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Cole is a spirit of Compassion. As such, he has a few abilities, a lot of which require other players' cooperation in pulling off. Luckily, it's also one hell of a CR starter! Cole's kit itself is a little difficult to pin down, but I'd tired to summarize it as much as I can.

1. Mind Wipe: After helping people, Cole often omits himself from their mind. By putting his hand out and saying something that contains the word 'forget,' he is able to erase the memory of his target to make it seem like he was never there.

2. Invisibility: As a spirit, Cole doesn't just have stealth at his disposal - he has the ability to become completely invisible. People walking towards him while invisible will automatically walk around him without realizing they're doing so in the first place.

3. Empathy: The big one. Similar to telepathy, Cole being a compassion spirit means he can tap into someone's specific moments, memories, and thoughts that involve high emotion from their perspective. For example, he might be able to recount someone's favourite birthday word for word with all senses intact, or he could view the moment a parent or relative passed away with absolute clarity despite not ever meeting them, almost like he experienced it himself.

An example of Empathy can be found here, and a filled out permissions to give you something to work with is here.

Please go ahead and fill this out to let me know what's what! Please note that I will approach you via pm or message or I'll talk it through if I feel like Cole would use any of these abilities:

Player Information

Name: Chase
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Do you play another character in this game?: N/A

Character Information

Canon: Dragon Age
Character Name: Cole
Canon Point: Just before What Pride had Wrought, personal mission started but incomplete
History: wiki
CRAU History: N/A

Character Details

Personality (Aspiration/Drive): Cole's drive is simple: a spirit of compassion, he wants to help people. He's willing to go to any means to do it, even if the ways seem odd such as burning turnips to remind a dying soldier of his mother's turnip stew, or violence via mercy killings. If he can help by stopping the bad before it even starts, he will.

Personality (Worldview/Alignment): Cole is aware the world isn't black or white, even if some people think that to cope. Being part spirit part person, he's constantly looking to help and ease people's suffering as much as he can--not because of the state of the world but because it's inherent in his nature. It doesn't bother him that people think he's strange for doing so, and he never feels the need to explain his actions--he'll be ready to help them when it's time, no matter what. To him the world is just a setting, and people are interesting, if complicated and messy things that just need someone to stop them from hurting, be it themselves or others.

Personality (Traits): 1. Strange: Cole in and of himself is simply odd, even by Dragon Age standards. He cares little what people think of him (when they remember him), and is quite content to march to the beat of his own drum. A large portion of this is that he doesn't understand things like social norms, being part spirit--and he often asks strange or outright ridiculous questions about anything from moral dilemmas to how beards grow.

2. Naive - Cole is naive, but like briefly mentioned above, in a very strange way. He's absolutely privvy to the cruelties of the world and how people treat one another badly, but he can come across as almost child like in other ways. This is because he's a spirit in a boy's body, and the spirit knows nothing of practical things but instead has a wide array of broader knowledge. Anything knowledge not closely attuned to emotions is knowledge that Cole sorely lacks, although thanks to joining the Inquisition he's slowly improved.

3. Empathy Cole is extremely in tune with other people's emotions, even without the actual ability to tap into another person's thoughts or memories. Constantly guided by compassion, Cole's instincts and ability to read other people means he has an easy time sussing out the motivations behind actions, no matter how big or small.

4. Helpful/Kind Cole values compassion above most things, and at his core he wants to help as best as he can. He's found the best way to do that is to fight, be it for the Inquisitor's cause with a blade or by easing someone else's pain. An incredibly selfless being, he will do what he can to make the world a better place.

6. Sense of Purpose: For as strange and seemingly whimsical as Cole's schemes to help people are, there's always a sense of purpose or a reason. He never does something just because he enjoys it, because ultimately he'll feel like he hasn't fulfilled his purpose of helping people if he does. The reasons why he does some things are often unclear but he's happy to explain when confronted, knowing he has nothing to hide.

5. Battle-hardened: As mentioned previously, sometimes helping people means fighting, and Cole is far from a traditional healer archetype. An assassin, Cole is unafraid to stand his ground in battle, and is certainly not squeamish or a shy flower when it comes to getting the job done. He's more comfortable dealing damage up close and personal with knives than he ever would doing something like healing from a distance.

Inventory: Steel dagger, palm sized stone, and his cape and tunic is brown

Offerings

Memory Loss: Cole will be unable to remember getting the Rivaini amulet to stop him from being bound by binding magic.
Runic Mark: Berkano
Skills and Abilities:
Dagger mastery: An assassin, Cole is especially gifted with double daggers. He has incredible expertise and finesse in knowing where to critically strike on a target and how to incapacitate or kill, and is dexterous enough to do so quickly and easily.
Stealth A rogues' bread and butter, Cole is able to blend in with the shadows and move so quietly his enemy doesn't realize he's there. This makes him adept in ways to sneak attack or back stab.
Invisibility As a spirit, Cole doesn't just have stealth at his disposal - he has the ability to become completely invisible. People walking towards him while invisible will automatically walk around him without realizing they're doing so in the first place.
Empathy Similar to telepathy, Cole being a compassion spirit means he can tap into someone's specific moments, memories, and thoughts that involve high emotion from their perspective. For example, he might be able to recount someone's favourite birthday word for word with all senses intact, or he could view the moment a parent or relative passed away with absolute clarity despite not ever meeting them.
Mind wipe After helping people, Cole often omits himself from their mind. By putting his hand out and saying 'forget,' he is able to erase the memory of his target to make it seem like he was never there.
Lockpicking Another rogue staple: Cole is able to pick difficult locks incredibly easily.

Character Samples

Sample One (prose)
Sample (prose/TDM top level)
Sample Three (Network, linked from TDM)

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