[Hider=Cadmus Laenas][center][h1][color=0072bc]Cadmus Laenas[/color][/h1]

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[indent][sub][color=0072bc]28[/color] - [color=0072bc]Male[/color] - [color=0072bc]Human[/color][/sub][/indent][/center]

[table=bordered][row][/row][row][cell=active][indent][sub][b][color=303030]Class + Specialization: Mage | Blood Mage[/color][/b]

[b][color=00aeef]Custom Traits:[/color][/b]

[color=00aeef][b]|[u] {Equipment and Personal Belongings} [/u]|[/b][/color]

[b]Mage Staff[/b] - An ornate ebony staff with gold plating and purple gemstones. A decorative piece that is also sturdy enough to be used as a blunt instrument in an emergency. Imbued with lighting magic.

[b]Soulbound[/b] 
Part of a set of rings forged Archon Lovias to simultaneously command the physical realm and the Fade. The two rings were lost, but Soulbound was excavated from Ferelden and eventually made its way to Cadmu as a gift when he was a magister. Technically a form of gratification, but in politics, dabbling in such thing was unavoidable. Increased resistance against spirit damage and potency of spells causing spirit damage.

[color=00aeef][b]|[u] {Skills} [/u]|[/b][/color]

[b]Arcane Lore[/b] - A Laetan who has managed to join the upper echelon of the Imperium partly due to his magical talents, Cadmus boasts an impressive resume of magical knowledge and research capability.

[b]Diplomacy[/b] - If one-half of what allowed Cadmus to rise to high status was his magical ability, the other half was the ability to navigate the murky waters of Imperium political intrigue, making him an adept diplomat.

[b]Cooking[/b] - Born to a family of Soporati that has a tavern business from his mother's side of the family, Cadmus learned to cook from a young age and still considers it a relaxing hobby to indulge in from time to time.

[color=00aeef][b]|[u] {Talents} [/u]|[/b][/color]

[b]Marksmanship[/b] - After being conscripted as a warden, Cadmus often found himself running out of stamina during missions due to him being more used as part of the Imperium elite. Eventually, he asked a fellow recruit to help him train with a crossbow to conserve his energy. Four years later, now a more seasoned warden with better endurance, Cadmus still continues practising his marksmanship with his crossbow as a practical skill to conserve energy on the field.

[b]Quarterstaff Proficiency[/b] - Whacking an opponent with one's staff is considered inelegant and beneath the elite mages of the Imperium. Ask anyone actually serving in the war against the Qunari, though, they will tell you that the ability to use a staff as a blunt quarterstaff can be the difference between being dead or alive. Cadmus' father, who was an Imperium soldier had asked a mage friend he met in the army to teach Cadmus how to use his staff as a pole weapon, just in case.

[color=00aeef][b]|[u] {Spells} [/u]|[/b][/color]

Proficient in Spirit and Entropy Schools. Adept in Creation School.

[b][color=39b54a]Story traits:[/color][/b]

(Leave this empty for now. These are rewards granted via story progression)

[b][color=39b54a]Stats:[/color][/b]

Perseverance	10
Hard Hitter	5
Combat Sense	5
	
Reflexes	5
Rapid Blows	5
Perception	15
	
Power		20
Pattern Weaving	15
Mana Pool	10
Fortitude	10
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[table=bordered][row][/row][row][/row][row][cell=active][indent][sub][b][color=303030]Biography:[/color][/b]

Cadmus was born in Minrathous, the heart of the Tevinter Imperium, to a family of Soporati—commoners with no magic—his father was a soldier in the Tevinter Military and his mother worked in a family-owned tavern business alongside his uncle and cousins. He was a second child, with an older sister five years older than he was. Though born a Soporati, when Cadmus was 7 years old, he manifested magical ability and was then sponsored into the Circle, unlike the Southern part of Thedas, in Tevinter what would typically be a cause for distress was instead a cause for celebration, magical ability being highly valued and the Circles in the Imperium more akin to prestigious learning institutions. Due to his work ethic and magical talent, he eventually found himself in the position of a minor official in the Imperium. He eventually became disillusioned with the way Imperium’s government was run and threw himself deeper into politics, hoping to rise to a higher station to enact a reformation.

