#oc: arden surana

[faylock]

an absolutely beautiful commission by @mooreaux of my warden, Arden Surana: Hero of Fereldan, Commander of The Grey, Areless of Amaranthine, *lists her 15 other titles*!

[etdraconis]

Updated Muse List

Bold denotes primary/main muses, underlined denotes secondary muses, Italics denotes tertiary/low muse, * denotes request only

Dragon Age Canons:

Cremisius Aclassi

Anders

Zevran Arainai

Blackwall

Eleanor Cousland

Fergus Cousland

Fenris

Bethany Hawke

Carver Hawke

Nathaniel Howe

Thomas Howe

The Iron Bull

Anora Mac Tir

Loghain Mac Tir

Josephine Montilyet

Dorian Pavus

Cassandra Pentaghast

Cullen Rutherford

Varric Tethras

Alistair Theirin

Cailan Theirin

Maric Theirin

Dragon Age OCs:

Arden Aclassi

August Amell

Elizabeth Amell

Julian Amell

Oliver Amell

Rosalie Amell

Pyke Brosca

Elysia Caius

Amara Cousland

Brennon Cousland

Lauryl Cousland

Victoire Ducet

Callum Hawke

Kenton Hawke

Leanore Hawke

Hava Lavellan

Theron Mahariel

Kalva Sabrae

Alim Surana

Aurelia Tabris

Claire Trevelyan

Declan Trevelyan

Evelyn Trevelyan

Everett Trevelyan

Maxwell Trevelyan

Persephone Trevelyan

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Elain Archeron

Feyre Archeron

Nesta Archeron

Azriel

Cassian

Jurian

Kallias

Rhysand

Tarquin

Eris Vanserra

Lucien Vanserra

Bridgerton

Sophie Beckett

Benedict Bridgerton

Colin Bridgerton

Eloise Bridgerton

Francesca Bridgerton

Gregory Bridgerton

Hyacinth Bridgerton

Felicity Featherington

Penelope Featherington

Gareth St. Claire

Gwendolyn Sinclaire

Kendall Sinclaire

Alexander Thorne

Charlotte Thorne

Lillian Thorne

Sebastian Thorne

William Thorne

Crescent City

Aidas

Juniper Andromeda

Fury Axtar

Baxian Argos

Ariadne

Hunt Athalar

Lidia Cervos

Ruhn Danaan

Declan Emmet

Hypaxia Enador

Danika Fendyr

Tristan Flynn

Connor Holstrom

Ithan Holstrom

Tharion Ketos

Bryce Quinlan

Rigelus

The Empyrean Saga

Andarna

Jack Barlowe

Imogen Cardulo

Ridoc Gamlyn

Aaric Greycastle

Liam Mairi

Sloane Mairi

Rhiannon Matthias

Brennan Sorrengail

Lilith Sorrengail

Mira Sorrengail

Violet Sorrengail

Grishaverse

Kaz Brekker

The Darkling

Jesper Fahey

Inej Ghafa

Matthias Helvar

Fedyor Kaminsky

Tamar Kir-Bataar

David Kostyk

Nikolai Lantzov

Zoya Nazyalensky

Genya Safin

Alina Starkov

Wylan Van Eck

Tolya Yul-Bataar

Nina Zenik

Percy Jackson

Annabeth Chase

Nico Di Angelo

Jason Grace

Percy Jackson

Piper McLean

Will Solace

Leo Valdez

Throne of Glass

Aedion Ashryver*

Sam Cortland

Lysandra Ennar

Aelin Galathynius

Evalin Galathynius

Dorian Havilliard

Fenrys Moonbeam

Chaol Westfall

Rowan Whitethorn*

The Witcher

Jaskier

Geralt of Rivia

Yennifer of Vengerberg

Other Book Muses

Daniel Arlington V (Ninth House)

Aziraphale (Good Omens)

Crowley (Good Omens)

Alexander Clairemont-Diaz (Red, White, and Royal Blue)

