#da.

da estel is basically leliana’s second in command, he works directly with her and closely with josephine as well but has no desire to advise the inquisition on a larger scale until he is eventually drawn into the inevitability of taking on a deeper role after the involvement of the grey wardens. but because his work is so sensitive and he works primarily in disguise / as a spy, he is extremely incognito around skyhold, to the point where he often poses as a common soldier with great success, and keeps apart from most everyone in the organization (particularly visitors unless he is engaging actively in an assigned role) with the exception of a few companions who close enough in the circle to be constantly privy to the inquisitor’s / leliana’s / josephine’s plans.

i don’t know about aragorn’s da verse yet, but i know it involves him being the last surviving figure of a once hugely powerful tevinter family broken by politics, pride, and what was perceived as his father’s disastrous marriage to an altus mundane  (essentially viewed socially as a person with the social mobility of a laetan but no access to political power as a soporati)  with very outspoken and controversial views---though he is not a mage and has no access to the fade in the waking world, he is a dreamer, whose mother carried him out of the country after the murder of his father and never returned when she realized her son, like herself, had no magick. they live in hiding, moving constantly through the wilderness, until his mother  (for the first time revealing her carefully concealed elf-blooded heritage)  befriends a dalish keeper in the free marches whose clan agrees to allow them to live peacefully in distant proximity to the clan, sharing resources and contributing to communal survival, and helping estel to understand his abilities as an oneiromancer. after her death when he is 17, he joins the grey wardens, attempting to conceal his identity from the old political rivals pursuing him in hopes of killing him and dismantling the seat of his family’s considerable former power which has remained in stagnant limbo since his disappearance as a child, since their ability to seize that power basically all hinges on whether the last surviving heir of the family is or is not a mage

can’t stop thinking about it where it is paralleling aragorn’s time in the south and the east thwarting sauron’s yet little understood rise to power in dragon age verse—saying that aragorn is a essentially a greywarden agent and spymaster who has gone rogue and he’s been tracking venatori activity for months, possibly years, before the conclave, gaining information and insight into their movements and resources and members and basically defecting when the association solidifies, sometimes posing as a venatori contact to steal information, and that’s why he’s present but hiding in the mountains during the conclave, and in contact with leliana within days of the event

imagine that scenario it’s so good:  a mage encounters aragorn in their dream and assumes it’s just a spirit occupying their memories of him for whatever reason, they say a bunch of shit to him under the impression that the apparition is in no way connected to him in the reality of the world, but guess what

also aragorn knows that blackwall is not blackwall