Solona "Revka" Amell

## Solona Amell

Orlesian Summer Outfit (age 28) Art commission done by @\_krill

Modified Warden Battlemage Outfit (age 18) Art commissioned done by @eribloodberry

## Associations

### Affiliations

• Circle of Magi (Kinloch Hold)• Grey Wardens

• Ferelden Crown

• Amaranthine

• Gwaren

• Inquisition

• Magisterium of Tevinter Imperium

### Aliases

• Lady Revka's Bastard• Child of Sunshine and Luck

• Irving's Star Pupil

• The Branded Mageling

• Demon's Nightmare

• Falon Halani

• Dark Wolf

• Zevran Arainai's Oathsworn

• Divine Victoria's Love

• Blighted Bitch

• Basalit-an-tamassran Ataashi

• Kin of Kinslayers

• Bride of Urthemiel

• High Demon Queen

• New God of Beauty

### Titles

• Champion of Redcliffe• Archmage of The Kinloch Hold’s Circle

• Blessed by the Urn of Sacred Ashes

• Slayer of the "False Andraste" High Dragon

• Savior of Kal'Hirol

• Champion of King Bhelen Aeducan

• Flemeth's Bane

• Vanquisher of the Old God and Archdemon Urthemiel

• Veteran of the Fifth Blight

• Kingmaker

• Hero Slayer

• Court Mage to the Crown of Ferelden

• Chancellor to the Crown of Ferelden

• Emissary of the Ferelden Crown

• Warden-Commander of Ferelden

• Arlessa of Amaranthine

• Arlessa of Denerim

• Teryna of Gwaren

• Hero of Ferelden

## Biographical Information

### Specialization

• Arcane Warrior• Battlemage

• Keeper

• Shapeshifter

• Blood Mage

## Appearance

### Eyes

• Dark Brown (without magic)• True Gold (with magic)

• Deep Red (when using blood magic)

## Relationships

### Parents

• Revka Amell (Mother/Deceased)• Quentin (Biological Father/Deceased)

• Gamlen Amell (Adoptive Father/First Cousin Once Removed)

### Siblings

• Daylen Amell (Twin Brother/Deceased)• Charade Amell (Adoptive Sister/Second Cousin)

• Unnamed Younger Brother

• Unnamed Younger Sister

• Unnamed Youngest Sister

• Unnamed Youngest Brother

### Relatives

• Fausten Amell (Grandfather)• Damion Amell (Uncle)

• Aristide Amell (Grand Uncle)

• Leandra Amell (First Cousin Once Removed/Deceased)

• Reyna/Hari Hawke (Second Cousin)

• Carver Hawke (Second Cousin)

• Bethany Hawke(Second Cousin)

### Children

• Rowan (Oldest Adopted Son)• Alis (Oldest Daughter)

• Keiran (Godchild)

• Uriel (Second Son)

• Vallory (Second Daughter)

• Morgana (Youngest Daughter)

• Crow (Youngest Son)

### Romances

• Leliana Nightingale (Wife)• Zevran Arainai (Husband)

• Alistair Theirin (Ex-lover)

### Friends

• Jowan (Deceased)• Barkspawn (Pet Mabari)

• Morrigan

• Oghren

• Nathaniel Howe

• Keeper Velanna

• Sigrun

• Sten (now Arishok)

• Peanut (Mani) Adaar

> *"Normally, to be allowed to live in this world, mages have to prove that they're not a danger to anyone. Of course, in my case, that boat has already sailed.*
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> *But I want to make something very clear. I am nothing like the maleficars the Chant has cautioned you against and taught you to fear. I am not a fire made flesh or a demon asleep. Not a harbinger of corruption. Not an unholy abomination.*
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> *No, I am none of those because I am something that is much, **much** worse.*
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> *I am Solona Fucking Amell.*
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> *And it will not be a pleasure to have known me."*
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Solona Revka Nightingale Arainai Amell, also known by her maiden named Solona "Revka" Amell or simply just as Amell, is a mage who was born in Kirkwall but was taken and brought up at Ferelden's Circle of Magi. On the same day that Amell passed her Harrowing, the Warden-Commander of Ferelden, a rogue named Duncan, used the Right of Conscription to recruit Amell into the Grey Warden ranks.

However, immediately after performing the Joining Ritual, Duncan's plan for Amell was cut short by the tragedy known as the Battle of Ostagar. Duncan, along with all the Senior Wardens, perished at the hands of the darkspawn. The Ferelden Grey Wardens were all but decimated.

As one of the last surviving members of the Order of the Grey Wardens of Ferelden, Amell carved a path for herself while the country descended into madness and chaos as the death of King Cailan marked the true beginning of the Fifth Blight.

