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3	Duncan, while hunting information on the Blight, manages to recruit six candidates to be Wardens. Left to their own devices after Ostagar, they change the face of Thedas forever.
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5	''[[http://archiveofourown.org/series/400441 The Age of Dragons]]'' spans the entirety of the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series and then goes a bit beyond into what happens with the children of the protagonists from the main game. It starts with assuming all the origins happened, and goes from there. The saga goes through ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', into ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', and then through ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' before finally moving on to the adventures of the next generation of heroes (the children of Hawke and the Wardens, among others).
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7	!!This story provides examples of:
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12	%%* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Hawke and Inquisitor Ruya clearly achieve this, though Hawke admits to the toll doing so took on him.
13	%%* BadassAdorable: Lenore Amell [[spoiler:The Messenger gets a few moments of this]].
14	%%* BadassArmy: The Inquisition and the Wardens.
15	* BadassBoast: Several characters make these. Jerath's borders on a catchphrase, and is occasionally borrowed by other characters.
16	--> If it were easy, someone else would do it.
17	* BadassCreed: Brehan gets a moment of awesome by spitting the Dalish Oath [[spoiler:into the face of the Divine herself, reducing the woman to tears]].
18	%%* BadassCrew: The entire blight killing gang.
19	* BadassNormal:
20	** The younger Jerath has no special abilities to speak of save for some templar training he can't really use. [[spoiler:He kills Abelas.]]
21	** Kels fled Ferelden to Kirkwall and was rescued by Hawke from Erlina. Hawke entreats Cullen to take Kels and a few others under his wing in the Templars. Kels never becomes an actual Templar, but follows Cullen to the Inquisition and acts as his runner and right hand. Manages to effectively survive the entire series with no special powers.
22	* BadassFamily: The Amells, and by extension the Hawkes. Ruya pointing out that one of her great-grandparents was an Amell is enough to scare Jerath and Anders [[spoiler:Both of whom are extremely powerful abominations]].
23	%%* BattleCouple: Pretty much every couple that gets any page time.
24	* BearsAreBadNews: Kieran likes to turn into one when a door needs to be broken down.
25	%%* BenevolentBoss: Hawke especially, though most of the main characters have shades of this.
26	%%* BewareTheSillyOnes: Hawke. Lenore, Sera, and Loghain Junior are lesser cases.
27	%%* BigBrotherInstinct: Hawke's defining characteristic, though it could also be simply a result of being a Hawke or Amell as the same trait shows up in Lenore, Carver, and Leandra.
28	%%* BigDamnHeroes: A Warden specialty.
29	%%* BlatantLies: Brosca loves these. Carver is prone to dipping into this on occasion when someone asks what he's been up to lately [[spoiler:Except he turned out to be telling the truth]]. Caleb and Varric, however, are the grand masters of the art.
30	%%* BullyingADragon: At various points characters do this literally.
31	* CharacterDevelopment: Brehan by far, going from shem hating jerk to the trusted left hand (and lover) of the Divine herself.
32	%%* ChekhovsGun: Several show up.
33	%%* ChildhoodFriends: Lenore and Cullen. Their renewing their friendship towards the end of the series is absolutely heartwarming.
34	%%* CloudCuckoolander: Lenore and Merrill.
35	%%* TheComicallySerious: Sten, and to a lesser extent Jerath
36	* CoolOldGuy: Tisallan. He's older than all existing civilizations, having been born in Arlathan itself. Caleb asks him for advice. Tisallan's response?
37	---> '''Tisallan''': Always walk a mile in the other man's shoes. That way, when you fully realize just how wrong he really is, you are a mile away. And he is barefoot.
38	---> '''Caleb''': Tisallan, you don't even wear shoes.
39	---> '''Tisallan''': I used to. But people kept walking off in them and never coming back
40	%%** Loghain also turns into one eventually, though he's a far grumpier version than Tisallan.
41	%%** Brehan, by the time of the events of Bloodline of the Dragon.
42	%%* CurbStompBattle: Happens pretty much anytime Jerath decides to draw his sword.
43	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Several characters, but Hawke and Jerath especially. Tisallan may have been the first ever SnarkKnight in Thedas.
