The Bard from Orlais - A Leliana Appreciation thread
#6051
Posté 09 octobre 2010 - 05:18
#6052
Posté 09 octobre 2010 - 05:20
#6053
Posté 09 octobre 2010 - 05:21
Zjarcal wrote...
wickedgoodreed wrote...
@Zjarcal - Don't be so hard on your story! I really liked it! It had humor, drama
, and most importantly foxy french maid Leli
. What's not to like? (well...aside from Marjolaine of course
)
Thanks for being nice but I really hate it. I can't believe I only thought of doing a photomanip of the costume party until after I submitted the damn thing. I'll probably do it anyway just for kicks (and watching Dana in a Pirate costume!). From this point forward I'll stick to pictures, no more writing from me, it's not my thing.
Oh and I read your story! Loved it! You're good with words and I loved how you incorporated the "I love you and I would follow you to the ends of the world" line, which is my favorite line from the PC to Leli.
I love that line and how she says "How dramatic" that probably the most romantic convo from Lel
#6054
Posté 09 octobre 2010 - 05:48
Zeleen wrote...
Z.. if you are not happy you still have till Sunday to submit your final version.. but I agree, you are being too hard on yourself
Yeah but I was thinking of doing a photomanip instead of a story so that's kind of a totally different entry and that wouldn't be fair on the rest.
#6055
Posté 09 octobre 2010 - 05:57
I disagree, the prompt contest is for various types of media.... I actually intend to do art for my next entry!Zjarcal wrote...
Zeleen wrote...
Z.. if you are not happy you still have till Sunday to submit your final version.. but I agree, you are being too hard on yourself
Yeah but I was thinking of doing a photomanip instead of a story so that's kind of a totally different entry and that wouldn't be fair on the rest.
I wrote the story for the last one because of the time restraint
Modifié par Zeleen, 09 octobre 2010 - 05:58 .
#6056
Posté 09 octobre 2010 - 06:10
#6057
Posté 09 octobre 2010 - 06:24
I agree with Zeleen. Do what makes you happy Zjarcal! It's all supposed to be informal and for fun, anyway.Zeleen wrote...
I disagree, the prompt contest is for various types of media.... I actually intend to do art for my next entry!Zjarcal wrote...
Zeleen wrote...
Z.. if you are not happy you still have till Sunday to submit your final version.. but I agree, you are being too hard on yourself
Yeah but I was thinking of doing a photomanip instead of a story so that's kind of a totally different entry and that wouldn't be fair on the rest.
I wrote the story for the last one because of the time restraint
And, for what it's worth, I wasn't just being nice. I meant what I said; I really like your story.
Modifié par wickedgoodreed, 09 octobre 2010 - 06:24 .
#6058
Posté 09 octobre 2010 - 09:33
Speechless
Leliana groaned and reached across the bed for her Grey Warden. When met with nothing the bard sat up in the bed and stared across the room at the dirty blonde Elven Mage who was perched against a candle lit desk with her nose in a book.
“Oh you’re up already; it’s still dark? What are you reading?” she asked playfully.
The elf glanced and at her and duly noted, “It’s Beyond the Veil: Spirits and Demons, by Enchanter Mirdromel. I had a dream and I had to check something….”
“Did something happen while you were in the fade?” the bard fearfully questioned.
“No… I was just… strangely close to the black city.” The elf did not look back at her. Leliana could sense that Autumn was not telling her everything. She stared at the elf for a while, watching her place her hair behind a sharp ear, and lick her soft plush lips. Feeling a chill the bard huddled back under the bronze covers.
“Why don’t you look it up in the morning and come back to bed with me?” she cooed. The elf smiled and gave her a saucy, “No.”
“But I’m cold….”
The elf sighed, blew out the candle at her desk, and closed the book. Leliana smiled with a joyful glee and pulled the elf under the sheets. “Mmph I want you,” Leliana giggled into the elf’s nape.
“I don’t appreciate it when you lie Leliana.” The elf mocked with roaming hands.
“Whatever do you mean?”
