Carver's dialogue contains a list of conversations he shares with his companions.
Dragon Age II[]
Combat comments[]
Before a fight:
- Incoming!
- You ready? I'm ready!
- Alright, watch me!
- Time to prove something!
- I'll show them what I can do!
- I can do this, you'll see!
- I'm ready and waiting, let's see what you have.
- Look out! They've got back up!
During a fight:
- Watch for the big one!
- That's a strong one!
- How did that get by?!
- Stay out of reach! That one's big!
- What's that one throwing?!
- Watch out!
- Too far, see?
- With what? Too far!
- From here, we can regroup and do this!
- Gather 'round me! Regroup!
- I'm coming, hang on!
Kills an enemy:
- That was all me! Right there!
- I did that! Right there!
- That's how we did it back in Ferelden!
- Everyone see that? Down!
- You. Me. And an audience! That's what this is all about!
- Who's laughing now, huh?!
- I've got this one!
After a fight:
- Always watching out for your little brother, huh?
- You got us through that one, good start.
- Take a step, kill, repeat, repeat, repeat.
- It'll take a census to tally the dead when we're done.
No effect:
- Come on, come on! Something else.
- Blighted thing! I'm not getting through!
- Nothing is happening!
- This weapon is useless!
- Guess I'll try... what? Something else?
Recovering from KO:
- I'm back up!
- Can't keep me down!
- Not letting that happen again!
- I wasn't completely down! I can still do this!
About to KO:
Low on stamina:
- This better end soon!
- Can't keep pushing!
- Getting -getting tired of following you!
Someone else KO'd:
- (If Hawke falls) No, you don't get to be a hero on my watch!
- (If Hawke falls) Get up! Don't do this!
- (If Hawke falls) Don't you die on me, not after all this!
- (If Hawke falls) You're not leaving me like this! Come on!
- (If Hawke falls) You'll be alright. Damn it! You'll be alright!
- (If Anders falls) We lost the Warden? That's not right!
- (If Aveline falls) Aveline is down? Maker's breath!
- (If Bethany falls) Sister? Bethany!
- (If Fenris falls) Your pet elf has fallen!
- (If Isabela falls) We would lose the fun one. Get her up!
- (If Merrill falls) The elf girl is too soft, she's down.
- (If Varric falls) The dwarf has dropped a few more feet!
- They can't do that! I won't let them do that!
After a fight:
- Always watching out for your little brother, huh?
- You got us through that one, good start.
- I suppose you helped that time, a little.
- Of course we did.
- I think that's all of them.
Taking a potion:
- This will help, right?
Stuck:
- Something has me! Maker!
Trap:
- Someone left us a present.
- Since when can I do that?
- Need your little brother for that?
- So you can't do everything.
- Looks like you need a hand.
- I thought the eldest was the best at everything.
- Look at that, perfect.
- Couldn't've done it without me.
- A fine job if I say so. And I do.
Carver and Anders[]
- Anders: You don't like me, Carver?
- Carver: I don't like you.
- Anders: That's unfortunate. Hating someone just because they're a mage is a shameful thing.
- Carver: I don't hate you because you're a mage. I hate you because you won't shut up about it.
- Carver: Oppression this, templars that. I'd heard enough long before you.
- Anders: Maybe it's time you put some thought into it.
- Carver: What are you looking at?
- Anders:
- (If Hawke is male) Your brother is a mage. As was your sister and father?
- (If Hawke is female) Your sisters are... were both mages, as was your father?
- Carver: And I'm not. What of it?
- Anders: Nothing, it's not always passed to all siblings. But it's good to know that you understand our plight.
- Carver: Shove your plight.
- Anders: I'm sorry about your sister. She sounds like a special girl.
- Carver: Why? Because she was a mage?
- Anders:
- (If Hawke is male) Your brother says she had a good heart. Being on the run never made her bitter.
- (If Hawke is female) Your other sister says she was a good person. That she never turned down a chance to help people.
- Carver: Yes, yes. I'm sure the Chantry's got a shrine with her portrait on it.
- Anders: I was trying to be nice.
- Carver: Stick to surly. It works for you.
- Anders: Nice day to be planning a trip into the Deep Roads, don't you think?
- Anders: The Blight, the dampness, the festering darkness filled with tainted rats...
- Carver: Shut up.
- Anders: You've got a real chip on your shoulder, you know?
- Carver: I've got a big blade on my shoulder, magey.
- Anders: Right. Wonder what you're compensating for.
Carver and Aveline[]
- Carver: Did you approve my application?
- Aveline: I can't make you a guard, Carver.
- Carver: We were both soldiers. Why won't they take me?
- Aveline: I was an officer. And I follow orders.
- Carver: (Laughs) No you don't.
- Aveline: I also think of others before myself. You seem tired of that, and that's dangerous.
- Carver: Just when it's not my choice. You told them not to take me, didn't you?
- Aveline: Yes.
- Carver: I'm surprised you still travel with us, Aveline.
- Aveline: Carver, don't.
- Carver: You're ever so busy with the guardsmen. It must be a burden to slum with the refugees.
- Aveline: It's oddly comforting that you insult me like I'm family.
- Carver: That wasn't... no, I didn't mean that.
- Aveline: I know. But you should be glad that's how I took it.
- Aveline: I don't like some of the people you've been associating with, Carver.
- Carver: Talk to my brother/sister. He/She's the one in charge.
(If on friendship path with Aveline)
- Aveline: Maybe, but I know you get around.
(If on rivalry path with Aveline)
- Aveline: Who says I don't mean him/her too?
- Aveline: This city's full of people who are dead set on ending badly. I don't want to see you end up the same way.
- Carver: Would asking you to stop spying on me help in the least?
- Aveline: No.
- Aveline: So, Carver, have you thought about what you'll do if your expedition doesn't pay off?
- Carver: This is our only chance and you know it.
- Aveline: You're so damned proud you couldn't pick up a trade?
- Carver: And who would take on a Fereldan apprentice? Maybe in another year I could work my way up to pissboy.
- Aveline: Fine, let's crawl down some holes. Good bloody luck for your sake.
- Aveline: Tell me, how did your family escape Lothering? Almost everyone who hadn't fled...
