Title: Shok Adaar
Summery: A one shot a day for my Inquisitor until November eighteenth- no spoilers other then origins for the Qunari origin.
Ashley Trevelyan
Ashley was raised in a very religious family. From a young age she was raised to believe in the Maker and she followed him happily, until she was thirteen and a group of bandits attacked her and her parents on the road. Upon getting word that their daughters injuries were not life threatening, Ash was left with her wounds to heal on their own. They were horrible scars down her face, ones that covered her eye.
She would forever be blind in her right eye because of the wounds, and because her parents refused to have magic preformed on her. Ash began to research and study mages, and the Chantry history with a much more open mind, and became angrier and angrier at what the world has done to them.
Furious, she turned to the few written accounts of the Dalish religion, the Dwarven ancestors, even the Qun she studied, and found that all religions and philosophies are good ones- but she could never speak out.
Ashley trained hard in the ring to rid herself of her anger and to learn how to move with only one good eye.
As she grew in skill and strength, the more she wanted to show she could be a good person, that not all humans were bad people.
And even though she is forced to go to the conclave to swear herself into Templar service, she prays to any god that can hear, she can show them.
The Inquisitor to Alanna Cousland and Natasha Hawke, (female warriors I used back to back) Ashley Trevelyan is the product of me reading a few 'the Human Warrior/Rouge is anti-Chantry!' 'Pro other religions'. I found the ideas silly, but actually thought about it, and wanted to do it.
One of the issues people have is that they don't give people a reason to be the way they are. Real life people aren't like that. In most real life cases, a child raised in a super religious household will be extremely religious themselves. Unless there is a catalyst for change.
People don't just change or think differently from their upbringing. My grandmother is a blood lab technician and her upbringing was religious, so religious that in fact, is we even mention scientifically PROVEN things to her, she'll shut down and refuse to believe it if it goes against her religion. She doesn't even believe some of the medically proven facts, and she works in a hospital!
So, Ashley was raised by her parents to be a perfect Chantry goer until she lost the sight out of one eye because her parents refused to go back on their religion. If she was dying, they would have, but she wasn't, and she found that horrible.
Ashley follows my female human warriors, so she is one as well, though I'm unsure about whether or not she is a shieldmaiden or a two handed. Probably shield because then I can say she uses it on her blind side.
And can anyone guess the pattern with this playthrough arch? Alanna, Natasha and Ashley?