Anders
Dr. Jayden McCarthy
27
Medical Doctor
Anders has seen first hand of what all Mages gone through. When he started to show magical talent, his father became afraid of him. He started calling him it and threw things at him to keep him at bay. The only who seemed to not care about his newly found talents was his mother, who loved and cared for him deeply. However, the father did not want to live with a Mage under his roof for one more minute. He called the templars to take his son away and the next thing Anders knew was that he was clasp in chains, being dragged away from the circle. The only thing he had of his family was his mother's embroidered pillow, which constantly reminded him how much his mother cared.
He came to learn how much he hated the circle as he grew older, the rules and being trapped in one place for his entire life didn't seem to suit him at all. In fact he hated it so much that he made seven attempts to flee. The next attempt, he was caught by Templars and was to be escorted back to the circle. Vigil's Keep was to be simply a pit-stop, before they continued their journey. However, when they got there, Anders and the Templars were over run by Darkspawn with the Templars dying in the process. In the end, the Mage found himself dealing with the Darkspawn alone and had to use his magic to defend himself. When he killed the last Darkspawn, the Grey Warden (Hero of Ferelden) and another soldier had come in to see the dead bodies. Once Anders relayed his story to them both, he was allowed to leave. However, he chose to come back and help the Warden fight the Darkspawn. This earned him a place among the Wardens and he joined the Hero of Ferelden and his companions on adventures in saving Amaranthine. Along the way he met a spirit of Justice, who over time convinced him that he needed to help his fellow mages find the justice they need.
Once his business was done, seeing no other way and not wanting Justice to have to play 'Demon' by possessing another body, Anders allowed Justice into his body. A move that changed everything about him. He left the warden order and went to Kirkwall to escape both them and the Templars. Upon his journey to the "City of Chains", he met a man named Karl, another Mage, who agreed to help him. They became lovers over time and agreed that one of them had to be in the circle for the possibility of helping the other Mages escape. Karl was the one decided he would be the one to stay in the Gallows, despite Anders's protests. For a time their plans seemed to be working, Anders and Karl would send messages to each other through a maid in the Chantry to understand the situation in the circle and how to help the Mages within it. However, one day the letters from Karl stopped coming. Worried, Anders kept at his work on healing the Fereldens all the while trying to come up with a plan to rescue his friend. That was when Hawke and her friends came into his clinic looking for his expertise. He told them he wouldn't agree to it unless they helped him rescue Karl. When they did as he asked, they found that they were already too late...Karl was made Tranquil and he had lured them--by the order of the Templars--into a trap. Anders rage and despair caused Justice to take over him, and he and the others he brought with him defeated the Templars. In the end, he decided to kill Karl out of mercy and he had to explain to Hawke what happened to him before he came to Kirkwall. Hawke was immediately sympathetic as she, herself, was a mage.
It turned out Hawke and her crew had another mission to do with someone named Anso, but Anders refused. He had gone through too much that night and needed sometime with his patients. While working on helping the people in his clinic he sensed dark and very powerful magic heading to Kirkwall. Instinctively, he used his magic to create a barrier to protect himself and the patients (his magic can only go so far, after all). Despite his efforts the dark purple smoke broke through his barrier and he along with his patients were sucked out of the room by powerful winds.
Jayden became interested in being a doctor at the age of sixteen when his lover, Karl, fell seriously ill. None of the doctors could seem to find what it was and Anders decided to devote his time in trying to find a way to cure his friend. But the illness ended up taking Karl within a few months. Grieved and angry with himself, Anders kept looking for a cure to the illness his friend had. He went through college classes on the subject and kept asking questions with the expert. His high school teachers gave him awards for his research and findings. At his graduation from High School he got scholarships to a college in Storybrooke and got his Ph. D eleven years later. It was only when he got to that point that he finally found the cure to the illness that took his friend's life. He was honored with the Noble Peace Prize and Honorary Doctor of the Year. Over the time he was working on finding the cure, he also found that the illness was in places such as Africa, Asia, and even Europe. He also found how in efficient the programs that are meant to help the people in rural areas of these countries were. Women had almost no rights in some countries, while ethnicity and race seemed to deprive the rights of other groups people with other developing countries. Seeing how even the homosexuals, bisexuals, and the like were being massacred and persecuted, he started rallying discussion forums and charity events to speak his mind on the issues.
The funds he makes immediately goes over to the organizations that are meant to help the people suffering due to their circumstances. Although his work helps brings in millions of dollars in revenue for this countries, it is still not enough to help billions of people in need. Seeing as that many doctors in other places of the country don't seem to care about what he has to say or think that they are doing too much for him already, Anders often does go to illegal means to get what he needs for the people. Even speaks to Mr. Gold and Regina to help him out when he feels that there is no other option. He even speaks to Esmeralda, the wife of the Mafia, to help him get the resources and funds he needs to help out those less fortunate. However good his intent, Jayden often finds himself the victim of blackmail.
Magic, mostly healing. However, due to the curse his talent lies in normal means of healing his patients.