- Carver:
- (If Hawke is male) My brother. If he wasn't with us, I don't think we'd be here.
- (If Hawke is female) My older sister. If she wasn't with us, I don't think we'd be here.
- Aveline: But you seem quite skilled as well.
- Carver: I'm not my brother/sister.
(When talking to Aveline during A Friend in the Guard and ask, "Do you miss being a soldier?")
- Hawke: This must be a very different pace from serving King Cailan.
- Aveline: It's just one more change, though. The real end for me was Ostagar.
- Aveline: What about you Carver? You were there. Do you feel something similar?
- Carver: No.
- Aveline: All right, then.
- Aveline: Bit of a tit, your brother.
Carver and Fenris[]
- Carver: So... this master of yours wants your markings back? Skin and all?
- Fenris: So his hunters told me. Unwillingly.
- Carver: So why not cover them up? Wouldn't that make you harder to find?
- Fenris: Let them come. I am not one to hide.
- Carver: Still, if it were me—
- Fenris: It's not.
- Carver: So you've really never thought of hiding from those hunters?
- Fenris: To what end?
- Carver: So you could, I don't know, have a life?
- Fenris: What life do you have? There are no hunters after you at all.
- Carver: I have a life!
- Fenris: One that you complain about. We are not always free to do as we wish, as you should well know.
- Carver: I do have a life.
- Fenris: Then I stand corrected.
- Carver: You're very different from other elves.
- Fenris: Oh? You know them all?
- Carver: No. I just... you look different. There's no denying that.
- Fenris: It is what I am. And unlike the problems you claim to have, I really did have no choice.
- Carver: Do we know anyone who isn't brooding every hour of the day?
- Fenris: Like attracts like, it seems.
- Carver: You know, Fenris, I have a tattoo.
- Fenris: You have a what?
- Carver: A tattoo. A lot of us got them before Ostagar. It's a Mabari. For strength.
- Fenris: Does it curse you with the ability to reach into a man and tear out his insides?
- Carver: Uh. I can make it bark.
- Fenris: Please don't.
(Next line depends on the third companion present)
- Anders: Yes, refrain.
- Aveline: Agreed.
- Isabela: Rather see it wag.
- Merrill: That's... ew.
- Varric: Seconded.
- Hawke: (Sighs)
Carver and Isabela[]
- Isabela: I saw you at the Blooming Rose the other night.
- Carver: What? No you didn't.
- Isabela: I suppose someone else stole your chin to romance Faith?
- Carver: (Scoffs) That's unlikely. She wasn't even working.
- Isabela: Mm-hmm. Got you.
(The next line changes depending on your third party member)
- Aveline: Carver!
- Varric: Oh ho! Nicely done.
- Merrill: I don't get it.
(If one of the previous lines didn't trigger, and Hawke has not slept with anyone in the Blooming Rose)
- Hawke: Carver, what would Mother say?
- Carver: You're just... that's not what I... shit!
- Carver: So, Isabela. You captained a ship? That's a lot of men to handle. For you to command.
- Isabela: Well aren't you just adorable fumbling for a topic.
- Carver: You say that like I'm harmless.
- Isabela: As harmless as a pup that will someday grow into its fangs and sink them deep.
- Carver: Sure, keep teasing. I'll show you how much of a pup I am.
- Isabela: I know. That's why I do it.
- Isabela: You look like a man I once dueled.
- Isabela: He was a little intimated by my reputation as a vicious pirate, but rose to the challenge.
- Carver: He looked like me, you say?
- Isabela: It went on all night, under the stars, the waves lapping at our ankles.
- Carver: On the beach? In the surf? How did you get proper footing?
- Isabela: We didn't. There was quite a bit of tumbling around, and we were soaked and sore by the time the sun came up.
- Carver: Did you... win?
- Isabela: I managed to get on top in the end, but I considered it a tie.
- Carver: Why is it always about sex with you?
- Isabela: It's not. Sometimes it's about sex with other people.
- Carver: You see? It comes up every single time we talk.
- Isabela: We're just talking, Carver. If it comes up, that's not my fault.
- Carver: What? I mean... that's not what I meant. It... it doesn't!
- Carver: I hate you so much.
Carver and Merrill[]
- Carver: So, you're not like a lot of other girls.
- Merrill: No, I'm an elf.
- Carver: Right, alright then.
- Merrill: Oh, did I miss something dirty?
- Carver: What? No! It wasn't dirty. It wasn't anything.
- Merrill: Oh? Right, because I miss a lot of dirty things and sometimes I wouldn't mind hearing them.
- Carver: Would you now?
- Carver: Your people came a long way Merrill, but I like to think that we have Ferelden in common.
- Merrill: I never saw Lothering. Did you walk as much as we did? Probably more, you didn't start with halla. Our ship stunk.
- Carver: Your ship?
- Merrill: There was something foul in the hold. I can still smell it.
- Carver: Oh, well, that must have been unpleasant.
- Merrill: It was. Did I miss something dirty again?
- Carver: No.
- Merrill: Do you miss it? Ferelden I mean.
- Carver: Sometimes.
- Merrill: Blackberries. They don't seem to grow here. And there were little song birds with black caps on their heads.
- Carver: I sort of miss the dogs barking.
- Merrill: Yes... It's been mostly humans barking at me here. Not nearly as cute.
- Merrill: How did you learn swording?
- Carver: "Swording"?
- Merrill: Those things you do with the sword. It looks tricky. Was it hard to learn?
- Carver: It takes a lot of practice.
- Merrill: Well, you seem good at it! I bet one day you'll be best sworder in Kirkwall.
- Carver: Merrill...
- Merrill: I said something wrong again, didn't I? Maybe I'll just stop talking.
Carver and Varric[]
- Varric: You know, Junior, it's eerie how much of a resemblance there is between you two.
- Carver:
- (If Hawke is male) We're brothers. What's eerie about that?
- (If Hawke is female) She's my sister. Of course there's a resemblance.
- Varric: Ooh, you thought I meant Hawke. I was talking about Gamlen.
- Carver: Maker, I hate you dwarf.
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- Carver: Don't look at me.
- Varric: What's your issue now, little Hawke?
- Carver: Don't call me...just don't alright? You're just looking for fodder for your stories.
