Name: Sylverin Surana

Age: 16 at the beginning of Dragon Age Origins

Gender: Female

Height: 149cm

Weight: 45kg

Eye: Blue

Hair: Brown, a bit longer than shoulder length hair

Race: Elf

Appearance: The brown haired and blue eyes elf is petite, even for her race. And, although her height could be considered as part of her racial element, her body shape could be nothing else than that of a human's. She is well shaped, even for a 16 year old girl causing the boys of the circle tower to run after her all the time (being saved usually by Anders or Jowan).

Preferred Magic type: Primal and Spirit

Specialization: Arcane Warrior

Personality: Good. Sylverin knows what is best for the people and always tries making decisions that will affect people in a good way. She is cheery and tries to look at the things from the positive side usually. She loves making people smile around her and so she does her best at that. Sylverin is the type of person who would never ever kill a person if it wasn't for her loved ones.

Background story:
Being born at the Circle Tower, Sylverin was never allowed to leave it. She was raised there, fully locked up in a "safe" cage that she was supposed to look at as her home. She hated her life there and tried escaping many times. Unsuccessfully each time.

Until the age of three, she was kept amongst the senior enchanters so that they could make sure she had magic. Luckily (?) she showed signs of magic at a very early age and was allowed to live with the other apprentices from that time onwards. Sylverin immediately befriended Jowan, another apprentice, who was five years older and felt obligated to care for the petite elven girl.

Sylverin was born with a natural curiosity towards the outside world. She read books in her free time, and tried thinking of escape plans when she wasn't watched closely. Sylverin knew nothing of the outside world, apart from what she could read in books. She had no idea who her parents were and she was desperate to find out.

Her very first escape attempt was when she was five. A childish attempt of trying to run out of the tower when the templars came back from one of their hunts. After that moment Irving the Greagoir realised that Sylverin might not be as cooperative as they hoped her to be. The templars started watching her more closely. On her 6th birthday, however, a new mage has arrived to the tower.

This time it was a teenager at the age of 16. Anders, who just like Sylverin, thought of the Circle Tower as a cage, a prison that kept him in. These similar thoughts helped the two youngsters create a strong bond. Jowan, of course, followed the little girl's lead. The three of them became close friends, and, although neither Sylverin, nor Anders told the others about it, they both tried escaping several times, just to be either stopped or brought back later on. Anders was much more successful than Sylverin.

By the time Sylverin reached the age of 12, Anders had managed to escape 5 times, while Sylverin hadn't even managed to get out of the tower with her escape attempts. Much to the girl's annoyance, the templars decided to lock Anders away for quite a while this time. On her 13th birthday, Anders was still locked up. And Sylverin had had enough of this treatment. She was able to learn the magic behind shapeshifting and could turn into some animals. She wanted to get away from this prison, fearing that she might just end up as Anders if she didn't manage to escape soon. Many mages feared her for her talents and there was gossiping going around that she might have to be made tranquil. Sylverin just did not want to risk it. One night she went to the first floor in the library and quietly started her spell to shapeshift into a bird. But somebody gave her away and while already half way out of the window, a few seconds before she would have finished her spell, she was hit by five Holy Smites. Sylverin fell out of the window unconscious, just to wake up a few hours later with some really bad injuries. Most of them were healed quickly, but the templars decided to punish her, leaving some deeps cuts unhealed until they healed by themselves (Sylverin has had a scar along her abdomen ever since then). After that incident, her abilities to shapeshift somehow disappeared and she was never able to shapeshift again. This caused her to start hating templars more than most mages. If a templar used his power against her after this escape attempt she would go so mad it was feared many times she might get possessed and one of her friends had to go calm her down. A few days later, when her wounds more or less healed to a level where she could move around, she decided to help Anders, as well. If she could come out of this whole thing without being locked up in a cell, then they could release Anders, as well. To achieve this, she went to the library and sat on one of the bookshelves for as long as it took for Irving to promise her that Anders would be released. Sylverin did not come down, however, until her friend actually came up to her and told her he had been released from his cell. After that successful rescue, Sylverin gave up on escaping and she, Jowan and Anders became even better friends, thinking they knew everything about each other.

In the next few years, Sylverin studied hard. Anders passed his Harrowing and Jowan was trying to keep up with them. While Sylverin learned languages, history and spells, Anders successfully escaped from the tower again, having done so for the 6th time. Jowan, however, started to become more secretive and started to talk about his new girlfriend, whom Sylverin believed to be either part of his imagination or a very stupid person to go for Jowan. She loved her friend as a brother, but had to admit it to herself: he was stupid and totally crap at spells. If he got something right, that was either luck or a very low level spell.

When she turned 16, a new chapter has started in her life. She was taken to her Harrowing and from that moment on, her whole life changed into a chaotic adventure she never even hoped to survive.