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[andy6915]

I thought it would be fun to actually make up little roleplay stories about our characters, from a first person perspective. I'll be doing a qunari warrior soon, which has had me thinking about that lately (which is partly why I made that other topic about the merc band they were with and whether they led it or not). And I've started thinking about things in their backstory, and the things I thought about sounded interesting enough to post about. The qunari is female, figured I should say that in case you try to imagine any of this as you read it.

 

 

I've been using a sword since I was 5. Not even a child sized sword either, a full sized human sword that was nearly as big as I was, it seemed. I didn't want to be weak, I wanted to use the same swords as everyone else. I admit, that helped to make me very strong and skilled from a young age. I was basically using a greatsword in terms of how big it was to me, and that let me grow stronger much faster than most young warriors. It helped that my parents were both amazing fighters themselves, both quite capable at giving me excellent training. They didn't force me to become a merc or get strong, I pushed them to. They wanted me to live my own life, part of the reason they left the Qun. So they didn't force me to become a child soldier, I basically forced them to let me by throwing enough tantrums. Father was a Sten, someone who is the commander of their own units of soldiers (as I understand it). Mother was Ben-Hassrath, the "city guard" kind I guess (she said there were a lot of different types of her position, and her comparison to city guard was just the closest comparison she could think of to what she did). They, as said earlier, left the Qun largely thanks to me. They had met and started doing something the Qun doesn't really allow... Dating. Then they did more things the Qun doesn't allow... Having sex, with Qunari who's role was not for it. Then they did something really bad according to the Qun... Mother got pregnant. They wanted to keep me, but knew the Qun would either force her to abort me or would take me from them and give me to the Tamassrans, and they would be split up either way. And besides that they wanted me to be able to choose my own life, which the Qun would never allow. And what if I turned out to be a mage? Even worse. So they left together, and never looked back.

 

I've had some weird jobs as a merc. For example, I once f*cked a demon. Literally. Wasn't that bad to be honest, and she already kinda looked like a purple qunari. She even had horns. Not sure what was up with the golden nipple tassels though. As for the job that was requiring something like this, I had been taking a poison that is fatal to non-qunari and it eventually got so saturated in me that it was literally in my spit and other... Fluids. She was thought to be too strong to kill directly, so I came up with the idea of seducing her and having a good old fashion lesbian tumble without telling her that I was filled with poison. The plan worked. She got about 5 minutes into it before suddenly having a severe seizure and died. It took weeks for that poison to finally leave my body, had to stick to other qunari if I wanted sex during that time.

 

Fought this blood mage once, who used their blood magic to survive ridiculous injuries. I cut her freaking arm off, and she used her blood magic to somehow keep it from bleeding. Stabbed her through the lung, and she still kept fighting. Cut her sodding head off... She kept fighting. How? You know that trick Dorian can do? Yeah, she basically did that. She kept fighting for about a dozen seconds, and her spells seemingly didn't have a cooldown anymore. Would have killed me if she could hit a damn thing, but being headless meant she couldn't see or hear a thing. So she just starts nuking the whole area, and I just run like hell. I look back, and she finally keels over just as I turned my head.

 

Killed a high dragon once. Not because I was strong enough, it wasn' t until I joined the Inquisition that I finally felt confident enough to do that. We killed in a very underhanded fashion. I mean we fought it, but we were mere distraction. No, the real threat to it was on the large hill behind us. We had most of our mercs filling dozens of barrels with explosives, filled to the brim. We kept its attention by barely surviving, until they fired the flare to tell us that it was time to cut and run. We ran, and 50 barrels with lit fuses come rolling down the hill right towards to. I heard later that a village 10 miles away heard the explosion. When we came back to check after the boom, we found it. What was left of it, anyway. It was missing about a quarter of its body, like something had taken a drawing of a dragon and just tore a quarter of it off. It was missing 2 limbs, a wing, and a very large chunk of its body, all pretty much just erased from it. It helped that it was an ice dragon, meaning it was weak to fire. Let this be a lesson, traps and trickery can kill a dragon far easier than actually fighting it. Anyway, we weren't allowed to keep the resources from its corpse, the lord who hired us made it clear that all the resources of the kill were his for the keeping.

