#also anders is bugged and he gave +10 approval whenever i clicked on him so now i'm at 100 after one single conversation

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I missed Awakening so here’s Warden-Commander Nika “If you don’t put proper armor on, I swear I’ll turn this Order around right now” Kader. She’s a sword and shield warrior specializing as berserker / champion. 

Nika Kader is actually an alias she took on after joining the Wardens. Before that, she was Ida Aeducan: Commander of Orzammar’s army, Endrin’s consort and Bhelen’s mother. Bhelen was still a baby when she was exiled after an attempted coup against King Endrin (like mother like son amirite) and her name was all but struck from the record. The people of Orzammar still remember her, but her legacy-- all the soldiers she’d personally trained, the successful incursions on darkspawn she’d led, the sections of the Deep Roads she’d secured-- has been reduced to vague mentions of a treacherous wife and mother and a cautionary tale for the nobles to better scrutinize their consorts.

She survived in the Deep Roads on her own long enough to reach a Legion of the Dead outpost, and then fought by their side for a couple of years before joining a contingent of Orlesian Grey Wardens and leaving for the surface.

Oghren just about loses his McFreaking mind when he figures out who she is, both from the facial tattoos specific to House Aeducan and her distinguishable combat style, but she denies everything. At least at first.