#silas theralan

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it’s pride

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inquisitor resting bitch face strikes again

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apprentice halla-keeper.

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GATHER YOUR PARTY.

LEITH ● mage ● blood mage | SHAN ● rogue ● alchemist | KATERINA ● warrior ● champion | KOST ● warrior ● reaver | SILAS ● rogue ● shadow | SHIREEN ● rogue ● hunter

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sweet boy

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a good boy a soft boy i love my son

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the skyhold elf crew

the crew is dalish, skinner, charter, loranil, neria, cillian, padraig, and shireen. 

silas is invited but it's easy for him to feel overwhelmed and like a third wheel - it can be hard for him to keep up with a verbal conversation in a large group - and he's shy so he usually hides. shy makes sure he socializes but she’s not gonna force him to chill in groups that make him uncomfortable.

kost is a late occasional addition but after he starts dating silas he spends way more time with him.

sera is always invited but deliberately snubs them - “ugh, elves” -  which was a problem when she and shy were dating... like, “you can’t even let me hang out with my friends without making some shitty comment?”

others are welcome to join but just prefer not to, like voth, leith, and minaeve, who usually hangs with helene and shan instead.

they get together in the tavern and just hang. it started with dalish, skinner, and charter, but after they moved to skyhold and bull introduced the chargers to the inquisitor dalish immediately adopted him like “this is mine now.” pad had started chatting with neria, and invited her, and neria introduced pad to cillian, who started tagging along even though he’s a bit of a grump. they had to drag loranil because he was VERY shy and a little star-struck at the idea of just like, casually hanging out with THE INQUISITOR.

dalish, neria, cillian, and pad have had VERY LOUD ARGUMENTS about dalish/elven history and theory and everyone is very startled to find that that’s... normal... like it’s... just... normal to disagree it doesn’t mean they hate each other, they just like to argue. debate is part of dalish culture. (if you get loranil tipsy he’ll throw in some opinions of his own.)

you know how sera breaks maryden’s lute when she starts playing ‘sera was never’ in her trespasser friendship scene? yeah. not the first time it happened. she played it ... shortly after the massacre at wycome and dalish and skinner were um. not happy about her upsetting their friend padraig that badly.

(none of them like maryden.)

they are banned from playing darts. you can filll in the blanks as to why.

if you get shireen tipsy enough, she’ll sing. ya gotta get her drunk tho. 

pad does not have to be drunk at all he’s just an idiot with a terrible singing voice who will LOUDLY BUTCHER THE WORDS TO ALL YOUR FAVOURITE SONGS until you pay him to be quiet

dalish and skinner taught him NAUGHTY SONGS he’s not supposed to repeat :O

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crossroads

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cute headcanons i just made up...

vivienne saw how pad struggled to get his hands on products for his hair type which is common up north but very uncommon south of the waking sea, and went out of her way to procure cocoa butter and castor oil for him. she used to wear her hair in elaborate hairstyles but just kinda got sick of it and wanted a sleeker look so she shaved it a couple years back, so she knows what’s up. she’s also hooks him up with stylists whenever they’re in orlais who know how to handle his hair type. she brought her personal stylist to halamshiral before celene’s ball for his sake, and gave him a lot of valuable advice about how to navigate orlesian racism/colourism within the game.

bull will happily spend hours braiding pad’s hair with surprising dexterity given that he’s missing half of two fingers. in turn pad loves to sit behind him with his legs slung over bull’s shoulders, rubbing balm into his horns (especially where they meet the skin of his head, which gets super dry and itchy) and helping shave the back of his head where he always misses spots.

after pad loses his arm bull helps him a lot with his hair.

meditation is a common practice among the qun, but the dalish do it too. pad’s keeper specifically taught him about mindfulness, which he still practices. pad does guided meditations for bull all the time which he looooves and finds super relaxing, and it helps with bull’s aftercare. (doms need aftercare too!)

silas works for dennet in the stables. dennet knew right away that he was worth his weight in gold as a stablehand and was like ALL THE REST OF YOU FUCK OFF THIS ONE’S MINE. he looked after him in the beginning when silas was still very shy and nervous around all these shemlen, made sure no one was bullying him or pushing him around and helped him gain confidence by backing up silas’ authority with the recruits who might be disinclined to listen to a “knife-ear,” especially a “cripple.” dennet basically was like: shut the fuck up he knows more than you. 

plus, silas introduced him to the halla he’d brought and dennet was D Y I N G to meet one. he’s a little too big to ride one (and halla won’t take human riders anyway) but he got a little giddy just being so close to one. one of them even ate an apple out of his hand.

leliana also saw his usefulness right away and recruited him to teach her elven scouts -- the vast majority of whom are city elves -- how to ride halla. halla are faster, nimbler, more intelligent, and able to traverse terrain horses cannot -- ideal for scouts who need to move quickly and quietly.

leliana also put him to work teaching her agents sign language, instantly seeing how useful that, too, would be -- given that it’s not the chantry’s sign language and rival spies would be unlikely to be able to understand it. now a ton of people in the inquisition know it and silas has a lot more people to talk to.

leliana and shireen had a lot to talk about, having wildly different perspectives on the chantry. shireen and vivienne have more in common as far as their backgrounds go, though the two of them responded to similar traumas by moving in opposite directions. all three of them bond over shoes, but shy’s a little, well, shy because being dalish has made her such a tomboy and she feels like she doesn’t know as much as them about fashion and femininity.

