DAO: Syreniel

Syreniel meets her cousin to discuss their double-marriage in the alienage.

BACKGROUND

I was born in the elven alienage, right here in Denerim. The heart & jewel of Ferelden, the capital city. I never been outside of the alienage before and what knowledge I have of the outside world are mostly heard from others. I once snucked around and took a peek. The world beyond the alienage is so similar yet so different.. It is like what we have here, except less squalid and more spacious.

I got in a fair bit of trouble snucking out and it was my mother that saved me. I miss my mother so much. In her youth she was quite an adventurer and she had quite a number of stories to tell me. She also taught me how to handle a blade, which father frowned upon. They would often get into arguments at times.
Then one day I came back home and she was gone. I missed her so much and I never knew what happened to her until I was older. Father said the shems took her away. It was then I think I understood what she and father were always arguing about.
Father wants to stay out of trouble but mother says that she should not let the shems take away anymore of our dignities.

It was the shems. How they oppressed our people and treat our people as slaves. The shems say slaves are forbidden in Ferelden and that we are just servants. LIES! There is no difference in being a servant for the rest of the life than a slave. We still never be able to live the life we want and will serve on them till the day we die.
It is a life-time of servitude. To them we are animals, fit to use in anyway. Hard labour, work too undesirable or beneath them. Even worse as their play-things.

Just two days ago I caught a shem noble leering at me. Facing him, I glared at him contemptously and he backed down. I'm glad mother taught me how to use the blade, if he ever comes back one day to find trouble. I'll find him and gut the pig down.

One day the shems will pay. They will pay for taking away our freedom and most of all they WILL pay for taking away my mother. We will not be the down-trodden any longer.


BUILD
Class: Warrior
Specializations: Reaver / Berserker
Primary Role: Primary DPS
Secondary: Secondary Tank

Not the first warrior I created but arguably the most powerful one. Syreniel is dual-wields two main-hand weapons. Started out slightly better than average with low survivability, even though a lot of her stats had to go into Agility to unlock the DW path. With solid massive armor at high levels, she tears elites a new asshole.
I went with Reaver with the idea of having some physical resistance to help her survive. And Berserk provides a passive bonus to strength needed to don plate armor. In hindsight? I should have gone towards Templar for specialization. DW hits rapidly and can drain quite a fair bit of mana.
Bad thing is Syreniel dishes out so much damage that she attracts too much aggro.

PARTY COMPOSITION
1. Alistair - Tank
2. Wynne - Healer
3. Zevren - Rogue

I had to use a mod to respec Zevren to fulfill similar roles as Leliana. I let him stayed as an Assassin since it was his canon specialization. Having my rogue wade into melee when my main is already melee is not very good. Alistair was interesting but considerably weaker when compared to Shale in the early stages of the game. Limited AoE CC too. Heavy armor does have its advantages in attracting aggro, so I had to dump massive amounts into his strength, whenever he levels.

Syreniel in full-battlegear. Massive armour and twin blades. One enchanted with fury of the flames the other with chill of the winter's touch.