Assorted headcanons about my Rook, Evrion:
Born in 9:10 Dragon, making him a year older than Dorian Pavus and Carver Hawke. As of the events of DA4, he is 42 years old.
Was found as a newborn near a battlefield healer’s tent during a skirmish between the Tevene army and the Qunari on Seheron.
His adoptive mother was a spirit healer for the Tevene army, his adoptive father a soldier hell bent on rising in the ranks but hindered by his own lack of magical talent.
Both parents were very religious which is why they named him for Andraste’s second stepson. It’s also why Evrion himself is decidedly a-religious but well versed in religious texts common to Andrastianism.
Left school at 16 to enlist in the army after his father died of a heart attack and left the family without enough income to do more than barely scrape by.
His adoptive mother died of Blight at the height of the Fifth Blight, leaving him with no home and no living family. (That he knew of, at least.) After she died, he began to get involved with anti-slavery groups now that his meager income wasn’t needed to support her and no one was left to be upset at his choices.
Was dishonorably discharged from the Tevene army aged 34 for ‘suspicion of being involved in illegal activities’. The army brass never had enough evidence to throw him in jail, but over the years Evrion helped many slaves held by high ranking Altus members of the army escape. After his discharge and an introduction to the Viper, he started working with the Shadow Dragons.
He was only able to enlist in the army due to a quirk of the enlistment system that allowed him to join based on his wholly human Soporati parentage, at least on paper. This did not make him popular with the other members of his battalion or the officers.
Cannot swim, absolutely terrified of drowning, yet unwilling to learn to swim.
Hasn’t rented or owned a home since his mother died and their apartment was sold to cover her debts. Lived in barracks or hostels during his army days, and lives out of the bunkhouse portion of The Shop otherwise.
As a consequence of this, he lives wholly out of his pack and owns very little by way of personal belongings.
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