- Varric: You think you're that interesting?
- Carver: I have enough trouble being overshadowed as it is. I don't need to get caught under an imaginary me, too.
- Varric: Don't you worry. I'm not in the business of lullabies or children's stories.
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- Carver: I'm surprised these tunnels don't simply collapse.
- Varric: Dwarves made them.
- Carver: Then I'm surprised they're not smaller.
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- Varric: You know, Junior, you're looking at this all wrong.
- Carver: Whatever it is you're about to say, I'm not interested.
- Varric: I'm a professional younger brother. Trust me, the center of attention's the worst place to be.
- Varric: When things go wrong, and they always do, that's where all the fingers point. Look at any kingdom in Thedas.
- Varric: You've got people who warm thrones, and people nobody sees who do the real work.
- Carver:
- (If Hawke is male) So my brother is a king now? Just what he needed.
- (If Hawke is female) And my sister is a queen in this scenario. Perfect.
- Varric: Point. Missing it. Ah well.
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- Carver: Varric.
- Varric: Carver.
- Carver: Still think you're helping while burying us in debt to your brother?
- Varric: Still riding side-saddle while bitching at your betters?
- Carver: Drinks later?
- Varric: Never miss'em.
Legacy[]
Carver's remarks[]
- (During Act 1) "Maybe we don't need Bartrand's stupid expedition. There must be something valuable down here."
(If Carver is a templar)
- "I'm a long way from needing money these days. If I wanted to visit the Deep Roads, I'd join the Wardens. They can have their burden. And I'll keep mine."
(If Carver is a Grey Warden)
- "The Deep Roads again. Like I don't see enough of that. There's something to be said for a Blight. Everything comes up where you can see it. And kill it.
- "The Deep Roads again, I suppose I'm lucky. That first trip, I could have ended up only six feet down. (Shivers) Free Marchers bury their dead, right? Or is that Orlesians? Sometimes I forgot which country I'm in."
Carver and Hawke[]
(In Act 1)
- Carver: Whatever we find down here, I don't want this getting back to mother.
(Humorous Hawke)
- Hawke: Keeping secrets brother? Tsk.
- Carver: She's worried enough. What good will it do her to know that this kind of thing is... in our blood.
- Hawke: Maybe she knew.
- Carver: Then she kept it to herself for good reason. Whatever we find, we need to bury it.
(Diplomatic Hawke)
- Hawke: We'll see and decide.
- Carver: She's worried enough. What good will it do her to know that this kind of thing is... in our blood.
- Hawke: Maybe she knew.
- Carver: Then she kept it to herself for good reason. Whatever we find, we need to bury it.
(Aggressive Hawke)
- Hawke: Not your choice.
- Carver: She's worried enough. What good will it do her to know that this kind of thing is... in our blood.
- Hawke: Maybe she knew.
- Carver: Then she kept it to herself for good reason. Whatever we find, we need to bury it.
- Carver: That Larius - that's what people become if they're corrupted? I mean, they showed us ghouls before Ostagar, but never live. Never talking. That's never happening to me.
(Humorous Hawke)
- Hawke: I'll check under your bed when we get home.
- Carver: You do that. Get the laundry while you're at it.
(Diplomatic Hawke)
- Hawke: Well, make sure that doesn't happen.
- Carver: It's that easy? Oh, well, everything's fine then.
(Aggressive Hawke)
- Hawke: Then don't let it.
- Carver: It's that easy? Oh, well, everything's fine then.
(If Carver is a templar)
- Carver: One day we'll take the Deep Roads. Do what those Wardens can't seem to get done.
(Humorous Hawke)
- Hawke: Right, can't be that big of a job. Saving the world.
- Carver: They couldn't make it look harder if they tried. And maybe they are.
(Diplomatic Hawke)
- Hawke: Probably not that simple, but I'd like to see it.
- Carver: Wouldn't we all.
(Aggressive Hawke)
- Hawke: Everyone else's job is easy, is that it?
- Carver: They've have better than a thousand years. If any of this has an end, you think they'd get to it.
(If Carver is a templar and All That Remains has not been completed)
- Carver: Mother shouldn't have to deal with this. As if you don't give her enough to worry about.
(Humorous Hawke)
- Hawke: Says the templar.
- Carver: A respected order. A position with a future, even if it's difficult. Never mind. I don't expect you to get it.
(Diplomatic Hawke)
- Hawke: Given our lineage, she was more upset by you.
- Carver: A respected order. A position with a future, even if it's difficult. Never mind. I don't expect you to get it.
(Aggressive Hawke)
- Hawke: You're the one who joined the templars.
- Carver: A respected order. A position with a future, even if it's difficult. Never mind. I don't expect you to get it.
(If Carver is a Grey Warden)
- Carver: That... man, and how corrupted he is? Remember that. That's what I'm fighting for.
(Diplomatic Hawke)
- Hawke: It is appreciated.
- Carver: You're damn right it is.
- Hawke: Then we agree.
- Carver: Well... good.
- Hawke: Good.
(Humorous Hawke)
- Hawke: I'll arrange a "thanking queue" when we're back in Kirkwall.
- Carver: Sure, make fun of the end of the world.
- Hawke: Best time for it, I'd think.
- Carver: Well... good.
- Hawke: Good.
(If Carver is a Grey Warden and All That Remains has not been completed)
- Carver: Mother shouldn't have to deal with this. I give her enough to worry about.
- Hawke: Hard to call this your fault.
- Carver: Trouble follows our name I guess. The price of potential. At least you stay close to home. Must be nice.
(Humorous Hawke)
- Hawke: Oh yes, bon-bons and peppermints until I am absolutely stuffed. All right, I didn't mean it like that.
(Aggressive Hawke)
- Hawke: What's that supposed to mean?
- Carver: I, er, nothing. Nothing. Let's just figure this out.
(Diplomatic Hawke)
- Hawke: I don't think you know what I do.
- Carver: Maybe that's best.
(Or, in a rivalry)
- Carver: Trouble follows our name I guess. The price of potential. We Wardens will eventually save the world, and you... well, I'm sure you'll amount to something.
(Humorous Hawke)
- Hawke: Right. Funny.
(Aggressive Hawke)
- Hawke: Trying hard, brother.
