Seriah Tabris

Seriah Tabris

Hero of Ferelden, Champion of Redcliffe, Warden-Commander of Ferelden, Arlessa of Amaranthine

Born 9:11 Dragon
Height: 5'2"
City Elf Origin

Born to Cyrion and Adaia Tabris, Seriah inherited her father’s plain face and her mother’s recklessness and determination. Already restless, she was shaped into an angry and bitter young woman by life in the alienage and the unjust murder of her mother by city guardsmen. Her hopelessness at the lack of justice led her to take steps towards joining the Dalish elves, even going so far as to tattoo her face, but her love for her father stopped her, and she resigned herself to being trapped in the alienage for his sake.

She had no intention of marrying Nelaros despite her family’s urging and made that very clear to him, but his death on her behalf traumatized her, and she took the ring he intended to give her and kept it with her as a reminder. She had never killed before the day of her wedding, but found it came alarmingly easy to her, and feared what it might make her if she allowed herself to enjoy it.

Seriah resented what she perceived as Warden-Commander Duncan’s coldness and inaction regarding the injustices she had faced. She viewed herself as an unwilling prisoner forced into labor by the Wardens. Her distrust of humans, already well-established, was only deepened by what had happened, and her distrust of the Wardens as an organization solidified at the horror of the Joining ritual. Regardless, the Blight was an unignorable threat thanks in part to her new abilities, and her sense of justice bade her to do what she could to defend innocent lives.

She did not trust Alistair in the slightest at first, but their shared tragedy and his unexpected willingness to cede power to her softened her distrust until eventually she found him to be, quite against her will, a friend, and eventually more.

At her core, what Seriah fears more than anything is dying, and she would go to farther lengths than she is comfortable admitting to avoid it. She wants to be a good person; she thinks herself too selfish, and can’t commit to sacrificing herself as Wardens are meant to. Her distrust of the Wardens extends to what she sees as their manipulation of desperate people, tricking them into dying for a cause they might never have chosen. She feels responsible for others taken in by the Wardens, and every death in her service weighs heavily on her. Her quest to find a cure for the Blight and end the Calling is as much for them as it is for herself.

Dalish AU

In the timeline where Duncan never travels to Denerim to recruit for the Wardens and Josef Brosca becomes the Hero of Ferelden, Seriah is kidnapped during her wedding and kills her way through a dozen guards and Vaughan Kendells before she’s captured by the guard and thrown in jail, awaiting execution. The Blight’s arrival and the ensuing political chaos of the Arl’s death and subsequent replacement by Rendon Howe leads to her sentence being mostly forgotten.

She spends a year rotting in a cell before she is freed by Warden Brosca and his party. When she returns to Denerim, her father has already been taken by Tevinter slave merchants, and she is deeply scarred by the events leading to her crime and the resulting imprisonment. She stays long enough to help defend the alienage from the darkspawn horde, and when the battle is over asks the visiting army of Dalish who fought at her side to take her with them.

After a few years of working her way into the clan’s good graces, she becomes a member of Clan Lavellan and receives vallaslin which they attempt to work into her existing facial tattoos. She and Bren Lavellan, one of the few in the clan to treat her kindly despite her rough origins and intimidating demeanor, strike up a friendship, and eventually form a romantic

relationship.

Inquisitor AU

Seriah joins Clan Lavellan, and when the conclave is announced they send her as a scout who is also familiar with the ways of humans and city elves. She is marked, one of the only survivors, and is named Herald first, then Inquisitor.

Despite her distrust of humans and nobility in particular, she finds Josephine disarmingly attractive. They have passionate disagreements, and an equally passionate romance.