Kodran Kveldulfsson
| {Full Name} |Kodran Kveldulfsson
| {Age} |26
| {Species} |Human
| {Gender} |Male
| {Class/subclass} |Mage/Spirt Healer
| {Appearance} |Kodran at 5'10 with fair skin and brown eyes. He has red hair that goes to the bottom of his neck and a clean-shaved face. However, at times, he may let his facial hair grow out before shaving it all off. While not an obvious-looking Avvar, outside of his people's clothing and with no body or face paint or clear markings. Usually, he wears an Avvar attire that leaves his torso and arms bare while wearing a full pair of leather pants with a belt, revealing an above-average build. But with a fur collar and leather shoulder cloth that covers his shoulder and his upper back. However, Kodran is willing to wear appropriate clothing or armor when needed.
Kodran carries himself like a man with a purpose. Though there is a desire to learn in his eyes, and at times, he acts like a modern scholar despite being brought up as what most would consider a primitive culture. He is always with his Avvar staff and wears a necklace of Chasind origin that belongs to his lover. He does not like to talk about how he got it, only that she is dead.
| {Equipment and Personal Belongings} |Magic Staff - An Avvar metal staff that bears the markings of his home clan, the Iron-Wolf clan. With the head of a wolf at one end and a blade at the other end and it can be used as a melee weapon if needed.
Grey Warden Mage Attire - A set of mage clothes that bear Grey Warden's colors and sigil. He was given these upon joining the Wardens and wears them when needed.
Chasind Necklace - a Chasind Necklace that used to belong to Kodran's lover and is rarely seen without it.
Avvar Knife - A knife that Kodran uses mainly for survival purposes but can be used as a backup melee weapon if needed.
| {Skills} | Herbalism - Being the son of his clan's augur and a mage. Kodran was taught how to make potions to cure ailments and diseases.
Survival Skills - Having been raised in the inhospitable Frostback Mountains, Kodran knows how to survive in situations where most could not.
Spirit Lore - As an Avvar mage, Kodran is very knowledgeable about spirits and, more so, how to both please and remove one from a person's body.
| {Talents} |Staff Combat - Kodran has been trained on how use his staff as a melee weapons and is effective in using it.
Knife Combat - Kodran has been taught how to use a knife in combat, even if he rarely uses it.
| {Spells} |Heal - Kodran heals a single target with his magic, restoring a medium amount of health and healing wounds.
Lifeward - Kodran places a protective ward on a person that restores health once that person is near death.
Revival - Kodran revives someone who has fallen unconscious and restores a bit of health.
Blizzard - Kodran summons a freezing blizzard to harm and freeze a group of enemies in a desired location.
| {Home/Family} |Kodran hails from the Frostback Mountains, a mountain range in Southern Thedas that, while to many is considered inhospitable, his people, the Avvar, thrive. He was born into the Iron-Wolf Hold of the Iron-Wolf Clan, the first child out of four. While his father was a humble hunter, his mother was a mage and the clan's augur or the spiritual leader of the clan. As a mage and the son of the clan's augur, his mother wanted him to succeed her and would train him as her apprentice. However, after the death of his lover Aelid, Kodran realized that his newfound goals made it impossible for him to be an augur. Disappointing his mother, and so he left his home after saying goodbye to his family and embarked on his new goal in life.
| {Flaws and limits} |Tribal Man - At his heart, Kodran is an Avvar, and that means customs and practices that seem normal to him. Are foreign or downright dangerous to others. In particular, the Avvar practice of allowing spirits to possess their mages in order to learn how to use their magic and for other uses. This has made Kodran hesitant to talk to people or talk about his knowledge of spirits openly, over fear, and he often keeps to himself.
| {Personality} |Kodran can be described as a friendly and patient person despite somewhat showing it since the death of his lover and joining up with the Grey Wardens. He knows that his people's ways are not always accepted outside of the Frostback Mountains, and thus, he tends to keep to himself and does not speak of his people's ways while with company. Especially with those outside of the order, like templars for example. Still, Kodran has a curiosity in him since he was a child that never went away and loves to learn more about the world when he can.
He is committed to the Grey Wardens and is a driven person who seeks a way to both cure the blight and purify the lands it corrupted. This is his personal mission, and he is not afraid to do what must be done to do so. Even then, he still finds ways to relax and spend time with people he can call friends. Once he considers someone a friend, Kodran is loyal to them, but if this trust is broken, then it is hard to regain it.
Along with having a good bedside manner when using his magic to heal those in need. Which Kodran finds it hard to give up on a patient, but if the patient is too far gone, then he will try to make it as painless as possible to comfort their final moments. Even in one case, mercy killing them, but it is an action he will only do if there are literally no other options and death is better than living. He has only done it once, but that one time changed him, and he prays to the gods that he never has to do it again. So he will do what it takes to save a patient and not have to resort to mercy killing.
| {Background} |Kodran was only a child when the Fifth Blight started in the Korcari Wilds. While his clan, the Iron-Wolf clan, managed to stay out of it. It did not stop Chasind refugees from coming to the hold, and the thane of the clan allowed the refugees to enter and live in the hold for a time. It was during this time that Kodran made a friend with one of the Chasind, a young girl named Aelid. After the Fifth Blight was defeated and the Chasind returned to the Korcari Wilds, Kodran and Aelid made a promise they would see each other again.
Kodran was ten when he showed the ability to use magic and was trained by his mother, the clan's augur, as her apprentice. After going through the various rituals, he was briefly possessed by a friendly spirit. Kodran, like his mother, chose to be a spirit healer and use the power of spirits to heal both fresh and bone. Something that his mother approved of greatly and would become one of the clan's healers.
When he was eighteen, Chasind traders came to his hold, and Kodran was surprised to see Aelid among them. Now, having fulfilled their promise years ago, the two talked and talked with each other, and it was then that Kodran chose to see Aelid's home village after getting his family's permission.
This was when Kodran while touring the village, learned more about the village and the darkspawn taint from Aelid. As her original village had to be abandoned once, it was clear that the land was blighted, and they had to move to a new site. Kodran was too young to really understand the threat of the darkspawn and the taint during the Fifth Blight as his clan was out of the way from the darkspawn. But, as he asked more about it, Kodran convinced Aelid to show him her old village. This was a wake up call for him as he saw how lifeless and barren the land was, how it is impossible to purify the land or cure those infected with the taint. Twisting those it infects into monsters before killing them. It was something that stuck with Kodran, and after, he returned to his hold. Did his curiosity lead him to start researching the taint, asking questions to the spirits and even getting some Orlesian books on the subject.
This would go on until a year ago when he was visiting Aelid and was planning on making her his wife, when a cohort of darkspawn came up from the underground and started attacking Chasind villages. Aelid's village was one of them, and in a failed attempt to defend the village. Kodran barely managed to escape while carrying a severely wounded Aelid. To his horror, when he was healing her wounds it was clear that Aelid had contacted the darkspawn taint. Aelid begged Kodran to kill her for she did not want to become a ghoul, and since there was nothing he could do to save her, and with a tearful face. Kodran mercifully killed Aelid and returned home a changed man.
Now, Kodran had a new goal in life, finding a cure to the taint and to purify the lands lost to it. So he left his hold after saying goodbye to his family and headed to Anderfel to join up with the main organization that deals with darkspawn, the Grey Wardens, and is willing to do what is needed to ensure a better tomorrow.