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WHO: Velanna and you!
WHAT: Day in the life of a Warden elf-mage
WHEN: End of Drakonis through Cloudreach
WHERE: Skyhold, Warden camp, forests beyond
NOTES: You can check her info post for stuff or hit me up via PM or plurk if you want to hash out anything, OR if you'd like your own personal starter let me know and I'd be happy to do one for you!

⓵ Warden Camp
Velanna isn't a "group mentality" kind of person, so while most of the Warden camp is open season, her tent is pitched deliberately a little further away from the others, and she has her own fire and fortifications that she's built up herself with magic. The tent itself is fairly unremarkable from other Warden tents, but there is an impressive wall of earth and short tree growth keeping the elements at bay.

If someone were to wander close enough they'd find Velanna sitting outside the tent cross-legged with a book in her lap and a few more nearby. Stop at your own risk.

⓶ Warden Camp (outskirts)
The only way to keep your skills sharp is by practicing them, and while Velanna is perfectly aware there's a training ring in Skyhold, there is something unsettling to her about using her magic in a courtyard surrounded by templars and other shemlen. Mostly the templars though.

So instead she finds an unpopulated and semi-secluded spot on the edge of the Warden Camp. She goes through general motions followed by cycling through her spells and even physically beating on a broken tree with her staff to make sure that her abilities don't dull while sitting on her hands waiting for something interesting to happen. It's also a good way to channel some of her frustrations, which are nearly constantly bubbling just under her surface.

⓷ Forests surrounding camp
Walking in the forest is a time of peace for Velanna. She's long felt more comfortable among the trees, and she finds her mind wanders less when she's alone and focused on a task. Normally, she's hunting. Her technique is a little different than most hunters, she doesn't waste her time with a bow and arrow, instead she lets the forest do her work for her. Sometimes a rabbit will get thickly ensnared in roots that it didn't see as it darts away from the sound of a predator, or a bird is crushed under a surprise falling branch.

These may not be the forests she grew up in, but all forests connected to the earth and that is a connection Velanna spent her formative years learning how to adapt and use. Every once in a while she'll take a more direct approach and set up real traps or use offensive magic to quickly take something down, but the smaller game she can carry is easy enough to trick into tiny manipulations.

⓸ Library
The only place in Skyhold Velanna regularly visits is the library. She has always loved books, and her studious nature as a child had only grown as an adult and she gained more access to larger libraries. The selection of books on subjects Velanna is only passingly familiar with in the Skyhold libraries means she spends a surprising amount of time there, tucked in a corner or browsing the shelves, her eyes wide from the possibilities. Even the human stories are interesting to her, because it's new information.

She'll likely avoid talking to anyone, but if approached just right she might be amiable to talking about what she's reading (or sometimes writing, in a well-worn book.)

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Martin in the mean time didn't exactly devour books, not that he didn't like reading. But it was more or less the quiet nature that libraries seem to offer from the hustle and bustle of the streets outside. Places that offer tools of learning and recorded knowledge always seem to do so in his eyes.

It was nice, relaxing from what the headaches in his head. It also allowed for him to learn more about the world he lived in.

But he wasn't alone this time, it seemed. Well no matter, he went ahead and sat down across from the woman, placing his own book on the table and opening it up.

Velanna usually tries to avoid others when she's absorbed in a book or studying, because she tends to get annoyed easily when she's trying to concentrate. And, you know, any other time. When the human sits down across from her she automatically straightens in her chair a little, practically bristling like a cat. Her experience here is that she's about to be thrown a comment about how elves shouldn't know how to read, or something insulting about her ears.

When he silently starts reading instead, that is frankly a surprise to her. She glances up from her book a few times, before her gaze lingers a little longer, as if she's trying to figure out exactly where he came from. Then, she finally decides to ask.

"You are one of those who has fallen from the rifts, are you not?"

Was she talking to him? He caught those subtle movements out of the corners of his eyes, from over the top of the pages that he had opened up to. She was guarded, wary and did not seem to like the idea of having his presence anywhere near her.

Well that was fine. But still she decided to open up to him... well the nature of her question cleared up his own question.

"Yeah, guess I am." He supposed that she wanted to question him now. "Why?"

She does want to question him. She's intensely curious about the experience of falling from one world to another, the rifts themselves, and the residual effects had upon those who came through them. She reels it in, however, because she's learned from her time with humans that sometimes information is better volunteered than extracted. For some reason.

"Most humans would not sit at the same table as an elf, certainly not a Dalish." Even as a Warden, humans were still wary of her more often than not.

He gave her a shrug in response. "According to some I'm not human."

A jab at the idea that some seem to think that most, if not all, Rifters are demons. Not that he seems to have run into anyone who's decided to give him problems based on that idea. Maybe due to him largely keeping to himself or working with the Inquisition forces.

"...I'm Captain Martin Walker, by the way." May as well get introductions out of the way.

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