Zeleen wrote...
jsr24 wrote...
Sarah1281 wrote...
I usually leave her how she is because of the dialogue options I start feeling bad crushing her faith and what not, but then again she really has different ideas than what the Chantry teaches.
Leliana's faith isn't crushed. All hardening her does is make her more willing to embrace her enjoyment of certain aspects of the bardic lifestyle she continues to utilize such as the thrill of the hunt. You're basically just telling her to stop pretending to be someone she's not and she is still a very devout (and not happy about defiling the ashes) woman.
IIRC she is like am I alone what if my vision is meaningless or something like that I could be remembering wrong it has been a while since I have done the hardening dialogue, and I overstated with the phrase crushing her faith, but still she believed strongly in her vision,, and letting her believe it is meaningless or not important I think damages her faith.
My experience in hardening her has always been that she sees the world as having beauty and great darkness.. and if you always hide from the darkness you may never see beauty but only fear. And she is willing to face and fight the darkness and bring light in its place.
something like that..
Hardening Leliana...
Leliana: W-what if she's right. What if we're the same? I...I should juts have stayed in the Chantry.
PC: She would have attacked you there eventually.
Leliana: Maybe, but that is not the point. I was a different person there.I forgot my life as a bard while i was in the cloister. I felt safe. I didn't have to watch my back all the time. That's what made Marjolaine the person she is, don't you see? It ruined her; it will ruin me too. It's already happened. When we killed her I...I enjoyed it. Seeing her dead gave me satisfaction.
PC: So? She deserved it.
Leliana: But that is no reason to rejoice over her death. That is what she would do. I don't want that. What we're doing...what we've done--hunted men down, killed them--part of me loves it. It invigorates me and this scares me. I...I feel myself slipping.
PC: Don't punish yourself for doing something you enjoy.
Leliana: I admit that I took great pleasure in the intrigue back in Orlais. It was dangerous and chaotic...and exciting, but it destroyed my life. I thought the Chantry showed me another path. I thought I aws done with this life...am I wrong?
PC: All you were doing in the Chantry was running away.
Leliana: Here, with you...knowing the freedom of the road and uncertainty of tomorrow...I feel alive again.
PC: Then stop running scared from it.
Leliana: I would like to be alone, for now. I have many things to consider. Thank you, for listening to me.
See? You don't have to shake her faith at all. What you did, I think, was reply to her 'I...I should just have stayed in the Chantry' with 'But you said the Maker wanted you to leave' which leads to:
Leliana: I could have been wrong about the Maker! I...I know you doubt me sometimes. Maybe...you're right! Maybe...maybe I just tell myself He's there to console myself. To know there's someone watching out or me, to know I'm not alone.
PC: Don't lose your faith now.
Leliana: Maybe I never found faith, I just pretended to because...because I knew the Chantry would hide me.
That takes you to the line 'I forgot my life as a bard while I was in the cloister. I felt safe. I didn't have to watch my back all the time' which is before you have the dialogue option to harden her or not so you can get her to admit she doubts her faith and leave her unhardened and really, you say nothing at this point to try and make her doubt herself. Since no one believes her and it's such herecy she doubts her vision already.