#if she'd left it be i imagine she would've got to about 15 years give or take 6 months before it claimed her for good | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

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lilah growing her hair as a form of healing, as proof that her body is capable of growth and life after so much death. lilah gaining weight slowly, in bits and pieces, over the years as a symbol of her life becoming stable and safe. lilah's skin becoming more suntanned, less death-pale, as a sign that she has fought back against the cursed blood in her veins. for a few years at least, lilah looking healthy and content and happy.

#oc tag #ch: lilah mahariel #all of this is before she starts hearing the calling near the start of dai 😩#but we will ignore that fact for a little bit ok? ok? 😭#she never quite shakes the marks of the taint from the eluvian #her brown eyes are still streaked with quicksilver #her veins are still tinged black rather than blue if you look close enough #she's still littered with scars #but she gets 10 years or so of relative peace #before she starts getting the faintest inkling of her calling #a normal warden has 30ish years alistair had always said #but what about wardens who were tainted and on the verge of death when they completed the joining?#who's blood was already pumping with blight long before drinking darkspawn blood from a chipped silver goblet?#i imagine it at least shaves the life expectancy in half #at /least/#she gets 10-11 years before it begins to come for her #or at least - before the dreams start to get worse again (like they were during the blight)#the singing ... the singing comes later when she and fenarel are long lost to the west #if she'd left it be i imagine she would've got to about 15 years give or take 6 months before it claimed her for good

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