(Diplomatic Hawke)
- Hawke: That's the plan.
(If Carver is a templar and All That Remains has been completed)
- Carver: Another mess. Is it bad that I'm glad Mother isn't around to suffer this?
(Humorous Hawke)
- Hawke: We do attract a peculiar kind of fortune.
- Carver: The sides we're on, it's all but guaranteed one of us would be worrying her. If I knew how to fix that, well... it doesn't matter. let's just get this mess cleaned up.
(Diplomatic Hawke)
- Hawke: I don't want to get into it.
- Carver: The sides we're on, it's all but guaranteed one of us would be worrying her. If I knew how to fix that, well... it doesn't matter. let's just get this mess cleaned up.
(Aggressive Hawke)
- Hawke: She knew what to expect.
- Carver: The sides we're on, it's all but guaranteed one of us would be worrying her. If I knew how to fix that, well... it doesn't matter. let's just get this mess cleaned up.
(If Carver is a Grey Warden in Act 3)
- Carver: Another mess. Is it bad that I'm glad Mother isn't around to suffer this?
(Humorous Hawke)
- Hawke: We do attract a peculiar kind of fortune.
- Carver: I died my way into the Wardens and you punched your way to Champion. We are esteemed.
- Hawke: Go with your strengths I guess.
(Diplomatic Hawke)
- Hawke: I don't want to get into it.
- Carver: I died my way into the Wardens and you punched your way to Champion. We are esteemed.
- Hawke: Well deserved, every bit of it.
(Aggressive Hawke)
- Carver: The corruption of that... man. I've been a Warden how long, and I've ever seen anything like that. I guess that's why I'm still alive. To stop that.
(Humorous Hawke)
- Hawke: And dumb luck. That's the other reason you're alive.
- Carver: (Laughs) Credit where it's due, I suppose.
(Diplomatic Hawke)
- Hawke: I don't envy you the job.
- Carver: The attacks that brought me here were almost a welcome distraction. A normal assault with a normal enemy. I should have known, really. Nothing normal about us.
(Aggressive Hawke)
- Hawke: First things first, Warden.
- Carver: Right. You, then everything else. Got it.
(If Carver is a Grey Warden and All That Remains has not been completed)
- Carver: Mother shouldn't have to deal with this. I give her enough to worry about.
- Hawke: Hard to call this your fault.
- Carver: Trouble follows our name I guess. The price of potential. At least you stay close to home. Must be nice.
(Humorous Hawke)
- Hawke: Oh yes, bon-bons and peppermints until I am absolutely stuffed. All right, I didn't mean it like that.
(Aggressive Hawke)
- Hawke: What's that supposed to mean?
- Carver: I, er, nothing. Nothing. Let's just figure this out.
(Diplomatic Hawke)
- Hawke: I don't think you know what I do.
- Carver: Maybe that's best.
(Or, in a rivalry)
- Carver: Trouble follows our name I guess. The price of potential. We Wardens will eventually save the world, and you... well, I'm sure you'll amount to something.
(Humorous Hawke)
- Hawke: Right. Funny.
(Aggressive Hawke)
- Hawke: Trying hard, brother.
(Diplomatic Hawke)
- Hawke: That's the plan.
(If Carver is a templar and All That Remains has been completed)
- Carver: Another mess. Is it bad that I'm glad Mother isn't around to suffer this?
(Humorous Hawke)
- Hawke: We do attract a peculiar kind of fortune.
- Carver: The sides we're on, it's all but guaranteed one of us would be worrying her. If I knew how to fix that, well... it doesn't matter. let's just get this mess cleaned up.
(Diplomatic Hawke)
- Hawke: I don't want to get into it.
- Carver: The sides we're on, it's all but guaranteed one of us would be worrying her. If I knew how to fix that, well... it doesn't matter. let's just get this mess cleaned up.
(Aggressive Hawke)
- Hawke: She knew what to expect.
- Carver: The sides we're on, it's all but guaranteed one of us would be worrying her. If I knew how to fix that, well... it doesn't matter. let's just get this mess cleaned up.
(If Carver is a Grey Warden in Act 3)
- Carver: Another mess. Is it bad that I'm glad Mother isn't around to suffer this?
(Humorous Hawke)
- Hawke: We do attract a peculiar kind of fortune.
- Carver: I died my way into the Wardens and you punched your way to Champion. We are esteemed.
- Hawke: Go with your strengths I guess.
(Diplomatic Hawke)
- Hawke: I don't want to get into it.
- Carver: I died my way into the Wardens and you punched your way to Champion. We are esteemed.
- Hawke: Well deserved, every bit of it.
(Aggressive Hawke)
- Hawke: She knew what to expect.
- Carver: I died my way into the Wardens and you punched your way to Champion. We are esteemed.
- Hawke: I'm not sure we can handle much more success.
(If Carver is a templar in Act 3)
- Carver: Everything lower than Lowtown should just be filled in. The lot of it.
(Humorous Hawke)
- Hawke: So kill everything lower than your upturned nose?
- Carver: If you don't want rats, you get rid of the colony.
- Hawke: And then whatever eats rats has to look your way.
- Carver: Well, lets do nothing then. My mistake.
(Aggressive Hawke)
- Hawke: Shut up.
- Carver: Yes, yes, too simple for the great machinations of the Elder Hawke.
- Hawke: No, really, just shut up.
(Diplomatic Hawke)
- Hawke: Seems a little harsh.
- Carver: Really? You like chasing people back down their holes? I'd prefer they never came out in the first place.
- Hawke: It's not a choice everyone has.
- Carver: If they can't make it, doesn't mean I can't.
(Breaking the seals)
- Carver: I suppose he won't stop coming after us unless we do this.
(Humorous Hawke)
- Hawke: If you like, we could leave a strongly worded note on his sarcophagus and go.
- Carver: You're so clever.
Carver and Anders[]
(During Act 1)
- Anders: It must be hard being around so many darkspawn. After what happened to your sister.
- Carver: I'd happily spend the rest of my life doing nothing but making them pay. For everything.
- Anders: Have you thought about joining the Grey Wardens? They've got a whole club for people just like you.
- Carver: If I did join the Wardens, you can be bloody sure I wouldn't run away to go live in some sewer.
