User:WardenWade

A Bit About Me
Dragon Age: Origins took me from "zero to sixty" regarding elves. I loved the unconventional manner city elves in particular were portrayed, and am eternally grateful for Origins giving me the tools and desire to return to art and writing.

My Dragon Age: Origins Preferences
Favorite Origin: City Elf Favorite Origin Companion(s): Soris, and also Shianni and Cyrion Favorite Companion(s): Alistair, Leliana, Zevran Arainai, Wynne, Dog and Schmooples Favorite Love Interest: Leliana Favorite Places: the Elven Alienage, Denerim, the Brecilian Forest and Dalish Camp, the Deep Roads and Circle of Magi Favorite Specializations: Assassin, Shadow, Legionnaire Scout and Ranger Favorite Dragon Age Race: Elf - specifically city elf Favorite Post-Coronation Boon: electing Shianni as Bann of the Alienage to promote elves being treated fairly for once Favorite Deity: Fen'Harel

Wade's Rogue Specializations
Wade's preferred specializations (as of Witch Hunt):

Wade's Preferred Rogue Skills
Wade's favorite skills (as of Witch Hunt):

Wade's Power of Blood Abilities
The Gray Warden taint now provides Wade with extra power (as of Warden's Keep):

Character Synopsis


















Random Facts: Age: 30 (as of Asunder) Favorite Foods: Boiled veg and herb tea, also sweets and coffee Battles: Veteran of the Fifth Blight, specifically the battle of Ostagar, battle of Redcliffe and battle of Denerim. Also the Ferelden Civil War Religious Views: Generally heretical. Essentially, everything is true. "It's complicated." Favorite Weapons: the Fang of Fen'Harel and Voice of Velvet (melee, as of Awakening); The Sorrows of Arlathan (ranged, as of Witch Hunt) Favorite Armor: Adaia's Boots, Blackblade Tunic, Battledress of the Provocateur and Wade's Superior Drakeskin Armor

I have run through the console version of DA: Origins with this character--my "canon" Warden--and am now running through on the PC. Wade is a clever rogue with a sharp tongue and sharp sense of humor, as well as compassion. He doesn't have a problem doing what needs to be done but can't help sympathizing with the underdogs. He loves his family and friends, and misses his mother, Adaia, greatly.

Religiously/philosophically, his views diverge from those of the average City Elf, or even Dalish. Ironically this adds to his relationship with Leliana, whose own Andrastian views are rather heretical.

In thought and action he strives to live in and between two worlds: human and elf, servile and savage, and even male and female. Strangely, the social classifications of an elf allow him to do just that, and with the Fang of Fen'Harel at his side live beyond definition...and, hopefully, beyond expectation.

Wade grew up a somewhat eccentric child in a comparatively eccentric family in Denerim's alienage. The Tabris family was largely considered troublemakers by their neighbors for Adaia's fierce nature, and snobs by the same for Cyrion's unwonted good fortune to work for Bann Rodolf. Wade's immediate family included his aunt Oona (Shianni's mother: deceased), Soris' parents (deceased) and Shianni's ne'er-do-well father, Merrin. The latter fled to a nearby Dalish clan following Oona's death from pestilence when Shianni was young...Wade wonders if he will ever run into him again..?

Wade himself was content to play with his friends, and his cousins Shianni and Soris, for the rest of his life until the day when he was seven that Adaia persuaded him to receive an unusual tattoo...how unusual he could not then know. Soon after the lad was employed--through the well-intentioned string-pulling of Bann Rodolf--as a kennel boy (or "dog boy," as he was often called) in the palace of Arl Urien. Wade found this work challenging physically as well as emotionally, as he frequently had to deal with the Arl's son, Vaughan, but forced himself to go on with it for his father and the Bann's sake, and for the sake of the dogs. Fortunately or unfortunately incidents such as these, reinforcing the idea that elves were little more than animals, would mark his life.

The years were not all bad, however, as Wade slowly earned the trust--but never the imprinted obedience--of Vaughan's mabari warhounds. Once he even almost met Ferelden's then-king Maric Theirin.

