Lucanis Dellamorte - Official Companion Thread

As a ardently-into-males dumpster fire and socially awkward entity myself, I feel this is Mary describing Lucanis as a private person, while it doesn't have to affect his professional persona. 

Also, Mary wrote the 'The Wake' and Lucanis for the game, while 'The Wigmaker Job' was written by Courtney Woods so there's that. 

I'm hoping that they might have gone with my idea of a Dark Seeker. I've always argued that I couldn't see why a faith spirit (or any other for that matter) wouldn't form a bond with someone who had a similar outlook to their own, not just someone who believed in the Maker. Lucanis is a Master Assassin who has been totally conditioned into his role by his grandmother so it has almost become his 'faith': "Death is my Calling". Thus he is not a mage but a non-mage with a spirit protector (this used to be called a Spirit Warrior). Seekers cannot be possessed (by any other spirit/demon) or controlled with blood magic mind control (very useful if your primary quarry are fanatical blood mages). So, he has the attributes of a Seeker but with a darker edge to his "faith". That would be really helpful, particularly considering we are going up against powerful ancient mages.

However, we know from Anders that the mage partner can get a bit touchy if you are proving too much of a distraction. Anders used to like to having a laugh, drink and generally enjoying himself. Then Justice came on board and it all changed. Justice did not approve of his relationship with Hawke but Anders ignored him.

That's how I interpret it. We have only seen him casually interact with Illario, any other interactions were as part of the job. Given his upbringing, I can't imagine him having any close relationships with people otehr than Illario. So he may be bit awkward when it comes to more intimate (I include platonic into that) relationships and emotions.

Excellent points. 
His past and the abuse he's suffered, no doubt inform the man that he is today. Victims of abuse can often experience dissociation, go to a different place in their minds, kids might make up an imaginary friend... etc. In the world of DA, what does that mean for a person with an apparent connection to the Fade? Mages are taught from an early age to block out demons and spirits, Lucanis, however, might not have had that. Could that have been the start of whatever's going on with him..?

Anyways. Just looking at possibilities at this point, but there's definitely more to him than meets the eye. He's not just "the Assassin guy", the Ezio Auditore of the team, the heir to the Antivan Crows that wants nothing to do with it. Lucanis is a much more complex character, and with a touch of the supernatural (to what extent, I don't know).

No, I think it may have more to do with Solas and travels through Fade.

I'm not entirely sure what all the implications of magic shenanigans may mean - but then again, whether we stop Solas or not, we are heading into the world that is very likely increasingly magically unstable, so every minor issue could be a kindling for an esoteric personal crisis, really.

Also, based on what happened in TN Lucanis angered a powerful faction of Tevinter supremacists, who also happen to be blood-mages, and his story in TN ends with a pretty overt threat from a Vint magister.

I have a feeling we're going to meet Zara Renata in game.

Indeed. Most socially awkward people can put on a fasçade long enough to get through de rigeur and formal interactions. It's the more personal interactions that they stumble through. Or the ones that come up unexpectedly.

I just remembered something else from Eight Little Talons: Viago referred to him as Caterina's demon of a grandson too. He said that Catarina would likely recall him from Tevinter to kill off all members of the traitor talon's House and both he and Teia shivered at the thought. That is quite some reputation if it even fills two high ranking Talons with fear. Considering he was Catarina's favourite it makes you wonder if that was her aim, to create the perfect killer, when she beat and starved him into absorbing his lessons completely.

I need to hear his VA so badly.

atm I sorta picture him going "Hey, do you want me to kill this person for you" instead of giving you flowers. Like, there's a chip missing...

Bouncing off some the comments above, yeah, I know plenty of people that are confident, assertive, extremely good at what they do, the final bosses in the game of life... but when it comes to matters of the heart (friendships, romantic relationships...) = a disaster.

Well, however he is, he does seem to have been devastated by Lucanis' death... or "death"? Seems their relationship was quite brotherly.

I still maintain that was a big act. If he was trying to impress his grandmother, I'd have thought he'd have done better to hold it together but if he actually had something to do with Lucanis' death (because it wasn't faked but intentional by him) then he was probably trying to cover himself. For all their apparent friendship there was definitely tension between them in Wigmaker Job over the matter of the successor to Caterina as First Talon. Also Lucanis was aware there was something rotten under the surface of the superficially charming Illario. It was clear he was jealous and resentful of the fact that his grandmother favoured Lucanis and whilst his cousin said he didn't want the role, the fact was he stood in his way so long as Caterina was making the decision. Lucanis admitted you don't say no to Caterina.   It was interesting that it says that Lucanis was always totally honest with Illario, which was rare among the Crows, but that Illario didn't appreciate it because he didn't want to hear the truth but what fed his desires.

So, best case scenario is that Illario helped Lucanis fake his death to smooth his passage to the top and free his cousin from his obligations. Alternatively, Illario did the dirty on him and Lucanis will be seeking revenge. Let's face it, last time we saw them in Wigmaker Job they were about to embark on a ship headed back to Antiva.   So unless it was attacked by the Qunari navy or there was an enemy assassin already on board, how did Lucanis die?   Either way, I wonder if the next step for Illario would have been to kill his grandmother.