some dragon age au headcanons on my mind:
sigyn, the human, was a noblewoman and a mage married to a tevinter man who she loved, but whose questionable dealings ran afoul a powerful magister.
empathy, the spirit, shadowed sigyn from an early age, drawn to her kindness and quiet strength. when sigyn began to learn magic, she took immediately to healing, and empathy became her primary contact in the fade whenever she performed spirit healing magic. they formed a mutually rewarding bond.
when the magister came for sigyn’s sons, she died trying to protect them, knowing that she’d already failed. empathy merged with her at the moment of her last breath, killed the magister, and fled.
empathy is now the only active consciousness but she thinks, feels and behaves more human every day. at first she called herself sigyn because it was easier than explaining her true nature, but in time she comes to think of the name as her own.
sigyn was certain as she died that her entire family had been wiped out by this atrocity and so that is also what empathy believes.
in human form, empathy can still sense and affect the emotions of anyone around her, especially through touch.
her presence can also have a passive effect on people. ex: if she is her usual calm, nurturing self, her presence is calming and comforting; if she is upset or angry, her presence is quite the opposite, though the feeling is subtle and difficult to trace and in some ways all the worse for being that unknowable anxiety at the back of one’s mind nagging them that something isn’t right.
the unmatched herbalism skills are ALL sigyn’s years of hard work learning the trade and developing her own methods and recipes and fine-tuning them like works of art.
but empathy doesn’t understand food so do NOT ask her to cook.
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