44	* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler: Loghain Mac Tir goes from enemy of the Wardens to so loyal he effectively returns from the dead to continue fighting at Jerath's side]]
45	%%* DefectorFromDecadence: Dorian
46	%%* DefrostingIceQueen: Morrigan to Jerath, and on some levels Fenris to Hawke. Vivienne defrosts a little in some of the alternate worlds.
47	%%* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Anders, Jerath, Kieran, and Loghain Junior, though the latter two much more benevolent versions]]
48	%%* DoomMagnet: Both Hawke and Ruya.
49	%%* DoomedByCanon: Duncan [[spoiler:Made even sadder by him and Saitada falling in love prior to the battle at Orzammar]]. Bethany and Leandra are also this.
50	%%* DualWielding: Multiple characters, most notably Jerath.
51	%%* DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp: Hawke and the Inquisitor especially. Hawke occasionally laments his apparent inability to turn down a quest.
52	%%* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Rather than the ignominious death he gets in the game, Keenan gets to have one of these.
53	%%* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:Anders is very much not.]]
54	%%* {{Elfeminate}}: Subverted for Brehan and Fenris, played straight for Jerath.
55	%%* AFatherToHisMen: Cullen
56	%%* FireForgedFriends: Each story has a group of these, and part of what makes Bloodlines great is that the descendants of the original groups become FireForgedFriends themselves [[spoiler:Loghain Junior's parentage makes this especially heartwarming]]
57	%%* FlirtingUnderFire: Done by a lot of characters, but Iron Bull and Sulana often seem to treat fighting for their lives as foreplay.
58	%%* GlowingEyesOfDoom: [[spoiler:If any character's eyes change, bad things are about to happen]]
59	%%* GoodIsNotNice: Saitada, Jerath, and occasionally Hawke.
60	* HeroOfAnotherStory: Jerath and his crew occasionally pass through the stories of the others. Reading Order of the Broken Dragon before Inquisition will cause a lot of spoilers.
61	%%* HiddenBackupPrince: Alistair is one for Cailan. [[spoiler: Matril is one for Sebastian Vael.]]
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65	%%* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Delivered by several characters over the course of the story. Duncan Theirin giving this to Agatha Amell actually serves as their friendship bonding moment.
66	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Skyhunter and her entire crew. Oghren. Duncan. Wynne. Once you get to Apocalypse, characters start dropping left and right.]]
67	%%* KleptomaniacHero: Most of the Blight crew. Brehan makes sure to point out how hypocritical Alistair is being when he later yells [[spoiler:at his son]] for being the same thing.
68	%%* LadyAndKnight: Alistair and Cathiel, as well as Ruya and Cullen are bright options. Jerath and Morrigan, despite technically being on the side of good, are much closer to the dark archetype.
69	%%* LadyOfWar: Saitada, and Cathiel to a lesser extent.
70	%%* LapPillow: Morrigan and Jerath engage in this several times.
71	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Kieran does this a lot, even yelling at the author after the party ends up in the Deep Roads.
72	%%* LetsDance: Salla's call to battle at the end of Bloodline of the Dragon. It starts one of the most awesome running fight scenes in the series.
73	%%* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Characters with minor bit parts end up playing larger roles, such as Rory Gilmore and Nesiara.
74	* LuredIntoATrap: Hawke knows it's a trap. He goes anyway because he's got nothing better to do at the moment.
75	%%* MagicKnight: Ruya is quite skilled with a sword. [[spoiler:Her son Gavren inherits this trait, and Kieran has shades as well.]] Hawke can use a sword, but relies mainly on his magic and lets Fenris and Aveline handle the swordplay.
76	%%* MercyKill: Jerath is prone to delivering these. He keeps count.
77	* MuggingTheMonster: Happens to the main characters often. In Bloodline of the Dragon Salla and her team actually ask their attackers if they know who they are attacking. Upon realizing the muggers don't, they introduce themselves. The muggers promptly wish them a pleasant evening and find other things to do.
78	%%* MurderIsTheBestSolution: For a rather young elf, Jerath is disturbingly prone to this. [[spoiler:Turns out there is a good reason for this]]
79	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Salla and her crew tell their names to a group of Crows. The Crows promptly vacate the premises, proving themselves the smartest people in Tevinter.
