Lucanis Dellamorte - Official Companion Thread [Spoilers]

Lucanis has the saddest looking room in the Lighthouse At least he won't go hungry

It's okay, he's not Viago with a penchant for poison. If it makes the others uncomfortable though, may be they will realise they shouldn't have bagged all the best rooms.

It's really not okay. 
We're all here thinking who's the betrayer and we got poison guy ( and possibly posessed poison guy!?) squatting next to our meals.
And possibly cooking those?
How stupid can you be.

Same level as Solas and his crappy scaffolding.

The usual Bioware idiot ball stupid. Perhaps that's why Bellara is doing the cooking too. She isn't being nice, she's just being careful!

I tell you what, it puts a whole new perspective on that scene with what is probably Zara in the trailer.

Absolutely! It's gonna be good!

Lol, who's thinking who's the betrayer? Certainly not in-story companions - it's just us, the paranoid audience members In story, they likely trust one another enough to not be too perturbed about a guy using poisons occupying the pantry.

I agree with you that people are jumping to conclusions based on one ambiguous statement by John Epler. To be honest, when you've pissed off a group of powerful blood mages you would expect them to retaliate in unpleasant ways. The reason blood magic is so feared and outlawed across Thedas (even in Tevinter officially) is because of what they can do with their spells, from inflicting excruciating pain on their enemies from a distance to controlling their minds. It is why Seekers bond with a faith spirit, so it can protect them from this (and possession). If anything Lucanis would be better off if he does have a cohabiting spirit as it would protect him against their attacks. Justice couldn't protect Anders from Corypheus because of the taint in his blood.

I keep repeating this, but Lucanis had extraordinary abilities before the Wigmaker Job. He could hear what was going on in the bar below their room and distinguish what each person was doing, even down to a man having a card up his sleeve to cheat in a game because Lucanis could hear the fabric moving over it. That is not normal. No amount of training could have given him that sort of hearing. Then he could discern the Venatori creeping up the stairs over Illario's conversation but his cousin couldn't. Yet both were trained in the same way. Later he could detect magical vibes and this seemed more than a sense that something didn't feel right that a normal person might feel. All these details would suggest that perhaps he already had a spirit guardian of some sort working with him.

What we still don't know is why Illario reported him as dead and, perhaps more importantly, said "It should have been me." If he was telling the truth and was actually referring to Lucanis' death (not the fact that Caterina favoured Lucanis as her successor), that suggests he was the actual subject of the attack. Unfortunately, we had no time scale for this story in relation to those in Tevinter Nights. So we don't even know where this "death" occurred. Was it in Tevinter or Antiva? Had members of House Kortez fled to the protection of the Venatori because Caterina had ordered Lucanis to wipe them out? Did Zara use that as her opportunity to revenge herself on Lucanis? Had she heard that he seemed to show affection for his cousin and so she used this to entrap him?

The fact is, whatever John Epler said, Lucanis is still alive and yet, so far as we know, the Crows believe he is dead. They certainly acted as though they did. Viago and Teia had been in Vyrantium shortly before the start of DAV. Why haven't they heard of the Demon of Vyrantium? Or did Caterina send them there to find out about him because she suspected it might be her favoured grandson?  There had to be some good reason to have two of the surviving talons in Tevinter when their own country was under attack and they should have been there leading the defence.

It will be interesting to see how he is incorporated into the latest podcast story and whether that throws any light onto the conundrum.

I can see the picture. Very funny and a little smile from Lucanis. Very heart warming.

I put Lucanis in the bag of Companions with special something to them:
Shale, Fenris and Cole.

Hm, okay. The hints have been heavy from the get-go, all the arrows pointing in the same direction. "Wigmaker's..." end with Zara stating "So he fancies the name demon... let's make sure he lives up to it". They've all but spelled out:

The real fact of John Epler's statement was:

Where's the ambiguity? We don't know the full scope of it, we may not know all the details - but these are things that have factually taken place. It almost sounds like you're resisting the idea, for reasons of your own (with all due). What exactly isn't mathing to you? He's not a Seeker, very unlikely it's a Spirit of Faith - he's possessed, and yes, it's a freakin' demon! 🤷‍♀️

I do agree, however, that Lucanis had displayed signs of the supernatural before, by way of his eye twitch/ Fade spider-sense. But that we know for sure, that's it, as far as extraordinary abilities go. All the stuff you described, there's nothing extraordinary about it other than his intense training as a master assassin. He's just very aware of his surroundings, with sharpened senses, to hear every noise, smell, see every movement, feel even like the slightest shift of the wind... so he can be as good as he is at what he does. That's it.