Yesterday, I ran an f!Hawke through “Sheparding Wolves.” It’s been awhile since I did that one, as I have a ridiculous amount of Hawkes, and have been running the four or five completed ones through Legacy and/or MotA (and some non-completed ones to see how things go differently. So many Hawkes, so little time).

The Hawke in question is a rogue, and chose to fight the Arvaraad on the basis that Ketojan should be free. After he expressed the belief that the only correct thing for him to do was to die anyway, she washed her hands of the matter with the “I agreed to get you here; that’s all I really signed up for, and I did that. This is no longer my problem” option.

And then Ketojan said, “You know of certainty and borders. You are closer to the Qunari than you admit. Your role would change little if you accepted the Qun,” and a kind of side-eyed my screen.

“Your role would change little if you accepted the Qun.” Interpreted one way, this seems to say, “Carrying out instructions would not be a new thing for you.” Read another, more inferential way, it could potentially be interpreted as, “They too might use you as a fixer of problems."I expect this dialogue is the same on m!Hawke, though I have not gotten an m!Hawke anywhere near that quest in ages,

Except that Tallis’s background is made of "WTF is up with this” and apparently she was a slave first, then freed by the Qunari (how in Andraste’s name did she manage to get assassin skills as a slave? sense, it makes none), instead of being an assassin who converted, I would wonder if this was the interpretation of ONE LINE OF GAME DIALOGUE that Felicia Day seized upon as saying “female Qunari fighters totally a canon possibility.”

Yes, I just tried to make MotA/Redemption make semi-canon sense 😐 I am filing Redemption under fanfic and MotA under “I am wondering if half of this is Varric trolling Cassandra.”