 

We also once killed an entire undead invasion with a lot of fire. Kinda like the Fallow Mire earlier, it was a lot of undead at the bottom of a lake that kept rising up and trying to kill everyone. We got the bright idea to have one of our mages set a massive grease spell over the entire lake, and then used a fire spell. It was spectacular. Something like 150 undead rose up out of the water, all yelling and charred to black. They were like that for about 20 seconds before they all started to basically melt. Then it wasn't so spectacular, because then the smell hit us by the point and... Ugh. Rotting fetid corpses numbering well over 100 all getting turned crispy at the same times makes a smell that makes you glad you didn't eat any food recently. And then a pride demon popped out of the water, guess he was the one who caused the undead. Didn't matter though. Thing is, the lake was still an inferno. So he died pretty quick too due to everything being on fire. And then the lake stayed on fire for 2 days afterward. In retrospect, I'm still not sure if that was a great plan or a terrible plan. Also, I think the lake only stopped being on fire because all the water ended up evaporated.

 

Yeah, my life has been weird. Getting a weird magic mark on my hand and walking out of the fade sounds like exactly the kind of weird sh!t that I would expect to happen to me.

[Dai Grepher]

Don't forget about the rabbit.

[andy6915]

Don't forget about the rabbit.

I already told that story!

[andy6915]

Only one person cared? I thought people loved these kinds of topics? Oh well, I thought of more.

 

 

We were hired by the Divine for the Conclave. Her name was the one on the contract. She was the one who wanted the strongest and biggest guards she could possibly get, because she knew a bunch of templars and mages stuck together could get tempers flaring. My job was to stand around and look intimidating, and pick up a mage and templar by their scruff like kittens and separate them if they started growling at each other. Too bad I failed at my job, I had a big 10 foot ancient Tevinter mage start growling and I failed to pick him up by the scruff. Well, that time. Later... Well, that's a story for another time.

 

Elves think they're the most hated race and get treated the worst? An elf should be a qunari for a week, see what it's like for us. At least an elf can expect to be able to go up to a merchant and be able to buy or sell as they wish, maybe having to hear the phrase "knife ear" a couple times. Me? More than once I've gone up to a merchant, and they basically say "go away horn-head, we got nothing to sell to the likes of you demons". And you can't even get angry, you just have to silently grit your teeth and move on. Because if you get mad, they'll immediately get scared and run to a guard and say you was threatening them. Was you? No. But we're already scary as it is, so to a human us even beginning to raise our voice or showing an angry facial expression is enough for them to brown their smallclothes and think they're about to get attacked by me. And I'm a female qunari, which means it's even worse for our males who are even deeper voiced and bigger than I am. And trust me, you don't get the benefit of doubt. Between a terrified merchant and your 7 foot tall and horned self, they will believe the merchant 110% of the time. At least elves are seen as harmless, so at least they're allowed to show their emotions of anger or annoyance without worrying about being arrested. So don't believe elves if they start their victim complex, they have it easy compared to my race... Although being seen as scary does help with doing mercenary work, your enemies are scared of you too and the people hiring you tend to be intentionally making use of that fact.

 

I have a brother. Yeah, I wasn't the last pregnancy my mother went through. He went in the opposite direction of me though. I became a mercenary and a very impressive warrior (if I do say so myself), whereas he went into a rather peaceful profession. He became... A librarian. He got hired because they realized he could reach books on the top shelves without a ladder, and he is very well read and educated. He's about as different as a qunari can be from your typical idea of a qunari, soft spoken and quiet and so nice I don't think it's possible to make him angry. And yet, he's a qunari in about every way he could be from the height to the horns to even the eyes. He's about 4 years younger than I am. Don't worry, my parents didn't play favorites like some parents do. He got all the love and affection that I did, and they fully accepted his path in life to be a soft spoken gentle giant who's favorite way to pass the time is reading a book. And not just fiction books, he's read everything from biology books to astronomy to magical theory. I don't think there's a subject he hasn't read about at least once.