After being elevated as a Laetan from a Soporati, Cadmus eventually managed to ingratiate himself with the upper echelons of the Imperium, eventually managing to earn a seat in the magisterium as part of the seats held by the Circle. An inspirational figure as being a case of someone from humble origin rising to the ranks of magister, he gained momentum among the reformist faction and became the rising star in Magister Maevaris Tilani’s faction. Through his newly attained influence and financial capability, he helped his family’s tavern expand and paid for his sister’s tuition at the University of Orlais in Val Royeaux, where she now stayed as a lecturer. 

By 9:56 Dragon, Cadmus was influential enough to be considered for an arranged marriage with one of Tevinter’s Great Houses, whose daughter was in line to be a Magister succeeding her father. It was more a marriage of convenience than actual love—though Cadmus did consider his fiancée a friend—that would cement Cadmus as a prominent figure in the Imperium’s politics. Unfortunately, he was outmanoeuvred, throughout his career, he had made many enemies, most of them people he deemed incompetent and replaced them with competent people, many of whom deemed to be of lower ranks. The culmination of Cadmus’ political adversary’s plot saw him arrested by Imperial Templars for blood magic usage. While he was a blood mage, mages of the Imperium using blood magic were a public secret, and the only mages arrested by Imperial Templars were those targeted for political purposes, such as the case with Cadmus. Cadmus was only spared after a Gray Warden who had been a war buddy of Cadmus’ father before he joined the Wardens invoked the rite of conscription to recruit Cadmus to the Grey Wardens instead.

Though he was sullen and angry the first few months the joining, both due to still not accepting what had happened to him and that his life was now cut short due to the taint—exacerbated by his Father’s passing in Seheron on duty shortly after his conscription to the wardens—he eventually accepted his place within the wardens both to ‘repay’ their help in sparing him execution and his personal adage of ‘if one were to do something, then that something must be done to the best of their ability’. He was now a warden, whether he liked it or not, so why not make the most of it rather than sulking until he eventually dies either from darkspawns or the joining?


[b][color=39b54a]Homeland:[/color][/b]

Tevinter Imperium

[b][color=39b54a]Motivation:[/color][/b]

(Aside from stopping the blight, what is your character hoping to achieve?)

[b][color=39b54a]Relations:[/color][/b]

Yes. Used to be engaged to a magister's daughter, but it was mostly political, though they were good friends (At least from his perspective)

[b][color=39b54a]Equipment List:[/color][/b]

[b]Courtier Outfit[/b] - An ornate mage robe with gold trim, styled in a classic style of the Imperium so as to still be fashionably acceptable with little regard to the fashion cycles. Used only for official functions.

[b]Travelling outfit[/b] - A practical and comfortable plain black robe with a belt and various pockets to store things.

[b]Dagger[/b] - A sharp dagger worn in the belt for easy access. While it can be used as a self-defence tool in an emergency, its primary use is to cut open skin for blood magic.

[b]Crossbow[/b] - A light Crossbow kept as an alternative ranged weapon to conserve mana—and blood—it has no special properties but does its job decently enough.

[b]Ritewine[/b] - A custom of the Grey Wardens, as a wine enjoyer, the bottle's content has become a mixture of wines from various origins and bottle ages. Rumour among his colleagues has it that the bottle has never been emptied to the last drop, and thus still contains traces of the Imperium's finest wine he bought just before being conscripted. The bottle is marked with "Vintage: Warden Cadmus. Last drop reserved for the Calling."

[b][color=303030]Signature:[/color][/b] (Type [b][color=39b54a]Randomguy[/color][/b] [/sub][/indent][/cell][/row][/table][/hider]