Who Is The Best Divine? Discuss Your Choice for Inquisition

I wanted the Chantry to end and didn't support any of the candidates. Ultimately Leliana was chosen as the Divine and I think it was the second best option to getting rid of the Chantry entirely.

"Her response is as swift as it is deadly, unity is maintained, but blood runs through the halls of the Grand Cathedral."

Very interesting to see if she succeeds better in her reforms than her predecessor.

That's wonderfully evil.

I have a Cassndra-end, but I prefer Leliana. Vivienne? Never-ever. The Circle-system is wrong. (I don't have pro-templar character in the whole series.)

Me too.
i don't see Cassandra having interest in politics or diplomacy. She is capable, of course, but I think she is more comfortable with a sword in her hands.

If  I can intervene, it's for that reason I see Cassandra as Divine, in the same way Shepard do with Anderson.

 Vivienne, for me. I felt like having her break this glass-ceiling for mages was a more meaningful reform than freeing them willy-nilly.


As well, I was generally supportive of the Circle, and on really good terms with Madame Fer.

Vivienne might favor the Circle and Templar Order, old way of things, but through her more mages gain power and a foothold in the Chantry hierarchy. That's why Vivienne as the Divine is one of the most interesting options for me. In the long run her rule might make the mages more powerful and Orleasian Chantry might become similar to the Imperial Chantry. Like Dorian said: "templars, proper circles, all that rot. Then it changed. By inches." It's a delicate balance of power and Vivienne as the first mage Divine might be just what is needed for that change to happen (or might just as well be that she will be remembered as the only mage to ever become the Divine in the South... only time will tell).

Hardened Leliana. I remember somebody calling her "the murder-pope" somewhere on youtube or the original BSN. That's what sold her to me.
Besides, it's impossible to me to get Vivienne as Divine (hell, I like her and I'm always on her good side, but my decisions usually lower her chances to become Divine) and I see Cassandra more like the head of the new Seeker order than anything else.

I like some aspects of each divine, but my Lavellans tend to support Leliana because she's the only one who even addresses their people's situation being affected by the Chantry. Especially after listening to Cassandra after the Temple of Mythal.
I like Cassandra's approach about the mages and templar situation, it's the most reasonable in giving mages the choices they need while maintaining a place to teach them control while Templars can still be around as backup.
Vivienne is good for returning things to the way they were but with more oversight. She maintains the order brutally but ensures that mages who cooperate with the system now can finally have a say. I'm actually curious to see where she takes the Chantry with her position.

I don't really like any of them as Divine, really

Cassandra's aversion to politics is a problem for what is a political role.
Vivienne's got the skill set but perhaps not the integrity, and I disagree with her on mage/templar stuff
Stabbity Leliana is too Stabbity
Hippy Leliana still might turn Stabbity

Since I would like to see the Chantry reduced in influence and even break apart, clearly Leliana would be the best option since her reforms are so radical. The idea that she simply talks nicely to everyone and they go along with it seemed ridiculous to me. The bit at the end of Trespasser when she is being subjected to assassination attempts seems more true to the setting. The problem with her is that she was all for total mage freedom without acknowledging that you do need some sort of formal training for the sake of the mages as well as the rest of the population. Leaving it up to the competing factions of Vivienne's Circle and the College of Enchanters seemed a recipe for disaster. Even Tevinter has Circles run by the State but they are open institutions; no one is forced to attend, in fact it is considered a privilege.

I couldn't take Vivienne being made Divine seriously. The suggestion that after some 800 years of mage oppression and not allowing them positions of power, they would give it to Vivienne just because she is good at playing the Game is nonsensical. It goes against everything the Chantry have taught about magic. As Dorian says, it is like Tevinter without the blood magic. Still I think Vivienne was a rather intriguing option. I never voted for her myself but I still ended up with her on occasion through the choices I made.

Cassandra is the Divine that would cause least trouble on the face of it and thus allow the Chantry to continue on much as before. I tend to vote for Cassandra if I have a hardened Leliana because I can't stomach having such a ruthless Divine even if she does support the elves. On those runs it would seem that my vote is what makes the difference between getting Cassandra or getting Leliana. Strangely enough, though, by the end of Trespasser, Cassandra outcomes seem the least favourable, particularly if you sided with the mages.

My favourite world state is Templars disbanded (so no Fiona causing trouble and no lyrium addicts controlling mages), Briala controlling Orlais, Wardens conscripted into Inquisition, Leliana (softened) as Divine and a friendly Vivienne with her loyal but also independent Circle. Then in Trespasser I disband the Inquisition because Leliana advised me to do so and there was no way I was going to let history repeat itself with my elven Inquisitor putting his organisation in the hands of the Chantry.    The outcome in the epilogue for this seems quite favourable, although I think the reality would be different if keeping true to the setting.   I'm pretty sure Briala would be assassinated or have to abdicate and leave Orlais  but that would happen no matter what I had done, since the Inquisition is no longer the power that it was even if you are serving the Divine.    If I couldn't keep the Inquisition as a world power because of the nobles moving against me, then my influence over the court of Orlais would no longer be enough to prevent this.