selling alienage elves into slavery]], he is dismissive at best, contemptuous at worst.

* PaperTiger: It's pretty clear he's not the political powerhouse he might portray himself as. Highever is openly rioting against him, Redcliffe and nearly the entire Bannorn is warring against him, and according to Bodahn, the Darkspawn burn down Gwaren, his own fief, leaving him with Denerim under his military ocupation and Amaranthine, which ''Awakening'' reveals was increasingly divided because of what Arl Howe did. Actually losing to him at the Landsmeet pretty much requires the Warden to actively avoid the political sidequests, or for them to go out of their way to be a jerk to people they're trying to win over.

* AffectionateNickname: Refers to his younger son/daughter as "Pup."

* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: In-universe, nearly everyone seems to wonder why he married Isolde, seeing as she's Orlesian and displays many of the more ''[[FrenchJerk negative]]'' traits commonly associated with that nation. According to Alistair, however, it was/is a genuine love match.

** [[spoiler:With three possible solutions. One, you kill him. Two, you use blood magic to kill the demon in the Fade (and kill his mother in the process). Three, you use the Circle's lyrium to go into the Fade instead. Choices two and three make it possible to coerce the demon into granting you stuff. However, even if you end the possession, Connor will never be the same as before, even though he doesn't remember the event. Eamon notices that Connor is different, leading to fan speculation that you failed to kill the demon, but other conversations reveal that that is simply how this particular strategy of getting rid of a demon works.]]

* IAmAMonster: As an adult, Conner is one of the most anti-mage mages you can come across. When told that being possessed wasn't his fault, he defies that and takes full responsibility. He also thinks Tevinter is wrong for letting mages run around free and believes that mages like himself are monsters that need to be locked up. He also opposed the Mage Rebellion from the start.

* SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler:Inherited magic from Isolde's side of the family, who have produced several mages]].
* SurvivorGuilt: If encountered in ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Inquisition]]'', Connor suffers from massive guilt over the undead siege of Redcliffe. Even if told that he was not at fault, he will blame himself for taking the deal with the demon in the first place.

* {{Ambadassador}}: In ''Literature/TheMaskedEmpire'' he serves as Ferelden's ambassador to Orlais, post-blight. He also duels the imperial champion, with feathers.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: His retreat as Ostagar, according to him and his followers. The horde was simply too numerous, and the main battle line was already buckling when they got the signal. They still maintain this position almost a decade later in the third game. Basically no-one else believes this interpretation of events, though.

* {{Irony}}: In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', if he was spared in Origns, Loghain finds himself on the receiving end of [[spoiler:being branded a traitor by a leader who has jumped into the deep end of WellIntentionedExtremist. Better still, if the Inquisitor chooses Hawke to hold the line in the fade, Loghain will have to step up as the new leader of the ''Orlesian'' Wardens.]]

* SurvivorGuilt: If encountered in [[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Inquisition]]'', Connor suffers from massive guilt over the undead siege of Redcliffe. Even if told that he was not at fault, he will blame himself for taking the deal with the demon in the first place.

!!Bann/ [[spoiler: Arl]] Teagan Guerrin

* RankUp: [[spioler: After the Fifth Blight ended, Eamon retired to Denerim. Since Connor could not inherit his father's title due to being a mage (and possibly dead), Eamon declared Teagan as the new arl of Redcliffe]].

!!Bann Teagan Guerrin