Lords Lost Weekend: (alt universe Teleri - Laidir)
I saw @lof-weekend come up and one of the suggestions was 'your Rook in another faction'
So I thought it would be a good time to show off Teleri Laidir again, my LOF alternative universe/ what if/Sliding doors Rook, aka if Teleri's life had taken a different path from her canon Crow one.
I wrote about her briefly as part of her in all the other factions before and shared a few pics of her as 'Eli 'Tempest Laidir', But, i'll be honest The Tempest, is my favourite alt universe version of Teleri! (and the only alt universe her brother survives in too! So he gets to be seen to because damn...he's hot.)
'Isabela's little Tempest.'
Teleri 'Eli', The Tempest Liadir
When her clan is attacked and killed, Teleri (16) and her brother (18) are taken by slavers intent to sell them in Tevinter, but during a storm a group of pirates attack the ship intent to steal the precious 'cargo' to sell themselves. Isabela and her crew get wind of them and go to defend their turf and save the slaves (as Isabela learnt her lesson a while back and doesn't like that shit now).
When the slaver pirates see Isabela's fleet, they decide to kill their cargo and toss them overboard, rather than let Isabela's lot rescue them, and start murdering them, but Teleri's brother Meryn, who is a mage, sees the slavers coming for him and his sister and in a panic, calls down a lighting bolt on the ship, making it catch fire, killing many of the pirates at the time...and sadly some of the other slaves. Teleri and her brother escape the ship by jumping over board as they can both swim and are rescued by one of Isabela's ships.
Teleri is an angry ball of grief and rage and lashes out, thinking they have just traded one slave ship for another, but Isabela puts away her daggers and offers her a new life if she wants it, free of her past, which Teleri refuses to talk about.
Teleri accepts the offer, but Meryn refuses and decides he wants to return to Dalish life and goes off to find a clan to join. This upsets Teleri even further, but she lets her brother go and once she joins Isabela's crew, takes the surname Laidir which some the city elves begin calling her.
At first she is given the role of lookout on one of Isabela's ships as well as throat cutter, but due to her first experience of the sea, does not like being on the ocean and prefers to stay on shore as guard of their crews hoard. So when Isabela sets up the Lords and finds the Hall of Valour, Teleri decides instead she wants to become a champion of the hall, taking out all her bitterness, grief and frustration there, as her emotions are never dealt with, dampened instead with sex and alcohol.
She enchants her armour and weapons with lightning as a silent honour to her brother who she hasn't seen in years, and does indeed become that champion, earning the nickname in the Hall - The Tempest.
Only Isabela & Teleri's closest friends are allowed to call her Eli, everyone else calls her Laidir.
She can drink most under the bar at the Hilt, says she has a tattoo for every one she's slept with (though many are in fact symbols of other milestones she keeps to herself) and even Taash tells people not to get on Eli's bad side unless they want a new scar.
On the outside she jokes and laughs with the best of them, but inside she feels broken and empty.
It isn't until that fateful killing of a Rivaini noble, that leads to her becoming Rook, that changes her life again. Being Rook gives her the opportunity to take a moment to breath and start afresh in many ways, away from the chaos of the Lords and the Hall of Valor.
The team help her in many ways - Emmrich healing her grief and Davrin and Bellara offering support as fellow Dalish.
Lucanis though, he gives her purpose, support and perspective after she finds out her brother, in his search for a new clan was attacked by more slavers, but was saved by a Crow ...Viago De Riva himself, who offered Meryn to join them instead, after being impressed seeing a lone mage take on an entire slaver unit.
Meryn decided fate was telling him something and accepted and became a rising star in House De Riva.
She re-bonds with her brother, seeing him excel in his new life, as well as finding happiness with a certain Minrathous detective.
She in turn saves Treviso and earns the respect of both Viago and Teia, who suggest if she wants to try something new and has the same spark as her brother, she could always join the Crows too.
She does eventually leave the Lords with Isabela's blessing, who knows Teleri wasn't ever settled as one of them - that being with Lucanis has done that, seeing the good influence he (and the others) have had on her little Tempest. Though she does not officially join the Crows either, she just likes wearing their gear....She's more an honorary Crow, like Taash ;)
She gains a few more tattoos, never looses her sassy attitude, marries Lucanis and Spite and has one kid with them both (Spite adores his chaotic little Rook).
She assists Lucanis as First Talon, and many refer to them as The Tempest and the Demon.
So that's my Lord of Fortune alt universe Teleri.
I adore her look so much!
