Sister Nightingale: Leliana discussion thread- V2

HoDA actually been around for four years now. It’s not a lot of fun unless you love grinding, but the devs do produce some neat art.

She can be pretty coy in DAO.

Do you believe there is anything positive about hardened Leliana in DAI, or is it literally the "I fucked up" scenario?

Leliana is so different in DAI that I have a hard time associating her with DAO Leliana.

She feels like a completely new character. Hell, even her voice doesn't sound the same.

I'm considering leaving Leliana hardened next time I play DAI.

This is the path she chose over the course of 10 years, without a protagonist's influence.

I find it weird that Leliana doesn't wear makeup at all. You know, since she is all about the pretty shoes and nice hair.

This reminds me. Its been three games and we still have not seen Leliana's shoe collection. #GetItTogetherBioware

My lovely badass Divine Victoria

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Leliana's probably my favorite Origins romance, but I have a hard time pursuing her in my canon because my warden makes the ultimate sacrifice. It'd be okay if she seemed to move on in Inquisition, but since she's forever alone unless you romance her with a living warden, I don't want to do that to her. I guess it's a decent arc all around if she becomes Divine, but otherwise she just spends her time breeding nugs... which now that I think about it, is pretty unsatisfying regardless. Hmm. It's between her and Vivienne because they're the most dramatic options, but at least Vivienne still pursues her ambitions if she isn't Divine.

Huh, it's funny you say that because I always believed Leliana (and Morrigan, and to a lesser extent Alistair..... basically everybody but Zevran lol) had something to help them cope with life after the Warden's death. Leliana has her faith and her work for the Divine, her love for politics and scheming, she has at least a handful of friends. The vast majority of LIs seem to be Forever Alone if the protagonist doesn't romance them so I don't really count that as a strike.


I feel like Leliana in Inquisition has more depth, but that could also be because she's literally an older, more mature woman. She's grown and changed. Seeing her in DAI made me want to go back and romance her for the first time in DAO.

That's a good point, and given how she seems to have a crisis of faith regardless by Inquisition, I'm thinking I'll go ahead and romance her in my canon. Though I'm still not sure what she gets up to afterwards if not made Divine. The epilogue slide just says she's training more spies, and my impression was that she'd be stepping down from spymaster duties soon. I'd rather Leliana not show up in DA4, but I can't see her living a laid back life either even though she's earned one.