Warden Lark Mahariel

Here’s the wiki for the plot/her history, but the specific choices made are listed below:

⚔ Female Dalish elf, Dual-dagger rogue
⚔ Helped the mages left in the Circle Tower
Helped Redcliff defend against the attacks and got the Circle to free Conner from the demon
⚔ Sided with the Dalish and killed the werewolves, but betrayed Zathrien when he revealed his death ended the curse
⚔ Did not poison the Urn of Sacred Ashes
⚔ Sided with Bhelen in Orzammar
⚔ Recruited all companions, including Shale
⚔ Dueled Loghain herself and killed him
⚔ Killed Sophia and Avernus and drank the Alchemical Concoction
⚔ At the landsmeet, he told Anora she’d support her as Queen, but and then made Alistair King instead
⚔Completed all companion side-quests
⚔ Romanced Leliana
⚔ Convinced Alistair to sleep with Morrigan
⚔ Killed the Archdemon herself


Personality: Lark’s personality is a little split on how she acts versus how she feels. A lot of the time, how she acts is how she feels, but that’s not always true. Lark grew up among her clan as a strong and proud warrior. Then, one day, something she couldn’t fight stripped it all from her. She lost her best friend and love interest, her friends and family and nearly her life as the taint made her sick and weaker. It caused her to shut down a little. That pride and strength turned into anger and aggression and she developed a more blunt and non-caring attitude almost overnight. What did she care about what happened now? Everything she knew and cared for was gone, she could never return to her old life.

Time went on and she learned more about the Grey Wardens than legends and met and befriended Alistair and came to respect Duncan and that gave her the first bit of hope she’d felt toward her new life. She took up the idea of being a Grey Warden and ran with it, deciding she’d serve her people by being an example and help defending others as she would have her tribe.

As is normal for Dalish elves, she had little respect or love for humans, often seeing them as nothing more than cruel and selfish ‘Shems’ to be stepped on when they got in her way. It was Alistair and his humor that first started changing that idea. His humor was like her own and she started to realize there weren’t as many differences between elves and humans as she’d previously thought. She didn’t set out to make friends with humans, but Alistair, Morrigan, Leliana, Wynne, she came to care for them like a family. And it scared her.

Despite her care, she’s still rough around the edges even with them, she’s blunt and sometimes harsh in her truths, she definitely follows a ‘tough love’ sort of idea. Except for Leliana. Leliana was different for Lark and likely had one of the strongest effects on her. Leliana was sweet and kind, almost too much, and Lark found herself wanting to protect her and caring about what she thought. She said something harsh and it hurt Leliana’s feelings and Lark felt regret rather than simply shrug it off as she might have before. Lark started to develop a ‘three teir’ method of dealing with people. The bottom tier was everyone else, random people they met on their adventures, who received the blunt and generally to-the-point Warden, whether that rubbed those people the wrong way or not. The next tier was reserved for people who held her respect. Lark found herself choosing her words a little more carefully, actually wanting to check in with and care for these people as allies to be valued, if not potential friends. The final tier was reserved for her group, the people she went out of her way to be kind and supportive of. She was blunt to others in front of them to them about other people, but when it came to talking to them as their own person, she softened up far more than she ever expected she was capable of.

After some time, Lark found this ‘softening’ she was afraid of doing around people who weren’t her clan, didn’t make her weak as she assumed, but stronger and more determined than ever to end the blight for them. A dalish clan can outrun a blight, but the people who looked to her for help and protection could not and she found her loyalty was slowly shifting to them instead.

That wasn’t the only thing shifting in the ‘wrong’ direction, either. She knew of human religion and the ‘Maker’ and of course she knew the role Andraste held in freeing elves. She had respect for Andraste for that, but her belief lay firmly in the Creators. At first. Exposure to Leliana’s strong belief and the deepening of their relationship opened her mind up to the possibility of both. She began to hold a respect for Andraste that wasn’t simply about her being a person, but the role she played in other people’s lives, whether she was ‘The Bride of The Maker’ or not. Lark would not consider herself Andrastian...but she couldn’t let herself claim to only believe in the Creators either.

These changes in her loyalty and faith and her opinion on humans made her question herself for a large chunk of their journey, it wasn’t until she talked to the ghost Tamlen in the Temple of Sacred Ashes and then later put the real one out of his misery that she realized, just because she might no longer be ‘traditionally’ Dalish didn’t change the fact she was Dalish all the same and still proud of that. She still invokes the Creator’s names, still calls humans ‘Shem’ who don’t deserve a kinder word and still prefers the serenity of nature over the bustle of city life. She’s just also a lot more willing to accept and defend a human or dwarf or qunari than any other Dalish might.

OOC ↬ Back-Tagging ↬ Thread-Hopping ↬ Comments in the Subject Line ↬ Fourth Wall Breakage ↬ Offensive Topics ↬ Anything Else?

IC ↬ Hugging ↬ Kissing ↬ Flirting ↬ Fighting ↬ Injuring ↬ Killing ↬ Telepathy ↬ Magic ↬ Anything Else?

Rogue breakdown and and all the talents attached to it.

For Lark, she’s a dual-daggar rogue with the Ranger and Assassin specializations. She’s an expert lockpick and good with persuasion when she wants to be. She also has an extensive knowledge of survival skills. Since she drank the alchemical concoction, she has the Power of Blood abilities including using the taint in her blood to poison her enemies and being able to sneak better than she had before. (Stealth is not necessarily her strength.)

Inventory ⚔Communication device ⚔Warden's Oath ⚔Dalish Armor ⚔andraste's grace ring