Mimi-Sardinia on DeviantArthttps://www.deviantart.com/mimi-sardinia/art/DA-Relationship-Chart-Revised-517531238Mimi-Sardinia

Deviation Actions

Mimi-Sardinia's avatar

DA Relationship Chart (Revised)

Published:
2.5K Views

Description

This is the very large, complex attempt to map out the relationships of Elenaria Surana, Warden-Commander of Ferelden.

First off? The headcanon for Elenaria is a crossover with LotR/The Silmarillion. Elenaria is one of the Silmarils - shiny jewels that lots of war was fought over. The basic idea is she and her sisters tried to escape Angband (fortress of Morgoth, the Big Bad) by jumping into another time-line where they were free. They couldn't find one where they were free, so they tumbled right out of Arda and into Thedas.

Lossanárë became Andraste, Elennárë spent several hundred years living with the descendants of Neria Surana (why yes I did use the Mage Origin default name there!) before she took a body as Elenaria, and Elenlossë... was found by Flemeth.

The Star of Fëanor in a circle is an idea of a symbol the Silmarils used as their personal crest. Fëanor was their adopted father, and their stoneforms are round.
Lossanárë has a reversed Sword of Mercy because she dislikes the Chantry. The Chantry took what she really said and changed it to be almost unrecognisable.
Elenlossë has a dragon because of her time with Flemeth. In fact that is Flemeth's dragon form.
Elennárë has adopted the Warden Griffon as her symbol. She might have considered the Vhenadahl tree is a symbol prior to becoming a Grey Warden, but the idea of personal symbols didn't come up until after the births of the Twin Princesses.

The second big detail is that two people from Arda followed the Silmarils to Thedas.
The first one was Askíl aka Durin the Second, who promised he would rescue the Silmarils from Angband. That promise had the weight of an arcane oath and as a result, he was reincarnated as Kêlan Brosca, and in Dragon 9:30 joined Elenaria's team and became a Grey Warden. They remained best friends for the rest of Kêlan's life. Kêlan eventually became Kíli, several lives later.
The second is Shangraile, an Easterling soldier assigned to serve in Angband in the latter part of the First Age. Elennárë and Elenlossë saved his life twice and accidentally created a life debt/bond that, after his death, transported him to the Fade, where he walked out to become the Inquisitor. As you may see, his other major link besides the Silmarils is Leliana, who helped him adjust.

After the Fifth Blight, Lossanárë and Elenlossë took new bodies as Alistair and Anora's twin daughters, so they have links going that way. Elenlossë became queen and married Aedan Coulsand, son of Fergus (named after Fergus' dead brother). It was not a soul-bonded relationship because she knew her One True Love was back in Arda.

Despite the infamous betrayal. Lossanárë loved Maferath, and when he eventually came back to her, ten years after the death of "Andraste", she accepted him back after hearing his apologies and repentance. He became her guardian and they bonded. Their bond kept him from aging or dying, so he was very much alive when Elenaria came looking for the Ashes. However he died in the explosion when the Breach opened in 9:41. His soul was pulled to Lossanárë and he remained with her after that.

Lossanárë did marry in her life as Alissa, but I still haven't decided to whom. Both she and Alana had children, part of their plan to leave a small bit of the light of teh Silmarils in Thedas when the returned to Arda. They knew it would work because the Hawkes are descendants of Andraste, through Malcom (despite legend of Andraste's descendants only being female).

I did decide that Elenaria is related to the Tabris family, through her father. He is a cousin of Cyrion, making Elenaria second-cousin of Kallian (whose gender was only set by the available picture).

Pictures for Shangraile, Kêlan, and Duran Aeducan come from Valandhir, as they are all her characters (even that Duran). She and I RP Kíli and Kizár/Elenaria, and Shangraile has been, up until recently, a background character from our RP. Now he's a major character as he has returned to Arda and is now traveling Middle Earth with Kizár, Kíli, Lossanárë, Maedhros, and Celebrimbor.

(Edits made: Links from Morrigan to Elenaria and Shangraile, labeling Fergus's brother as "Human Noble Origin" and putting Kieran's name on his picture.)

Revision: I wanted to add a few more of the relevant family members like King Endrin, Fergus's parents, Oriana and Oren, Malcom and Leandra, Revka Amell, Solona, and ended up including Gamlen and Charade as well. I also endeavoured to simplify to family links in both the Surana/Tabris cluster and the Hawke/Amell one. Part of that included moving Daylen over that side so there wasn't long lines running around the bottom.

I also found a nice logo on Google to put on the title.

Edit 20/6/15: I made a version of the sword in Lossanárë's picture that matches my idea properly, with the flames going upwards as well as the blade pointing that way. Ironically, I noticed when I went to get new copies of the Theirin and Gwaren crests that Andraste's Sword looks very similar to the Red Templar crest. I'm not throwing out my idea because of that though, I simply will say Lossanárë never let her personal symbol be seen by anyone but her sisters and most trusted friends so no one confused it with the Red Templars' symbol.

I also put an Inquisition symbol on Shangraile's picture.
Image size
8632x4784px 7.08 MB
© 2015 - 2024 Mimi-Sardinia
Comments0
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In