Arthur Delacey (Gwen and Art Are Not in Love)

Galaxy Stern (Ninth House)

Greek Mythology

Aphrodite

Apollo

Ares

Aristeus

Artemis

Asclepius

Hades

Hera

Hermes

Patroclus

Persephone

Poseidon

Zeus

DnD/Fantasy OCs

Jalana Astorio (human warlock)

Tarquin Auglathia (sea-elf rogue)

Nedri Autumnblaze (half-orc ranger)

Azure (water genasi monk)

Anders Brightwood (human bard)

Caerlin (tiefling arcane trickster rogue)

Drake (Wild Hunt shifter ranger)

Elianis Galonodel (half-elf druid)

Naivara Galonodel (half-elf mastermind rogue)

Taron Galonodel (wood elf bard)

Rhys Le'Quella (eladrin wizard)

Makaria (tiefling paladin)

Reya (tiefling storm sorcerer)

Alwyn Sulian (sun elf paladin)

Auryn Sulian (sun elf fighter)

Cerys Sulian (sun elf celestial warlock)

Emrys Sulian (sun elf shadow magic sorcerer)

Cloak Timbers (gnome cleric)

Hollis Tremaine (human fighter)

Other/modern OCs

Destin Michaels (merman)

Novah Michaels (mermaid)

Cassian Sage (werewolf)

Sophie Sage (werewolf)

Reina Solace (werewolf)

Hazel Thatcher (werewolf)

Nicolai Voss (vampire)

[gauldur-amulet]

look at all these elves

Ko-Fi | Commission Info

[ladylike-foxes]

The Warden of My Dreams, Eirwen Surana, as a birthday present for my most beloved and wonderful friend and baby sister, @shift-shaping ❤️ I hope you like it, bby, and that it does Eirwen justice. Happy Birthday and I love you!! 😘 ❤️❤️

[rimdraws]

Got 4 requests as I closed the post :D

@x-x-files‘s Thalia Trevelyan @marsquisitor‘s Arden Trevelyan @rhetoricalrogue‘s Ravena Trevelyan @ace–jace‘s Livia Surana

It was fun sketching your pretty pretty OCs! thanks!

[shift-shaping]

Glimpses: Snow White

Rating: M

Genre: Tragedy

Pairings: OC x OC

This is the fifth part of a series containing Parentage, The Seer, Escape, and Wanted that clarifies the life of Surana’s parents. Please be aware that this series tends to contain a high amount of violence and disturbing content. 

He’d never seen such eyes.

Set wide and scared in skin the color of an otter’s fur, gleaming slightly in the dark, they watched him like only a child’s can: with a mixture of innocence and confusion that made her utterly alien to his own experience. She was thinner than most toddlers, made of bones and unmarred skin, with an unbalanced stance that made her teeter on dirty feet. 

She was beautiful, but beauty had never held him back, not even from killing a child. Already her mother lay dead outside, and her father soaked in blood in the next room. Neither had expected him, but her mother understood. She had the same eyes as her daughter, large and grey, but hers were sharp as the edge of a blade. Though she could have been no older than nineteen, those eyes glowed with mistrust built from years of hardness. Still, as he held her down and pressed his steel to her throat she closed her eyes, accepting, almost at peace. 

He left her in the alley and returned to where he knew she lived: a dilapidated, one-room apartment in the alienage. He’d lived in one once, in Rialto, before his own mother sold him to the Crows. For thirty years he’d worked for them, rising to become a sought-after and well-respected assassin. The Seer paid a high price for his work, and in-return asked only for the heart of the child called Eirwen Surana.

He was no stranger to killing children. Rarely did he feel a stab of guilt or shudder of shame, because he was only doing as he was told. He was not the evil one, he did not want this child dead more than anyone else. The true evil asked for the death in the first place -he thought himself just as much a victim as them, in some sense. After all, he never chose this work.