80	%%* NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Fereldans subvert this.
81	%%* NoSell: Various templars can do this to magic, especially Carver and Jerath toward the end of the series.
82	%%* NoodleIncident: Hawke and Varric have quite a collection of these, as does Sera.
83	%%* OddFriendship: Varric's brain breaks just a little upon learning that Cullen and Lenore actually used to be involved.
84	* OldMaster: Tisallan [[spoiler:He's only a few years younger than Fen'Harel, who happens to be his big brother]] was born in Arlathan. In Apocalypse of the Dragon Duncan pretty much hands him control of Ferelden's university.
85	%%* OneManArmy: Hawke is referred to as this several times. It's accurate.
86	* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Some members of the younger generation are named after the older generation, such as Duncan, Jerath, Leandra, and Loghain.
87	%%* OneTrueThreesome: Lenore, Brosca, and Zevran. And it's adorable.
88	%%* OnlySaneMan: Saitada tries to be this. How well she succeeds is occasionally up for debate.
89	* PapaWolf: Hawke and Fenris are a pair of these, with Hawke serving as this for all of Kirkwall. Alistair and Cullen later get in on the act. Tisallan is more of a grandpa wolf.
90	%%* {{Polyamory}}: Lenore, Brosca, and Zevran
91	* ProperlyParanoid: Jerath Gilmore assumes everything they encounter is going to try to kill them. He's rarely wrong.
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95	%%* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: In all stories
96	%%* RapeAsBackstory: For several characters. [[spoiler:Jerath turns out to have one, it's the reason for his 'doesn't like to be touched' and 'doesn't drink' issues]]
97	%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Varric, Cullen, Ruya, Leliana, and Alistair all end up as this.
98	%%* RefugeInAudacity: A favorite tactic of Hawke. [[spoiler:Though adopted, both his children inherit this trait.]]
99	%%* RevengeBeforeReason: Both Saitada and Alistair have this where Loghain is concerned.
100	%%* RoaringRampageOfRescue: Several characters get these.
101	%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Alistair and Cathiel. [[spoiler:And later their son, Duncan.]]
102	%%* RulingCouple: Alistair and Cathiel
103	* RunningGag: Saitada ordering someone shot or pointing out that 'at least morale is high'.
104	* ShipperOnDeck: Lenore and Dorian are prone to falling into this, especially involving [[spoiler:Cullen and the Inquisitor]]. Leliana and occasionally Varric have this tendency as well. Lenore is notable for being the first to ship Morrigan and Jerath.
105	%%* SickeninglySweethearts: Oghren accuses Brehan and Leliana of being this.
106	%%* SilkHidingSteel: Many of the female characters.
107	%%* SuicideByCop: Anders attempts this. [[spoiler:Jerath helps him commit a HeelFaceTurn instead]]
108	* SupernaturalSensitivity: Brehan's ability to sense darkspawn borders on BlessedWithSuck.
109	* ATankardOfMooseUrine: Never chug something Oghren hands you.
110	* TeamMom: Saitada and Ruya. Ruya even comments about knitting scarves for all the Inquisition soldiers.
111	%%* TimeSkip: Several occur during or between stories.
112	* TokenEvilTeammate: [[spoiler: Despite effectively being the 'big good' of the entire series, ]] Jerath borders on this at times
113	* TooDumbToLive: Hawke explicitly calls Sebastian this [[spoiler: After he makes the mistake of arresting the children of Thedas's premiere badasses]]
114	%%* TricksterMentor: Solas, to Ruya [[spoiler: And later her son, Gavren]]
115	%%* TrueCompanions: A group of these forms the core of each of the stories.
116	* UndyingLoyalty: Jerath invokes this in several [[spoiler: such as Carver Hawke, Nathaniel Howe, and Loghain mac Tir]]. His namesake has it toward Duncan as a defining characteristic.
117	%%* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:Jerath, and later Loghain Junior]]
118	* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlFriend: Gavren is the most powerful mage in Thedas. Mess with him, and Leandra will beat you up.
