Bellara Lutare - Official Companion Thread [Spoilers]

That's not how it works - take it from someone who actually comes from a country where our culture was actively destroyed and at times we were even forbidden to speak the language or use our endonyms. There were differences about how to do things and how to preserve them, and even among those who lived in roughly the same area argued about it. In fact, we still argue to this day, heh
To say nothing about ideas of folks who emigrated - I come from a diaspora, so I know. Despite living most of my life in the country, I had arguments with my own family living abroad about the state of things here, including things I thought we were more-or-less in agreement about.

So imagine how hard it is when elves are scattered all over Thedas, and don't have easy ways to communicate with one another. An occasional Arlathven only some tribes gather for is too little - the codices even mention that meetings between hahrens usually end with furious shouting, and the Dalish laugh that the true reason the clans go their separate ways is because leaders can't stand one another (clearly because they have different ideas about their lives and their missions)

In other words - you're demanding way too much consistency from a very fractured group of people with no means to consistently stay in touch with one another. Elves having no variance in things like vallaslins is IMO more unrealistic than magic and dragons.
It is, in fact, entirely natural.

Also - we don't really know what Solas tried to correct - but it's *extremely unlikely* he tried to tell them their vallaslins are of a wrong shapes, given that WE KNOW he thinks vallaslins are *just wrong*, as they are symbols of subjugation (which he was known for removing).

Even more so, knowing that he's fine with Lavellan infusing valasslin with her own meaning I'd say he'd be even one to encourage for vallaslins to divert heavily from vallaslin shapes associated with Evanuris.
Merril can't realistically know that, just like the Dalish clans can't realistically know what all clans or elves are doing. Thedas isn't XXI Earth, where thanks to the Internet I can know that a friend on the other side of the globe had for breakfast. We also don't know of anything like a census that happened at any time in Thedas.
But yes, actually, it has been established that some of the clans live so much apart from others that their whereabouts are basically unknown. And if clans of the South stay away from Tevinter, how could they possibly know what happens to those Dalish clans that were brave enough to stick to lands inhabited by their ancestors?
All I know is that those 'perils of existence' would be enough to cause the tribes to differentiate from one another.

They haven’t been slave tattoos for centuries, but ironically being symbols of freedom.

Bellara looks fun. Maybe this is just wishful thinking, but she feels like a female Nathan Drake in a fantasy setting.

I see it as green more than brown or gold.

Eh....baby poop color? 

About the color, Ghil Dirthalen* theorized that it could be a forgotten one vallaslin that was described in the Last Court as red too, but I also think it's more brownish/gold. The difference in design is certainly important, though, it's too noticeable.
Plus, she seems scared in her tarot card and cast in darkness, a big contrast with how she appears in the trailer and her descriptions. There's something more to her, surely

*she is a community council member but wasn't told anything about the vallaslin, apparently testers did not have access to a lot of side content

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Yeah I liked Meril Sara and Peebee ewre over the top but I liked th efacttha tMerril was calmer so yea hI'd be up for a more Merril type character I coul dsee myself usin gher a bit if she's a little more like that 

Gold, for sure

Any theories on Bellara's elven toy from the trailer? 🧐

Power source? Key? Gauntlet/Bow Upgrade? Executor Child's Puzzle, Astr...err...Fade Prism? Trailer McGuffin?