#im just so used to think of cadash as THE inquisitor i straight up forget solas is a (pretty popular!) romance option lmao

[biancadavri]

[vicekings]

I found your Kat Cadash through Dawn's OC event and I AM IN LOVE. Can you tell me more about them? Maybe specifically what their maritime ties are because I'm a simple person with simple interests and a one track mind?

lmao honestly kat is my shameless self-insert dwarven pirate and most of their maritimer aspects & background specifically comes from my own experiences growing up in miramichi w/ a francophone mom & an anglophone dad 

ramblin on about kat under the cut~

i’ll be usin she and they pronouns interchangeably for kat lmao

they’re a rogue, classed as a “wayfinder” - a pirate with exceptional skill in navigation and knows how to read the stars. smart, quick-thinking, and very hands on. she’s practical to her core, but with a certain degree of flare. petty, definitely. sarcastic and bitter and always some form of low-key angry. 

her mom, Den Cadash, was a smuggler with the carta before she met Athlok Adaar, who was a merc. The two of them ended up blowing off their employers and running away from the free marches to the storm coast to settle down together. The carta tried coming after Den, but Den and Athlok’s combined ferocity kept them safe and got the carta of their asses.

Den and Athlok settled down and had two kids, Kat who took on the dwarven look and Nymeria who took on the qunari look. They grew up on the storm coast, with Athlok becoming the village carpenter / handyman / repair guy / helpful dude(tm) and Den doing paintings, translations, & community cooking. Kat went fishing with her father a lot and quickly developed an attachment to the seas, no matter how rough they got.

which den was ecstatic about, since hey she loves the sea too, but like... yo... not a great idea for her to straight up encourage her daughter to go away sailing when the only use for a dwarf on ships was as a carta smuggler. den’s trying to go good and trying to keep the carta off her and her family’s collective asses, she can’t exactly protect a daughter to run straight to the carta. 

but kat’s sea attachment ain’t exactly dying, so den does her best to encourage her kid to keep to legit stuff, like fishing. 

which was good for awhile, but then the carta finally caught up to them. den and kat schemed together to get the carta to fuck off, and their plan involved teaming up with a group of pirates on the coast to drive them out. after they successfully drove the carta away, den returned to her quiet life. and though it wouldn’t have been her own choice, den supported kat when kat chose to stay with the pirates for awhile. 

after a few years the old captain passed on, leaving her ship to Kat. the crew split up, with some leaving and a few staying with Kat. from their they went on with their smuggling and sailing to their hearts desires with Kat as captain. 

by the time inquisition roles around, Kat volunteers their crew to act as smugglers, since her sister Nymeria’s the one with the anchor. Kat mostly smuggles in lyrium and ingredients, but on the rare occasion that the Inquisitor’s party goes off to the free marches, Kat’s ship is the one that ferries them over. 

as for maritime connections specifically? kat’s a social drinker, tends to greet people positively and with a “hows she goin?,” always responds to that question with “very best,” and tends towards using maritimer slang. as pessimistic and sarcastic as she is inside, she tends to try to act outgoing and cheery most of the time, since that’s what their parents did.

ofc there’s the sailing stuff too. Kat grew up on the sea, learning how to sail and read the stars directly from her mom, and learning how to build and repair things from her dad. she reuses things, makes new things out of old things, and wields a small crossbow of her own design. 

kat’s decent at fishing as well, though nymeria was always the better cook. they always work together to make something nice for their crews to eat whenever kat’s pirate crew & nymeria’s merc crew team up. 

and growing up in a small village naturally means that everyone knows everything about everyone, which makes Kat a natural at just knowing things about people and remembering snippets of what she overhears. 

they also took heavy inspiration from stan roger’s music, trailer park boys, great big sea, and most of what ive experienced myself here lol

im probably forgetting a bit but if i think of anything else of import ill throw it in lol~ kats also got a tag over here for more info~