“How can you possibly be cold when you’re so hot and bothered?” The elf whispered in her flushed ear, nipping at it gently, “I think I need to cool you off.” Leliana felt an ice cold finger at her navel travel downward while the mage tried not to break into a fit of laughter.
“Oooooh no! Stooooop it Autumn that’s cold!”
***
Much to Leliana’s disappointment, she woke up to an empty bed. Autumn left a note saying she was making a quick trip to the bookstore, and would be back shortly, to bestow her “with kisses and mouthfuls of caramel pudding.”
Leliana got out of bed, looked down at her thighs and told herself she should pass on the caramel pudding. While adorning a periwinkle robe and slippers, she yawned, and glanced over at Autumn’s desk. This was her chance, and normally she would not invade the Warden’s personal space, but she could tell that the elf was hiding something, and her natural bard instincts were telling her to find out what it was.
With a guilty pleasure Leliana opened Beyond the Veil. The section on the black city was covered in the chicken scratch Autumn called handwriting. Leliana groaned with frustration, “I swear she writes this way so I can’t read her things!” Giving up she threw the book back on the desk, to see an envelope slip out of it.
“Oh hello…” Leliana picked up the letter indulged in curiosity, but quickly frowned at its contents.
“To the Hero of Ferelden- Autumn Surana,
As you know Weisshaupt commends you on being the leading cause against the blight. Truly you are an inspiration to all of us Grey Warden’s in the Anderfels. The fact that only 2 Grey Wardens defeated an Archdemon and lived… is not only legendary but also impossible…
To put it frankly we now know that you dealt the killing blow and lived. We believe you might have dabbled in some dark magic and we wish to invite you to the fortress to discuss these… matters.
I suggest you do not make us wait long.
-The First Warden”
Leliana sank into the desk chair and stared blankly into the letter. None of it made sense to her. It was impossible for them to live? Autumn engaged in Dark magic? The first warden was giving them indirect threats to visit the fortress? Leliana ran her fingers though her hair and sighed feeling the blood rush to above her brow, “The blight has been over for 5 years. This has to be lies, how can Autumn have kept something like this from me for 5 years?”
The bedroom door creaked open and the mage came in with a smile in her face and stack of books in her arms. Leliana however was not as ecstatic. “What is this?” the red head grimly asked while holding up the letter. Autumn frowned.
“It does not matter what it is, my place is no longer with the Wardens; it is with you,” The elf said placing her new books on her desk. Leliana gave a scowl at the elf’s politician answer; her persuasion was not going to get through to her this time.
“What do you mean, if you do not go… they threaten?”
“Its empty threats,” the elf barked.
“Then what they say is true! If you had nothing to fear you would just go!” Leliana held back tears, while her chest heaved as if it was going to collapse. Autumn said nothing and only frowned and looked away from Leliana, her 3 pigtails slightly swished.
“What and why have you kept secret for so long!” Leliana grabbed the mage’s hand, and interlocked her finger’s with the Warden’s . She got no response, other than a distant stare at the wall. They both were still, and the room would be completely silent if it were not for the bard’s soft babble. Leliana felt the elf hand tense and grasp harder on her own’s.
“You… wouldn’t even believe me if I told you…”
On the verge of tears Leliana sobbed out, “Try me.”
The warden let out a deep breath, “On the night before we fought the Archdemon Morrigan and I convinced Alistair to have sex with Morrigan to conceive a child that would contain the soul of the Archdemon so both Alistair and I could live.”
Leliana blinked and let out a giggle, “That’s funny love, but please do not joke with me.”
“I am not jesting! There’s a reason only Grey Wardens can kill the Archdemon, It’s the taint within us. When the Archdemon is slain its soul leaves its body and looks for the closest tainted host. The taint within our blood tricks the Archdemon, and since we are only mortal when the soul enters our body… we die. Riordan told us this that night, although he was the one who was going to try to kill the Archdemon, we knew, that there would be that chance.” The elf hung her head.
Leliana eyes widened, “What Morrigan did with Alistair… can’t be true.”
“Morrigan gave us that opportunity to live, if Riordan had failed I would have to have taken the killing blow, Alistair could not, he had to be king. I refused to die that night. Leliana it’s the past, I did it so I could be with you, but all I did was convince Alistair. I do not know what kind of magic Morrigan used in her ritual.”
