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I seem to remember one of the devs saying they wouldn`t tell us if the Maker was alive or not - ever.
Leliana helping to stop the blight might be why Justina made her her right hand. Leliana having shown competance etc. Perfectly reasonable to apoint someone your right hand because of that.
Foreshadowing that is never entirely explained is still foreshadowing. Its quite common practice in writing actually.
Again, do you seriously believe the writers are going to take the route of "Nah Leliana was just psycho, thinking she had visions and stuff. Snorted too much of the good stuff when she was more fun." In fantasy settings, characters that have visions/contact with deities are typically correct, except when they're played for laughs(nutty hobos). Leliana is distinctly not a nutty hobo sort've character. To play her character off for laughs would be ****** poor writing. The only real alternatives the writers have with this is to use the main path of having the visions be true, or go on the side path of having the visions be from someone other than the Maker(the latter being less likely because it doesn't foreshadow ressurection well).
I know what foreshadowing is. A good example of it would be in a song of ice and fire, when the Starks find the direwolf that has been killed by a stag. Joffrey Baratheon (his house sigil is a stag) executes Ned Stark (house sigil a direwolf). Stuff like that.
If Ned hadn`t been killed by a Baratheon, though, it wouldn`t have been foreshadowing at all. Thats the thing with foreshadowing, you don`t know its forshadowing untill the thing its forshadowing actually happens.
Leliana is clearly based on Joan of Arc, a french woman claiming to speak with God. If she did or not, we will never know.
A third option would be: Leliana lied about the visions to make herself seem more naive. Hiding other motives we don`t know about yet.
Yes the good old Aizen option is always open with every single character in the game. In order for Aizen type characters to work well they need to have extremely logical reasons for their actions. Visions as a cover story doesn't necessarily help her with anyone. There are other far more effective ways of accomplishing goals. Unless she wants to pass herself off as the next Andraste(which is possible in the real sense, though I find it unlikely in the deception sense) the deception serves no effective purpose. Assuming Leliana is capable of decieving everyone about her personality to that extent, coming up with a virtually useless/stupid deception clashes with the character of a manipulative mastermind.
True. But we don`t know her endgame yet, so it might be a brilliant plan for all we know. Same goes for Morrigan. We don`t know everything she is about either. Seeing as the DA setting and story borrows heavily from George Martin`s books, I suspect Morrigan and Flemmeth might be a substitute for the Targaryans (dragons). Biding their time in the outskirts, trying to build power\\an army. something like that. just a theory.
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I suggest we just end the discussion as it is. It was a good one, though.
