Bianca Davri

Bianca Davri is a surface dwarf and member of the Dwarven Merchants' Guild. She is also a former lover of Varric TethrasParty banter between Varric Tethras and Bianca during the quest Well, Shit hints that their relationship may not be completely over. and the eponym of his crossbow.
== Background ==
Bianca comes from a family of kalnas, surface dwarves who insist on maintaining caste and rank. She met Varric in Kirkwall while he was looking for someone with mechanical skills. They became romantically involved for a while, until they were forced to separate by the Merchant's Guild for almost starting a clan war and were refused contact of any kind. Bianca was married to Bogdan Vasca, a member of a powerful Smith caste family in the Guild, to cement the alliance between House Davri and House Vasca. This alliance has granted them both considerable power within the Guild, one that none dare to oppose. Varric describes Bianca as "the most brilliant smith you will ever meet", and is responsible for designing his signature crossbow, which is named after her. The two still exchange letters and manage to meet in secret from time to time, though they mostly remain separated.
Bianca is also currently under consideration for Paragon status for her invention of a steam powered mechanical thresher and seeder and the first surface-born dwarf ever to be nominated for Paragon. House Dace, House Bemot and House Meino all support the motion while House Helmi is split and House Aeducan, House Harrowmont and House Hirol remain undecided.
== Involvement ==
=== Dragon Age: Until We Sleep ===
=== Dragon Age: Inquisition ===
== Quests ==
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== Inventions ==
* Davri Seed Drill: Improved seed drill capable of distributing seed in perfect rows at nearly any spacing and of adjusting to the correct depth for each seed type. Became a standard across the Free Marches, Antiva and Nevarra.
* Davri Spinning Frame: A spinning machine run like a grain mill by the action of moving water. A single worker could spin up to sixty spools of thread at a time at a much finer quality than hand spinning.
* Davri Mechanical Thresher: Steam-powered device that separates grain from chaff, doing work that normally takes hundreds of laborers weeks of back-breaking effort in mere hours. Nevarran nobility believe it to be the greatest innovation of the age.
In addition, she helped Varric fix Gerav's fourteenth prototype, a repeating crossbow believed to be the only one of its kind. Varric named it Bianca, after her.
Bianca is widely regarded as a genius smith and many of her inventions have made a lasting impact on the world. The Davri Seed Drill was her first invention, and instantly established House Davri, formerly an obscure surface Smith caste family, as a power within the Merchants' Guild. Her second invention, the Davri Spinning Frame, made Bianca's design spread to the high-priced markets of Orlais. 
She spent many years investigating more efficient ways of powering her machines, experimenting with a variety of water and steam engines before settling on a design that incorporated a coal furnace. This created a lasting alliance between House Davri and several Mining caste families back in Orzammar who specialized in converting ordinary coal to the smokeless variety used in dwarven forges (the invention that led to Branka being named a Paragon). 
Bianca keeps a workshop in Val Royeaux with almost a hundred smiths employed full-time. She devotes most of her time to developing new designs.
== Trivia ==
* Bianca's family have an extreme dislike of Varric, so much so that they have sent assassins after him each time he has visited her.
* Bianca considers herself "ten times the smith that Branka was", but does not believe the Assembly will ever make a surfacer a Paragon.
* As a favor to Varric, many of Bianca's contacts were buyers of artifacts that Varric and Hawke found during their Deep Roads Expedition.
== References ==
Category:Characters
Category:Dragon Age: Until We Sleep characters
Category:Dragon Age: Inquisition characters
Category:Heroes of Dragon Age characters
Category:Dwarves
Category:Surface dwarves
Category:Rogues
Category:Dwarven Merchants' Guildmembers
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