Tereysa Amell

Tereysa Amell in the Korcari Wilds

> "Being kind and understanding of others isn't a weakness. It's a way to show how much of the world you're willing to take on and understand through means others wouldn't have taken. My experiences in the Circle was full of kindness and love but I know many others don't share my sentiment. I'm not blind to that. So instead? I'll help them. I'll lie for them and help free them."
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Tereysa Amell is Revka Amell's daughter that was sent to Kinloch Hold when she was only four years old. After a botched attempt to help her friend, Jowan, escape, she was recruited by Duncan. Following the fall of Ostagar, she helps gather armies against the Archdemon and later, becomes the Hero of Ferelden.

## Overview

### Physical Appearance

Tereysa is a woman with chest-length wavy blonde hair, wide blue eyes and fair complexion. She looks youthful and girlish and thus makes her appear younger than she really is. She wears no form of makeup and tries to avoid dressing in clothes that would show off her legs out of shyness in showing skin,

### Personality

Tereysa is what everyone in the Circle had decided to call the biggest idealist in the world. She sees no reason for the Chantry and the mages to be forever at war with one another and could see a compromise being reached. She offers respect and trust to every new individual she meets that when that trust is broken, she is disappointed that a person would be capable of such callousness. She's the sort of person that tries to see the good in people and the best in the bleakest things as she wants to keep morale and hope up a great deal and it would take a great deal for her faith that all will turn out well to waver.

Despite all her optimism and idealism, Tereysa isn't completely naive and blind to the world. She may see the Chantry and the mages coming to a compromise in the future but she also knows that at present, a great deal of mages suffer unjustly in other Circles and in Kinloch Hold, many mages feel like they're trapped in a prison instead of a home. To help those mages, she tries to help them escape while keeping up appearances of knowing nothing. Tereysa Amell is the sort to try and avoid lying but when push comes to shove, she can lie easily if it means helping her fellow mages from escape from a place that they're not thriving in. Aside from her understanding nature towards other mages, Tereysa is also the sort to be gentle around the Tranquil. She would bring them food and drink and speak to them of her day along with any gossip she's heard around the tower in the hopes that while they cannot feel anything, they would have a sense of normalcy in their lives instead of being seen as a discomforting oddity.

Tereysa is also the sort to hold and revere the bonds of family - found or biological - in high regard and when she met her cousin, Nikolaus Hawke, in Kinloch Hold, she immediately asks about his life outside of Kinloch Hold and his family. When it was clear he was uncomfortable and feeling caged, Tereysa did all she could to help him get comfortable until he revealed his desire to escape to which she helped orchestrate by destroying his phylactery in secret and helping him get out of the tower where he said his twin brother, Johannotus, would be waiting. While her time with her cousin was brief, Tereysa found herself already affectionate of him and wished him the best in life.

Aside from a love for family, Tereysa is also fond of romances and the thought of falling in love with someone had always been something she hoped to experience for even a fleeting moment.

Tereysa also reveres the spirits she encounters in her dreams and she holds no fear towards demons that she once encountered due to the feeling of safety that her spirit friends had given her.

## Biography

### History

Taken at a young age, all Tereysa ever knew in her life was the Circle.