Yet somehow this girl was different. It was not just her beauty, though he knew that to be part of it, but the way she stared at him -unblinking, unafraid, curious if anything. How such a small child could stare at him with so much bravery he could hardly comprehend. 

Do you know your mother is dead? He wanted to ask, as she watched him in silence. Do you know how much blood your father spilled, how he sputtered as his life drained away? Do you know how much your heart is worth? 

She knew nothing, and she didn’t care. The only things in her were curiosity and a stupid, childish valor. Ignorance of the truth made her stand before him with those beautiful eyes gleaming wide and her long ears dipping down. She was elfish, even for an elf, with every feature seemingly exaggerated. Already she looked to him like a spirit, something ethereal and strange.

“Can you speak, child?” He asked, his voice low and rough.

She responded with that same vacant, fool stare.

“Can you listen? Do you hear me?” 

The little girl’s dark brows furrowed and she tilted her head -not quite nodding, but showing some evidence of getting his meaning.

Silence weighed heavy between them, their gazes locked, their breathing shallow and cold. He inhaled slow and deep, tasting decay on the stale Kirkwall air. The blade in his hand felt so heavy, his body so weak.

Did she know who he was? What he came here to do?

“Do you know what will happen if I let you live?” He stepped closer to her, his voice low, and she only blinked in response. “The Seer believes you will be too strong, that you will overshadow even her. A mage like you would only be made Tranquil, or locked away in a Circle. What kind of life is that?” He knelt before her, shaking his head, and looked deep into her beautiful eyes. “You would have nothing but demons to protect you, girl. Would this not be better, would this not be more merciful...” He reached out and stroked her cheek, his calloused hands making her frown and pull away. “The Seer will hunt you. For the rest of your life. If I don’t do this now, someone else will.”

He brought the blade up, held it so it gleamed in the moonlight. The girl frowned and looked at it, as if only now grasping some fraction of the danger she was in. 

“If I don’t do this...” He faltered, feeling a choke in his throat that squeezed his words silent. He sighed and lowered the blade, then shook his head. “This will not get better, girl.”

She stayed quiet, tentative. Her tiny hands reached up then, and one rested on the curve of his silver mask. His breath hitched and he stared at her, the moment holding between them until it wore long and fragile.

“It won’t...” She touched the mask, her fingers so small against the cold metal. 

He sighed, shaking his head, and then suddenly wrapped his arms around her and picked her up. There was a woman in Denerim he knew would take her. There were other hearts, other kills, other payoffs. This one was unnecessary. 

The little girl was surprising light in his arms, but squirmed as he tried to hold her. He shushed her, bouncing her on his hip, and then covered her in a dark cloak. Denerim. She’d be safe there.

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[atalentea]

Dragon Age Questions

01) favorite game of the series? This is actually a tough question! Both in terms of game play and story, DA2 is the most fun for me to play, and probably the one I have played the most. However, DAO and DAI have my favorite OCs, and are the ones I spend the most time on when I play.

02) how did you discover Dragon Age? I played Mass Effect on a whim after seeing it on tumblr once, which led me to all the other Bioware games!

03) how many times you’ve played the games? DA:O – 6 times, every Origin except for city elf. DA2: – Approximately 10 times DA:I – 5 times, with 1 or 2 aborted play throughs

04) favorite race to play as? Oh man, I don’t even have a favorite. As long as I have a story that resonates with me, I truly enjoy playing. The only race I haven’t played is a dwarf in DAI.  

05) favorite class? Sword and shield warrior in DAO and DAI, and a rogue in DA2.

06) do you play through the games differently or do you make the same decisions each time. It really depends. The only choices I change are role playing decisions in DAO, based on the story that my OC has going on. For example, conversation decisions about the Chantry, racial issues, or attitude. Actual story decisions rarely change in that game. In DA2, I almost always support the mages, but the degree to which I do so changes based on the character. Only once did my character change at the end and support the templars due to the death of her mother at the hand of the blood mage. DAI is where I change the most based on my character’s goals, which is likely because you can do so without being an evil bastard.

