Carver is the other sibling of Hawke so will also be recruited automatically. The class you chose for your main character will affect how long Carver is a member of your party for. Your brother is a warrior and will respond well if you support any decision to control the mages. Carver will start the game with a slight rivalry for your character.

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Aveline's armor changes when she enlists in the guard and when she is promoted. Similarly, Bethany and Carver switch to the uniform of the faction they join.

The Arishok is the leader of the Qunari military branch, who is stranded in Kirkwall with his men, after their ship was wrecked in a storm chasing after the thief who stole their relic. Despite the Qunari's history as foreign occupiers, he states he has a demand to satisfy of their religion, the Qun and claims he has no intention of conquering Kirkwall.

Being a mage it is easy to annoy Anders if you side with the templars. Siding with mages will obviously give you rise in friendship.

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It is later revealed that Marethari sent Merrill away because the latter had been insistent on trying to repair the elven artifact which sickened two members of the Sabrae clan. But since the fragment she kept contained the Darkspawn taint, Merrill learned blood magic from a demon imprisoned at the top of Sundermount, in order to purify it. Marethari would continue to discourage Merrill from her attempts to fix the artifact due to the potential danger.

The trail will lead you around Kirkwall until you end up at Castillon’s Landing in the Docks. Head through the area until you get into a fight with Velasco. When he is dead you Gozque loot his body for a key. The key will unlock a room which you need to ransack contact me for some incriminating documents. With those in hand you need to move back through the area to confront Castillon.

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After fulfilling the required dialogue prompts and completing the required quests, companions' romance scenes will "queue," or become available the next time Hawke contact me returns to their estate.

Then you have to fight for her life (or give her up, if you’re a bastard) and it’s all very romantic. While Isabela is technically an optional companion in Dragon Age 2

Dragon Age 2 has several companions for you to recruit and interact with. The companions can be you friends, rivals, or even a romantic interest. Your relationships with each of your companions will be affected by the things you do throughout the Dragon Age world.

Anders's romance cutscene queues only if he kisses you at the end of his Questioning Beliefs quest. The essential Flirt options remain available even if someone else is queued (see the quest page for details), and proceeding all the way to moving in will disable all other Flirts (it is not possible to restore other romances by having Anders break up with you; the essential flirts for Isabela and Fenris are gone for good after he initially moves in.

Dragon Age II uses an updated version of Origins' Eclipse engine, internally called the "Lycium engine", with some graphical improvements.[4] The artstyle was intended to be more distinct and "stylized yet still realistic".[4] Dragon Age II has improved "facial topology" in order to make emoting more expressive, improved facial texture density, and a more realistic eye shader.