Bellara Lutare - Official Companion Thread [Spoilers]

BioWare tweeter posted something saying that her gauntlet was a tool to manipulate magic a while back.

This is the clearest image of Bellara's vallaslin that I've found, I'm now able to see the delicate lines between the marks on her cheeks and that the tattoo is gold rather than brown as i thought before.



I still think her vallaslin looks the most like Dirthamen's.



From the criss crossing wavy lines on dirth's cheeks: take the three vertical lines and flip them horizontally, then take the horizontal line and flip it vertically and add two parallel lines of the same shape. Now you've got whats on Bellara's forehead.

Dirth's also has a diamond in the forehead centre albeit of a different design then Bellara's. Triangle on his chin too.

The curved lines with points/arrows/triangles along them on dirth's forehead are not dissimilar from the curved lines with points on Bellara's cheeks.

Overall it's like Bellara's design is Dirthamen's vallaslin with the cheeks and forehead lines switched and a variant forehead diamond design.

Plus he's the perfect god for a character obsessed with ancient secrets as she is described.

Links incase the pictures don't load
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At this point I'm used to bioware changing designs every game including this one with its demons at the least. Given the completely different designs from dao to dai I'm not inclined to worry too much over why Bellara's design is different until i see what elf rook and lavellan get access to. Bellara's might not end up being very different.

I think this shot from Arlathan must be the Veil Jumper camp, even though the figures shown do not include Bellara. There are barrels at the top of the stairs and crates in the background. I think the party look too relaxed for it to be possibly an enemy camp. If this is the case, note how the giant hands seem to be holding aloft a symbol that looks similar to Bellara's vallaslin.  It certainly has triangles; hence the idea this is the camp of the Veil Jumpers. How did the symbol get there? Rook seems to have noticed it and is wondering the same thing.

I have a sneaking suspicion Bellara is our mage/apostate traitor of this game.
Let us examine previous offenders.
Morrigan: Human Female Mage
Anders: Human Male Mage
Solas: Elf Male Mage
Bellara: Elf Female Mage
Anyone else notice the pattern? Not trying to disparage or throw accusations about, but after three times, better start giving everyone a second look.

Hmmm... what if we won't be betrayed by a companion, but by a faction?

I'd say it's time for the protagonist to betray everyone Imagine if they'll let us to side with Solas or even with Evanuris duo.

I don't understand why everyone seems to think she's primed to be a traitor, or is sus in any way? Like, half the team seem to be mages, so it could literally be anyone (or no one). Also, I've rarely seen people with cheerful, bubbly personalities turn out to be treacherous in games, and certainly not in DA (Anders doesn't count, because the real, cheerful Anders wouldn't have done it).

Anyway, I think it's probably going to be a tragedy instead of a betrayal this time.

It is her faction more than Bellara herself. Now it could be the writers have been scattering red herrings ever since DAI with this business of the Executors and their symbol being a triangle and the fact they are opposed to Solas, then this mysterious group of "Dalish" turn up in Arlathan Forest and start recovering artifacts (including one that just happens to be dedicated to Ghilan'nain) and have clothing with triangles and call themselves Veil Jumpers and seem so friendly and helpful, plus strange new magic that we have never heard of before. It may be they are not connected with the Executors or the briny smelling Executor had nothing to do with the strange monster creating pools connected with Ghilan'nain and which also smelt briny, but it is worth being just a tad cautious before accepting them absolutely at face value. After all, Flemeth was awfully helpful to the Warden, offering the services of her daughter Morrigan, who was useful to the cause but in the end had an ulterior motive for sticking with us. For that matter, so was Solas helpful and pleasant enough most of the time. The anchor would have killed the Inquisitor at the outset but for his help, yet it turned out he had his own agenda that definitely was not in the interests of the majority of inhabitants of Thedas. That is chiefly why strange people, particularly mages, of whom we know so little, are thought to be suspect.

There's always a first time for everything. We were complaining how the majority of villains in DAI were so unpleasant and shifty it was hard to understand how anybody trusted them in the first place and then they hit us with Solas, so as I've said previously "beware the elves bearing gifts".

Don't take it too hard about Bellara. I usually romance elves. I had been moaning how my nice male elf PCs never get to romance a girl from their own race and now they've given me one. She's bright, inquisitive, cheerful, looks pretty and has a nice voice. What more could my hero ask for? There has to be a catch somewhere. (I was badly burned by Solas with my female Lavellan and it has left its mark)

Then our loyal (and possibly beloved) companion Bellara gets to play Samwise who protects us from the "taint"  of the ring and it's evil master Solas.

Well, if she betrays us by executing Solas... I can live with that.

I love your theory, though. It also could be why Solas wore a disguise in The Missing when he (presumably) saved Varric in the Arlathan forest.