“Morrigan has the child of Alistair with the soul of the Archdemon?” Leliana was still in disbelief.
“Morrigan is gone; she put the child away… hidden. I know nothing… I’m sorry, I didn’t see a point in
telling you, in making you worry, Leliana, but I might have made a mistake, something is going to happen in Thedas I can feel it…” the elf bit her bottom lip.
Leliana stared at the elf… and saw a face she knew too well; a face that was hiding fear, the face she saw the night before they faced the Archdemon. She could not prod her with more questions, neither of them had the energy for the answer. The elf looked back at Leliana, now holding back tears, “I’m sorry Leliana, and I’m not going to Weisshaupt. My time is to be spent with you, not the Wardens. If they come after me, then so be it, I’ll run to the ends of the world if it’s the only way I can be alone with you.”
Leliana smiled, “And I will run with you, to whatever end.”
“You are not mad at me? I’m a coward…” The elf looked down at the floor and then at Leliana’s smile.
“You, my love, lit my path through darkness and I must help you now with yours.” Leliana hugged the elf, confused but overjoyed that all she wanted was her, then with a light force cupped the Warden’s face in her hands. “Don’t ever keep secrets from me again!” she said, “Especially one as scandalous as Alistair and Morrigan sharing a bed! I still can’t believe it.”
“Well I’m living proof it happened,” the blonde joked.
Modifié par Lenimph, 10 octobre 2010 - 05:03 .
#6059
Posté 09 octobre 2010 - 11:01
IF the Wardens did that to my human noble who is chancellor he would just send a note that read:
NO.
I do wonder if she would have issues with the DR though, she does not like Morrigan that much, and I dont see her agreeing with it that easily. Just my opinion though.
#6060
Posté 09 octobre 2010 - 11:38
Giggles_Manically wrote...
Nice story above!
IF the Wardens did that to my human noble who is chancellor he would just send a note that read:
NO.
I do wonder if she would have issues with the DR though, she does not like Morrigan that much, and I dont see her agreeing with it that easily. Just my opinion though.
I don't think they would threaten a human noble, like they would an mage elf. That was something I thought about last night. Assuming they would.
I don't think Leliana would agree with it easily either, but would she rather lose her love completely if it meant Morrigan got her way?
I've always imagined that my wardens that romanced Leliana told her about the Dark Ritual right when Morrigan and Alistair are getting busy, considering I usually befriend Morrigan and I trust her.
This was just more like... a what if.
Modifié par Lenimph, 09 octobre 2010 - 11:39 .
#6061
Posté 09 octobre 2010 - 11:44
A Hardened Alistair is ruling solo and my City Elf is going US.
RP wise he booted Morrigan from the party after he lovely comment on feeding his family to a blood ritual, and generally not getting along with her over many things.
Leliana is hardened though, but his is going to be a sad ending for Cyrus.
<-- My avatar.
#6062
Posté 09 octobre 2010 - 11:52
#6063
Posté 10 octobre 2010 - 12:04
Yah there are two songs that fit for that ending really:Lenimph wrote...
Well at least she's hardened... I'm so glad I didn't do the ultimate sacrifice my first play through... I'f i had with my unhardened Leli I probably would have cried for a few hours...
300 Official Soundtrack- Message for the Queen.
and
Into the West- Annie Lennox
The first time my game ended with an US, I felt proud, sad, angry, empty, and happy at the same time.
It didnt make me cry but I did feel a huge attachment, and emotional drain.
Which is why I love Bioware games, outside of the end of Morrowind no other game has even come close to making me feel anything like that.
Modifié par Giggles_Manically, 10 octobre 2010 - 12:04 .
#6064
Posté 10 octobre 2010 - 03:56
Zeleen wrote...
I disagree, the prompt contest is for various types of media.... I actually intend to do art for my next entry!Zjarcal wrote...
Zeleen wrote...
Z.. if you are not happy you still have till Sunday to submit your final version.. but I agree, you are being too hard on yourself
Yeah but I was thinking of doing a photomanip instead of a story so that's kind of a totally different entry and that wouldn't be fair on the rest.
