Just something I noticed during the Sacred Ashes level and decided to have a play around with. Both of these items can actually be found in the inventory - the necklace that intrigued me is named Reflection, and the other is simply a "runic worry token".

This slightly references chapter 62, "Trust" (anti-smite lessons).

Charms

Alistair

He's unsure whether to look forward to or dread another lesson; she's got better with both smites and her sword, it's true, and she seems happier with every improvement, but the first time they tried smite resistance was... well, embarrassing.

He looks across the fire to see Morgana frowning at something, turning it over in her fingers. He can't help wondering what it is, and, when she looks up from it, she catches him staring; she raises an eyebrow, and he finds himself walking round and sitting next to her. He sighs, resting on his hands, then looks to her. "Anything interesting?"

She looks up. "It's just..." She looks away. "It sounds ridiculous."

She wouldn't spend so long thumbing it for something ridiculous, he's sure of it; he notices the chain and realises that it's a necklace with a mirrored pendant. It surprises him - usually, the things she keeps are practical, the only exception being the occasional book and Leliana's eyeshadow. "Didn't think you were one for jewellery," he remarks.

"I'm not. It's... In the Gauntlet, the... whatever-it-was... it looked like Jowan - it gave this to me." She holds her hand out, gently tipping it into his hand, and he turns it over, surprised to see a Chantry symbol - with how he's heard her talk, he wouldn't expect her to keep something with Andraste's fire on it.

Her voice is quiet, cautious, when she asks him, "Can you... see anything?"

He raises his eyebrows - see anything? -turns it to the mirror side and frowns into it. There's nothing there except his own reflection - well, of course he can see that. Wait... It swims and changes, and he catches a glimpse of long hair, a smile he recognises in every one of his own... Cailan? No, there are subtle differences, and when it clicks, he nearly drops the pendant, catching it quickly, and looks to her. "Did you... ?"

She nods. "I saw... I think it was my mother." At his questioning look, she explains, sighing, "Same eyes. Same hair. You?"

He stares into the mirror, but the image is gone, and his eyes return to hers. "My father." The word tastes strange on his tongue. "I... saw my father."

There's a thoughtful silence until she says, "I kept it. It's comforting somehow, though I feel foolish saying it."

He hands it gently back to her, and then takes out the token. "Stupid?" He shakes his head. "Hopeful, maybe." She stares at it, and he drops it gently into her palm with a half-smile, adding, "Darkspawn ambush. My first."

She looks at it carefully, reading the runes, and there's a whisper of magic as she runs a finger over it, reading, "Hope. Light. Home." She looks up, her expression curious. "These are Tevinter."

"I found it on an emissary. It had probably used it for power." He doesn't say the rest - that there had been something... warm, soothing about it, like an embrace. He can feel the magic flowing through it every time he touches it, spent three days refreshing his runes trying to decipher it. "But, yes. Hope, light, home - seemed about right to fight against darkspawn with, I guess." He shrugs, and slips it back into his pocket when she hands it to him, standing.

He's walking across camp to take his sword, her doing the same where she is, when he turns at the sound of her voice. "Alistair?"

"Morgana?"

She gives him a smile, and, just for a moment, he thinks that it's a shame she doesn't more - she seems to light up. "Thank you."

He nods, suddenly feeling awkward. "Not a problem." He reaches for his armour, and his heart clenches at the thought of smiting her, an almost physical pain.

Well, at least this time it's with her permission.