- Anders: But we'd all be so sorry to see you go...
(If Carver is a templar)
- Anders: So, templar. Is the order everything you wished for?
- Anders: Pithed any good mages lately? That's what you do now, right?
- Anders: It must wear on you, given your lineage. No wonder you're quiet.
(If Hawke is male)
- Carver: Be grateful. You're free because you know my brother. Don't push it.
(If Hawke is female)
- Carver: If I could take you without risking my sister, you'd never see daylight again. Clear?
(Depending on who is in the party)
- Anders: Oh, yes ser, please ser.
(Or)
- Isabela: Aww, why can't templars and mages bond over a common love of women's clothing?
(If Hawke is in a male and in a romance)
- Carver: Be grateful. For some reason my brother cares for you. Be thankful, understood?
(If Hawke is female and in a romance)
- Carver: My sister cares for you. I'm silent for her sake. Be thankful.
(If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality)
- Hawke: Both of you, please.
(If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality)
- Hawke: Helmet and Staffy should learn to get along.
(If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality)
- Hawke: Both of you, shut it.
(If Carver is a Grey Warden)
- Anders: You've taken to life as a Warden. I figured you for the type.
- Carver: I'm not the coward you are, if that's what you mean.
- Anders: The plight of every mage is my burden. You'd think with your lineage, you'd understand.
- Carver: Your whining ranks a little lower than the end of the bloody world. But do go on. And on.
- Anders: Is it wrong to want a world worth saving?
- Hawke:
- (If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality) Both good points. But not now, okay?
- (If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality) Less complaining, more survive-the-dungeoning.
- (If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality.) I want some peace and quiet. How about that?
Carver and Aveline[]
(During Act 1)
- Aveline: Your form's sloppy, Carver. Stiffen up or the darkspawn will take your blade.
- Carver: Right. I'll keep that in mind.
- Aveline: And you're angry, why?
- Carver: You didn't fare any better than I did the last time we faced darkspawn.
- Aveline: If they take your blade, people die. That's not happening again. Stiffen up.
- Carver: Yes ma'am.
(If Carver is in a friendship with Hawke)
- Aveline: You're making a name for yourself in the templars.
- Carver: And you've earned one, Captain.
- Aveline: Have I?
- Carver: Things the way they are, I wouldn't have anyone else in the position. Or watching out for my brother/sister.
(If Carver is a templar and rivals with Hawke)
- Aveline: You're making a name for yourself in the templars.
- Carver: And you're earning one, Captain.
- Aveline: Am I now?
- Carver: Just be careful. The order would be more than willing to...assume more authority for protecting the city.
- Aveline: That's not how it works.
- Carver: Not yet.
(Or, if Aveline married Donnic)
- Aveline: You're making a name for yourself in the templars.
- Carver: And you've changed yours, Aveline Hendyr. Let me know if you ever need him run out of town or something.
- Aveline: (Laughs) I will do that, Carver.
(If Carver is a Grey Warden)
- Aveline: I'm glad you found a place with the Wardens.
- Carver: Well, it's not the city guard, but it'll do.
- Aveline: Carver... it wasn't the place for you.
- Carver: No, it's all right. It is. It cost a lot, but I get it. I really was a bit of a tit those days, wasn't I?
- Aveline: Well...
(Depending on who is here)
- Varric: No shit.
- Fenris: Insufferable.
- Isabela: Legendary.
- Anders: Maker, yes.
- Sebastian: I've heard as much.
(If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality)
- Hawke: Spoiled, annoying, thick-headed, brattish little nitwit of a... oh, have we stopped?
Carver and Fenris[]
- Fenris: You must hate the darkspawn, after what they did to your home.
(During Act 1)
- Carver: And to Bethany.
- Hawke:
- (If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality) Mother is still sick with grief.
- (If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality) Well, I hate them a lot.
- (If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality) There was nothing we could do back then.
- Fenris: I never knew her. I'm sorry for your loss.
- Carver: Thank you.
(If Carver joined the templars)
- Carver: Absolutely. And the magic that brought them to this world.
- Fenris: Then we're agreed on something.
(If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality)
- Hawke: I'm not sure that's healthy.
- Carver:
- (Friendship) (Laughs) For me or him?
- (Rivalry) For mages, definitely not.
(If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality)
- Hawke: Tempered by an understanding that not all mages bear responsibility... right?
- Carver:
- (Friendship) Yes... yes. Reason rules over all.
- (Rivalry) Oh, stow it.
(If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality)
- Hawke: "Magic" or "mages"?
- Carver:
- (Friendship) There are exceptions... occasionally.
- (Rivalry) Depends on the mage, doesn't it?
(If Carver joined the Wardens and is on the rivalry path)
- Carver: I don't know that I hate them exactly. It's... deeper than that. But yes, after what happened to Bethany, I won't let that go. So I fight.
(If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality)
- Hawke: Good for you.
- Carver: Oh, thank you.
(If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality)
- Hawke: Our hero.
(If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality)
- Hawke: Saving the day at last.
- Carver: Yeah. So shut it.
(If Carver joined the Wardens and is on the friendship path)
- Carver: I don't know that I hate them exactly. It's... deeper than that. But I hate what happened to Bethany, and many more like her.
(If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality)
- Hawke: Good for you.
- Carver: I hope so. Good for someone anyway.
(If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality)
- Hawke: Our hero.
(If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality)
- Hawke: Saving the day at last.
- Carver: Not so much. But I'm trying.
Carver and Isabela[]
(In Act 1)
- Carver: So... Isabela.
- Isabela: Oh, Carver, I do love the way you say my name.
- Carver: I... er... thank you?
- Isabela: Carver, if you stop breathing every time a woman compliments you, you'll never be awake when the fun starts.
(If Carver is a templar)
- Isabela: You certainly fill out a skirt Carver. A shame, I suppose you're all religious and such now.
- Carver: Do you know how long the Chant of Light is? How much stamina it requires?
- Isabela: Go on...
- Carver: With passion'd breath comes darkness, but with many against Her, She finds His light untiring as it parts the Veil.
- Isabela: Not sure if I'm aroused or scared. I like it.
