Lucanis - Official Companion Thread

I'm sorry but the tarot card makes it very obvious there is something odd about Lucanis. Why is purple fire streaming from his eye? We already know from the trailer he can sport purple wings. I've been wanting to romance Lucanis since Tevinter Nights but this really has me worried. The last guy I really wanted to romance before the game and then had glowing eyes within it was Anders. I wonder what sort of spirit could be co-existing in Lucanis?

Other than that, I think he could be really interesting and I agree if Mary Kirby wrote him then that is a good sign. Her last hurrah for Bioware before they ditched her. I will probably stick with Lucanis come what may just to honour her contribution. I look forward to discovering who his VA is and hearing his voice. I'm guessing he is going to have a Spanish accent.

Oh Bo***cks! Not your theory but the fact you are probably right. Here I go again. He isn't even an elf. There is a nice elf all set up for me who even has a fluffy griffon. There is absolutely no reason to go for the dark, brooding, bad boy and yet I'm like a moth to a flame. What the hell. I think I'll use my tragic star crossed Lavellan as my Inquisitor for my first run and go for the full Shakespearean tragedy. Forewarned is forearmed. Solas hit me hard because he seemed like such a good guy in all his conversations, saying all the things I wished I could to other people and seeming so reasonable with me. From that PoV, with Lucanis I know in advance he is dodgy so if it ends in anything other than tears I will be pleasantly surprised.

Also, nothing is set in stone. As I say, I thought I would be romancing Anders in DA2 but first run before the end of Act 2 I had decided against it and stuck with Fenris. Clearly my instincts were right there. So, I'll see how it goes. I definitely won't be rushing into anything. Apparently we can really build friendships this time round, so I can always opt for that instead if I'm starting to have doubts. To be honest, my male Lavellan felt Solas' betrayal even more than female Lavellan because he looked on him as a friend and then felt completely betrayed. She hopes to save Solas from himself; he vowed to stop him at all costs. I was going to use him on my first run but now I think female Lavellan will be more interesting. She was also a Knight Enchanter mage, whereas he was a hunter/assassin.

Do love RP variation like this and how plans can change. Isabella was going to be my romance in 2 but then I did NOT like her so went with Anders because him and my Hawke just clicked. And then Citadel DLC my paragrade Shepard went to go save the clone...because she was put in that exact same position...but my true blue Paragon kicked him off the side of the Normandy since he had no way of being sympathetic to that position given how morally righteous he was. 

Yeah other than DAO (where I didn’t know anything about the game before playing) I have always ended ip romancing the person I was sure I would dislike the most.

Fenris seemed too emo and I thought I knew Anders from DAA. Ended up disliking new Anders and Loving Fenris.

The one picture I had seen of Solas made him look too Nosferatu vampire-esque and I assumed Cullen would be my pick. While I didn’t dislike Cullen, he just ended up more boring, while Solas was more scholarly and intriguing.

I am thinking Lucanis is in the top of romance options, but it does have a tendency to change once I actually get to know the companions. There’s also the fact that I might play as a rogue. With only 2 companion slots, it’s all the more important to have a balanced party and I do have a tendency to have any LI as a permanent party member.

Same here. I figured based on the Tevinter Nights that his personal stuff will be about the responsibility to the Crows and family, maybe some angst when the Venatori inevitably use his goodness against him. But that tarot card makes me nervous. I hope it's just a stylistic choice and he ends up being normal.

Oh no. This line of thinking makes a little too much sense to me. Maybe he didn't fake his own death. Maybe he died and his body is being possessed by a spirit that thinks it's him. We always seem to have one spirit-touched companion, don't we

This is true but it varies as to their nature. In DAO Wynne was sort of a co-operative possession by a faith spirit, which she willingly relinquished when it could save the life of another. DAA: Justice possessed a corpse and was sort of able to recover some of Kristoff's memories but eventually relinquished it for a living host in Anders. According to Anders' short story he actually died too when attacked by the Templars but Justice revived him (at least that is how I understood it) but after DA2 DG said it would have been possible to relinquish him, which suggests Anders didn't die then. Also, after we stab Anders you can still see something moving behind his eyes, which suggests that Justice could have continued on with his body even if Anders had departed it. Then, of course, Cole was pure spirit having copied the body of the boy and absorbed his memories whilst waiting for him to starve to death. He couldn't have taken his body because the Templars found and hid it to conceal their neglect.

I'm still holding out/hoping for a genuine Spirit Warrior, and he still faked his death rather than a spirit possessed his corpse but at the very least it is a relationship like the one Wynne enjoyed, even if the spirit isn't as benign as hers was. In the story in Tevinter Nights the spirits seem to obey him when he tells them they have had their vengeance so they should now leave, which suggests he may have already been linked with a spirit even then and that it is a powerful one.

Just had a wild thought. What if it is Justice from DAA and DA2? That might account for why Lucanis was so intent on giving the slaves justice in the Wigmaker Job. Ilario didn't approve because that's not how Crows do jobs and how Lucanis was trained, yet he insisted. That would be amazing if Justice was back as his old self helping Lucanis.

Caitie Ghil Dirthalen mentioned in an episode of Split the Veil, iirc, that she would describe Lucanis as "2% Mage". Maybe Lucanis having those glowing eyes are just one oddity that has happened in the "real world" since Solas started his ritual. The other one could be Harding having magic, perhaps?

I'd go with this explanation except there was something different about him in Tevinter Nights and that was before Solas really got his ritual going. Now Harding is a different matter because she didn't have any magical abilities in the Missing, so either it is a hangover from her visiting Arlathan Forest then or possibly they will occur because of the latest episode when the Veil was weakening. The other problem is that I don't think Harding has weird eyes on her tarot card.

Of course, there could be a simple explanation and that is special magical items Lucanis has acquired over the years. I mentioned how his cloak actually had a purple wings symbol on the back so that could be the source of his wings. Perhaps he also has rings or an amulet that gives him other powers. Normally though these are external things like making you faster or allowing your to buff up your weapons with elemental magic. I can't recall any magical item that makes your eyes glow, so it has to be some inherent magic manifesting if there isn't a spirit responsible. Oh well, it is just an intriguing mystery we shall have to get to the bottom of as we get to know him.

I feel like I need to brush up on my Lucanis lore but Bob smack it, I don't know where my copy of Tevinter Nights has gone!