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Clara Trevelyan {Info} [Memes Only]
Name: Clara Moira Trevelyan
Age: 24
Race: Human
Class: Mage, specializing in Storm magic and roughly around level 15 in game terms. I can take her from earlier or later parts of the story, however.
Specialization: Rift Mage. I also play her as a Knight-Enchanter, but, currently, Rift Mage is preferred. I would love to explore her as a Blood Mage at some point.
Sexuality: Disaster bi.
Beliefs: Andrastian, though she's very critical of the Chantry.
Politics: Believes in mage freedom. Believes that the templars can do good but that the mages should govern themselves. The templars, like the Chantry, need to be seriously reformed.
Though noble herself, her experiences in the Circle and working with the Inquisition have helped shape her world view. Clara tends to view the nobility with serious skepticism, at best, though, of course, growing up among nobility and then in the circle at Ostwick means Clara isn't always aware of her privilege, aka, she most certainly makes dumbass mistakes in various aspects of her life.
Family: (Note: I am very much down with AUing Clara as a non-Inquisitor Trevelyan sibling for memes as well or a more than one Inquisitor AU.)
Richard Trevelyan (living); father. Amelia Trevelyan (deceased); mother. Cordelia Trevelyan (living); sister and heir-presumptive to House Trevelyan as the oldest of the children – power hungry and ruthless, willing to sell out her own family in order to gain status, riches, and power. Rumors abound that Cordelia herself poisoned her own mother, and that she’s laying in wait to strike at her father next. Thomas Trevelyan (living); oldest brother and a former Templar who broke with the order after the disaster in Kirkwall, and who has now joined up with the Inquisition. Henry Trevelyan (deceased); youngest older brother ‘persuaded’ to sign up with the Grey Wardens and sacrificed to blood magic. Clara doesn’t yet know his fate, nor that Cordelia is the one to have pushed him towards the Wardens. Michael Trevelyan (living); second oldest brother, entirely Cordelia's creature. Clara hasn't spoken to him since her magic manifested.
History: The fourth born child to House Trevelyan, with three older brothers and an older sister, Clara led a privileged life as a daughter of a noble family, expected, as the fourth born, to go into the Chantry for a life of service.
Instead, at the age of 10, Clara’s magic manifested when she made fire with her hands, nearly burning off Cordelia’s face. Promptly, she was sent away to the Circle of Ostwick and publicly disowned by her father at the behest of her mother and sister. Beyond (secret) letters to her beloved older brothers, she has had no contact with her family ever since.
The Circle was a quiet and lonely experience for Clara, being, essentially, a nicely dressed prison for mages, but she adapted as best she could. She made friends and excelled at her studies; discovered her own bisexuality, crushed on a Templar at least once, and fell in love with her best friend, which ended civilly but not entirely free from strain. Her constant letters with her brothers helped to keep the loneliness at bay, as well as to ease the guilt she carried with her that she’d brought shame to her family.
After 18 years at the Circle of Ostwick, and after years of rising tensions and abuses of power, the mages finally rebelled and the templars declared war. Clara, being a bright student and one of the more diplomatic dispositions within the Circle, was chosen to attend the Conclave of Divine Justinia at Haven on behalf of her Circle. (This came as something of a distraction and a relief to Clara, given that Henry’s letters had suddenly stopped and even Thomas couldn’t explain why.)
Which is, of course, when her entire world changed. The Conclave had barely begun before it exploded, killing nearly everyone who attended, except for Clara. Instead, Clara fell out of the Fade, the realm of demons and the source of magic for mages, with little memory of how she came to be there in the first place, except for the woman, unknown, who helped her to escape.
She awoke a prisoner, a green mark embedded deeply in her hand, pulsing and slowly killing her. Seeker Cassandra Pentaghast and Sister Leliana interrogated her, as the only survivor of the explosion, and informing her of what they called the Breach, a giant hole in the sky seemingly connected to the mark on Clara’s hand.
