See this is why defensive armor is a necessity. You never know when a hurlock might show up or someone starts a round of strip poker.

It’s the alienage, just after a raid . You find her not as she is but what she sees herself as in her worst moments. A small, scrawny child. She’s the age she was when her mother was murdered, about 12. It’s how it always is post raid. It smells only of smoke and blood, overwhelmingly so. For sound, there’s the screams and weeping of those just finding the bodies of their loved ones. That, and the crackling of timber shacks burning to a crumpled heap, dogs barking, and someone vomiting a few yards away. It’s so smoky that if it weren’t the fade where these things don’t matter so much, you would barely be able to breathe without coughing, to see without squinting through watering eyes. You’ll find her sitting in filth next to the memory of the body of her mom. Initiating dialogue with her will start with her vacantly commenting that she should have been quicker, stronger, to prevent this, and that she deserves to suffer for failing everyone. There’s two ways to move forward witb the quest- either use a persuasion check to convince her that this is the fade and all this has already happened, or tell her that all this moping isn’t like her. The latter will lead to her becoming irate and challenging you, which you can respond with “see? Use that anger. Think about what you’re angry at.” And encouraging her to get moving in order to seek revenge. Afterward, when the circle quest is finished, you’ll have the option to talk about what you saw in the fade.

Without it or something heavy to hold on top of her she has a hard time sleeping during the blight when she’s in the tent nightly. It’s only eventually when she has Alistair or @asistole s nadya heads on her chest where she’s finally able to sleep soundly

Tagging @nedsseveredhead @spaceandbones @darkspawntaxcollectors @goldenbloodytears and ofc anyone who wants to play

Is it a surprise thurwen turned out to be super weird and confrontational and suspicious when it comes to sex. She was aquatinted with sexual violence before she was even 11. Sexuality has never been something she’s been aquatinted with in any comfortable way. The violence towards herself and other female elves growing up did in fact hit the point where all sex and ideas of sex is violent and anxiety producing in her mind. Human and elven men have been trying to rape her since she was old enough to talk. She’s the oldest in the alienage, since she was 12. Then she has to protect herself and every younger kid in the alienage. Words don’t work, violence is the only weapon she has. She killed her first man at 10. He was bleeding out with his intestines falling out on the dirty alleyway floor. That was a mercy kill. She was 14 the first time she killed a man on purpose. Didn’t know how to do it, just panicked and stabbed a knife right straight into his throat. It was a whole mess.