07) go-to adventuring group? DAO: Morrigan, Leliana, and Oghren/Zevran. The sass group!

DA2: This usually depends on my character, but usually Merrill, Fenris, and Varric.

DA:I: This is probably the game where I change the most based on who is best for the quest. Usually my romance, Cassandra/Blackwall, and Sera.

08) which of your characters did you put the most thought into? Definitely Lydia Cousland. Her story just came to me so quickly, and I just couldn’t stop writing. Whenever I want to pick up the game, I can jump into her story and just feel right at home.

09) favorite romance? I really have one per game, I couldn’t choose between them. Leliana is such a beautiful romance with fantastic pay off and just relevant enough to the story to keep you thinking about it the whole game long. Fenris from DA2 narrowly beats out Isabela, but I love them both for the same reason. The way that they change over the course of the game, and how devoted they get to you by the end is truly romantic. In DAI, I suppose it would have to be Solas. Sera’s was a BLAST, but Solas beats her out because I love heartbreak.

10) have you read any of the comics/books? I’ve read some of them, and I’m actually getting into them more now. They are rather simple, but I love the way they open up new stories and avenues for your characters behind the scenes.

11) if you read them, which was your favorite book? The Masked Empire. I love Celene and Briala so damn much.

12) favorite DLCs? Oh man, that’s tough. Probably Jaws of Hakkon and Trespasser.

13) things that annoy you? I don’t believe these games are perfect in any way, but the things I often see people complaining  about are things that I acknowledge but they don’t actively bother me. The most frustrating things for me are the ‘‘subverting’‘ of stereotypes by making butch-coded characters straight, the dearth of gay male options, the lack of dwarven lore related to the end-games, some of the racial coding, and probably the way people treat DA2.

14) Orlais or Ferelden? Depends! I love how different they attempted to make the human civilizations, and I hope you can eventually make characters who are from different countries as well as different races.

15) Templars or Mages? I can truly appreciate the way the games went back and tried to make us understand the hardships of the templars, so much so that I actually made a templar character. However, no matter how much they try to make the situations equal, they just aren’t. Mages.

16) if you have multiple characters, are they in different/parallel universes or in the same one? Separate! Definitely. I cannot possibly play in a world knowing one of my own is out there somewhere but I can’t see them.

17) what did you name your pets? (mabari, summoned animals, mounts, etc) So many names... Ragnor and Crixus are my favorites though!

18) have you installed any mods? Only recently have I started using mods, and as much as they have helped me make my vision for my characters truly come to life, I could get rid of them in a second. They are helpful, but they aren’t necessary to my enjoyment.

19) did your Warden want to become a Grey Warden? Clarissa Surana did, as well as Nadia Brosca.

Lydia Cousland only did it originally for revenge on Arl Howe, M Aeducan did it to get back to his homeland one day, and Marika Mahariel wanted to survive.

20) Hawke’s personality? I generally play as a purple Hawke, because it is such a unique experience to DA2. I can play a Blue or Red character in the other games no problem, so why would I miss out on a chance to be so much fun! A couple of my boys are Red, but my rogue ladies are all Purple.

21) did you make matching armor for your companions in Inquisition? NOT

22) if your character(s) could go back in time to change one thing, what would they change? Lydia Cousland is confident she did everything she could in her life, but if there was any way AT ALL she could have saved her family, she would have done it.

Adrian Hawke would have never gone into the Deep Roads.

Lanaya Lavellan is feeling very guilty that she hasn’t stood up for her people, instead playing at war with the nations of Thedas, but that’s all going to change.

23) do you have any headcanons about your character(s) that go against canon? All the time!

Lydia Cousland is a widow. Clarissa Surana is originally a Dalish elf whose mother ran away from the clan with a human man who had been turned into a werewolf.