(If Hawke is in a romance with Isabela)
- Hawke: No you don't. No, she doesn't!
(If Sebastian is in the party)
- Sebastian: Don't do that to the Chant!
- Isabela: Shush, you.
(If Carver is a Grey Warden)
- Isabela: You've certainly...filled out, Carver. Shame, really, I hear joining the Wardens separates the men from their "boys."
- Carver: We rarely have children, true. But don't worry, that just means I try ever so much harder.
- Isabela: Ooh, I like you all grown up.
(If Hawke is in a romance with Isabela)
- Hawke: No you don't. No, she doesn't!
(If Varric is in the party)
- Varric: Junior took down the Rivaini? Who's telling this story?
(If Aveline is in the party)
- Aveline: You'd better not.
Carver and Merrill[]
(During Act 1)
- Carver: So... what are you doing later?
(If Hawke is female)
- Merrill: Oh, probably trying to stop creepy things from eating your sister. That happens a lot, come to think of it.
(If Hawke is male)
- Merrill: Probably casting spells at whatever's trying to gnaw through your brother's shins. Strange how many creatures go for the shins.
- Carver: Shocking, that. No, I meant after we return to Kirkwall.
- Merrill: You know, a lot of the creatures down here aren't very nice. Don't they teach manners underground?
- Hawke: Merrill...
- Merrill: I missed something again, didn't I?
(After Act 1)
- Carver: So, Merrill. Do you have any plans I could interrupt?
(If Hawke is female)
- Merrill: Oh, probably trying to stop creepy things from eating your sister. That happens a lot, come to think of it.
(If Hawke is male)
- Merrill: Probably casting spells at whatever's trying to gnaw through your brother's shins. Strange how many creatures go for the shins.
- Carver: I was thinking more along the lines of the Hanged Man? Although I suppose the same warning could apply there. What I mean is, or meant to say is... wow, how do you still muddle me?
(If Isabela is in the party)
- Isabela: Interesting.
- Merrill: I missed something again didn't I?
(If Hawke is in a romance with Merrill)
- Carver: So, you and Merrill, huh?
(If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality or has a rivalry with Carver)
- Hawke: Merrill and I. Yes.
- Carver: Wonderful. Happy for you.
- Merrill: I missed something again didn't I?
Carver and Sebastian[]
(If Carver is a templar)
- Sebastian: I'm glad that a sword of the Chantry has joined us.
- Carver: Right. Keep it to yourself.
- Sebastian: I'm sorry?
- Carver: You don't understand this life. I didn't.
(If Carver is a Grey Warden)
- Sebastian: I'm honoured to have a Grey Warden with us.
- Carver: It's unusual, that's for certain.
- Sebastian: Yes, I know the restrictions of your sacrifice, I won't presume to understand it.
- Carver: Thank you.
(If Carver is a templar and Hawke is in a friendly romance with Sebastian)
- Sebastian: Is something troubling you, brother?
- Carver: I'm not your brother.
- Sebastian: I'm not familiar with Ferelden tradition but I married your sister. I believe that makes us brothers.
- Carver: A "chaste marriage." Some invention of yours, no doubt.
(If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality)
- Hawke: Carver, please be happy for me.
- Carver: For as long as this is what you want. The day after...
- Sebastian: That day will not come. I am certain.
(If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality)
- Hawke: Aww. Would you feel better if I slept with him? Because I totally would. Right here.
- Carver: Sister, please!
- Sebastian: Yes, love... rein it in.
(If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality)
- Hawke: I'm happy. Play nice with your new brother.
- Carver: If you insist.
- Hawke: I do.
Carver and Varric[]
(During Act 1)
- Varric: What's the matter Junior? Three assassination attempts! You're the centre of attention! I thought you'd be happier.
- Carver: They were trying to lure my brother into a trap, that's all.
- Varric: It's a start. Keep at it and pretty soon, you'll get some thugs of your very own.
(If Carver is a templar)
- Varric: I'll bet the Knight-Commander was thrilled one of her templars was attacked in the Gallows.
- Carver: Ecstatic.
- Varric: Did she make you clean up the mess?
- Carver: We hired some dwarves. Proper ones, with swabbing beards.
- Varric: Good to know the Paragons have steady work.
(If Carver is a Grey Warden)
- Varric: You've been away too long, Junior.
- Carver: Running short of fodder for your stories?
- Varric: Do you know another lovable lug with more sword than sense?
- Carver: I've seen things far more threatening than your verse, my friend. Do your worst.
- Varric: So be it. We shall meet in battle when properly drunk. And safe from darkspawn, blah blah blah.
Mark of the Assassin[]
Carver's remarks[]
- "You can train a wyvern for riding if you break it young. It takes a skilled man, and a small man."
- (After dealing with the huntsman) "Turnips are too good for that bastard."
- (When clicked, anywhere) "Not one person here has spoken to me. It's like I'm your squire."
- (When clicked, after being released from the Dungeons) "So anyone can be a Qunari? What were the horned ones before that, then?"
- (When clicked, after entering the Retreat) "Why are we still trusting this girl?"
(During the fight with Leopold)
- Carver: Lure him to the cliff!
(If you poisoned Leopold previously)
- Carver: Good work, that'll make him easier to handle.
Carver and Hawke[]
(After the ambush in Hightown)
- Carver: Why can't we ever meet any normal people?
- Tallis: I'm normal!
- Carver: You jumped off a roof and stabbed a man in the back.
- Tallis: In a completely normal fashion!
(During Act 1)
- Carver: Maybe I should join the Qun
- Carver: They're warriors. They respect strength, determination. They have no family ties.
- Hawke:
- (If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality) Really? That's the draw?
- (If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality) You might struggle with the "obedience to authority" part.
- (If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality) And they kill you if you whine. You'd hate it.
- Carver: Ha! Got you.
- Carver: I'm not joining the bloody Qun. But Gamlen... he'd fall for it. Hmm...
(If Carver is a templar)
- Carver: Try not to cause too much trouble, will you? I have to uphold the tenets of the order now.
(Friendship and rivalry)[confirmation needed]
- Hawke:
- (As a friend) Am I... compatible with those tenets?
- (As a rival) Should I be worried, templar?