119	%%* WarriorPrince: Alistair [[spoiler:and his son, Duncan]]
120	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: ''Sidetrips'' and ''Order of the Broken Dragon'' answer a lot of these questions, and a few end up being ChekovsGuns many in-story years later.
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123	The author goes further with ''Inquisition'', creating full separate realities where different individuals became the Inquisitor, walking ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/series/400447 A Different Path]].''
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125	!!This story provides examples of:
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128	* AchievementsInIgnorance: Kathan claims most of his most spectacular moments are because nobody bothered to tell him he couldn't do something before he went and did it.
129	%%* {{Adorkable}}: Kas is this around Sera. Varric and Solas have trouble wrapping their minds around it. Kathan and Sulana also have this trait at times.
130	* AffectionateNickname: Kathan throws this out all over the place. [[spoiler:Including introducing the Dread Wolf to someone as 'my dog, Fluffy.]]
131	%%* {{Ambadassador}}: Dorian and Matril end up as these.
132	* AmbiguouslyBi: Kathan and Sulana may both be this. However, despite doing what he has to do in order to sell a con, Matril has a distinct preference for men.
133	* ApocalypseCult: Kathan gets rather fed up with the number of cults out there, especially after he manages to start a few more
134	%%* BadassAdorable: Kathan and Sulana.
135	%%* BadassGay: Matril and Kas, along with their respective partners, are most definitely this.
136	%%* BattleCouple: Several Inquisitors and their partners are this, but Sulana and Iron Bull take it to a whole new level.
137	%%* BloodKnight: Sulana and to a lesser extent Kas.
138	%%* BrokenBird: Matril can nearly be said to have multiple personality disorder. He manages to weaponize this later.
139	%%* CallBack: Kathan wants to hit people with signs.
140	* CloudCuckoolander: Sulana can be this at times. How much Kathan really is this and how much is just him screwing with people is up for debate.
141	* CombatSadomasochist: Wounding Sulana just tends to make her even more dangerous.
142	* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Kathan is quick to point out that [[spoiler:pretty much every bad thing that ever happened could have been avoided if various gods had just talked to each other.]]
143	* CoveredWithScars: Iron Bull and Sulana regularly flirt by comparing scars.
144	%%* CrazyAwesome: Kathan puts special emphasis on crazy. Sulana is saner, sometimes.
145	* CulturedBadass: Matril moves through the nobility of Thedas as though he were born there. [[spoiler:Subverted in that it turns out he was. He's a Vael and around 4th in line for the throne of Starkhaven]] Surprisingly to most, Kathan is also this through his varied and eclectic education.
146	* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler:The relationship between Solas and Kathan improves considerably after Kathan tosses Solas around like a rag doll.]]
147	* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Both Kas and Vathran punch Solas in the face. [[spoiler:Kathan does this too, but he takes the precaution of dosing Solas with an anti-magic poison first. What makes it even more awesome is he actually asked Solas for the recipe.]]
148	%%* EarnYourHappyEnding: Despite various individuals not liking Kas one bit, they all agree she did this. All the Inquisitors but Vathran and Tan do this.
149	* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: Despite being stated to be slightly taller than Iron Bull, Kathan regularly asks people if they were expecting someone taller.
150	* AFatherToHisMen: Kas may not be the nicest person in Thedas, but she does not tolerate anyone screwing with her people.
151	* FromBadToWorse: Vathran manages to take the crapsack world that is Thedas and break it more
152	* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler:The main reason Kathan didn't kill Solas was he acknowledged the world was going to reach this point.]]
153	* {{Handwave}}: Kathan never does answer how exactly he manages to get his information. [[spoiler:Solas flat out tells him he suspects Kathan has some sort of innate Fade link]]
154	%%* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Iron Bull and Sulana, and to a lesser extent Kathan and Cassandra.
155	%%* HumbleHero: Several Inquisitors are this, particularly Kathan and Sulana, both of whom really didn't want the job. Tan and Vathran, however, subvert it.
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159	* ImmortalitySeeker: Kathan subverts this, stating plainly that he thinks being immortal would suck and that Solas may have done the world a favor by introducing mortality.
160	* IncompatibleOrientation: Both Sulana and Kathan flirt playfully with Dorian, though in Kathan's case there is probably some question as to how incompatible the orientation actually is.
