What does the “Low morale” effect on items do in Dragon Age: Origins

"Blue smoke" sounds like the spell cleansing aura. Check your mages to see if any of them have it active.

As mentioned in another answer, they likely cast the spell because someone in the party was injured. However, my experience is that only the initial casting of the spell removes injuries, not the persistent "aura" effect which heals hit points. So if you see the aura and are still injured, you need to turn off the aura, wait for the cooldown, then cast it again with your injured party member in range in order for it to remove the injury.

Spell Combination                                     Result

Grease + Any Fire Spell                               Grease Fire
Death Hex + Death Cloud                               Entropic Death
Glyph of Paralysis + Glyph of Replusion               Paralysis Explosion
Spell Might + Blizzard + Tempest                      Storm of the Century
Grease Fire + Blizzard                                Flame-Quencher
Force Field + Crushing Prison                         Shockwave
Vulnerability Hex + Drain Life/Mana Drain             Improved Drain
Spell Might + Animate Dead                            Advanced Reanimation
Sleep + Horror                                        Nightmare

• Grease Fire: Burns for 30 fire dmg/1.5sec for 20 sec, friendly fire
• Entropic Death:: Targets with Death Hex entering Death Cloud instantly suffer 200+2.0Xcaster's spellpower spirit damage
• Paralysis Explosion: All targets withing 7.5m are paralyzed for 20secXtarget rank
• Storm of the Century: Caster loses additional 100 mana, causes (30+0.3XSpellpower) electricity damage every 2 sec for 30 sec and drains Stamina equal to damage dealt, friendly fire
• Flame-Quencher: Puts out a Grease Fire
• Shockwave: Knocks down nearby targets and causes 50+0.5XSpellpower physical damage, friendly fire
• Improved Drain: Drain Life deals 100% more damage to enemy and 100% more healing to caster, while Mana Drain steals 50% more mana
• Advanced Reanimation: A skeleton minion at 0.9Xthe caster's level with additional abilities is summoned
• Nightmare: Removes Sleep, applies Horror, then causes 100+1.0XSpellpower instant spirit damage

This one's slightly different, but in the same vein: Hit a target that is Petrified/Frozen, then get a Critical Hit or use Stone Fist/Crushing Prison and they will Shatter, which is an instant kill.

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In regards to your bonus question, no, there's not really an equivalent functionality with warrior/rogue talents. There are tactical synergy options, like having your melee characters hit frozen/petrified targets to one-shot them. Rogues also get a Coup de Grace talent which does additional damage against stunned/paralyzed targets, so you could send them after enemies your mage mezzes. But there are not really "combos" in the same way that the mage spells work.