Lucien Andras

Daniel Sharman

**Elias**, born Lucien Andras, is an elf-blooded Orlesian Templar, born to Orlesian mages, the elf Sidona Andras, and the human Mikhail in the Circle of Ghislain, who became a Red Templar, and was slain by the Inquisition quite late.

## Biography

He was sent to a Chantry in Val Royeaux to be raised. He was sickly, frail, and weak as a child, and was not expected to live long as he often fell ill. Though he was a jovial and energetic child, often injuring himself during his excursions of the grounds, not realizing his own delicate constitution. Despite never having met his parents, he considered the Revered Mother his family, and found father figures among the Templars, and never felt the lack of family. He knew his parents were probably mages, and was fearful he would be one himself, with the priests and templars keeping a close eye on him. Once he passed a certain age, he decide to become a templar that would make sure that children who might be frightened would have a home like he did. He was raised in the Chantry in Val Royeaux, and wished he could become a Chevalier, though he eventually became a skilled Knight-Templar.

His mother would not be proud of him, but hideously disappointed, his father, killed in the early riots of the Mage-Templar War, would have pitied him and felt that all his weakness was from him. His vulnerability was just like his mother's, though due to the trauma of being taken to the circle, she hid it under a mask of steel, he grew up loved and so wore his heart on his sleeve, and like his father, was prone to accepting the cards and truths he was presented.

He never really became aware of the dark side of the Templars, like lyrium addiction, just thinking it was an honor to do his duty and repay the kindness he grew up with, and he was a devout Andrastian, he never questioned when his superiors told him to take the red lyrium, and he was in constant agony until his merciful freedom from his endless pain.

## Appearance

As a child he was frail, sickly, small for his age, and pale. As a young man, he was still deathly pale in winters, but usually had a tan, and was tall and strong with broad shoulders and a muscular frame from years of hard training. He has eerie bright green eyes from his father, and slenderness and messy brown hair from his mother. He is considered handsome. Despite being only 25 when de died, he looked and acted much younger. He does not seem threatening, but can look noble, and puts on a smoldering look that surprisingly works at bars with the ladies, though he does not actually have much game, relying on his newfound looks.

## Personality

He is quite gentle and effeminate. Though he was a good man as far as templars go, he still tried to fit in, and was not so different from the average man in the order as far as intelligence or personality. He had always planned on a life in service of the Maker and was never one for adventure, being content with a quiet life, though he had the most fun in his life, more than he expected, when sent abroad to the countryside on missions. He was easily tempted by the red lyrium, as he knew what becoming strong meant to him in his youth, and thought 'the more the better'. He had a solemn and calm disposition, trained into him by the Sisters of the Chantry, an inferiority complex from being the smallest of the Templar recruits, that he grew out of when he became healthy and handsome as a young man, and fancied by the ladies, though he kept his humble attitude about his appearance. His endurance of suffering surprised him as it was untested, since his passion for the templar life blinded him to any sense of effort or difficulty.

## Skills & Abilities

* He has all the normal skills and abilities of a Templar-Knight, and later of a Red Templar.

## Etymology

* Lucien means "light".
* Elias is a variant of Elijah, meaning "the Lord is my God".
* Andras means "strong, man, warrior".