About Hawke
****POSSIBLE SPOILERS****
All info listed here comes from the thread, “What do we KNOW so far?”, located at the Dragon Age 2 forums and authored by SirOccam.
- The main character’s surname is Hawke [press release].
- Male Hawke’s default first name is “Garrett”. [Podcast, Episode 2]
- Female Hawke’s default first name is Marian. [David Gaider]
- Hawke can be male or female [David Gaider], [Mary Kirby], [Chris Priestly]
- Hawke is human [Chris Priestly]
- Hawke will be voiced [Five Facts]
- Hawke survived “the Blight” [press release]
- Hawke is known as “the Champion of Kirkwall” [press release]
- Hakwe’s mother’s maiden name is Amell, and her side of the family is nobility and lives in Kirkwall. The “Hawke” family name is not nobility. [David Gaider - 09:22]
- Hawke is not related to Andraste, Flemeth, or Maric. [David Gaider - 37:24]
- Hawke’s father was an apostate mage, and tutored Bethany (and Hawke if he is a mage) in magic. [David Gaider - 16:04]
- Morrigan is NOT Hawke’s mother; Hawke is NOT the “god baby” [Victor Wachter]
- “Hawke can, indeed, be a mage.” [Mary Kirby]
- All Hawke voiceover artists have already been cast. [David Gaider]
- “We refer to the DA2 player far less often as Hawke than we referred to the player as Warden in DAO. Only people who know you intimately use the name, and even then we tend to avoid direct references as a rule to avoid repetition. Most people who don’t know you will use an honorific (or even by race, if they’re not human).” [David Gaider]
- Hawke is sometimes called Hawke, sometimes as “the Champion,” sometimes “Fereldan,” and “Brother” or “Sister” by Hawke’s siblings. [Dan Lazin - 30:38]
- Hawke lived in Lothering during the events of DA:O, fled north to Kirkwall [Five Facts]