161	%%* IronLady: Kas Adaar. Her name basically translates as 'melee-weapon flamethrower' and it shows.
162	* KickTheDog: Practically Tan's hat, and he does it gleefully. Vathran's are more unintentional [[spoiler:Though they do lead to Jerath giving Cullen a brutal dog-kicking.]]
163	%%* ManchurianAgent: Sulana and Matril both end up as this for Mythal. Matril doesn't take it well.
164	%%* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Vathran's motto.
165	%%* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Despite being a brutal man with no redeeming features, Tan may have accomplished this.
166	%%* ObfuscatingStupidity: Kathan, in spades. [[spoiler:It even works on Solas despite Solas knowing full well it's an act.]]
167	* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Sulana throws a lot of this at Solas. Kathan does too. [[spoiler:Except it turns out he's not so oblivious.]]
168	* PapaWolf: Vathran is a deconstructed version. His biggest mistakes come in part from wanting to build a world for his daughter in which elves are held in high regard.
169	%%* PetTheDog: Vivienne gets several such moments with Dorian when helping him deal with Tan.
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173	%%* RapeAsBackstory: Poor Matril has multiple such events in his past. Sulana was in danger of this, but the men who rescued her turned out to the heroic style of Templars.
174	%%* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kathan gives a rather epic and hilarious one to [[spoiler:Mythal, Fen'Harel, and Razikale.]]
175	%%* RelationshipUpgrade: In two stories where Brehan and Leliana don't reconcile, he and Cassandra get one of these.
176	%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Matril ultimately turns out to be one of these.
177	%%* SadisticChoice: Tan offers people a few of these. He gets in serious trouble when those people start taking third options.
178	%%* SafeSaneAndConsensual: Iron Bull and Sulana. Subverted for Tan and pretty much anyone who catches his eye.
179	%%* ShipperOnDeck: Kathan is this for Iron Bull and Dorian. Dorian cheers for Kathan and Cassandra in return. Interestingly, Vivienne seems to be this for Dorian and Eben.
180	%%* SnarkToSnarkCombat:
181	%%** Matril is good with a bow, but if he can't shoot you he's got no problem cutting you down verbally.
182	%%** Kathan will happily make you look like an idiot, often by acting like one himself.
183	* SpidersAreScary: One trait all the Inquisitors share is a fear of spiders. The reasons for these run the gamut from hilarious to tearjerking [[spoiler:Poor Matril.]]
184	* SpottingTheThread: Kathan's ability to do this borders on the supernatural. Matril has this skill as well, though he's less open minded than Kathan and thus misses some of the more outrageous things like Solas's true identity.
185	%%* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Kas and every mage except Vivienne. Vathran and Solas. Tan and everyone except Leliana.
186	%%* TheyDo: Kas and Sera. And it's adorable.
187	%%* TricksterMentor: Solas performs this role a little too well with Kathan.
188	* TheUnchosenOne: Kathan denies being in any way divinely chosen and is an atheist. [[spoiler:He manages to maintain being this even after threatening to become a god himself]]. Sulana doesn't consider herself chosen, but doesn't worry too much about it.
189	* UnwantedFalseFaith: Kathan really doesn't like it when people treat him as a messiah. Subverted by Tan and Vathran, both of whom cultivate it. Matril cultivates it at first before he begins to think that maybe it's not false after all.
190	* VagueAge: Dorian realizes that Matril cultivates this intentionally. Sulana's age is never given. She acts young, but is clearly old enough to be an experienced fighter.
191	* WaifFu: Sulana is a slender elven woman. She manages to impress both Cassandra and Iron Bull with her ability to kick ass.
192	* WhamLine: Kathan delivers several. [[spoiler:Most notably when he informs Solas that he knows exactly who Solas is, and then later when he calls Mythal out.]] Matril has a few of his own.
193	* WhatIsOneMansLifeInComparison: All of the Inquisitors are willing to sacrifice themselves at Haven. [[spoiler:Kathan gets a second such moment when he tells Solas that offering to save Kathan's life isn't reason enough for Kathan to be willing to let the Dread Wolf run around loose.]]
194	%%* WhatTheHellHero: Kathan asks this question a lot.
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