best of luck! you can do it!

meda joined the veil jumpers after hearing about their work while spending time with her birth clan. her dads both gave their blessing, since she was apprehensive about leaving them at first

her parents do business with the lords of fortune and since she wasn't interested in being a merchant, she joined the lords.

atlas joined the shadow dragons because they wanted to help people.

mateo joined the shadow dragons because he feels he owes them a debt for saving him

emmy was born as a wrong-sex child to couple with mismatched social class in orzammar. she was given away to a family of elven traders from rivain who settled down once they returned home

it was determined that the mourn watch was best suited to raise/train gwyllgi but the clan would maintain some contact so gwyllgi would still know of their heritage

they visit the clan every other year or so but ultimately prefer life in the necropolis

gwyllgi's parents were dalish historians visiting the necropolis. they were killed in an accident and by the time the mourn watch were able to get into contact with their clan, little gwyllgi was showing signs of having death magic

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holy shit another quizilla user :o

i spent many, many hours on that site reading choose your own adventure stories

ultimately she thinks that the circles have a purpose as places of learning but require *heavy* reform, which may not be possible due to the public attitude toward magic.

as an apostate mage with no formal training, she also thinks that mages do need a place to learn and hone their skills.

in terms of magical versatility, she is wildly outclassed by even an apprentice from the circle. she makes up for it with raw power, which does have its drawbacks

while she's aware in hindsight that it would have been trading one shitty situation for another, at least the circle would have (probably) involved less people actively trying to kill her over the years.

(obv her housemate is leliana, who in this au is an orlesian spy who fled to ferelden after receiving a burn notice)

over time, amell unravels her housemate's past, confronts her own, and maybe becomes a bit more fond of her housemate than she intended

at the crime scene, her housemate is unusually unphased and able to provide a surprising level of insight. amell finds this interesting and resolves to bring her along more often when she consults on investigations.