I wrote the story for the last one because of the time restraint
Actually that's not what I meant. I know we can do any kind of media for the prompt (I'll definitely stick to pictures from now on, no more writing from me). What I meant is that it's not fair to the other entries if I redo mine.
@wicked:
You're too nice for words, thank you!
@Lenimph:
I took a break from the Pirate Leli photomanip (I'm having trouble finding a proper Leli shot for this one) to read your story... LOVE IT! See, that's how you write a story.
And by the way, the First Warden can talk to the hand. I do think that would be more or less the reaction the Wardens would have at the DR. Bunch of idiots.
About Leli and the DR, I do think she would reluctantly agree to it. She wouldn't want to lose her love just like that. Granted, she wouldn't be happy at the way it was done and would very likely spend the foreseeable future thinking of the consequences.
Actually, I think Alistair's attitude towards the ritual would be very similar, if not identical, to Leli's. When love is involved, you change your mind about things.
Modifié par Zjarcal, 10 octobre 2010 - 03:59 .
#6065
Posté 10 octobre 2010 - 04:02
Giggles_Manically wrote...
The first time my game ended with an US, I felt proud, sad, angry, empty, and happy at the same time.
It didnt make me cry but I did feel a huge attachment, and emotional drain.
Which is why I love Bioware games, outside of the end of Morrowind no other game has even come close to making me feel anything like that.
Would you care to spoil the end of Morrowind for me? I own the game but I've never been able to play it for more than 10 minutes without it crashing so I gave up on it a long time ago.
#6066
Posté 10 octobre 2010 - 04:09
@Lenimph:
Modifié par Zeleen, 10 octobre 2010 - 04:16 .
#6067
Posté 10 octobre 2010 - 04:09
Phedra wrote...
How high does Leilana's approval have to be before you can question her about being a spy?
Do you mean the one where she reveals she was a bard or the one later on where you can question her about the way she did her spying?
The first one you get at anything above "warm". For the second one I think she has to be at "adore".
@Zeleen:
Can you remove mine from the entries please? I deleted the post (I just don't like it) and I won't do anything else for this week. I will be entering next week's prompt though.
Modifié par Zjarcal, 10 octobre 2010 - 04:12 .
#6068
Posté 10 octobre 2010 - 04:17
#6069
Posté 10 octobre 2010 - 04:22
#6070
Posté 10 octobre 2010 - 04:51
Anyway thanks for the compliments everyone...On a side note... I was going to have it end completely differently. I only wish I've played Witch Hunt all the way through so I could have incorporated that better but noooooooooo.... I am still left patch-less.
Also Zeleen I would also like to change the title of my prompt entry from The Dark Secret to Speechless. I have this thing where I name all my Dragon Age fanfics after songs from a specific artist and I kinda forgot about it earlier, oopsie! (Also the dark secret sounds so effing cliche')
Modifié par Lenimph, 10 octobre 2010 - 04:56 .
#6071
Posté 10 octobre 2010 - 04:58
By the way, how long do you think you'll be able to keep yourself spoiler free?
Modifié par Zjarcal, 10 octobre 2010 - 04:58 .
#6072
Posté 10 octobre 2010 - 05:07
Some PS3 users in Europe have gotten the update... So... I don't think I should have to wait much longer...
Modifié par Lenimph, 10 octobre 2010 - 05:08 .
#6073
Posté 10 octobre 2010 - 09:17
...
I'm troubled.
Ah well, I'll just PM the story to Zeleen...
@Giggles:
The first time I played DAO, I did the DR. I mean, why die when you can live? Life's more worth than pride and duty is.
I also did the US, to see the ending. I felt drained. And I got very attached to my Warden throughout the story, so yeah... Though the Epilogue didn't convince me of Leliana committing suicide.
Modifié par Whacka, 10 octobre 2010 - 10:11 .
#6074
Posté 10 octobre 2010 - 09:22
#6075
Posté 10 octobre 2010 - 04:48
Modifié par Lenimph, 10 octobre 2010 - 04:48 .





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