iron bull took one look at kost, BURST OUT LAUGHING, and instantly adopted him. he taught him a lot about the qun, given how little kost has ever known about that side of his heritage since his tal-vashoth mum died when he was a baby and he was raised dalish. it was really good also for bull to be around someone who was vashoth.

one of silas’ gifts to kost was horn balm. kost’s nubs get very itchy in the dry air of the frostbacks. silas eventually confessed it’s nipple cream for horses and kost was like jfsklajkglajhklaeh a. ... but he kept using it. i mean, it worked.

varric looks after shan, makes sure he takes breaks, eats, sleeps somewhere comfortable, washes himself, wears clean clothes, because otherwise shan will only do most of those things if told. he’s gotten in the habit of having shan scribe for him. saves his poor aching wrists (varric does a lot of writing and correspondence) and gives shan something useful to do, which seems to make shan feel content. shan also helps varric with maths and accounting.

pad and josie also definitely takes advantage of shan’s willingness to do that. pad is not very literate -- josephine taught him how to read common, he could only read elvish before -- and having shan read his correspondence to him and write down his replies helps him A TON. josie just finds that shan’s handwriting is EXTREMELY neat and precise and he’s one of her best scribes.

sera keeps trying to teach shan jokes. it doesn’t work very well but she’s taught him how to repeat a few of them verbatim even if his delivery sucks. she’s surprisingly nice to him and she’s the first to kick the crap out of someone for mistreating him, because shan can’t really stand up for himself and it’s not fair.

shan can’t do magic but can still do alchemy, and he makes a serum that really helps ease the pain in bull’s bad leg.

solas and shireen have had long conversations about elven history and culture. solas’ relationship with the dalish is... strained... but he does feel a lot of respect for shireen for making the effort to attempt to connect more to her nature (as compared to, say, sera), no matter how much the dalish got wrong. (and pad has since taught solas that just because dalish culture is different from elvhen culture does not mean it is worse.) and shireen, like pad, is willing to learn and have her ideas challenged. solas taught her a little bit about painting too.

josephine commissioned an artist for an official portrait (and had to fire the first one after absolutely chewing him out for trying to human-wash pad’s elfiness), which pad hated. solas got him to sit for a more relaxed, less formal portrait that more accurately captured his personality, and sketched him many times mostly without his knowledge. he gave one such sketch to bull. 

shireen... has a Huge Crush... on cassandra oh my god she’s like a giggly schoolgirl whenever she sees her like I LIKE... YOUR MUSCLES OKAY BYE runs away giggling

cole helps leith with their trauma, mental illness, and psychosis -- cole does a lot of reality checking for leith, because while they present similarly and are perceived similarly, cole only perceives truth, complicated as truth often is; leith is delusional, their mind just making shit up wholecloth. if leith asks is this real? they know they can trust cole when he answers yes or no, that cole won’t lie to them, in part because cole is a spirit/demon. they have looooong conversations alone, after which leith is usually much calmer and more lucid.

cole is the only one who knows leith’s surname/clan name. that name died with their clan; they won’t tell anyone else. not even cullen. they are just leith.

cullen paints or draws on leith’s arms with ink so they won’t cut themself.

cullen has long one-sided conversations with leith when leith is non-verbal -- he’ll pose a question and then answer it out loud, give a running commentary, just ramble stream-of-consciousness to keep talking, asks yes/no questions. it makes leith feel like they’re still a part of the conversation even when they can’t talk. cullen does a lot of little things like that to make leith feel normal or at least like it’s okay to be different. leith can’t talk today? all right, cullen will talk enough for them both. leith can’t make it outside? fine, they’ll stay indoors, who needs to go outside anyway. leith’s afraid there are people hiding and stalking them? cullen will check every nook and cranny.

solas has also had long talks with leith. solas never practiced blood magic much, we know that, but finds the practice fascinating and useful, so he was very interested to talk to someone who used blood magic as a tool and not as a means to an end in the pursuit of power for power’s sake. solas’ familiarity with spirits and the fade also makes him uniquely equipped to handle leith’s ... oddities.

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now taking applications to be silas’ boyfriend

perks:

srsly date my oc

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isn’t it nice to find yourself somewhere different? why don’t you let yourself just be wherever you are?

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silas of clan theralan. apprentice halla-keeper. professional cutie.

mods: - hd eye texture (lore friendly) - cant remember if the brows are shantia or settrah. i think shantia. they’re both good - curly undercut, alternative scalp, and isabela complexion - hair recolor utility in lightest blonde - palettes of thedas i think i used a custom mix and match - custom vallaslin

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I LOVE HIM HE’S PERFECT it’s all in the nose, look at that SNOOT mwah. MWAH. 

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what am i even doing

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a halla-rider from the wildlands.

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silas theralan. dalish rogue, halla keeper, and professional cutie pie.

a human child might have been abandoned or given to the chantry on being born profoundly deaf, but silas has always been sheltered and protected by the clan. though his inability to hear hindered his ability to hunt like the others, he quickly found a talent for animal husbandry, and was apprenticed to the clan’s halla keeper as an adolescent. when his cousin loranil joined the inquisition, he followed him on the inquisitor’s personal invitation, bringing with him a small herd of halla he is training leliana’s elven scouts to work with, halla being smaller, faster, and nimbler than horses, and able to go where horses cannot. he also works with horsemaster dennet to look after the inquisition’s various mounts, especially the exotics -- he’s one of the few who can calm an angry dracolisk without losing a hand. he mostly stays out of everyone else’s way, being quite shy around so many humans, but he won’t hesitate to confront a recruit who is mistreating his mount... even if he faces a daunting language barrier.