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heartscfvalor · 3 years ago

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Introducing: Dehari Tabris

Coyote came and spoke to me he says "Get used to your destiny" Every moment is a mystery to me Getting pretty good at listening

Dehari Tabris is the daughter of Adaia and Cyrion, two city elves of an Alienage in Denerim, and their only child. As a youngest, Adaia managed to train her daughter in martial arts and rogue training in order to prepare her for anything that life threw her way, due to the world being so hostile towards elves in general, because Adaia was captured by humans and eventually killed. Cyrion took to raising Dehari to the best of his abilities, alongside extended family with her cousins, Soris and Shianni, the latter of whom had moved in with Cyrion and Dehari after her mother died of a plague when the two girls were extremely small.

Despite her rogue training and her distrust of humans, Dehari lived a rather happy live in the Alienage. Money was scarce, though Cyrion was able to get jobs that allowed him to keep his small family more afloat than the rest, and Dehari tended to work with the children to allow their parents to work too. When she was a teenager, Cyrion started looking for a match for an arranged marriage for his daughter, and Dehari let her head fill with daydreams about her future with a husband who would treat her well and give her the family she dreamed to have.

Cyrion was able to find a match for Dehari named Nelaros, a blacksmith elf from the Alienage in Highever. Described as kind, handsome and good with his hands, he was a wonderful match for Dehari, who was excited for their future wedding day. At nineteen, the wedding day was brought up early one day when Nelaros and Valora, Soris’ match made by the Alienage’s elder, arrived earlier than expected, and Cyrion, having heard that Duncan, the Grey Warden, had come looking for recruits, sped things along in hopes of saving Dehari from Duncan’s recruitment by marrying her off as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, what should have been a happy wedding day -- especially when Dehari saw how absolutely handsome Nelaros was when they finally met, and his general kindness as he promised to do what he could to keep her happy -- turned into a nightmare. The arl’s son, Vaughan, crashed the celebration, first to declare he was looking for “beautiful women” to accompany him back to the palace for a “party” he was throwing, but Shianni crashed a vase into his head in a reckless move to get him to leave, only to make the man return in a rage. He kidnapped Shianni, Valora, and Dehari, including several other elven women, and he had them dragged back to the palace kicking and screaming. One of the women, unfortunately, ends up dead from this encounter, her throat slit when the guards come to force the women to Vaughan’s quarters, before they were taken, leaving Dehari as the last one.

Thankfully, Soris and Nelaros broke into the palace via a servant’s tunnel to try and free the women, giving Dehari a weapon to fight back against the guards. Nelaros died trying to protect her, and Dehari, mourning his loss, took the wedding ring he had intended to give her during their wedding from his pocket, sliding it onto her finger and continuing the bloodbath with Soris at her side to save the other women. When they finally reached Vaughan’s quarters, Shianni had just been raped by Vaughan and his friends, who tried to bribe Dehari into leaving the palace. Undeterred and filled with rage, Dehari instead killed all three of the men, before helping Soris take Shianni and the rest of the women home.

When the city guards came looking for the “murderers” responsible for the blood covering the palace, Dehari took full responsibility, and Duncan conscripted her into the Grey Wardens to save her from arrest. She was given time to say goodbye to her family before she left, swearing to do everything she could possible to destroy this Blight and find a way back home.

Dehari continues to hold onto her more romantic and daydream like personality, whilst juggling the responsibilities as a Grey Warden after Duncan’s death. She tries to see the good in people, though the harsh realities of the Blight and everything around them did not deter her. Her favored romances are with Alistair or Zevran, though it depends on who manages to woo her first.

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