Amell bested one challenge after the other, crushed one obstacle after the other, and felled one enemy after the other. She put one foot after the other. Day after day. Again and again and again. Amell never ceased in her advance until she finally stood before the Archdemon Urthemiel. With magic that was said to rival the powers of the Maker Himself, Amell struck down the Old God-turned-Archdemon and ended the Fifth Blight.

From that day onwards, Solona Amell was heralded as the Hero of Ferelden.

## Overview

### Physical Appearance

Amell was born with warm, brown skin that is best described as "sun-kissed." She has jet black hair that grows to be thick and wavy and slightly poofy. Her eyes are a very dark brown that they appear black without sufficient lighting.

After being attacked at eight years old, Amell bore jagged, white scars around her eyes, left temple, and right jaw that resembled cracks on a mirror. When she was around twelve, she acquired face tattoos that used a black ink so absolute to cover up those stark, white scars.

No one was allowed to use scissors to cut Amell's hair because she had a severe aversion to any sharp object being held near her head. She was allowed to grow her hair out so long as she took care of it. However, she couldn't even bring herself to run a toothed comb or a brush with metal bristles (which were the only ones available in the Tower) through it.

This resulted in a lot of tangles, knots, and matted hair which could not be undone and only cut off. Again, not being able to stand the thought of scissors near her face, whether it be wield by someone else or even by herself, Amell opted to use a cutting wind spell or even a fire spell to cut off or burn away the unwanted hair.

For her entire stay in the Circle of Magi, Amell sported a short, ugly hairstyle because it was always unevenly cut and/or singed at the ends.

When Amell met Leliana, the bard was somehow able to convince Amell to let her take care of her hair. Leliana became the only person Amell trusted to groom her hair and the bard proceeded to turn the mage's hair into a cascading, black waterfall of wavy silk strands. Amell grew her hair out so that Leliana could style it into as many elaborate hairstyles as she wanted to her heart's content.

Amell got a tattoo of asymmetrical wings, a nightingale's wing on the left side and the Antivan Crow mark on the right side, inked across her back and curved at the very edge of her shoulders

There is also a tattoo of the Grey Warden crest on the small of her back near the base of her spine. This is to represent how she is the "backbone" of The Order of the Grey Wardens.

No matter the outfit, whether it be mage robes, full armour, extravagant fashion clothing, or some combination of the three, Amell always wears the same single earring on her right ear, an amulet containing a rose around her neck, and two wedding bands on her ring finger.

During her days in the Tower, Amell was thin and looked sickly because she was often neglected and starved. Now her body is lean and powerful with minimal musculature, but also curvy with perky, well-formed breast and a firm, round ass. Numerous scars, from both jagged and clean cuts, cover the expanse of her entire body.

Amell is described to be fiercely gorgeous. The kind of gorgeous that is said to ruin lives. She has a (reverse) teardrop shaped face with a strong nose, full lips, and almond-shape eyes.

### Personality

Amell was the embodiment of contempt, spite, and rage.

## Biography

### Childhood

Solona Revka Amell was born in Kirkwall to Revka Amell and an "unnamed" man. Revka had adamantly refused to reveal the identity of the father. Because of Revka’s nobility, the Amell family urged her to abandon the bastard child at a Chantry so that she could still marry another noble. Revka fought against the idea even as the family threatened to disown her. Eventually, the Amell family relented and only allowed her to keep the child after she agreed to an arranged marriage with a noble who still wanted her as a wife.

“Lady Revka’s Bastard,” as was her title, had a relatively happy childhood despite being ostracized by most of her immediate and extended family. Her happiness was mostly due to the fact that she was her mother’s favorite child despite having four half-siblings.

Her halcyon day all came to an end sometime after her eighth year when she was at the market near gallows with her mother. A mage desperate for freedom turned to blood magic and became an abomination that attacked and killed many Templars and market-goers that day. In order to shield her mother, Solona unlocked her magical abilities and froze the monster in a block of ice. The remaining Templars shattered the ice sculpture and killed the abomination contained within.

Solona had saved the day, however, a Templar who seemingly went mad with grief over the loss and death of his comrades decided to reward her by striking her across the head with his sword. The blow almost killed her and she was in a coma for days. While she was asleep her mother arranged for her to be sent to the Fereldan Circle, afraid that the Templars of Kirkwall would kill her.

After Solona was transported away, her mother threw herself off a cliff in grief after losing her daughter. Solona only woke up from her coma after arriving in Kinloch Hold. Tragically, the head injury she received left her with no memories of her life in Kirkwall. No one told her anything about herself other than her name or gave her any information about her past and family.

Amell lived on in ignorance as no one ever bothered to tell her that she had a mother who loved her so much.

### Tower Days

Amell was a sullen and temperamental child. She was brilliant in the arcane arts and quickly mastered skills that were beyond her years. Her talents, however, did not earn her the praise or favor of the Tower's other inhabitants as it was not enough to offset Amell's oppressively abrasive personality. The general consensus was that Amell was just generally an awful person to be around.

