Lucanis Dellamorte - Official Companion Thread [Spoilers]

Or maybe you prevented her clan from being killed despite her single-mindedness.

It made sense because it was clear that the clan wanted blood, so Hawke acted diplomatically and let them here what they wanted. It was a complete lie, but they bought it and while still devastated Merrill at least feels slightly better than if they were killed.

I suspect we'll be able to push him in either direction, like Iron Bull and the Qun.

Well, he did fake his death to get away from them.

Ah, I am loving this guy and the game isn't even out yet. I didn't feel that way for any of the Inquisition companions pre-release.

I don't care if he is possessed, as long as he doesn't betray me by secretly working for Solas or the Evanuris or the Executors or whoever else. I'm definitely romancing him first regardless of potential betrayal or heartbreak since I believe in living with the consequences in these games. And it doesn't matter how short he is since he will still be taller than my dwarf Rook!

I loved him in The Wigmaker Job, and I jump to his defense as well! He got that one slave out safely, and the others were corrupted by red lyrium and so were beyond saving. That story was quite dramatic and flamboyant with the wigs coming alive. I wonder if we will get more unexpected stuff like that in the game.

I also wonder what is meant by Lucanis "lacking social skills." I hope he is shy/awkward rather than being arrogant or disregarding/insensitive to others feelings. He seems to be smiling and interacting with Harding and/or Neve in that group picture rather than being aloof/disinterested/or anti-social looking the way that Taash looks.

I've been thinking about Zara-Topshop Renata and her ominous like . Dunno if something happened in the gap between TVN and Veilguard, of if they're saving that antagonist for the game. But she's gotta be in the mix, for sure.

What an easy foe to defeat, though. All Lucanis has to do is say "Is that... is that cellulite?" - then she's distracted/horrified, he cuts her head off, done.

You know all this is really making me eager to reread the Wigmaker job when I get there. Lots of stuff I obviously missed.

I don't know a lot about them yet, but I rather like the idea of a hardened ice queen with an older romantic gentleman, also because she seems a bit closer to his age. Unless there are, hmm, story reasons for Lucanis/Emmrich. Also possible for a Bellara type of person to draw out a reticent Lucanis.

I find it hard to read him at present because things may have changed between Tevinter Nights and the game, more than just him apparently faking his death. We still need the details on that one because at least one person has suggested that he may have done it to put the Venatori off his trail rather than to leave the Crows, which is what I thought was the more likely explanation. He didn't want to be First Talon and Illario did, he seemed to want to continue doing what he had been doing in Tevinter and he made it clear to Illario that the Crows aren't heroes anywhere, not even in Antiva where they do seem to think they are because of their protection racket. Now if it was a matter of supporting the Crows against the Qun, then I think he probably would to save his country from the Antaam, and he would definitely support them against the Venatori. However, if someone like Josephine came to him and asked him to do something that would be in opposition to his grandmother's schemes, then I could see him being persuaded to do it.

As I said in my post above, he seemed to have made allies among the Shadow Dragons during his time in Tevinter and did seem to be willing to help their cause, even if he didn't know exactly who he was working for. His reaction to what he found in Forfex's estate was not that of a professional assassin, bearing in mind he had been conditioned from a young age to think and act in a certain way by his awful grandmother, which is meant to repress all emotion, even though he then resorted to his training and used his revulsion and anger effectively. We had hints of what their training involves with Zevran and this was confirmed by Lucanis' memories in TN. To my mind Lucanis and Illario represented the two different ways that a person could turn out. Illario was all superficial charm but as Lucanis perceived underneath was something rotten. At the end of the story it says there was a gulf between them. So, I am hoping that he finally saw the way out of his dilemma was to give Illario what he clearly wanted and get out the only way he could, by faking his death.

I have hopes he is going to be similar to Zevran except his motives for rejecting the Crows are going to be different and he is probably going to be much harder work when it comes to letting down his guard and allowing you to see who he really is.

If there is nothing dodgy about Bellara then I would agree. However, if she is going to turn out to be another Solas type surprise then I wouldn't wish that on anyone else but particularly Lucanis. I'd hate for him to lay bare his emotional side, only to have it stomped on.

I am very suspicious of Bellara! She could be working for Solas, but that also seems too obvious. I'm thinking that she, and possibly Strife are with the Executors. The triangle earrings, the strange esoteric vallaslin she has, and also I love that she has East Asian features, but wasn't it said by one of the developers way back when, in response to fans questions that there were no Asians in Thedas but that certainly didn't mean there weren't Asians on other continents. So where are the other continents? Across the sea...

But I am more worried about Lucanis being the traitor somehow. Since he is human that makes him less obvious than Bellara, which may be what the writers are going for.

Completely unrelated, but when will we get a nice high quality in game closeup of Lucanis? Besides the trailer still-shot, which isn't quite accurate to what the companions actually look like from my understanding, we don't have anything. He is conspicuously absent from the closeups featuring the custom Rooks. All other companions are there except him- I blame the 2 companion limit for that, haha, so someone had to be left out. Poor Lucanis. 😞 And then again in other promo images he is small/in the background while the other companions are front and center.