#rook: lua de riva

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Rook Roundup! Top Left: Da'Evune "Lua" De Riva - (she/her, they/them nonbinary, Crow Mage(? girl you fight like a rogue???) sold to the Crows as a toddler, imprinted on Viago like a duckling (it was mutual, that's his baby sister (derogatory), adopted into House De Riva. She's an angry crier, and just wants her big brother to be proud of her (and also to succeed him as Fifth Talon one day). Teia is the best sister-in-law she could ask for. She's kneecapped the day she explicitly gets Caterina's approval as Lucanis' spouse. Just as in love with Spite as she is Lucanis. Does not wear vallaslin, but wears a Crow face tattoo because she was not raised culturally Dalish, nor culturally a City Elf, but wants to feel something for her heritage and being of more than one place.

Top Right: Melinoë Ingellvar - (they/them, nonbinary, Mourn Watch Mage) found on a plinth in the depths of the Grand Necropolis, they were raised by Vorgoth and as such are a weird little creature, even to people in Nevarra. They're a wisp magnet due to playing with them in the Memorial Garden and libraries as a little one. Being exposed to the Fade and insane levels of necromantic magic as a baby turned their eyes weird (black sclera, that pretty teal green iris). They're a very talented necromancer, very shy about being a corpse whisperer, and used to being an -I quote- "unsettling little weirdo"; they bond with Bellara about being prodigies in their respective fields (Melinoë is one of the youngest to be inducted into the Watchers, and also So Very Autistic like Bellara). They're in love with Emmrich at first sight and emotionally curls up like an isopod about it. No teacher-student relationship, but leaning hard into that age gap ayooooo. Does not wear vallaslin, but wears tombscript tattoos in similar placement to honor those who came before them, and those who made them who they are. Received detailed skeletal scarification when they came of age, to celebrate being inducted into the Mourn Watch.

Bottom Left: Cosette Thorne - (she/her, nonbinary, Grey Warden Warrior) - Half-Orlesian, Half-Ferelden, everyone's problem. Fights so explosively because [Antoine voice] you see, she did not grow very tall, and now there is nowhere for her energy to go, as there is not enough space in her body for all that fire. Hears the blight like a song and is in incredibly deep grief when she learns its origin; not nearly as sensitive as Antoine but her vitiligo is a symptom of her carrying the Blight as a Warden. Misses her mother's pack of mabari, and is head over heels in love with Assan because she's got such a deep need to be around battle mounts (and Davrin because game recognizes game and she's hunting him IMMEDIATELY). Will fully bite Solas and break skin if given the chance, could not be happier to punch out the First Warden at Weisshaupt. She's in love with Antoine and Evka's love, and deeply envious of what they have; she's very overwhelmed with the way she comes to love Davrin. The fact that they both survive the fight with Razikale is a traumatic moment for them both as lovers. One of Assan's brothers bonds with her after they're rescued from Isseya. The Joining makes it difficult for Wardens to have children, but hell if she and Davrin don't try to make Assan a sibling or three. Does not wear vallaslin because she was not raised culturally Dalish, got her griffon face tattoos to scandalize her Orlesian father.

Bottom Right: Lachesis Mercar - (he/him transgender, Shadow Dragon Warrior) - Learned as a young man that he'd been freed from a slave ring and was adopted by the Mercar family as a smol baby. Came out when he was a child and got to grow up pretty happily growing through stages of self-actualization. Little sister becoming a mage raised their family to Laetans, but he's Soporati and takes pride in what he can do not being a mage. He's a pretty talented painter by passion, scribe by trade. He writes poetry and presses flowers in his downtime. He's in a situationship with Tarquin and the Viper, because what's more problematic for the Imperial Divine than being in love with not one, but two trans Soporati? When the second one gets a Venatori target painted on his back for disobeying orders.