- Carver: Don't you remember how we scrambled to buy influence? It worked, obviously.
- Carver: No one is touching Hawke of Hightown. Not without a lot of weight behind them.
(Alternative)
- Hawke:
- (If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality) I don't think I'm cut out to follow your tenets.
- (If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality) Well, you know where you can "uphold" them.
- (If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality) I'll try and work in some mage-oppression too.
- Carver: Right. You and I can keep it civil until you're done... whatever it is you think you're doing.
(If Carver is a Grey Warden)
- Carver: So, still playing at these little adventures.
(Friendship)
- Carver: You never did know when to put away your toys.
(If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality)
- Hawke: So "grow up" is what my little brother is saying.
- Carver: Seems odd, doesn't it?
(If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality)
- Hawke: But they's such fun! And you're so old now.
(If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality)
- Hawke: And you never knew when to shut up.
- Carver: Harsh, but fair.
- Carver: Have your fun. But it has to end someday. Everything does.
(Rivalry)
- Carver: Seems like you could be doing something bigger with your name.
(During Act 2)
- Hawke:
- (If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality) You should come see the estate before you judge.
- (If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality) Do you have an estate? I have an estate.
- (If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality) Seems like sour grapes.
- Carver: Right. The family fortune. And yet you're still chasing stuff like this.
- Carver: Sounds like it's ringing hollow, Brother.
(Or if during Act 3)
- Hawke:
- (If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality) The mantle of Champion sits pretty comfortably.
- (If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality) Um, hello: Champion.
- (If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality) I'm the Champion. What do you want?
- Carver: Right. I know how you got the title. How often do you think that's going to happen?
- Carver: Everything ends. Someday.
- Carver: Is this revenge?
- Carver: You're mad at me for something, so you drag me out to "Baron Paucity de Rochfort's" grand fete?
(If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality)
- Hawke: I figured there'd at least be free food.
- Carver: I do like free food.
- Hawke: I've got your back.
(If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality)
- Hawke: (Chuckles) I've been calling him "Duke Prosperity," but Paucity de Rochfort is much better.
- Carver: Le Baron du Stinky-Cheese...
(If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality)
- Hawke: Yes, inviting you to a party is an insidious punishment I've been planning for months.
- Carver: Probably going to make me eat the moldy cheese, too.
(About the three statues in the Dungeons)
- Carver: Look at these guys. "Arr. Would yer like me to swab yer poop deck, matey?"
- Hawke: Carver, stop.
- Carver: Sorry.
Carver and Anders[]
(While trying to find Hawke)
- Anders: I told you we shouldn't have turned left back there!
- Carver:
- (If Hawke is female) Maker forgive me not having my sister's sense of direction!
- (If Hawke is male) Excuse me if I don't share my dear brother's sense of direction!
- Anders: For Andraste's sake! Leave Hawke out of this!
- Carver: Perhaps we'll find our way by considering the plight of mages in modern- shut your bloody face.
- Anders: Just think, if your mother had stayed in Kirkwall, this could have been your life. Servants. Chateaus. Foxhunts with visiting royals.
- Carver: Spare me.
- Anders:
- (During Act 1) Isn't that what you want? No magic, no running, no one looking down at you...?
- (If Carver is a templar) You wouldn't prefer that over the rules of the order?
- Carver: The only thing worse than being surrounded by apostates is being surrounded by Orlesians.
- Anders: That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me.
(If Carver is a Grey Warden)
- Anders: You wouldn't prefer that to roaming the Deep Roads?
- Carver: So it's a choice between darkspawn and Orlesians? Maker!
- Anders: Fair point.
- Carver: You'd be gone, though, right?
Carver and Aveline[]
(During Act 1)
- Aveline: You should see if any of the noblemen are looking for new men-at-arms.
- Carver: Are you trying to get rid of me?
- Aveline: It's a role with some autonomy. A good fit with your training and... tendencies.
- Carver: After serving King Cailan? You want me to suffer some poncy git who needs two servants to wipe his own ass?
- Carver: I'll find my own way, thanks.
- Aveline: I wish you would.
- Carver: Been a bit light on the career advice since I got here.
- Aveline: You've been a bit light on needing it.
- Aveline:
- (If Carver is a Grey Warden) Although, why the Wardens would care about a fop and his... his...
- (If Carver is a templar) Although, why a templar was sent to observe such a... a...
- Carver: Utter waste of ability and time?
- Aveline: Yes!
- Carver:
- (If Carver is a templar) I expect it's as close to diplomacy as the Knight-Commander gets.
- (If Carver is a Grey Warden) He toys with big beasties. Who knows what he'll flush out of the dark?
- Carver: It's light duty. Can't lie about that.
(While trying to find Hawke and Tallis)
- Carver: The place is a maze. Another pass and then double back?
- Aveline: Sounds good, we'll do that.
- Carver: Really?
- Aveline:
- (If Carver is a templar) There a reason I should doubt you, Templar?
- (If Carver is a Warden) There a reason I should doubt you, Warden?
Carver and Fenris[]
- Fenris: You're Fereldan-born, aren't you?
- Carver: Yes, we were.
- Fenris: I understand Fereldans have a certain... animosity with Orlais.
(If Carver is a Grey Warden)
- Carver: It seems a small concern in light of other things.
- Carver: I've met a few. Nice people. Not like this lot.
- Fenris: The excess does seem... excessive.
(Otherwise)
- Carver: People get bitter about being conquered and oppressed.
- Carver: We didn't get many Orlesians in Lothering. I just think they talk funny.
- Hawke:
- (If Hawke has a humorous/sarcastic personality) Way to sound like a bumpkin, Carver.
- (If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality) I think you talk funny.
- (If Carver is a templar) Way to sound tolerant, templar.
- Carver: Thanks, Sister/Brother.
(If Hawke has a diplomatic personality)
- Hawke: And here I remember you mooning over that red-headed lay sister with the accent.
- Carver: She was nice, wasn't she?
(While trying to find Hawke and Tallis)
- Carver: Orlesians. Can't build a hallway without turning it into a maze.
- Fenris: Keep going. I'm sure your training will kick in any moment.
- Carver: Still don't like me? I've tried to change.
- Fenris: You have. Now you're dangerous. Let's move.
