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Lady Inquisitor Madilyn

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So even though I will likely never play the game (I both lack the console and well...the skills XD) I couldn't help myself and made an inquisitor character for Dragon Age: Inquisition, a video game I've been watching a playthrough on youtube. XD I rather like the whole concept of the game, though I would probably fail on choosing everything correctly but it's interesting to watch and if I ever manage to get the console, I'd definitely consider playing the game :). Yes the outfit and hair are likely ones that can't actually be made in the game, but from what I've seen and heard by others playing the game, the female hair choices are not...great...for that particular game, so I tried to go with one that was actually appealing looking as well as practical. Same with the outfit...which took a god long amount of time to make XD

So this is Lady Madilyn Trevelyan, a mage. Here is my headcanon for this character which will go all the way up until Dragon Age Inquisition *waits for people to get angry for doing this*

Name: Lady Inquisitor Madilyn Trevelyan, of the Ostwick Circle of Magi

Position: Mage, Inquisitor

Personality: She can come off as a bit stand offish at first, however once one gets to know her and she them, she can be known to have a rather humorous personality with dry humor and sarcasm. She is also incredibly motherly as she was for many of the apprenticing mages in the Circle (and when Cole is involved, is incredibly mother hen like). She is incredibly patient and willing to learn whatever she can to help those around her    

Romance: Cullen

Family:
Bann Trevelyan- Father
Edlyn Trevelyan- Mother
Kasey Trevelyan- Older half-brother
Tirell Trevelyan- Younger brother
Terrill Trevelyan- Younger brother
Lucille Trevelyan- Great-aunt
Lady Osher Lotharn Trevelyan Bayart- a cousin

History: Born into the Trevelyan family, she was the oldest daughter and a year younger than her brother. She has two younger brothers under her and was raised in a rather loving home until she discovered that she had magic at the age of eight. As soon as the magic appeared, she was shipped off to Ostwick Circle without an explanation or barely a goodbye other than her three brothers, the younger two desperately clinging to her and crying. This left her a very confused eight-year-old thinking for years she had done something wrong, and hoping that if she was good her family would let her go home. However as correspondence between her family became apparent, her parents wanted nothing more to do with her than pretend she didn't exist.

This led Madilyn to grow up insanely fast, having been effectively left to fend for herself from a young age, to deal with Templars and those in Ostwick were not…nice. As she ages, she begins to excel in her studies, and went through the Harrowing ritual, becoming a Mage. Because of her experiences in the Circle, her personality is kept very private with only a few of her close friends knowing her actual personality. Despite growing in the Circle, she continued to write letters to her family, but discovers that her older brother had left after an argument revealing that he had been a bastard child of an affair and therefore would likely not inherit anything. He is presumed dead by the rest of their family, leaving her devastated. For the remainder of her teenage years the letters become less and less frequent, stopping all together when she finds the letters her father had sent asking for her to be made tranquil, seeing it as less of an embarrassment than to have a mage for a child.

After the fall of the Circle of Magi in Ostwick she was attacked by a younger templar who blamed all mages for the uprising as she was evacuating younger apprentices to safer grounds, scarring her on her face as she defended herself. An older Templar who had known Madilyn since she was a child came to her defense, trying to dissuade his brother-in-arms, however was unable to, the other Templar convinced she had betwitched him with blood magic and fatally wounded him. The older Templar retaliated by decapitating the younger one, before collapsing. Before his death he gave Madilyn her phylactery so she could escape if need be (this act resulted in her having some resemblance of trust of Templars after what happened) and she did...wandering Thedas until she heard of the Conclave in at the Temple of the Sacred Ashes and whether by her own mind or divine workings she did not know, decided to go there.
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People headcanon their Bioware characters to look however they want all the time. xD No one would be mad at you for choosing a hairstyle not in the game.
I know in Mass Effect ((at least the third one I remember for certain)) there was an option to turn the combat to basically nothing for people who wanted to play for the story. So I don't see why they wouldn't do that for this one too? But playing the game is so much fun even when you're bad at it~! And being bad at it is how you start learning to be good at it! c: Plus the powers you can get ((in ME at least, I can't speak for DA)) are just so damn fun once you get used to them that putting the game on non-existent combat would be boring.. xD