i am... horrendously late to the party, but hi all! i’m tea, and i’m here to introduce you to my misanthropic city elf merchant mage, letha. tl;dr she’s from the kirkwall circle, trades in general goods, and hates everything. she’s got a more in-depth background here, if you’re up to reading it. otherwise, all you need to know is under the cut!
ANA DE ARMAS || introducing LETHA! at age 29, of FEMALE CITY ELF origin, born in THE FREE MARCHES, && best known as A MERCHANT / APOSTATE; she has just recently arrived at skyhold. she seems to be a MAGE, her known traits include ASTUTE, DISTRUSTFUL & ABRASIVE; and she stands with the inquisition.
letha is a city elf that hails from kirkwall’s circle of magi, a place she’s come to call “the ring of murder and madmen” in her head. prior to joining up with the inquisition as a merchant, she was a wandering apostate, travelling across borders, going south from the free marches to ferelden.
fierce and isolated on instinct, letha is the embodiment of morally ambiguous, and has taken her role as an outsider on as an identity: from being born in an alienage to being shunned as a mage, then fleeing her homeland after the rebellion — there’s nothing she understands more than being an outcast, and so feels a mixture of resentment and anger towards every little thing.
though it’s not possible nor entirely practical to fully hide the fact that she’s a mage, letha still does her best to conceal the fact from most strangers and common folk. she presents herself as a non-combatant, though she also keeps a dagger strapped to the outside of her thigh.
on the day-to-day, her services include trading in general goods, and she dabbles a little bit in art, as well — want a self-portrait or a beautiful landscape done? she’d be happy to oblige, for a price. she’s skilled particularly with charcoal drawings, largely because that was the easiest medium for her to get access to, growing up as she did.
when it comes to relationships with letha, friends don’t come easy. she can be fairly charming, and does like to have a laugh (though most of the time at other people’s expense), so acquaintances are likely — but in terms of genuine friends, she will have about as few as you’d expect for someone like her. any that she did have, however, she would hold very, very dear.
on the flip side, as someone who fends for herself and herself alone, letha is bound to have made her fair share of enemies along the way. while she’d be instinctively guarded around most templars, she’d also be wary around other mages; she’s scathing and isolated on instinct, and can be hard to get along with.
lastly, letha isn’t the type to consider much in the way of romance; physical affection is more likely, but still relatively rare. she’s the type to spend a night and leave the following morning — before you wake and without a note. she knows little of love and courtship, and probably wouldn’t know what to do with real feelings if she had them.
come plot with her maybe?? i’m open to pretty much any ideas, so feel free to drop into my IMs here on tumblr, or find me at koala tea#4782!