[andy6915]

So is anyone actually reading this? I also kinda expected other people to do the same thing with their own character, making this into some kind of head-canon fanfiction topic about things about our character from before they became Herald. But nope... Ignored .

[draken-heart]

I thought about doing this, but then I realized two things. 1) The title seems selfish in that you want to put stories of YOUR inquisitor's past, and 2) human inquisitors come from the most boring place in Thedas, mages included.

[andy6915]

I thought about doing this, but then I realized two things. 1) The title seems selfish in that you want to put stories of YOUR inquisitor's past, and 2) human inquisitors come from the most boring place in Thedas, mages included.

The title doesn't say it's exclusive for my character.

[draken-heart]

The title doesn't say it's exclusive for my character.

 

Says specifically, which is enough to make people think you only wanted to talk about your character.

[andy6915]

Says specifically, which is enough to make people think you only wanted to talk about your character.

And when that makes you curious, you click it and see what it's about. And it's about sharing stories.

[draken-heart]

And when that makes you curious, you click it and see what it's about. And it's about sharing stories.

 

And to some, it is about YOU sharing YOUR stories, not general.

 

In other words, people may not share their stories, because the title is about YOUR character, and thus any other stories are technically de-railing the thread.

[andy6915]

And to some, it is about YOU sharing YOUR stories, not general.

Why are you getting on my case like this? Why are you starting an argument? If you didn't like the topic then you should have just ignored it instead of starting a fight about it.

[draken-heart]

Why are you getting on my case like this? Why are you starting an argument? If you didn't like the topic then you should have just ignored it instead of starting a fight about it.

 

You are not understanding. What I am saying is that some people are not going to respond in the way you want because of the title. It makes people think they are reading someone's fanfiction/personal headcanon.

[Boomshakalakalakaboom]

That's what I thought, tbh.

Finally took a look... so I'm cool with this.

Would you like some of my popcorn, Spirit Fingers?

The title of the thread is misleading..... But the OP clears that up.

I might join in if I can think of an enjoyable background to write.

[andy6915]

You are not understanding. What I am saying is that some people are not going to respond in the way you want because of the title. It makes people think they are reading someone's fanfiction/personal headcanon.

They are... But I want to hear OTHER people's personal head-canons of their own characters, I merely shared the first few to get the ball rolling. I didn't do this as some narcissistic thing, I did this to see what other people have come up with about their own characters while sharing my own. I suppose I should remake this topic with a new title, since your guess is that it's the reason this topic is being utterly ignored so far? I could do so, I just need to set this topic to invisible.

[draken-heart]

They are... But I want to hear OTHER people's personal head-canons of their own characters, I merely shared the first few to get the ball rolling. I didn't do this as some narcissistic thing, I did this to see what other people have come up with about their own characters while sharing my own. I suppose I should remake this topic with a new title, since your guess is that it's the reason this topic is being utterly ignored so far? I could do so, I just need to set this topic to invisible.

 

You may want to re-title the thread, because it makes me think you just wanted to share stories about your character.

[draken-heart]

No need to remake the thread.. but a topic change might help.

 

I always like talking about backstories though, so don't feel bad.

 

This. I did not mean to be rude, just letting you know why I, and maybe others, would not be as inclined to share backstories/stories from the past as you may want.

[andy6915]

I do admit one selfish reason... This topic will help me to roleplay my future qunari this topic is about, and committing them to page will be useful for that.

[Master Warder Z_]

There is a roleplay section of the forum; this would be better suited there.

[BansheeOwnage]

There is a roleplay section of the forum; this would be better suited there.

There is? I've never seen it.

[Master Warder Z_]

There is? I've never seen it.

Its under the Dragon Age Franchise tab.

[andy6915]

Its under the Dragon Age Franchise tab.

The fact that I nor another person knows of it tells me that part of the forum is dead, so posting this there would be well and truly pointless.

[Master Warder Z_]

Its a roleplaying topic, it should be under the roleplaying section, placing it here is off topic and purpose of this discussion thread.

Its just that simple.