Cassandra takes Clara along to see the damage for herself. Clara offers to help the best that she can, an offer that made genuinely, but also with the underlying fear that she might lose her life if she refuses. Along the way, they battle demons and discover rifts, rifts which the mark on Clara’s hand can help close.
Clara meets several others that Cassandra has recruited to her cause before closing what is described as the first rift. This results in the discovery that Clara, in fact, was at the Temple of Sacred Ashes, the scene of the explosion, at the time of the explosion; she learns she was trying to help the Divine from a then unknown enemy.
In the wake of sealing this rift, Clara officially joins the Inquisition as an agent when Cassandra makes the offer to her. As an Inquisition agent, Clara helps recruit others to her cause, including Thomas, her brother, seals rifts, fights demons and helps to spread the Inquisition’s influence. She helps intervene with the mage and templar war, clashes with the templars and the Chantry, and seeks out other allies to aid with the Inquisition. Eventually, she sides in an open alliance with the rebel mages to make an attempt at closing the Breach.
They, in fact, do close the Breach, but the also discover the source of it, a greater evil previously thought dead: a darkspawn calling himself Coreyphyus.
In the wake of Haven, Clara has taken up the position of Inquisitor, leader of the Inquisition, and pursued the specialization of Rift Mage. Now based in Skyhold, Clara continues her work for the Inquisition, trying to stop the world from ending while also trying to figure out what happened to Henry. She has just reconciled Empress Celene and Briala, and is now beginning an investigation into the missing Grey Wardens.
Personality: For the first ten years of her life, Clara proved a vivacious and lovely child, always eager to be out of doors and exploring with her older siblings. She loved running and playing in the woods, laughing loudly, and not having a single care in the world.
Once her magic manifested, and Clara found herself exiled from her own family, she found she had to grow up, and grow up fast. She grew quieter; she learned to keep things to herself, especially the things, places, and people closest to her heart. She laughed rarely, and, for a time, retreated deeply into her shell.
Currently, Clara has since resurfaced from such self-imposed isolation. Making friends, and having patient, caring instructors who understood her, helped greatly with that. Even now, however, acting as the leader of the Inquisition, she greatly values any and all time she can steal away to keep to herself, even for just a moment. She likes reading when she can; she has special fondness for “Hard in Hightown” due to her friendship with Varric. She also enjoys music, and she enjoys listening to the bard in the tavern in Skyhold.
Clara believes firmly in ‘kind over right,’ though it’s a difficult belief to follow through on most days, given the state of Thedas in general and her position within it. A determined young woman, she doesn’t want the power of her position corrupting her. Although still technically a member of the nobility herself, Clara has seen and experienced first-hand the brutality of that world. She not only wants to save the world; she wants to fix it, too, and that can be just as much of a burden even as it is a form of motivation. And as much as she does try to act without thinking of herself, the fact remains that she tends to choose the pro-mage and pro-mage freedom stances more often than not, which isn’t entirely selfless of her.
Perhaps a symptom of her noble upbringing, Clara constantly wants the impossible: to please everyone, to never offend, to make the world a better place, etc. She struggles constantly with trying to reconcile with the fact that she will never be able to fully accomplish one of these goals, let alone all of them.
She is stubborn and opinionated, and she can grow frustrated easily. She doesn’t have a temper but that doesn’t mean she won’t snap at someone undeservedly if she’s in a mood. She struggles with anxiety that comes from being at the front of a movement with power and influence, especially as a mage; and this is on top of trying to save the world.
She is an optimist overall but her experiences have also turned her skeptical in some ways. Once a firm believer in the Chantry, her years in the Circle and of hearing of all of the abuses of power against mages have made her quite critical of the institution. She still believes fully in Andraste; her faith is very important to her. But she thinks the Chantry needs to, at the very least, be reformed.
She detests the nobility now, and she tends to judge those, like Vivienne, who entrench themselves so fully in that life.
But Clara is stronger than people give her credit for, too. And after all these years, something of the bright girl she used to be has surfaced again in the smiles and laughs she cracks more often now. Her new group of friends with the Inquisition certainly help with that.
