okay so dragon age au, but make it dreamerknight
just post-fifth blight, dunk gets inadvertently ropped into pretending to be a grey warden, kinda riding on the fame of the duncan. like he introduces himself and accidentaly mentions wardens in the same sentence (maybe arlan was a warden, but died before fifth blight started and never had the mind to make dunk one, because it's a terrible lot) and so ppl just make the logical connection. nevermind that that duncan is much older and straight up dead at that point in time – being namesakes with the legendary warden-commander has it's advantages, whenever somebody needs help dealing with what they think are darkspawn (which, every time, turns out to be just wolves or bandits) and coin never hurts. so, he's essentially blackwalling his way through thedas, doing mercenary work
daeron, on the other hand, is a dreamer (duh), a somniari mage; the ability to enter the fade at will and prophetic dreams would get on like a house on fire. if we're in the south, the only reason he's not in the circle of magi is bc his father is bribing the local templar order to look the other way (not so much for his son's sake & safety, but more for the fact that if daeron is taken to the circle he'd lose all his titles and privileges as a noble)
the two of them cross paths, when daeron runs away from home for the umpteenth time to sit in some seedy tavern, trying to drink the nightmares away, and someone accosts him – dunk is there and comes to his defence. later on, he saves dunk in turn from, like, idk being beat by half a dozen people at once? – basically, daeron ends up setting smb on fire, in the process reveling himself as a mage, so the two of them are forced to flee
afterwards, they start travelling together and at some point as they make camp, daeron tells him about his dreams, thinking that dunk can relate, because he'd heard somewhere that wardens too are no strangers to terrible visions. and yes course! dunk has those bc he's a warden. totally. well, not at that exact moment, bc there's no blight right now, you see. uh-huh, obviously that's why. but otherwise it'd be nightmare galore. yup
bonus: of course, aerion would be flirting with blood magic by chugging dragon blood bc he wants to become a dragon or to tame one or whatever, but instead just ends up DIYing himself into a reaver
also, he'd be the type to brag about being a mage (much to the detriment of maekar's cortisol levels) just like his older brother, only his powers haven't fully manifested themselves yet, but he is totally a mage because why else would he be plagued by demons already? and it's kinda like that one quest with the magistrate's son from da2 – the circle conducts tests and actually no, you're not a mage, so all good here, no demons, aerion you are not possessed, you're just naturally fcked in the head, so everything's in order, off you go now
anyways, just some thoughts, nothing too concrete tho
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