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name: liaren (warden)
age: 20
race: elf
canon: dragon age: origins
background: an elven circle mage who was offered up at age 8 by a Dalish clan that her parents joined after they escaped enslavement. This experience and the ongoing anti-elven racism that met her at the Chantry taught her that not all skinfolk are kinfolk and that as an elven mage she'll never belong anywhere in Thedas. As a result, she is emotionally distant and deadpan, preferring her own solitude or time spent with books to time spent with people. She hates weapons training and physical activity, and hopes to become a scholar who can do magical research.
Although her experiences with the Dalish left her with no desire to reunite with them or her parents, her parents' experience of slavery and her own experiences in the Chantry have left her with a desire to see an end to elven slavery and the destruction of the alienages. She wants to ally with other elves in the Chantry, like Leorah, and see them garner more power and influence within the Chantry to achieve that. However, she's not very good at socializing or making friends or any kind of networking, so she has mostly convinced herself that the best way she can do this is to become a better and more powerful mage, so she devotes herself to nonstop studying. She doesn't ask for much from Petra, and prefers to do most of her training and studying on her own, but notably has picked up two of her spells from Petra despite this grouchy independence (heroic offense & glyph of paralysis).
Because she has to deal with exceptional criticism and unconscious bias as an elf, she thinks people like Anders are operating from an insane place of privilege to act out, thinking they won't be made Tranquil. She wants to avoid any risk of that at all cost because her magic is her only social power in this world and it's the only hope she has of bettering the conditions for her people (whom she considers to be the enslaved elves, not the itinerant Dalish). This winds up looking like she's a big rule follower who's afraid to take risks, but in reality, she's just very aware that the rules apply more stringently to her than others.
Her own politics are loosely aligned with the Lucrosians, in that she thinks acquiring power through magic will help her achieve her own goals. She preaches Andrastan beliefs and the Chant of Light out of obligation because she knows how to say the right thing, but for her own part, she definitely doesn't think magic is something to avoid using because only humans have enough power to look at something like magic and be like nah we're not gonna use that to its fullest lmao. So she's also like ... prime for blood magic corruption but she hides it very well.
age: 20
race: elf
canon: dragon age: origins
background: an elven circle mage who was offered up at age 8 by a Dalish clan that her parents joined after they escaped enslavement. This experience and the ongoing anti-elven racism that met her at the Chantry taught her that not all skinfolk are kinfolk and that as an elven mage she'll never belong anywhere in Thedas. As a result, she is emotionally distant and deadpan, preferring her own solitude or time spent with books to time spent with people. She hates weapons training and physical activity, and hopes to become a scholar who can do magical research.
Although her experiences with the Dalish left her with no desire to reunite with them or her parents, her parents' experience of slavery and her own experiences in the Chantry have left her with a desire to see an end to elven slavery and the destruction of the alienages. She wants to ally with other elves in the Chantry, like Leorah, and see them garner more power and influence within the Chantry to achieve that. However, she's not very good at socializing or making friends or any kind of networking, so she has mostly convinced herself that the best way she can do this is to become a better and more powerful mage, so she devotes herself to nonstop studying. She doesn't ask for much from Petra, and prefers to do most of her training and studying on her own, but notably has picked up two of her spells from Petra despite this grouchy independence (heroic offense & glyph of paralysis).
Because she has to deal with exceptional criticism and unconscious bias as an elf, she thinks people like Anders are operating from an insane place of privilege to act out, thinking they won't be made Tranquil. She wants to avoid any risk of that at all cost because her magic is her only social power in this world and it's the only hope she has of bettering the conditions for her people (whom she considers to be the enslaved elves, not the itinerant Dalish). This winds up looking like she's a big rule follower who's afraid to take risks, but in reality, she's just very aware that the rules apply more stringently to her than others.
Her own politics are loosely aligned with the Lucrosians, in that she thinks acquiring power through magic will help her achieve her own goals. She preaches Andrastan beliefs and the Chant of Light out of obligation because she knows how to say the right thing, but for her own part, she definitely doesn't think magic is something to avoid using because only humans have enough power to look at something like magic and be like nah we're not gonna use that to its fullest lmao. So she's also like ... prime for blood magic corruption but she hides it very well.