Arden got her tattoo after she was caught stealing in Lothering as a teenager. Her and Isabela stay together after the events of the game, and it is Arden who leaves Isabela in the dead of night on her ship to go to Skyhold. Isabela is PISSED.

Nala Adaar was raised in a remote human town and educated there. Even Trevelyan was a templar at the Conclave. Mira Trevelya was an active member of the Mage rebellion, and went to the Conclave as a spy for the mages.

24) are any of your character(s) based on someone? I start all my characters based on characters that already exist, before I flesh them out. I am not quite that creative to come up with characters from scratch. Lydia is based on the character from Shadowhunters, Adrian Hawke is based on Agron from Spartacus, Lanaya Lavellan is based on Lanaya from the Dalish camp in DAO, and so on.

25) who did you leave in the Fade? This changes all the time. I tend to leave Hawke in the fade if I feel like he or she has a strong tie to the guilt they feel about Corypheus being alive, or let Stroud die if my Inquisitor needs the Wardens to be redeemed in their eyes, as I don’t really like to banish them.

26) favorite mount? I rarely use horses, but I’m using one of the big creatures with antlers right now, and it’s pretty fucking cool. Just wish it was faster!

[faylock]

Arden Surana

Origins - Canon

Arden Surana

Age: 18-28

Gender: female (she/her)

Sexuality: Bisexual

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Class: Mage, Shapeshifter/Arcane Warrior

Love Interest(s): Alistair

Best Friend: Lelianna

Titles: Hero of Ferelden /  Warden-Commander of Ferelden / Champion of Redcliffe / Areless of Amaranthine / Magical Advisor to the King Of Ferelden / Mistress to the King of Ferelden

-- Choices -- 

Alistair becomes King and rules alongside Anora. Aspen is his mistress 

Helped Redcliffe prepare for battle; Connor and Isolde alive not possessed 

Did not poision the Urn of Ashes

Supported the mages

Brokered peace between Dalish and Werewolves 

Bhelen Rules Orzammar

Dagna left to study

Hardened Alistair 

Alistair and Morgan performed dark Ritual 

Kills the Archdemon and survives  

-- Fun Facts --

Born in the Denerim Alienage

Magic manifested at age 6

An absolute academic weapon

A skilled fabric artist 1st taught to sew by her mother. Enjoys making her own clothes

Also frequently journals and paints. Especially about her time during the Blight

Tried to teach herself elvhen from books in the Tower library

Was academic rivals, friends, and teenage sweethearts with Violet Amell

After the Blight, she's appointed Magical Advisor to the King and Queen Of Ferelden

This allows Aspen to aid the throne with her particular knack for politics and The Game

She and Alistair marry a few years after Origins ends.

After discovering the cure for the Blight, she and Alistair have twin daughters Elowen and Willow.

Willow is a mage, and Elowen is not.

Elowen is heir to the Ferelden Throne

[faylock]

just thinking about how leliana and zevran would teach arden how to dance and eventually alistair would join in and they’d all be dancing around in camp :((

[shift-shaping]

Tagged by: @serasbeesandarrows Tagging: @tallhornedandmagical, @fade-walking, @oh-greywarden, @varriccallsme-foxlette, @aclassikrem, @ass--sass--sin, @wildmageling, @bellafaire-bellafine, @asomniari,

Name: Eirwen Surana

Real Life Name: Arden Age: 21 Origins: Boston! :D Pronouns: She/her/hers Sexuality: Bisexual/Queer, preference for women Zodiac sign: Scorpio Relationship status: Taken

Three facts: 1. I am blonde and kind of dumb but my mom says I’m pretty so that’s okay

2. I have been roleplaying avidly since I was 9

3. I have 3 jobs

Muse Preference: I’m not sure what this means lol. I prefer OCs, I guess. I don’t think I could play a canon character, especially one with a lot of canon characterization. 

Writing Preference: Anything. Just give me something to work with. Ideally no icons or heavy aesthetic because it’s distracting but eh, really not a big deal.