[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]

[b]Soulbound[/b] 
Part of a set of rings forged by 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 Cadmus 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 the potency of spells causing spirit damage.

[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. In battle, this impressive knowledge of spellwork translates into an affinity to influence the spells and spellcasting of another mage, boosting their potency for allies or employing spells from [url=https://dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Spirit_spells_(Origins)#Soul_Warding_tree]Soul Warding[/url] and [url=https://dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Spirit_spells_(Origins)#Mana_Drain_tree]Mana Drain[/url] trees of the School of Spirit to counter enemy mages with great efficacy. Interfering with another mage's spell, however, meant also opening up more connection to the fade, as the connection to the fade being utilised by the other mage's spellcasting is imposed on Cadmus, thus requiring great mental focus to avoid being lost in the fade. Hence, the technique is mentally taxing to do multiple times in quick succession.

[b]Spell Might[/b] - A Spell Casting technique from the Spirit School that overflows the mage's body with magical energy, empowering spells cast at the cost of a bigger drain on mana 

[b]Storm of the Dead[/b] - One of the most devastating spells known in both the Southern and Northern Circle of Magi is the [url=https://dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Storm_of_the_Century]Storm of the Century[/url], a tempestuous blizzard cast while empowered with Spell Might. Storm of the Dead is a modified Blood Magic School version of the spell. A combination of [url=https://dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Syphon_(Origins)]Death Syphon[/url] and the central discipline of Blood Magic to use blood to cast spells, power Storm of the Dead from dead bodies on the battlefield, as their blood turned boiling and acidic, raining a devastating storm of blood. As the spell relies on dead bodies, the more corpses there are, the more powerful the spell, though on the flipside, the smaller the number of corpses, the weaker the spell.

[b]Sacrificial Prison[/b]
A spell developed by Cadmus that utilises the Spirit and Entropy Schools, alongside his Blood Magic. Based on the crushing prison spell, the spell immobilised its target, then the target's mind is assaulted with the Mental Contamination discipline from the Entropy School, such as horror or nightmare spells, making the target more susceptible to blood magic. Finally, blood magic is then used to make the immobilised target a 'battery' as their blood is used to power Cadmus' spells.

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

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[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 [INSERT MAGISTER]’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 were 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. In the Imperium, what was considered blood magic was only the 'unethical' form, such as summoning demons or from unwilling participants. And while publicly such practices were frowned upon, most of the magisterium participated in them in some form. It was inescapable for someone in Cadmus' position to have rubbed shoulders with magisters involved in such a thing, even if he, himself, did not partake directly. 

In this case, there was a case where Imperium's citizens suspected of being Viddathari spies had been forcefully interrogated until their minds broke by using blood magic. The culprits were some magisters who ran in Cadmus' circle in the Magisterium's politics, due to their adjacent political stance on the Qunari. Thus, due to Cadmus' hardline hawkish stance against the Qunari, he was set up as the mastermind of the ritual. Stripped of his title and awaiting execution, he 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]

As a Gray Warden, his current main motivation above all is to stop the Blight, but if he could also do so by helping to push reform in Tevinter in some way, or making the Qunari less of a threat to the Imperium, he would. In the end, Cadmus is still a Tevinter patriot [s]and apologist.[/s]

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

Yes, he is open to relationship. 

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

Aside from his sister and mother, whom he regularly exchange letters with, he's on good terms with the rest of his families, but not particularly close.

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

[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]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."

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