To mitigate the menace that Amell became when she was around other people, Irving decided to take her under his wing effectively making her his “Star Pupil.” In truth, all the First Enchanter did was lock her in his office where she could study his books on her own and not cause any trouble.

Irving was viewed in a favorable light for "taming" and "educating" Amell, while the mageling herself was often left alone in that windowless office. Sometimes, she would be locked in there at the very start of the day for hours on end causing her to miss out on meal times. Other times, the sun would set and the blackness of the night would make her unable to continue studying books and tomes that kept her preoccupied during the long hours of her confinement.

Amell sat alone in total darkness unable to sleep on the hard stone floors of Irving's office.

Although Amell did prefer to keep mostly to herself, she did develop a close bond with one other person in the Tower. A fellow mageling boy named Jowan who became her sole friend in the Circle.

During the entirety of Amell's ten-year stay in the Kinloch Hold, the Tower's records only had two documented events centering around Amell.

#### First Event (The Branded Mageling)

On her fourth year in the Tower, despite being under the constant supervision of both Templars and Senior Mages, Amell somehow got elaborate tattoos on her face.

While tattoos were not prohibited in the Circle, they were regulated. For documentation purposes, several letters of request must have been submitted for review. In the end, nothing was to be done until a signature of approval from both the First Enchanter and the Knight-Commander was acquired.

Additionally, since the process involves some amount of bloodshed, all tattoos must be inked by a Chantry-assigned artist who specializes in detecting the presence of any blood magic.

These rules and precautions exist for both Mages and Templars, as any one's blood can be used by an evil maleficar.

However, even if such rules did not exist, the real problem was that such permanent body modifications should not have been at all accessible to a twelve-year-old child. It goes without saying that the person who wants an approved tattoo must be an adult.

So when Amell managed the feat, a lot of people were displeased.

Amell was taken into an interrogation room where she vehemently dodged all questions and absolutely refused to explain how she acquired these face tattoos.

Too many things didn't add up. It nearly drove all the Templars nuts trying to figure out how such an incident had become possible.

No one was more maddened by the entire affair than Ser Greagoir, the Knight-Commander himself.

Firstly, the ink used was of exceptionally high quality. It was not available locally and must have been imported from up North. This meant the tattoos were expensive. Amell had no money. Being a noble's child, she might have been given money by her family. But Amell's family had never tried to contact her and, despite having amnesia, Amell never asked if she had family outside the Tower. No one would have sent her money. Actually, Amell doesn't even really understand what money is exactly.

> *So how did she afford this?*
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Secondly, the pigment was distributed so evenly that there was no danger of blistering or crusting. The outlines were smoothed and practically perfect. It looked like a single, elegant brushstroke rather than hundreds of thousands of individually "drawn" dots that make up the entirety of the design. This meant that the tattoo was done by someone of skill. Amell's handwriting was barely legible. Even she had a hard time deciphering the chicken scratches she creates. Amell could not have done this herself. Someone else, some other tattoo artist, had done this for her.

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Finally, the Templars could not detect any trace of magic or remnants of any spell that could have been used on Amell's tattoos. This meant that it was not done by anyone affiliated with the Dalish since they used many spells when working with vallaslin. A moonlighting Chantry tattooist was also not likely since everyone known one in Fereldan utilized some form of magic in their craft. Without the aid of magic, these tattoos were done the more traditional way. The more painful way. It was done with awls made of bone and metal, done with dozens of needles of varying size and sharpness, spiked into the skin with a hammer that could easily slip out of the grip of even the most experienced fingers. No trace of magic at all meant no healing spells or potions were used to alleviate the pain that comes with so intricately and intimately marking one's skin in this way. Nothing of magic was used because any unsanctioned use of the arcane arts could be easily detected by the dozens of Templars that walked the halls of the Circle. To use magic was to risk being caught and then stopped. So this little mageling, this tiny wisp of a girl, let a number of tools strike her, puncture her, cut into her. She let it happen once. And then twice. And then a hundred times. A hundred turned into a thousand. A thousand turned into hundreds of thousands more. The girl endured this, this *violence*, over and over again, for hours upon hours on end. The mageling did not stop until it was done.
Until Amell had a face marred with scars made of ink.

> *Why did she want it so fucking badly?*
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Hours of questioning turned into a day and more and still Amell did not yield any answers. It wasn't until Ser Greagoir screamed at her about the dangers and the risks she took. About how she could have been so easily and permanently disfigured that Amell finally spoke up and answered the Templar's third question.
In a voice much too weary to belong to a young child, Amell revealed that the purpose of the tattoos was to hide the ugly scars that already adorned her otherwise beautiful face. She was already disfigured, *permanently* disfigured. No one in the Tower had been able to heal and erase the evidence that she had once been so badly wounded. Evidence that there was someone out there, someone she had no memories of but who haunted her all the same, had tried to hurt her. And they had succeeded.

