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[dinadhal]

PLAYER

Name: Dove
Other Characters: Laura Kint

CHARACTER

Name: Aenor Dinadhal (born Aenor Ethghilas)
Race: Dalish Elf
Nationality: Ander
Mage?: No
Age: 44
Affiliation: Currently Riftwatch, has worked with/alongside Grey Wardens in the past
Occupation: Before this, mail carrier
Goal: Voice testing, faffing about with the idea of playing A Real Grownup.
About:
• Clan Ethghilas travels along the Lattenfluss and Aenor grows up happy enough. At sixteen, while they're camped somewhere near north of Kassel, she meets a handsome farmboy named Raffen and has a swoony little secret fling.

• When she realizes she's pregnant, she lets everyone think she slept with another Dalish elf, which works right up until baby Raban comes out with round ears. Whoops. A few days after his birth, members of the clan leave him on a random doorstep in Kassel proper and Aenor's parents forbid her from speaking of her son. The clan regards this incident as something over and done with, to be forgotten.

• Aenor, for the rest of her seventeenth year and part of her eighteenth, tries to move on the way her clan expects and takes on the vallaslin of Falon'din. Eventually, she realizes that she can't and leaves in the night, changing her name (sometimes spelled Dinadhal, sometimes Din'adhal, she's barely literate and doesn't particularly care) and heading south to Hossberg.

• Turns out living in an alienage is confining, ugly, and segregated, and humans don't love it when you try to live in the nice parts of the city. Not a good time for her.

• Eventually finds work carrying packages, messages, and favours, first between Hossberg and Nordbotten, and then across the deserts between Nordbotten and Laysh (or between Nordbotten and Weisshaupt if the deserts would be too hard to cross). She lives on the border of civilization and never stays anywhere long enough to be rejected. The person who brings the mail is providing a popular service without wearing out her welcome. She has friends among the people she works with, but the relationships are fairly shallow--dinner companions, the occasional one-night stand. She also does mail-carrying work with/for the Grey Wardens, though she doesn't have any desire to join.

• Many years later, her son finds her! Answers to Caric, not Raban, but otherwise, he's clearly the perfect child. Joy and regret and much love, the first meaningful longterm connection she's made outside work in years--and when he says that they take all comers in Riftwatch, it's not hard to convince her to leave the Anderfels.

• And maybe this time, she'll find herself in a society that doesn't tell her who she, as an elf, can and can't forge connections with.