History ComicBook / UntilWeSleep

* ThatManIsDead: Downplayed with Isabela, who cannot bring herself to use that name anymore (after days of [[BreakThemByTalking mental torture]] at the Qunari hands) but doesn't want to go by her birth name, either, so she just calls herself "[[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Captain]]" for now.

* BrokenPedestal: Alistair is somewhat disappointed to lean that Calenhad - the king who founded Ferelden - was really a Reaver.

* MyEyesAreUpHere: Isabela is sexy "in blood" and she obviously knows it.

* TheDragon: Subverted by "Arthur", who is set up as one to Aurelian Titus by Varric--who unceremoniously kills him as a regular mook he is a couple of pages in.

* {{Transsexual}}: Maevaris is revealed to be transgender when Varric rescues her from the dungeons. Otherwise her gender is largely unimportant.

* SuperDickery[=/=]LetsYouAndHimFight: Issue #2 cover depicts Isabela fighting Mae, her ally. It turns out [[spoiler:to be a not-quite-accurate depiction of her attacking Mae and Varric while being BrainwashedAndCrazy by the Fade]].

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Varric lampshades Alistair's going from the Templar Order, to the Grey Wardens, to King of Ferelden in a few years.
** TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard: And, on top of that, we learn that Alistair [[spoiler:has dragon blood in him, although that comes from being heir of King Calenhad of Ferelden]].

* WrittenByTheWinners: King Calenhad is painted by the Chantry as an all-round heroic guy who rose from humble origins to rule the kingdom. However, the Qunari remember the truth: [[spoiler:Calenhad was, indeed, of humble origins, but he actively desired power and to achieve it, struck a deal with a Witch of the Wilds (possibly even Flemeth herself). She instructed him to find one of the last great dragons and drink its blood, effectively [[RPGMechanicsVerse gaining the Reaver specialization]]. Unlike other Reavers, however, Calenhad's dragon blood was so potent, he passed it (if not his abilities) on to all his descendants.]] Subverted in that Isabella points out that the Qunari's version of the story may well be as biased and inaccurate as the Chantry's.

* WrittenByTheWinners: King Calenhad is painted by the Chantry as an all-round heroic guy who rose from humble origins to rule the kingdom. However, the Qunari remember the truth: [[spoiler:Calenhad was, indeed, of humble origins, but he actively desired power and to achieve it, struck a deal with a Witch of the Wilds (possibly even Flemeth herself). She instructed him to find one of the last great dragons and drink its blood, effectively [[RPGMechanicsVerse gaining the Reaver specialization]]. Unlike other Reavers, however, Calenhad's dragon blood was so potent, he passed it (if not his abilities) on to all his descendants.]] Subverted in that Isabella points out that this is all according to the Qunari, whose version of the story may well be as biased and inaccurate as the Chantry's.

* WrittenByTheWinners: King Calenhad is painted by the Chantry as an all-round heroic guy who rose from humble origins to rule the kingdom. However, the Qunari remember the truth: [[spoiler:Calenhad was, indeed, of humble origins, but he actively desired power and to achieve it, struck a deal with a Witch of the Wilds (possibly even Flemeth herself). She instructed him to find one of the last great dragons and drink its blood, effectively [[RPGMechanicsVerse gaining the Reaver specialization]]. Unlike other Reavers, however, Calenhad's dragon blood was so potent, he passed it (if not his abilities) on to all his descendants.]]

* {{Transsexual}}: Maevaris is revealed to be transgendered when Varric rescues her from the dungeons. Otherwise her gender is largely unimportant.

** Varric goes through a dream where he was never cast out of the merchant's guild and his lover is alive, but quickly snaps out of it, realizing it's "not how it happened".

* SpiritWorld: In the grand tradition of the ''DA'' series, the comic features a Fade Section. It also marks the first definitely canon entry of a dwarf into the Fade (dwarves cannot dream and thus cannot enter the Fade). Both previous instances of this were optional ([[spoiler:Oghren in [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins "Lost in Dreams"]] and [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening "Shadows of the Blackmarsh"]] and Varric himself in [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII "Night Terrors"]]]]).

* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler:Maric commends Alistair's leadership skills and stats that he probably makes a better king than himself.]]

* BitterSweetEnding: The heroes complete all they set out to do... but it doesn't bring any happiness to any of them.

* [[spoiler:AntiClimaxBoss: Aurelian is killed with little effort the moment Maric turns on him.]]

''Until We Sleep'' is an on-going three-issue comic book mini-series set in the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' universe, written by David Gaider, the lead writer of the games, and published by the Creator/DarkHorseComics. It provides the conclusion to the earlier mini-series ''ComicBook/TheSilentGrove'' and ''ComicBook/ThoseWhoSpeak'': Alistair, Isabela, and Varric finally corner the Tevinter Magister Aurelian Titus, the man behind King Maric's disappearance, in his fortress of Ath Velanis.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Varric recognizes a brainwashed Alistar by how pathetic his attempts at flirting with Isabela are.

** Varric goes through a dream where he was never cast out of the merchants guild and his lover is alive, but quickly snaps out of it, realizing it's "not how it happened".

** Isabela, strangely enough, goes through a sequence where she has joined the Qun as a warrior. She, too, wakes up from it pretty quickly.

* ShoutOut: "How do you know all this, Varric?" is what Merrill used to ask Varric in PartyBanter.

* StormingTheCastle: Team Alistair storms Aurelius Titus's keep Ath Velanis with the Qunari flotilla on artillery support.

''Until We Sleep'' is an on-going three-issue comic book mini-series set in the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' universe, written by David Gaider, the lead writer of the games, and published by the Creator/DarkHorseComics. It is a direct sequel to the earlier mini-series ''ComicBook/TheSilentGrove'' and ''ComicBook/ThoseWhoSpeak'': Alistair, Isabela, and Varric finally corner the Tevinter Magister Aurelian Titus, the man behind King Maric's disappearance, in his fortress of Ath Velanis.

''Until We Sleep'' is an on-going three-issue comic book mini-series set in the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' universe, written by David Gaider, the lead writer of the games, and published by the Creator/DarkHorseComics. It is a direct sequel to the earlier mini-series ''ComicBook/TheSilentGrove'' and ''ComicBook/TheSilentGrove'': Alistair, Isabela, and Varric finally corner the Tevinter Magister Aurelian Titus, the man behind King Maric's disappearance, in his fortress of Ath Velanis.