World State: World State
Age: 24
Race: Human
Class: Mage, specializing in Storm magic and roughly around level 15 in game terms. I can take her from earlier or later parts of the story, however.
Specialization: Rift Mage. I also play her as a Knight-Enchanter, but, currently, Rift Mage is preferred. I would love to explore her as a Blood Mage at some point.
Sexuality: Disaster bi.
Beliefs: Andrastian, though she's very critical of the Chantry.
Politics: Believes in mage freedom. Believes that the templars can do good but that the mages should govern themselves. The templars, like the Chantry, need to be seriously reformed.
Though noble herself, her experiences in the Circle and working with the Inquisition have helped shape her world view. Clara tends to view the nobility with serious skepticism, at best, though, of course, growing up among nobility and then in the circle at Ostwick means Clara isn't always aware of her privilege, aka, she most certainly makes dumbass mistakes in various aspects of her life.
Family: (Note: I am very much down with AUing Clara as a non-Inquisitor Trevelyan sibling for memes as well or a more than one Inquisitor AU.)
Richard Trevelyan (living); father. Amelia Trevelyan (deceased); mother. Cordelia Trevelyan (living); sister and heir-presumptive to House Trevelyan as the oldest of the children – power hungry and ruthless, willing to sell out her own family in order to gain status, riches, and power. Rumors abound that Cordelia herself poisoned her own mother, and that she’s laying in wait to strike at her father next. Thomas Trevelyan (living); oldest brother and a former Templar who broke with the order after the disaster in Kirkwall, and who has now joined up with the Inquisition. Henry Trevelyan (deceased); youngest older brother ‘persuaded’ to sign up with the Grey Wardens and sacrificed to blood magic. Clara doesn’t yet know his fate, nor that Cordelia is the one to have pushed him towards the Wardens. Michael Trevelyan (living); second oldest brother, entirely Cordelia's creature. Clara hasn't spoken to him since her magic manifested.
History: The fourth born child to House Trevelyan, with three older brothers and an older sister, Clara led a privileged life as a daughter of a noble family, expected, as the fourth born, to go into the Chantry for a life of service.
Instead, at the age of 10, Clara’s magic manifested when she made fire with her hands, nearly burning off Cordelia’s face. Promptly, she was sent away to the Circle of Ostwick and publicly disowned by her father at the behest of her mother and sister. Beyond (secret) letters to her beloved older brothers, she has had no contact with her family ever since.
The Circle was a quiet and lonely experience for Clara, being, essentially, a nicely dressed prison for mages, but she adapted as best she could. She made friends and excelled at her studies; discovered her own bisexuality, crushed on a Templar at least once, and fell in love with her best friend, which ended civilly but not entirely free from strain. Her constant letters with her brothers helped to keep the loneliness at bay, as well as to ease the guilt she carried with her that she’d brought shame to her family.
After 18 years at the Circle of Ostwick, and after years of rising tensions and abuses of power, the mages finally rebelled and the templars declared war. Clara, being a bright student and one of the more diplomatic dispositions within the Circle, was chosen to attend the Conclave of Divine Justinia at Haven on behalf of her Circle. (This came as something of a distraction and a relief to Clara, given that Henry’s letters had suddenly stopped and even Thomas couldn’t explain why.)
Which is, of course, when her entire world changed. The Conclave had barely begun before it exploded, killing nearly everyone who attended, except for Clara. Instead, Clara fell out of the Fade, the realm of demons and the source of magic for mages, with little memory of how she came to be there in the first place, except for the woman, unknown, who helped her to escape.
She awoke a prisoner, a green mark embedded deeply in her hand, pulsing and slowly killing her. Seeker Cassandra Pentaghast and Sister Leliana interrogated her, as the only survivor of the explosion, and informing her of what they called the Breach, a giant hole in the sky seemingly connected to the mark on Clara’s hand.