Years later, after foiling an attempted attack on his friend Nola, Wade was (again) severely punished by Vaughan and his friends. This forever altered the nature of their relationship, such as it was, and presaged Wade's later murder of Vaughan and his cronies following their storming of his and Soris' wedding during the Blight. Wade's life was also forever changed when his mother was killed by human guards, caught wielding a blade in the defense of a young elven maiden. This was an especially bitter pill as Adaia had only a few years previously been rescued from certain death by The Hard Line under Harwen Raleigh by a certain "Orlesian she-devil."

After the disaster of Wade's wedding he was recruited by Commander Duncan into the Gray Wardens, there to begin an even stranger chapter of his young life...one that would lead him ultimately to love, understanding and even the slaying of gods.

As you can see below as well, I have invested perhaps too much time in his backstory and headcanon... :S

Many thanks to King Cousland for the character template.

Genealogy
Raelyn Redway lived 700 years ago, during the Chantry calendar's Glory Age. A chambermaid (and before that a self-made blacksmith) and distant relation of Wade Tabris and his mother, Adaia (Redway) Tabris, she was something of a misfit among her people. Instead of resenting her shemlen neighbors in Orlais and yearning for the days of Arlathan and the Creators, Raelyn reveled in the present. She appreciated what the elves had created with their own hands and accepted the world as it was without pining for the past. To her, the elves were more than their distant gods, and she could not even rightly say she was entirely sad the People were on their own.

This inclination earned her the attention of Fen'Harel, the Dread Wolf. Sensing a kindred spirit in her--a mortal who could, in a sense, appreciate the world he had created--he came to her during an eclipse night when the rulers of the Dales sundered the Veil on the eve of elven rebellion against humanity. There he bestowed dark wisdom upon her, and gifted her with the mighty Dar'Misu the Fang of Fen'Harel...and a child, impossibly conceived in the Beyond/the Fade.

Carrying these burdens Raelyn nonetheless resolutely fought for the Dales during the ensuing Exalted March upon the elven kingdom. In the manner of all of Fen'Harel's gifts Fang did not bring her the victory she hoped in battle, however. Raelyn lost many friends and loved ones in battle against the templars--including her erstwhile Emerald Knight lover, Django Brunwyn. Nearly friendless and bitter, Raelyn was taken to the new alienages established under Divine Renata I, there to bear her girl child, Fen'len, in captivity.

Sadly, the child lived a short and unhappy life, dying young...but not before bearing a child of her own. Fen'len's mongrel soul made her a tormented, eccentric child, causing her and Raelyn much sorrow before her end. Raelyn cared for the child as best she could in the alienage before she too passed away, willing her grandchild her knowledge, martial and otherwise, and enchanted blade to wield in its own battles.

Upon her death it is unclear whether Raelyn's spirit passed beyond the Veil to dwell with the Creators, or whether it walked a while with the Dread Wolf. All that is certain is that her descendents carried her martial skill and ancestral blade, and her uncommon cunning and wildness, to future generations of Redways...all the way to present day, and Adaia Tabris and her son, Wade.

Related Characters
Django was a member of the Emerald Knights during the twilight years of the Dales. A patroller of the borders of the new elven homeland, he was far more likely to gently turn a bewildered shemlen trespasser around and lead them back to the edge of the Dales with a loaf of journeybread than to cut them down, as many of his more ruthless comrades were willing to do. Bandits, or other threats to his people, however, were treated quite differently. Despite his flirtatious manner he took his responsibility to his people, and to his gods, seriously.

A laid-back and goodnatured elf with a wry sense of humor, he became acquainted with the then-blacksmith Raelyn Redway when she worked on a blade for him. The pair soon became close friends and lovers, though they never "bonded," never demanding more than the other was willing to give but always remaining loyal in their own way. Django supported his erstwhile lover, though her misfit tendencies concerned him for her safety and wellbeing.

When Raelyn became pregnant shortly before the Chantry's Exalted March of the Dales Django unhesitatingly assumed fatherhood of the child, never knowing it was not his own. He was cut down during the final battle before Raelyn's eyes where he had fought alongside her and her strange new Dar'Misu, and--perhaps mercifully--never lived to see the inside of the hastily alloted alienage in Val Royeaux.

Though not biologically tied to the Redway bloodline, it is hoped his courageous and bright spirit live on somehow in its descendents.