Dragon Age 2: Origins

The Hawke family are from Lothering and Aveline was at Ostegar, yet the Hero of Fereldan did not meet them. Well now they can! This is a repackage of three great mods that, taken together form a psuedo 'origin story' for Aveline, Leandra, Bethany, Carver and, of course, the future Champion of Kirkwall themselves!
Refer to the mods called out in Acknowledgements for a full list of required asset mods that the NPC morphs depend on.

Author

• SecondSideOfaSingularity
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Disclaimer
I claim no responsibility for Mod contents nor their creation, all I have done is simply combine these three into a simplified installer.
All kudos and credit for these Mods' creation must go to the users called out in the Acknowledgements section.

Permissions
Please refer to original mods for up-to-date details but at the time of writing you may use Mod assets for non-financial gain with the sole requirement of crediting the original authors.

Acknowledgements

• BioWare - For the creation of such a timeless and adored world that is Thedas and Dragon Age's rich content of lore
• readme.so Generator - Used for creating this ReadMe file
• Wenderer - For the creation of the FOMOD Creation Tool
• Lakia1250 - For the creation of the Mod: Hawke and Carver in Ostagar
• NeoKingArthur - For the creation of the Mod: Lothering Hawke of Ferelden
• edriano - For the creation of the Mod: Edr Hawke Family in Lothering
• SammyJC - For the creation of asset Mod SJCs Tints And Textures
• Pineappletree - For the creation of asset Mod Pineappletree s Vibrant Colors
• amycus - For the creation of asset Mod Kirkwall Exports
• fallingangel89 - For the creation of asset Mod Garrett Hawke Textures
• sabrine - For the creation of asset Mod Back to Ferelden
• tmp7704 - For the creation of asset Mods apostate clothing and tucked hair
  

Features
Ostegar Customisations
Bethany, Carver and Hawke Skin Tone Options

• Dark
  

• Light
• Swarthy
• Tanned
  

Carver's Clothing Options

• Dragon Age: Origins Heavy Armor
• Dragon Age 2 Starting Clothes
  

Hawke's Sex

• Male
• Female
  

Hawke's Class

• Mage (Staff equipped)
• Rogue (Dual Daggers equipped)
• Rogue (Bow equipped)
• Warrior (2-handed Greatsword equipped)
• Warrior (Sword and Shield equipped)
  

Hawkes Hair Colour

• Black
• Blonde
• Brown
• Red
• White
  

Hawkes Eye Colour

• Amber
• Black
• Dark Blue
• Dark Brown
• Green
• Grey
• Hazel
• Light Blue
• Light Brown
• Turquoise
  

Hawke's Blood Smear

• Smear present
• No smear present
  

Lothering Customisations
Hawke's Clothing Options

• Dragon Age 2 Starting Clothes
• Custom Dragon Age: Origins Commoner Clothes
• Mage's Mantle (DA2 Late Game Mage Champion's Gear)
• Rogue's Mantle (DA2 Late Game Rogue Champion's Gear)
• Warrior's Mantle (DA2 Late Game Warrior Champion's Gear)
  

Hawke's Blood Smear

• Smear present
• No smear present
  

Author's Note
Yes there are significantly fewer customisation options available for the Lothering NPCs when compared to Ostegar, unfortunately that is all that is available in the Lothering Mod itself.
We need to appreciate that making all these options is a complicated and time-consuming process so we cannot be upset when the creators already did an amazing job in giving us what we have.
That being said - I am planning to investigate if there is a way the custom options set for Ostegar can be copied and used to set up the Lothering NPCs as well since the assets do already exist, so check back in a future update!

Installation
Use the FOMOD Installer
Download using the Mod Manager button - Tested using Vortex but should work with any Mod Manager that supports FOMOD installation files

Manual

• If you prefer to manually install this Mod, extract the archive (you should be able to use any compression tool, but if you have trouble, the mod was originally packaged using 7zip)
• Copy the lowest child folder that holds all the files that you want into your Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\packages\core\override folder
  

Example - You want to install Male Hawke at Ostegar who is Light skinned, of Warrier - Sword and Shield Class, and includes his trademark blood smear across his face
You would copy the folder: %Mod Root Folder%/Hawke-and-Carver-in-Ostagar-4865-1\Hawke\Male\Sword and Shield\Smear\Light
Then you would paste into the folder*: %Drive%\%User%\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\packages\core\override
*The exact path may differ depending on your OS and/or Partition setup but hopefully this shows what you are looking for

Compatibility
The only Mod that caused problems for me is Unique Characters Overhaul - I had hoped it would be a simple matter of removing conflicting files but there seem to be a high number and it did not seem worth it to keep removing suspected files as this broke or created instability in Unique Characters Overhaul as well.
I plan to investigate and try to figure it out for a future update, but broadly speaking I will defer to Lakia1550 for the best advice here: Any mod that changes the following files are likely to be incompatible:

• pre100cr_soldier_gossip1.utc
• pre100cr_soldier_gossip2.utc
• pre100_soldier_gossip.fsb
• pre100_soldier_gossip.fev
• pre100_soldier_gossip.dlg
• pre100cr_soldier_fem_1.utc
• pre100_daveth.dlb
• pre100_daveth.dlg
• pre100cr_nurse.utc
• pre100_soldier_panicked.fsb
• pre100_soldier_panicked.fev
• pre100_soldier_panicked.dlb
• pre100_soldier_panicked.dlg
• pre100_nurse.fsb
• pre100_nurse.fev
• pre100_nurse.dlg
• 182442.cub
• 182442.cut
• 182445.cub
• 182445.cut
• 182447.cub
• 182447.cut
• 182450.cub
• 182450.cub
  

Feedback
If you have any feedback, questions or encounter a bug, please message me through Nexus Mods site.
Thank you and enjoy!