The Carver Hawke Thread - Time to prove something!

Thanks, but for some odd reason none of the dlc is working for me, despite Origin and the game saying they are installed.  So I will miss out on MotA, and Legacy.  As for Carver and Bethany.  Although he was initially a dick Carver is more upbeat than Bethany.  Bethany came off as sad.  Not in a pathetic way but in a depressing way.  Especially once she became a Warden.  Carver in my game was taken by the Warden's but I have not seen him since.  I remember first seeing Bethany as a Warden when the Qunari attack.  I am currently in act II so the Qunari will attack soon.

Thanks for the tips.  I've reinstalled the game a month ago, and it installed all dlc.  It's even listed as installed in the game itself.  Origin is always online for me.  I did not know I could go offline.  I bought the dlc's when I first bought the game a year ago and I've never been able to use them and I don't know why?  Since this is my second time through the game I am using mods could that be the cause?  Also when I first played DA2, I only had one mod installed and it was to clean up some of the companions hands.

LOL.  THank you for the link I will check it out now.

Made once PT as wanted to know how much friendship I can get from Carver in the game, incl 2 DLCs.
So:
- I made him a GW;
- I consulted the internet almost every 5 minutes to learn in which quests I could het his approval;
- consulted the internet to learn what exactly to say to get higher approval from Carver;
- took him to missions where I could get max approval even if Carver didn't suit that mission at all as he just died during the battle.

In general, incl the whole game with all DLCs I could get about 75-80 % approval from Carver. Don't know whether you can get more but it was actually interesting to learn the results of other choices and dialogues.

Carver, as I have written elsewhere, is one of my favorite characters. I understand his reactions very well, his rival dialogues. I feel sorry for him because of what he feels. Tbh it even frustrates me a little that people just don't care about him, don't even try to understand his point of view, WHY he behaves like that.
But in spite of his rival reactions he still loves his family, protects them; otherwise he could have just go to Denerim and become someone, betraying his family, but he restrained his huge desire "to be someone, to bring good to this world, to put his warrior abilities to good use", just to protect his family.
Can you imagine the pressure he experienced? I can. And saying "it is aweful" is not the word suitable to describe those emotions, the state he was in.
Carver made his own sacrafice, but some players just don't pay any attention to such things.

Anyway: GW Carver, even according to his letter, suits him greatly. And I always make him a GW. Plus I would like to have Carver not as a mage (mages are mot my thing, really don't like to play a mage). But the game decided to get rid of Carver if you are not a mage. Pitty.