Thanks for the tag to the wonderful @gingerbreton!
I decided to go with my precious darling, Em!
(A part of my birthday present from wonderful Annorelka. Go follow her on deviantArt or Instagram! She is an amazing artist that you need in your life.)
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Nickname: to most people she is either Emerald or Em but when she was a child, her relatives used to call her “Emmie” (even in the Prologue Trian was still using this nickname in a condescending manner). To Sten Emerald is simply “Warden”. Alistair, Zevran, Morrigan and Oghren sometimes call her “Princess” and only the context says whether the intention was playful or hurtful.
Age: 23 at the time of her recruitment to the Grey Wardens, had her 24th birthday slightly over a month later.
Species: dwarf (Orzammar).
Morality: (at the time of Prologue) self-proclaimed lawful good, (after the Prologue) self-proclaimed neutral good. It is debatable whether she is truly good or just a neutral with a strong inclination to do good, especially to the people she cares about.
Religion: officially she believes in the Stone and you cannot prove otherwise.
That being said, she is a chief supporter ONLY of the reformed “church” of the Stone - the foundation stays the same, but the principles are as follows: good people enrich the Stone, assholes weaken it, and your nobility will not save you from the Stone’s scrutiny SO YOU BETTER BE NICE.
Sins: greed/gluttony/sloth/lust/PRIDE/~envy~/wrath.
Emerald’s greatest fault is her pride. Although the time spent in exile made her, more or less, aware of her shortcomings and able to express genuine humility (or even self-deprecation of sorts), Emerald, deep down, is convinced of her superiority to ALMOST EVERYONE. She knows that she is awesome, she has the papers to prove it, and even if she does not flaunt her superiority in your face, you still ~know~ that she judges you in the categories “If I were you, I would never make any of your mistakes”. She goes to great lengths to change it as the Queen.
Virtues: chastity/ CHARITY/ DILLIGENCE/ humility/ KINDNESS/ ~patience~/ ~JUSTICE~.
Ooh, it is a tricky one since Emerald does her best to project an idealized version of herself. That being said, her humility is more often than not depression-induced so it does not really count. Her first marriage was very chaste, but then she did not love her husband and so I would not count is as genuine chastity. She may appear patient but she is still very much struggling with it. She is also very just for someone raised as a spoiled noblewoman, but due to her sheltered life, I feel that she has still a lot to learn.
Known languages: her mother tongue is Common as spoken in Orzammar.
As Orzammar is a fairly isolationist kingdom, I cannot say how much impact there was on the princess learning foreign languages. A language nerd myself, I like to think that Emerald knows at least a little bit of Orlesian (due to Orlais being Orzammar’s best trading partner) and Tevene (due to the dwarven minority living there), but it is purely my speculation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
For sure Emerald picks up random words and phrases from Leliana, Zevran and Sten - partially because she is a nerd but mostly because she knows that ~being more understood~ would make them happy.
Build: scrawny/bony/slender/fit/ATHLETIC/~curvy~/herculean/pudgy/plus size/average.
A friend of mine saw Queen Emerald take off her shirt in the shower, and she said that Queen Emerald had an eight pack, that Queen Emerald was shredded.
(She seems curvy only to a non-dwarven eye, though. To dwarves her charms are only slightly above average.)
Scars/Birthmarks: information classified! She was lucky enough not to receive any scars that would be difficult to hide with casual clothing, though.
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