Saw this gorgeous template and couldn't resist filling it in for Calleigh!
Template by @larkinna available here! I used Photopea.
Close-ups and some yapping under the cut!
Appearance & Details:
She has quite a few heavy armour sets, but this (Frontline Plated Mail) is one of the heaviest. The other one that she frequently uses is Weisshaupt's Wall
Her casual outfit is from the 'Lighthouse Casual Chic' mod, and so she gets to join in on the Lighthouse dress code of 'open shirt' 😤
Copper hair, hazel eyes
Long facial scar running down her right cheek and over her lips (injury from her mercenary/brawling days, from a cheating opponent!)
Griffon wing arm tattoos (also has a Grey Warden-themed tattoo on her left leg)
She wears multiple rings on both hands, and spins them around when she is tense/nervous (one of her very few tells)
Relationships:
Romance: Neve
Best friend: Lace
Close friends: Davrin, Taash
Friends: Lucanis, Bellara, Emmrich
Solas: guarded, and Varric: close friends
Faction relationships: Antoine & Evka (best friends); First Warden Jowin Glastrum (antagonistic 🤛)
Basics:
Both of her main nicknames come from Neve, who quite early on defaults to calling her by her real name, and then the nicknames as their relationship develops 😊
Lace, her best friend, will also mostly call her by her real name
All fellow Wardens call her 'Warden Thorne' or just 'Thorne'
She is only referred to as 'Rook' by the remaining members of the Veilguard and the leaders/members of other factions encountered during the game
She is 34, and became a Warden at age 22
She was born near Ansburg in the Free Marches, and grew up on a farm
I was unsure what to put for home, so went with Weisshaupt and The Lighthouse. Post game she goes between Grey Hold (Lavendel/Hossberg) and Dock Town, then eventually permanently settles in Dock Town
The diamonds to the right are her faction (Grey Wardens), race (Human) and class (Warrior) respectively
Skills & Other:
Skills are all self-explanatory. Stealth stat is non-existent. My 6ft buff ginger armoured warrior girl cannot stealth 😂
Her skill with swords is in part due to the Warden who recruited her - Jean-Marc Stroud
She enjoys a good ale, and can even handle Dwarven ale. She does not like tea or coffee (sorry Neve and Lucanis)
I put her favourite place as 'training yard', wherever that might be
Wasn't sure where to place her on the morality chart - she is definitely good, but perhaps leans slightly more into chaotic than lawful. Whilst she is reliable and trustworthy, she is also adaptable and flexible, but also can be reckless (particularly with her own safety if it means increased chance of mission success)
in my first playthrough alistair broke up with me and i couldn’t bear forcing him to both be a king and perform the dark ritual so self-sacrifice it was
what better than a maleficar so devoted they are ready to die for you huh
Edie loves telling people wild lies about how she got the scar over her left eye. In reality, it was done upon her request. The Dasher was showing increased attraction to her, and knowing he was a very vain man, Edie had her best friend Lantos inflict the scar to dissuade the Dasher from continuing his advances. It worked.
Edie is a lesbian, although she hasn’t had any lasting relationship experience.
Edie hates the Carta as an organization, but not necessarily the average person working within it. She understands that most of them, like herself, were born without much other options of survival. But Edie doesn’t see that as an excuse for the leaders to be a bunch of assholes who backstab each other and rage over even the smallest loss of profit.
Another reason Edie hates the Carta is of personal nature: Her parents were murdered by her uncle in a scheme to rise through the ranks. The first person Edie ever killed was that uncle in revenge, which at seventeen years old landed her in debt to the Dasher who helped cover this up. Before this, Edie had dreams of leaving the Carta’s shadow to become an architect. Those dreams were ruined, and instead she wound up as a smuggler.
Edie can best be described as agnostic, believing there’s something grander to the universe, but isn’t sure what that is. She figures there’s more important things to worry about than whether or not the Stone is real, or if the Maker exists, or whatever happens after death. She’d rather focus on what she’s doing and where she is in the moment. Becoming Inquisitor forces Edie to question those things more than she ever has before though, and Edie starts to lean more into Andrastianism, (largely influenced by others).
Edie is severely afraid of deepstalkers, finding them to be horrific little creatures.
'alexander mcqueen's gold-painted fox-skeleton wrap, seen at london fashion week, february 2001' in 100 ideas that changed fashion - harriet worsley (2011)
I think the fact that the census shows that only 1.9% of dragon age fans are trans women stems both from the text itself (one of two canonical TMA characters in the games is a transmisogynistic caricature and both are fairly minor npcs) and from the fandom (I've seen blogs get hate mail for hcing Alistair as a trans woman, for example). The former obviously can't be changed (though we can change how we talk about the text and its transmisogyny when talking about trans representation in the series as a whole ofc) but I think in regards to the latter, DA fans have a responsibility to center & celebrate trans women and loudly & vocally oppose the not-insignificant transandrobro and terf presence both in this fandom and in the website as a whole.
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