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[JJDrakken]

I've had her as a slave, paid servant, I just now set her free, anything else concerning her?

I thought someone said she could be a non companion L.I., though I don't think that's true, anyone know anything more about her?


JJ

[Aggie Punbot]

She brings in a lute that you can have Hawke comment on. If you're in a romance with Anders, you learn about his...lack of lute-playing skills.

[BigEvil]

There's a similar comment about Merrill if you romance her. Aparently she should stick to the magic.

[stormrain]

Those comments made me

I found Orana to be very sweet. I wish there had been more interaction with her between Hawke and companions.

[Emperor Iaius I]

She was a useful slave. She taught Merrill music. It was pleasing.

[Foolsfolly]

And according to Bodhan in Act 3 she never leaves the mansion.

She really would be dead if you let her free. There's no way she'd survive outside of Hawke's help or enslaving.

[Clonedzero]

Foolsfolly wrote...

And according to Bodhan in Act 3 she never leaves the mansion.

She really would be dead if you let her free. There's no way she'd survive outside of Hawke's help or enslaving.

lol i wonder what happens to her after Hawke bails on kirkwall at the end of the game

[rayvioletta]

I made her a servant, although in one playthrough I told Fenris she was my slave just to annoy him (I did actually pay her though, I just didn't tell him)
unfortunately she has very little to say and just vanishes after Act2 never to be seen or heard from again. I was hoping for at least some conversation between her and Sandal

[Icy Magebane]

She's a way to gain or lose approval with Fenris... but I really couldn't stand her voice while doing my current run, so I just told her to get lost. I'd at least try to be nice about it, but 10 gold is way too much to just give away...

[The Angry One]

rayvioletta wrote...

I made her a servant, although in one playthrough I told Fenris she was my slave just to annoy him (I did actually pay her though, I just didn't tell him)

Personally I love the way he curses in elven then spits if you go that way.

[Emperor Iaius I]

Pretty sure he curses you in Tevinter, seeing how he never speaks Elven in the rest of the game.

[danteliveson]

I told her to speak to Leandra and she sent her to the chantry.

[The Angry One]

Emperor Iaius I wrote...

Pretty sure he curses you in Tevinter, seeing how he never speaks Elven in the rest of the game.

He does a couple of times, don't remember where exactly but I'm sure he has some grasp of elven.
Besides Tevinter would sound Latiny.

[Lithuasil]

Emperor Iaius I wrote...

Pretty sure he curses you in Tevinter, seeing how he never speaks Elven in the rest of the game.

See, I always thought he speaks really bastardized latin

[Emperor Iaius I]

He says "visante kaffas." Doesn't seem elvish to me.

At any rate, though, Tevinter doesn't sound very Latiny at all. Trust me on that. Out of all the Tevinter phrases he's used in the game, I think there was a grand total of one Latinate word (victoria) and a few "Latiny" sounding words, such as "festis" or "canavarum."

However, it's useful to note that by this point in (real life) history, most languages had started to develop into the vernacular. Certainly, Tevinter sounds like a mix of pretend Italian and pretend Latin, which probably makes sense.

Of course, by this stage in Byzantine history (approx 12th century), the official state language was still Attic Greek. We can see educated Byzantines such as Her Imperial Highness, the Princess Anna Comnena writing in highly archaicizing Attic that wouldn't have been out of place in classical Athens. Of course, that sort of literary Attic was in a sense very artificial starting from the Hellenistic and Roman periods because they decided the prestige dialect of the great tragedians (as well as the philosophers) ought to be preserved, regardless of how common people spoke: by the Byzantine period, common koine Greek (as seen in the Bible) was even unintelligible by the average medieval Greek speaker.

So the Italio-Latinate Tevinter that Fenris uses is probably fitting for a slave or a commoner. It's possible that the magisters still use ancient Tevinter as a language of state. Of course, it's also possible that they don't, since the writers aren't bound by history.

Modifié par Emperor Iaius I, 27 mars 2011 - 11:23 .

[rayvioletta]

Fenris can speak Tevinter, Elvish and Qunari, as well as common or Fereldish or whatever they call english in Thedas, but I think his swearing is usually Tevinter

[Emperor Iaius I]

Sten calls it the "common tongue" in DA:O. I presume it's the human language everywhere except Tevinter.

[stormrain]

The "common tongue" came from the dwarves, apparently. Nice change of pace, as it's usually from the fallen Great Roman Expy in most fantasy.

Modifié par Captain Uccisore, 28 mars 2011 - 12:42 .

[Greed1914]

rayvioletta wrote...

I made her a servant, although in one playthrough I told Fenris she was my slave just to annoy him (I did actually pay her though, I just didn't tell him)
unfortunately she has very little to say and just vanishes after Act2 never to be seen or heard from again. I was hoping for at least some conversation between her and Sandal

She doesn't disappear, she moves upstairs.

[dreman9999]

rayvioletta wrote...

Fenris can speak Tevinter, Elvish and Qunari, as well as common or Fereldish or whatever they call english in Thedas, but I think his swearing is usually Tevinter

Yet he can't read.....

[Snowbug]

dreman9999 wrote...

rayvioletta wrote...

Fenris can speak Tevinter, Elvish and Qunari, as well as common or Fereldish or whatever they call english in Thedas, but I think his swearing is usually Tevinter

Yet he can't read.....

You don't need to be able to read to learn a language by speaking/listening.

[TobiTobsen]

I'm still annoyed about Leandra nagging at me for holding an elven slave when I just payed the girl.

[Satyricon331]

TobiTobsen wrote...

I'm still annoyed about Leandra nagging at me for holding an elven slave when I just payed the girl.

YES!  It bugged me to no end.  

"I really hope you know what you're doing."  
"I really hope you know what you're talking about next time."

[Silveryne]

Yeah. Leandra was like: "Oh my gosh, I'm not sure about this whole slave thing, honey!"
And I was like SHUT UP MOM I'M PAYING HER IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK.

Actually, on my first playthrough, mom just hummed all the time as she stood in front of the fire. I thought it was creepy. I thought maybe, just maybe, Carver's death and Bethany being taken to the circle, as well as her eldest being indecisive and snarky and telling her not to go out and have fun because MOM SHOULD MAKE ME SANDWICHES BECAUSE SANDAL NEVER WASHES HIS HANDS... All that drove her insane -- to the point where all she could do was stare at the fire, stand beside the dog, and hum. On the second, all she did was complain that I was friends with elves. Bigot.

[Satyricon331]

Silveryne wrote...
On the second, all she did was complain that I was friends with elves. Bigot.

All she says is that your elven friends are really strange.  Which they are!