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[b]Character name:[/b] Arianna Viadryn

[b]Class:[/b] Blood Mage

[b]Skills and Talents:[/b]
Arianna was an intelligent girl to begin with and her training in the Circle of Magi has only served to increase her mental fortitude. She has received extensive training in both the Schools of Elemental and Primal Magic. Recent events have also forced Arianna to adopt the forbidden art of Blood Magic.

[b]Items:[/b]
[i]- Personal Robes (Purchased after escaping the Circle)
- Enchanter's Fire Staff (Taken from her Tutor's Corpse)
- Ruby Dagger (A keepsake of her mother's)[/i]

[b]Bio:[/b]
Arianna was born to an Apostate mother, an Elf who was forced to flee the Denerim Alienage, while pregnant, after local Templars began to suspect that she might be a Mage. She did not fear being sent to the Circle of Magi, but feared that he child might have to grow up there, or worse, be taken from her. The first years of Arianna's childhood were spent wandering from place to place with her mother and flying under the radar, after all, who would take notice of a couple of homeless Elves.

One day while passing through Lothering, Arianna's mother was accosted by a group of drunk humans and dragged away and Arianna never saw her mother again. After a week of failed begging, a hungry and desperate Arianna went to the local chantry, hoping for charity. The templars frightened her and the priests gave her the cold shoulder, but the final straw came when a worshiper, apparently tired of her dirty presence in his Maker's hall, dragged her out of the chantry by her hair. In a fit of fear and rage Arianna unconsciously tapped into the magic within her and set the man's sleeve ablaze. The man released her immediately but before she could take a step to flee she was set upon by the Templars.

Arianna was dragged, literally kicking and screaming, to the Circle Tower on Lake Calenhad. Her first two days in the Tower were spent locked up in a small room, where she spent her energy screaming and raging at a solid, and locked, oak door. Only once she had yelled and cried herself into exhaustion did the First Enchanter come to see her. He explained to her that the Circle would be her home and that she was safe there, but was met with silent defiance.

After a week Arianna's defiance gave way to despair and after a month her despair gave way to resignation. Despite her sullenness, she eventually came to respond to the kindness of the First Enchanter and her Tutor, whom she began to see as a replacement mother figure. As the years went by she progressed in her apprenticeship and passed her Harrowing, becoming a full Mage of the Circle.

All was well until Uldred's betrayal after returning from the Tragedy at Ostagar. One moment she was quietly studying under the watchful guidance of her Tutor and then next moment demons were streaming down the halls of the Tower, murdering Mage and Templar alike. Arianna and her Tutor barricaded themselves in the study and attempted to wait out the disaster, but no help came. They were found by a demon, who manifested in the study with them but was quickly contained within a magic barrier by Arianna's Tutor. The effort of containing the demon proved too much for the older woman and she fell, pouring all of her power into the barrier to ensure it was last long after her death.

Arianna was distraught at the death of her Tutor and to make matters worse, the demon began to whisper to her. It told her that the Templars would not save her from the horrors of the Tower, that they would come to kill her. She covered her ears and tried to block out the demon's words but they crawled into her skull. She waited like this for hours, trapped with a tormenter that told her that her only hope was to release it. That it would give her the power to fight back when the Templars came.

Finally the Templars came. Reinforced by the Templars of Denerim and baring the Right of Annulment, the Templars came, slaughtering all they met, Mage, Abomination and Demon alike. When they bashed down the door to her study and advanced on her with killing intent Arianna, in a moment of desperation, dispelled the barrier containing the demon and in return, it gave her the knowledge of Blood Magic. She unleashed her new power on the Templars, massacring them. In that moment the demon attempted to possess her, but she then turned her Blood Magic on the demon itself, seizing control of it and casting it back into Fade.

Empowered by her Blood Magic, Arianna forced her way out of the Circle Tower, killing several more Templars in the process. Once free of the Templars, she fled west through the Dales and north into Orlais where she went into hiding. In time she learned that Ferelden had failed to stop the Darkspawn Horde and that Denerim had fallen. Arianna came to hate the Darkspawn. It was their Blight that had caused Uldred and many other Mages to be called to Ostagar and, in her mind, it was there that Uldred had concocted his terrible betrayal. She began to seek out the Gray Wardens, hoping to turn her magic against the Darkspawn and get revenge for her fallen mentor.