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Basics

NAME: Deacon AGE: 50 NATIONALITY: Marcher RACE: Human OCCUPATION: Brother/Fixer TITLE/RANK: Brother	HEIGHT: 5'8" BUILD: Shredded HAIR: Shaved off EYES: Hazel, intense SKIN: Weathered BEARING: A man delivering a doing for the Maker and Andraste
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES: Face and body hewn from granite. Radiates that aegis of the faith, do not fuck with energy but come on and fight with him. Totally ripped if you see him out of those robes (I heard Andraste herself say he was shredded) with some good good old stab scars and a place where his ribs didn't heal up right.

Status

DIVISION: Diplomacy
PROJECTS: Chantry Relations

Just settling in, moving all the superfluous crap out of his room what is this he has a vow of poverty you slags.

Reputation

Deacon is known by some in Chantry Circles as being that Brother out in the Free Marches who is quiet but intense, and ready to throw down in the name of not just the Maker and Andraste, but the Chantry itself.

A true believer, handy to have around these days to defend the faith.

Hooks

DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE MAKER AND ANDRASTE COME TALK TO HIM. But if you don't he's talking to you. And about the Chantry. How it does good. Because a lot of people would be dead and worse off without it so sit the fuck down if you're about to dismantle it because he is the aegis of the faith and he will give you a doing from Andraste herself if you're talking shit.

Also meditation chill out kids.

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Revered Mother Magda; the woman who had a firm hand in guiding Deacon's future after the Mother who raised him passed away, shaping him to be very much the man he is today. Old now but no less sharp, with less time for the politics of Chantry business but a very vested interest in its survival through whatever means necessary. See: Deacon. A beloved Mother to her flock until crossed. Did not approve of Justinia, would prefer a return to tradition. (More and more she realises that keeping him around this long was a mistake.)

Sister Abigail; younger than Deacon, still with the idealism in her that Magda wishes to see transformed into the drive to do what must be done else she'll have her shipped off elsewhere to do the hard graft that's needed to grind it down to dust. Seemingly a gentle soul, she has a wicked sense of humour she shares with Deacon who is very much her big brother. (He taught her to fight, Sisters must defend themselves too, life has long been lawless.)

Ser Cyrus; a young Templar fresh from training who was meant to be deployed to a Circle only with the advent of war that never happened. Instead he found himself stuck with the Chantry, a subject of suspicion, the Revered Mother's leash something of a noose; Deacon reaches out, but one can only reach so far if the hand is not extended in kind. (His mind is unravelling, it's not the lyrium.)

The complicated feelings Deacon has about faith vs the chantry vs The Chantry

in this case let's say that the chantry (small c) is a party and The Chantry is government. you believe in your party more than your government even when your party is in power because there are times, a lot of times, when your party is in power where it absolutely is not doing what it can

at the current point in time, the whole thing is rudderless

it's worse than a leadership debate or a reshuffle

there's no legacy

they're fighting over scraps and bones and the actual matters of importance are being completely lost, the people they are supposed to be helping are being lost

but then you have a man like Deacon who has devoted his entire life to the chantry

and thus to The Chantry because all of it came from the faith spawned from Andraste built up after her death so what he's supposed to do? where does he actually draw that line, where does he choose action, where does he choose inaction?

at this point most of them in power are probably bending the chant to serve their own ends and if they aren't (to him) then they aren't really in a position to do much helping, he's not fucking stupid

also probably the few times Deacon nearly got himself booted and/or sent off somewhere else for complaints about his fire and brimstone younger days when it did cause trouble

(it was Markham, not Hossberg. the letters are still around somewhere)

(he did a lot of penance)

(also got time in a cell to 'reflect' which is why he's fond of meditation and yoga because the fuck else was there to do when he was allowed out to pray and for one meal and to speak to no one)

(basically be a young angry full of piss and vinegar Deacon in the free marches who preaches loudly to the wrong crowd and maybe someone accuses you of being the one responsible for a drunkard's death once or twice via your sermons and maybe eventually deacon and that dude had a weird friendship later)

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