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Since no one else wanted to play a super crusty and carmudgeony old elf, I (Maaya) am stepping up with this offering! Meet Talasan Alerion, 75 year old Keeper of Clan Alerion. He's #toooldforthisshit basically.

The short version:

• He's a shapeshifter! Spends a fair amount of time as a bear or a wolf. Is very skilled at fighting in that form despite his age.
  
• Became Keeper very early, in his 30s, after a demon possession took the clan's Second and the ensuing battle to subdue the boy ended in the Keeper's death.
  
• Is thus very serious about the rules governing mages in clans. Magic is useful but dangerous, damn it.
  
• His wife was killed by slavers and his only son taken when he was 40. Don't mention it. He isn't going to talk to you about it.
  
• Has clashed with various humans over the years. Has lost chunks of his clan to shem violence in the early days before adopting a more isolationist policy. The clan takes care of those who take care of themselves. If someone strays, the clan doesn't return for them. Everyone knows this is the rule. He won't generally risk the many for one or two.
  
• Has Just About Had It with Tevinter slavers, however. 5 hunters at once is too much to lose. He's going to get them back, damn it. And he's not above violence to get it done.

Hi all, here's Vicki with another temp PC: Devehari Alerion, the mother of one of the young hunters taken. In good times, she's a serious person who has no time for your bullshit, and in bad times (and for her, this is the absolute worst time), well, DO NOT MESS WITH HER.

→ Her son, Pariel, is THE most important thing in the world to her, especially after her husband was killed and mutilated by shems from a village the clan was near -- his corpse was supposed to serve as a warning.
→ No surprise, she hates humans with a fiery passion. Absolutely no exceptions. Ya'll suck.
→ Literally the only thing keeping her from going into Cumberland to find her son herself is the Keeper. She is more than willing to tear the city apart if she needs to.
→ Her second greatest love is the clan, and when she's not being a mother to her son she is devoting her talents and skills to serve the clan's needs.
→ She actually doesn't hate or disdain city elves. She does feel for them, her one softness for outsiders, but she also thinks that they need to save themselves and will never raise a finger to help them herself. The Dalish aren't your saviors, flat-ears. :|
→ She's an artificer, meaning that as a hunter, she specializes in using traps to catch her prey. Sometimes prey means humans. Today it means Tevinter slavers specifically. But don't you dare doubt her ability to use her bow; Dalish archers are to be feared for a reason.
→ As for Pariel, he's almost the exact opposite in personality from his mother, and if they didn't look nearly identical the rest of the clan might wonder if they're related at all (those who remember his father will realize that he took after him when it came to personality). But she taught him well, and he's a gifted archer and hunter for being as young as he is.