Bellara Lutare - Official Companion Thread [Spoilers]

To take a slightly different angle (hehe), a triangle has three points. Three is a common pattern in oral tradition, especially folk tales, because it's easier to remember. Maybe there's something more whimsical to those pouches, like Dalish oral stories written down and stored in each one.

I definitely think the Veil Jumpers have something to do with the Executors, but I also think the Veil Jumpers might not be aware of it. From what little we've seen of the Executors, they're incredibly secretive.

So no one thinks she could be an ancient elves badly cosplaying a Dalish?
Her gauntlett is ancient elven magic and it's designed with triangle all over. She has a big hairdo, ancient elves like having big stuff on their head for whatever reason. Her valasslin are unknown.

From what we have seen of them, they tend to cosplay the Dalish rather well. Then any differences they just put down to the clans "growing apart over time", which the majority of inhabitants who aren't Dalish have no reason to question. Even those who are familiar with Dalish customs are just meant to accept that as true. My Lavellan was constantly being informed that their clan was just different when I objected to certain assertions being made.

Now I seem to recall the Game Informer article said something about exploring the variants in culture now we are in a different part of Thedas, including the different vallaslin. Of course, that contradicts the whole premise of the Dalish in wishing to preserve their culture unchanged but I've given up trying to defend the old lore on this. If the writers have decided differences are down to being in a different part of Thedas, who am I to say any different?

What will be more annoying is if we are sold that as the excuse for the different vallaslin and then it turns out that they aren't genuine Dalish but we were forced to play the idiots in not spotting it. Even Davrin's vallaslin aren't consistent with previous designs but close enough that slight regional variations could account for it. Bellara's are completely different, though, so I will be interested to hear how she accounts for this and which god she claims to have allegiance to.

She was worst. 

Will Bellara be like the peepee? Don't know. I will know when I the game.

In my own head-canon I had Lavellan attend the next Arlathvhen and told them what they had learned. Also gave out lots of cool elven items that I had acquired with the Inquisition (I never sold any ancient elven artifacts even if I had no use for them). Some people accepted their story, some rejected it and suggested they had been influenced by human propaganda, but I assume that gradually word might have spread that not everything in the old narrative might be true. So, I can easily believe Bellara had heard about these revelations and that prompted her to want to discover more. I assume that could also have been the reason that Strife's clan headed north in the first place because clearly they must have once been in the Freemarches for him to have encountered them just outside Starkhaven. Since Lavellan's clan also lived in the Freemarches it seems all the more likely information could have passed between them (assuming my clan survived).   Even if the Inquisitor wasn't an elf, there were Dalish helping the Inquisition who presumably would have learned what we discovered and then fed back to their own clans, who passed the information on.   Then naturally they would head north for Arlathan Forest because where better to find out about your ancestors than the place where you understood they lived. That much all hangs together plausibly so the clan(s) who headed north are likely genuine.

The reason I am suspicious about Strife is that when the book started magically rewriting itself, the Keeper gave it to Strife to deal with. Why would the Keeper give it to Strife, an alleged city elf and not even a mage? Now he is leading the Veil Jumpers.

The reason I am suspicious of Bellara is those strange vallaslin and the fixation with triangles. However, it is entirely possible she discovered an old artwork with the vallaslin and may be also discovered there was a significance with triangles for the ancient elves. I just want to be able to ask her or for her to tell me voluntarily. If she is an awakened ancient elf in disguise, I wonder if the tragedy they speak of in her past relates to the moment the Veil was created. A lot of elves died in that and there was that memory in the Vir Dirthara where the elf declared they would kill Fen'Harel if they survived it. They probably didn't but I dare say plenty of others felt the same. If one of those who survived woke up and discovered that Fen'Harel was going to reverse the process, resulting in more wholesale death and destruction, they might well wish to oppose him because they remember how it felt to them to lose those they loved.

Lutare is fine, though I didn't have a problem with Lutara, myself.

I've been wondering about her last name because it doesn't sound very Elven to me.

It also reminds me of a Finnish word "lutakko" which means something similar to a bayou in English.

Excellent points, thank you! I don't think we know of too many elves with family names, either? Mainly the Elven Wardens in DAO and Inquisitors who were then referred to by using their family names, which then leads me to wonder if Davrin is the Warden's first or last name? I suppose it's not entirely out of the question that they might both be from a society of elves we've yet to encounter in DA lore.

Lutare sounds very Italian to me.