> *"If I can't erase proof that I can be harmed, then the next best thing I can do is cover them up."*
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All the fight left Ser Greagoir at that statement. Amell didn't ask and he did not tell her that he knew who had given those scars. Instead, he quietly let the vague feelings of shame and guilt wash over him. In truth, he also did not like her bearing those permanent reminders either. Reminders that it was another Templar, just like him, who had so zealously swung a sword and brought it down on an eight-year-old child.

The Knight-Commander finally dismissed Amell after a day and a half. He decided not to punish the mageling for the act. Instead, Greagoir tasked this one particular Junior Templar, the newest recruit and possibly the softest boy he has ever met, to keep a special, vigilant watch on Amell at all times.

Because his sole task from that day on was to protect her.

#### Second Event (The Ordeal)

Around her tenth year in the Tower, Amell's best friend Jowan was gravely injured by a fireball cast by another mage boy. The mage boy had cast the spell accidentally while he was purposefully bullying Jowan. Unsure that her friend would live, Amell's reaction was swift and vicious and damn near deranged. The mage girl openly attempted to murder the offending boy then and there in the Great Halls for all the Tower's mage and templar inhabitants to see.

In the following months, *The Ordeal*, appropriately named for being a horrid and protracted experience to everyone, was all the Tower inhabitants could talk about. Although nearly a hundred bystanders witnessed the same event, the documented recountings differed in varying degrees from one person's record to another. Everyone's perspectives were likely skewed by the chaos caused by the heightened emotions shared by everyone in the Great Halls that day. The chaos only intensified in the following months as the aftermath of Amell's actions plunged all who inhabited the Kinlock Hold into a civil war of sorts where several "Factions" formed and organized and fought.

For the right to decide Amell's fate.

Due to this, details and descriptions relating to the events that transpired in the Great Halls that day were often twisted in some way or another to fit an agenda. It made those responsible for documenting such events to interview every witness to create the most accurate narrative. In a way, documenting *The Ordeal* was itself quite an ordeal.

However, in every account, every witness agreed upon the same (with only little variation in word choice) one eerily specific detail.

> *"If a mage was a demon asleep, then Amell was not a demon at all. Rather, she was a dream. A dream all sleeping demons, the true ones that lurk in the Fade, dream. It was a dream that demons have come to dread. To hate. To fear. It is a dream that had promised to end only after the demon had screamed itself awake. Only, there was never truely an escape from this dream...*
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> ...*instead the dream merely changed...*
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> ...*and became the Waking Nightmare that was Amell."*
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After the civil war concluded, the Factions released "The Official Record of Events." This official record detailed the events that transpired during *The Ordeal* as agreed upon by all Factions.

The mage girl tackled the bully to the floor. She had clawed at his face at first, her nails dug deep and left bloody trails. Then she fisted one hand in his hair and repeatedly and violently bashed the boy's head against the stone floor while her other hand closed around the boy's neck and squeezed. The Templars were slow to react and by the time they manage to remove Amell from the bully, the boy was both a bloody mess and hardly breathing. The Templars immediately locked Amell in the Tower's dungeons. They kept her there while they debated for months on what to do with her.

Some called for her to be made Tranquil. Amell was too dangerous to be allowed to keep her magic. But others argued that the Sunburst brand would be unlawful. Mages are only made Tranquil if they misuse the arcane arts. While Amell's actions caused serious damage that even Spirit Healers could not easily undo, she did not use a drop of magic to harm the boy. For months, templars and mages raged and quarreled with other templars and mages as they all decided what Amell's fate would be.

Eventually, a consensus was reached and they released Amell.

After spending months barely able to sleep while chained against a wall and hardly being fed or watered for days on end, Amell was at once brought into a chamber before an audience of Mages and Templars to receive her punishment.

Amell, weary and weak from near starvation and sleeplessness, was to undergo an early Harrowing at that very moment.

### Duncan’s Interference

On their three-week journey to Ostagar, Amell developed a begrudging closeness with Duncan. Duncan had given her lessons on how to hunt and fight with daggers and even revealed to her how old she was by counting the rings in her palms. No one had bothered to tell her that she was apparently eighteen.

Amell only truly began to respect the rogue when he struck a chord with her by sharing the story of how he was recruited into the Grey Wardens. Duncan gained a measure of her loyalty in the simple show of trust and the way he treated her like a decent human being.

## Trivia

* Revka, Amell's mother, gave her the name Solona, which means *sunshine*, because her daughter was born with "sun-kissed" skin.
* To match the sun theme, Revka gave Amell's twin and her stillborn son the name Daylen, which closely resembles the word *daylight*.