Omg is your Hawke a Rook Veil Jumper?
He is!! I started his run before even Cioba's but he didn't have ✨lore✨ until recently!
born after a young Hawke has a tryst in Lothering
mom and family escape to Kirkwall, mom dies in the crossing
Hawke doesn't find out about him until Kirkwall (still murky on the details here) where he's being raised by mom's sister and brother-in-law who have connections to minor Free Marcher nobility
aunt/uncle/Noah leave Kirkwall as the tensions continue to rise and are not there when the chantry goes boom.
Noah spends time with Hawke, learning combat and how to control his magic (they're both mages--Noah is a lightning mage)
when Hawke is left in the fade he goes a little insane.
spends time with Isabela, working out his aggression fighting and flirting in the Hall of Valor
Isabela realizes he's not actually dealiing with his problems and kicks him out--sends him off to Carver at Weisshaupt (still toying with the idea but Carver takes him to see Adamant and Noah ends up possessed with a spirit of determination that is corrupted into obsession)
after that he heads to Tevinter to fight slavers with Fenris.
then he goes to visit Merrill. she introduces him to the Veil Jumpers and Noah knows he can use their knowledge and potentially artifacts to find and recover Hawke in the fade (without telling them of course)
he uses Aldwir as a cover to hide his Hawke heritage
canon romance is Bellara (she'll definitely help him too) and I see him as a companion (maybe comes along with Bell?) not as Rook