Sylvie Surai Desmarais, from Dragon Age: Crimson Blight, a roleplay on RPG

Username: Beatrice Amell

Character name: Sylvie Surai Desmarais

Titles (Ser, Lady, “Dragon Hunter”): none thus far.

Social Status (includes royalty, noble, peasant, etc.): Noble father disowned - peasant.

Origin Title (a way to identify your character without a name, by associations to guilds or religions. For example “The Chasind Apostate” or “The Devout Templar”): Orlesian Half-Elf

Race: Human

Age: Twenty

Class: Rogue

Specialization (You may only choose one and it must be unique to your character): Duelist

Skills (No more than three -- I would accept the combinations of a level 3, level 2, and level 1 skill set OR a level 4 and a level 1 skill set):
Coercion: x3
Trap making: x1
Combat Tactics: x2

Spells/Talents (No more than five -- I reserve the right to amend your spells if you break them):
Deft Hands: +10 to cunning. (Passive)
Heartseeker: Activation: 94 Cooldown: 30 seconds. Spirit Damage - The rogue strikes with great precision, attempting to fell weakened enemies in one last blow. If the attack is successful, a target of elite rank or lower is killed instantly if its health is already low enough. If the attack does not kill, it inflicts a critical hit instead.
Upset Balance: Activation: 25 Cooldown: 15 seconds. Melee - The duelist executes a quick move that throws the opponent off balance, imposing penalties to movement speed and defense unless the target passes a physical resistance check.
Keen Defense: +10 Defense. (Passive in Dueling Mode)
Deadly Strike: +10 Attack, +10 Armor Penetration. Activation: 25 Cooldown: 15 seconds. Melee: The rogue makes a swift strike at a vulnerable area on the target, dealing normal damage but gaining a bonus to armor penetration.

Appearance (at least two paragraphs in length):
Physically, she is a rather petite woman. Slender but most obviously a woman. She inherited her mother's red hair and pale skin, the latter being a nuisance more often than not; her green eyes a gift from her father but have the general appearance of an elf's with little difference. Her general physique resembles her mother's - an elf's. Her lips are full and pale pink, her cheeks dotted with freckles as her father's were. Her hair is long and, when freshly washed and down it curls at the ends. It is rarely seen down, however, as she wears it on a severe bun on the back of her head. When she was younger she wore bangs; they became a nuisance while fighting, however, and so she let them grow long enough to be pulled back.
She wears a very aged set of light dragonscale armor, a shiny red-black originally that has faded to a tarnished grayish color. Her daggers are equally aged, though well-kept - Orlesian in origin, as obvious by the ornate handles. She is a proficient (however still learning) lockpick and so carries such tools on her person. She carries a small vial of poison but only the one in a leather case strapped to her belt, where she keeps her daggers holstered.

Mount/Companion: Elgarassan (spirit arrow, Elven)

Extra information:
Languages spoken: Trade tongue, Orlesian. She can identify several and is very quick at picking up on accents.
Sexuality: Very open.

Personality

As per most roguish individuals, Sylvie has a very smooth personality. Charisma should, in all honesty, be her middle name. She is the perfect mix of sweet and sultry, able to switch her personality to whatever would best suit the circumstances. She can be a brilliant friend but a terrible enemy. Generally, Sylvie is a pleasant individual but she is sharp-witted and impatient; occasionally hot-headed and often possesses a barbed tongue. She is more likely to convince an enemy to stab himself than to draw her daggers.

Sylvie loves horses and dogs; her opinion of cats varies by the particular animal. She too loves the sea but mostly looking at it; she gets terribly seasick. She holds a particular fondness of cheeses and wines and a distinct disdain for strong ale or salted meats.

History

Her father, at the ripe young age of 18, had been a chevalier of Orlais. Sent to Gwaren merely two years before the Ferelden rebellion, Christophe Desmarais found himself uncontrollably in love with the elf woman that was in charge of the housekeeping in the house in which his quarter had been placed. Christophe had been raised as nobility in Orlais but decided one day that he would not return to his home and instead would build a home and a life with the servant that shared his love of horses. Once he defected from the Orlesian army and joined the Fereldens in their fight to win their home back, he was welcomed with curious glances but somewhat open arms. After Ferelden won its independence in 9:00 Dragon, Christophe finally took Surai to be his wife. It took the two of them a few years to build their life together and, after some consternation, they were finally blessed with their oldest child, Phillipe. It was not until 9:10 Dragon that the fiery Sylvie was born.

Their life just outside capitol city of Denerim was mostly uneventful until Christophe passed away at the young age of forty-eight. It was sudden and most certainly unnatural. Phillipe had gone to join the King's army, as his father had years before. Sylvie remained at home to help on the farm that her parents had started years ago - also to study under the once-illustrious rogue that had been her beloved Papa. One of the things she learned was about poisons. She knew her father's death was caused by one in particular - the signs were obvious. After some trouble acquiring the ingredients, she distilled a very small vial. She swore she would find the individual that took her father (and subsequently her mother, because Surai did not live much longer for the want of Christophe) someday and the poison was reserved for him.

Sylvie practiced the art of dueling religiously when she was not tending to the horses or the fields; her brother returned periodically until the year 9:30. That was when the first darkspawn was sighted and when Phillipe was slain in the Battle of Ostagar.

With no choice but to defend her country (her father may have passed on bits and pieces of both the Orlesian accent and lore but he had chosen Ferelden years ago), Sylvie offered all but one horse to those fleeing Denerim and made to Lothering, the place closest to Ostagar and the one that would most certainly need the most assistance the soonest.

Sylvie Surai Desmarais

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a character in “Dragon Age: Crimson Blight”, as played by Beatrice Amell

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