kind of taken with the idea of aeducan siblings who manage to maintain a sibling relationship after the whole attempted murder thing, if only because their upbringing was so unspeakably cutthroat that "i didn't personally kill you with my hands" is the best show of fraternal love they can manage.
the orzammar upper caste is vicious anyway, but this family in particular has a multi-generational history of fratricide. i think a lot of people forget this, but when bhelen warns you that trian is plotting your death, he's being completely truthful - the mercenaries in the thaig who try to kill you only got in because trian gave them his signet ring and instructed them to murder you. your older brother tries to have you assassinated before deciding to finish the job himself; bhelen's method, framing you for crimes and getting you thrown into the deep roads, is a comparatively hands-off approach to removing you as a political threat.
and it's unlikely that the aeducan has a positive history with any member of their family except bhelen. endrin is, at best, an oblivious moron who doesn't realize his eldest child is murder-feuding with the younger two, and if you want to be uncharitable, it's easy to read his behavior as a passive attempt to pit his children against one another so the strongest one eventually emerges as his heir (is this what happened with him and his own brother? family tradition?). trian sees his siblings as threats rather than sources of love or support, and your relationship with him is canonically adversarial. bhelen is the only one no one has ever assumed would take the throne, and based on the dialogue, he spent most of his childhood following you around, doing whatever you told him to do, and otherwise looking up to you in the way baby brothers will when they like you and think you're cool. i don't really get the sense that his plot against you was personal the way it was against trian, who loved and was loved by neither of you.
bhelen's not an unsentimental, inhumanly heartless guy, either - his moral code is bizarre, but he's still a person with feelings. he loves and marries rica even though that sacrifices his capacity to make a politically advantageous marriage. he seems to have genuine political principles and a feeling of responsibility towards the disadvantaged of orzammar. if you back his play even though he nearly got you killed, he makes you a paragon. i think this might be an attempted show of fraternal love from someone whose concept of healthy sibling relationships is abjectly fucked
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