Cassandra takes Clara along to see the damage for herself. Clara offers to help the best that she can, an offer that made genuinely, but also with the underlying fear that she might lose her life if she refuses. Along the way, they battle demons and discover rifts, rifts which the mark on Clara’s hand can help close.
Clara meets several others that Cassandra has recruited to her cause before closing what is described as the first rift. This results in the discovery that Clara, in fact, was at the Temple of Sacred Ashes, the scene of the explosion, at the time of the explosion; she learns she was trying to help the Divine from a then unknown enemy.
In the wake of sealing this rift, Clara officially joins the Inquisition as an agent when Cassandra makes the offer to her. As an Inquisition agent, Clara helps recruit others to her cause, including Thomas, her brother, seals rifts, fights demons and helps to spread the Inquisition’s influence. She helps intervene with the mage and templar war, clashes with the templars and the Chantry, and seeks out other allies to aid with the Inquisition. Eventually, she sides in an open alliance with the rebel mages to make an attempt at closing the Breach.
They, in fact, do close the Breach, but the also discover the source of it, a greater evil previously thought dead: a darkspawn calling himself Coreyphyus.
In the wake of Haven, Clara has taken up the position of Inquisitor, leader of the Inquisition, and pursued the specialization of Rift Mage. Now based in Skyhold, Clara continues her work for the Inquisition, trying to stop the world from ending while also trying to figure out what happened to Henry. She has just reconciled Empress Celene and Briala, and is now beginning an investigation into the missing Grey Wardens.
Personality: For the first ten years of her life, Clara proved a vivacious and lovely child, always eager to be out of doors and exploring with her older siblings. She loved running and playing in the woods, laughing loudly, and not having a single care in the world.
Once her magic manifested, and Clara found herself exiled from her own family, she found she had to grow up, and grow up fast. She grew quieter; she learned to keep things to herself, especially the things, places, and people closest to her heart. She laughed rarely, and, for a time, retreated deeply into her shell.
Currently, Clara has since resurfaced from such self-imposed isolation. Making friends, and having patient, caring instructors who understood her, helped greatly with that. Even now, however, acting as the leader of the Inquisition, she greatly values any and all time she can steal away to keep to herself, even for just a moment. She likes reading when she can; she has special fondness for “Hard in Hightown” due to her friendship with Varric. She also enjoys music, and she enjoys listening to the bard in the tavern in Skyhold.
Clara believes firmly in ‘kind over right,’ though it’s a difficult belief to follow through on most days, given the state of Thedas in general and her position within it. A determined young woman, she doesn’t want the power of her position corrupting her. Although still technically a member of the nobility herself, Clara has seen and experienced first-hand the brutality of that world. She not only wants to save the world; she wants to fix it, too, and that can be just as much of a burden even as it is a form of motivation. And as much as she does try to act without thinking of herself, the fact remains that she tends to choose the pro-mage and pro-mage freedom stances more often than not, which isn’t entirely selfless of her.
Perhaps a symptom of her noble upbringing, Clara constantly wants the impossible: to please everyone, to never offend, to make the world a better place, etc. She struggles constantly with trying to reconcile with the fact that she will never be able to fully accomplish one of these goals, let alone all of them.
She is stubborn and opinionated, and she can grow frustrated easily. She doesn’t have a temper but that doesn’t mean she won’t snap at someone undeservedly if she’s in a mood. She struggles with anxiety that comes from being at the front of a movement with power and influence, especially as a mage; and this is on top of trying to save the world.
She is an optimist overall but her experiences have also turned her skeptical in some ways. Once a firm believer in the Chantry, her years in the Circle and of hearing of all of the abuses of power against mages have made her quite critical of the institution. She still believes fully in Andraste; her faith is very important to her. But she thinks the Chantry needs to, at the very least, be reformed.
She detests the nobility now, and she tends to judge those, like Vivienne, who entrench themselves so fully in that life.
But Clara is stronger than people give her credit for, too. And after all these years, something of the bright girl she used to be has surfaced again in the smiles and laughs she cracks more often now. Her new group of friends with the Inquisition certainly help with that.
World State: World State