<strong>Name:</strong>Ruvena Marlow<br/><strong>Race:</strong>Human<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Age:</strong>28<br/><strong>Origin:</strong>Seeker of Truth<br/><br/><strong>Appearance:</strong><br/><div align="center">(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r60/KristieAndreaParker/20100919203515-9f660117.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Character Type:</strong>Warrior<br/><strong>Specializations:</strong>Champion, Templar<br/><strong>Talents/Spells:</strong><br/>- Powerful<br/>- Shield Bash, Shield Pummel<br/>- Shield Defense, Shield Balance, Shield Wall<br/>- Warcry<br/>- Riteous Strike, Cleanse Area, Mental Fortress, Holy Smite<br/><br/><strong>Skills:</strong><br/>- Coersion(3)<br/>- Clarity(1)<br/>- Improved Combat Training(2)<br/><br/><br/><strong>Equipment:</strong><br/>- Seeker Armor ( Steel - Tier 3 ) - Armor given to Seekers, more as identification than protection. The armor is made of three parts, mostly steel but also with leather around joints to make it more flexible and significantly less bulky and loud compared to the armor worn, for example, by templars. It features a large symbol of the Seeker's on the front, and is coated black, while the symbol is white.<br/>- Templar Longsword ( Red Steel - Tier 5 )(Journeyman Silverite Rune)(Journeyman Dweomer Rune) - A standard issued sword given to templars, the hilt has the symbol of the Maker marked in, but only on one side, on the other is the symbol of the Seekers.<br/>- Templar Shield ( Veridium - Tier 4 ) - A standard issue templar shield, featuring the upheld sword of mercy surrounded by 8 flames.<br/>- Surveyor<br/>- Charm of Still Waters<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Quick-witted, tactically minded, religiously devoted<br/>Ruvena is a good example of how the Chantry can produce effective, strong and loyal people. Her training as a Templar is only a small part of what makes her a devout follower of the Andrastian Chantry and loyal servant of the Divine. She is calm and unemotional, task oriented, precise in everything she does and has shown courage in the face of everything from abominations and blood mages to darkspawn. She can show compassion and mercy just as easily as cold efficiency.<br/><br/><strong>Backstory:</strong>Ruvena was born in a Ferelden town near Denerim several years after the end of the Orlesian occupation. Her parents had died after a plague hit the village, so she was taken in and raised by a Bann loyal to King Maric, but was orphaned early after her adoptive mother died of disease, while her father had died several years earlier after a nasty bandit ambush. Originally, she was going to be taken in by another Bann, but was given to the Chantry. She was raised by the Chantry to become a sister, but felt that becoming a templar was better suited to her, and so she was trained in Denerim and Val Royeaux as a templar, taught to use lyrium to fuel her attempts to stop mages from using their powers, how to fight mages and do so effectively.<br/><br/>She eventually completed her training and was stationed in Redcliffe for a short while, never doing much more than guarding the Chantry and occasionally chasing off some bandits outside the village, while her comrades were always the ones to head out and find mages who had run from the Circle or apostates that were discovered. After a few years, however, she got her chance in the form of a blood mage who had killed a templar just outside of Redcliffe, and a manhunt was initated. It took almost 2 years for the mage to be found, and during which, a Seeker of Truth had been dispatched from Orlais to find this mage, who had killed templars and chantry priests from Antiva to Ferelden.<br/><br/>To Ruvena's fortune, she tracked down the mage just before a Seeker did, and managed to fight and kill the mage all before the Seeker arrived. When she did arrive, the Seeker was impressed, but didn't show it. For a few more months Ruvena basked in the glow of success in Redcliffe before suddenly being transfered to the Ferelden Circle of Magi for only a short year, before she was summoned to the Grand Cathedral in Val Royeaux. One year later, she was a Seeker herself.