While an honorable warrior, she is nevertheless pragmatic in her guard duties. She met the escaping Hawke family on the way out of Lothering, and even though she lost her dear husband, she carried on with the Hawkes all the way to Kirkwall and beyond.
When things turned sour, she and her Templar husband Wesley headed north to escape the darkspawn. The daughter of an exiled Orlesian Chevalier, Aveline was a soldier in King Cailan's army at Ostagar. 'I�d rather kill a bandit and save a merchant�s family than know the correct dance steps and which rouge is in fashion.'