(While trying to find Hawke and Tallis. If done in Act 1, and regardless who Hawke worked for at the end of the prologue)
- Carver: Shitting...piss-eared Orlesians and their...blighted dungeons!
- Fenris: "Piss-eared?" Did you get that from Meeran?
- Carver: We're lost and all you can do is criticize me?
- Fenris: It passes the time.
Carver and Isabela[]
(If Hawke does not romance Merrill)
- Carver: So... how is Merrill? Sad that she couldn't come along.
- Isabela: She's fine, all things considered. Why do you—Wait.
- Carver: What?
- Isabela: You. Merrill. Andraste's granny pants, I can't believe I never saw it before!
- Carver: What? No! No no no no. You've got it wrong.
- Isabela: Stop fretting. I'm on your side, and I always win.
- Carver: She's not a game of cards!
- Isabela: Whatever. Good at matchmaking, not so good at the analogies.
- Carver: Ridiculous.
- Isabela: (Sighs) What has your critical gaze fallen upon now?
- Carver: Why do Orlesians need to have so many parties all the time?
- Isabela: So it is merry-making that offends you.
- Carver: Posturing affairs, filled with foppish, wine-sipping, pinkie-extenders.
- Isabela: So along with mages, your life, and the weather most days, you also hate Orlesians and merry-making.
- Carver: Are you mocking me?
- Isabela: Never.
(If Carver is a templar)
- Isabela: I always did like a man in uniform.
- Carver: You sure you wouldn't like a man out of uniform better?
- Isabela: I... hmm.
- Carver: Life's so full of hard choices, isn't it?
(If Carver is a Grey Warden)
- Isabela: I always did like a man on a mission.
- Carver: Wardens go deep. It's a hard calling. And we also save the world.
- Isabela: Very interesting.
- Carver: I'll tell you about it sometime, when I'm not, you know, saving the world.
(While looking for Hawke and Tallis)
- Carver: You just leave this to me. I can handle everything.
- Isabela: I'm starting to think you could.
- Carver: What was that? A compliment? I'm a little frightened.
- Isabela: I know! Let's get these people rescued before it happens again.
Carver and Merrill[]
(While trying to find Hawke and Tallis. If Hawke is in a romance with Merrill)
- Carver: A shame we didn't have time like this back in Kirkwall. Back then.
- Merrill: If we have to be lost somewhere, at least it's a nice hallway! Very well built, not at all likely to collapse.
- Carver: Right, well, let's get to it. My brother/sister will be missing you.
- Merrill: I'm glad you think so.
(While trying to find Hawke and Tallis. If Hawke is not in a romance with Merrill)
- Carver: Okay, we're lost together. Both of us, not that we're "together" together.
- Merrill: If we have to be lost somewhere, at least it's a nice hallway! Very well built, not at all likely to collapse.
- Carver: Right, well, back to rescuing... wait. You're doing that on purpose!
- Merrill: (Giggles)
(If Hawke is romancing Merrill)
- Merrill: Do you think wyverns are hard to take care of?
- Carver: I'm sure my brother/sister could manage it, if you got him/her one.
- Hawke: I could not!
- Merrill: Well of course you could.
- Merrill: Where would you take it for walks? What if it got hungry and ate the neighbors?
- Carver: (Chuckles) Enjoy your new pet.
- Hawke: She'll find one, too. Thanks for that.
(If Hawke is not romancing Merrill)
- Merrill: Do you think wyverns are hard to take care of?
- Carver: You could tame it. Tame its wild heart.
- Hawke: (Snickers) I'm sorry. I really am.
- Carver: Quiet, you!
- Merrill: Where would you take it for walks? What if it got hungry and ate the neighbors?
- Carver: And there goes the moment.
- Tallis: That was adorable.
Carver and Sebastian[]
(While trying to find Hawke and Tallis)
- Carver: And we are back to front yet again.
- Sebastian: Blessed Andraste, guide us. Protect our friends in this dark hour.
- Carver: Right. Prayer. Useful, useful. Or we could do something.
- Sebastian: Guide us by the wisdom of your light... in silence.
Carver and Varric[]
(During Act 1)
- Carver: How do you put up with Bartrand? He's the most arrogant horse's ass I've ever met.
- Varric: It's not that hard, Junior. He's my brother.
- Carver: Don't start with that "unconditional love" rubbish.
- Varric: Forget family ties: I have blackmail material forever. At any point, I can launch into the story of how he peed himself at a grand ball.
- Carver: Yeah, all right, I'd pay to hear that.
(During Act 2 or Act 3)
- Carver: Still playing the innocent while picking every purse in sight?
- Varric: Still... actually, you're doing all right.
- Carver: Thought I was. I suppose it's the same for you, really.
- Varric: 'Tis true, 'tis true. (Sighs)
- Carver: It's more fun hating each other, isn't it.
- Varric: Absolutely.
(While looking for Hawke and Tallis. If Carver is a Grey Warden)
- Carver: So, we're lost.
- Varric: Just like old times.
- Carver: Maker, I hope not. I was an ass.
- Varric: (laughs) Fair comment, Junior. All right, let's get this done.
Carver and Tallis[]
- Carver: Why can't we ever meet any normal people?
- Tallis: I'm normal!
- Carver: You jumped off a roof and stabbed a man in the back.
- Tallis: In a completely normal fashion!
- Tallis: So you're Hawke's brother.
(During Act 1)
- Carver: Yes. Carver. Carver Hawke.
- Tallis: I usually have to try a lot harder to annoy someone. What's your issue?
- Carver: It's nothing that an outsider need worry about.
- Tallis: Well, cold stares for everyone, then.
(If friendship)
- Carver: We still admit that, on occasion.
- Tallis: But you're on good terms.
- Carver: This second? I suppose so. The day's young, though.
- Hawke:
- (If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality) We're fine. Just... different.
- (If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality) He'll bugger it up yet.
- (If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality) It won't last.
(If rivalry)
- Carver: That is a common accusation.
- Tallis: Strained, then?
- Carver: We're on different paths.
- Hawke:
- (Diplomatic) Bit of an understatement.
- (Humorous) With a lot of swearing, usually.
- (Aggressive) He's an ass.