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Dragon Age: Origins, but make it ROLESWAP

everybody's still... yknow who they are, except, swapped combat archetypes. consider.

alistair's a rogue, not a warrior, because young alistair's instinct was to bash his sparring partner over the head with a shield instead of actually block with it, and he kept dodging until they gave up trying to make him use the shield right 

he had the practice running because he hated isolde as a kid - accordingly alistair develops his skill kit differently and idolizes different fighters as he grows up and now he's super fast and agile 

morrigan the warrior, who is very fed up with flemeth and flemeth is also fed up with morrigan, who spitefully Does Not use magic because Fuck Flemeth, and a few of the times she acted as bait to lead men into the forest they were decent people, actually, and taught her some things, and she started doing that 

she's very good at taunting things, imagine that - she is also very good at surviving taunting things, but needing to block lots means she doesn't have as much time to stab them in the back, so she leads enemies right up to flemeth's door and makes them mom's problem too 

(this morrigan would probably end up as some kind of reaver, and still refuse to use magic, kind of, except sometimes it's hard not to)

zevran the very snarky mage who doesn't actually need to hide that much 

the antivan crows need people who do all sorts of shit, so when they figure it out they teach him that too - he'd probably end up specializing in entropy? leaves fewer elemental traces behind, versus scorched floors and frozen-over things.

it’s not safe to learn blood magic as a crow - generally speaking they’re seen as loose cannons, and his handlers would kill him themselves if he made any deals with demons.

But maybe, under the table, morrigan who is Definitely Not A Mage scoots him some interesting books when he asks how reaver-ing works. She’s totally not a mage. Everyone else is just dull.

LELIANA A MAGE AND A BARD. SHE IS BADASS. SHE IS BEAUTIFUL. she is terrifying. nobody knows she is a mage because it's not safe and she would like to keep it that way, thanks. probably specialized in telekinesis? she is first and foremost a bard - she’s going to use the weapons at her disposal but she’s not going to get caught using them. She is still devoted to the Chantry, but 

wynne's very old, very tired, and at some point just started putting herself between the kids she loves and the people trying to hurt them. she's a tank now. still a mage, but not a magic combatant.

sten the surly rogue with very good aim with a very large bow nobody else can even draw the string of. this changes nothing else about him. he just uses different weapons. he does not pick locks, do not ask him to lie or steal. he follows the qun.

dog is dog. dog is a good dog.