Look at her card at the war table. She's naked and you can see her ribs in the shadowy part.
Eat something! (no, I will not tire of that.)
She looks amazing to me.
Look at her card at the war table. She's naked and you can see her ribs in the shadowy part.
Eat something! (no, I will not tire of that.)
Look at her card at the war table. She's naked and you can see her ribs in the shadowy part.
Eat something! (no, I will not tire of that.)
Oh my ...
Well, certainly didn't notice that before. I wonder if she's really that skinny in-game or her body looks that way only on the tarot card.
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if that is the case, cause she looks really skinny in Inquisition even with her gear on. Strong but robust. I guess her years as a Left Hand have taken a bigger toll on her than she cares to show. :/
Oh my ...
Well, certainly didn't notice that before. I wonder if she's really that skinny in-game or her body looks that way only on the tarot card.
It's likely the tarot art direction. With her tarot it actually looks like a weird x-ray corpsey thing going on with veins and bones.
I remember when I took a closer look at her tarot in my first playthough for a moment I thought they were going to pull a twist and reveal she had the Blight and die at the end. First playthough I did the mage quest where it's revealed she has decent resistance to the Blight then when I really looked at her card I though maybe it might be a hint for something. The warden outpost in the Emprise de lion had some journal/codex warning thing where she warns the soldiers that the Blight is a slow and terrible death and to be careful. Top that with her concern about the Wardens and that her normal and Halamshiral outfit covers all but her face I was kind of getting paranoid that she was hiding something.
It is a wonder none of the non-Warden companions in DAO ever got Blight sickness though. I remember that was supposed to have happened at one point.
So relieved that didn't happen. I read about what they originally had planned not that long ago, not sure if I'm 100% correct, but it was something like all the companions got the taint so at the landsmeet Riordan makes them all grey wardens.
So relieved that didn't happen. I read about what they originally had planned not that long ago, not sure if I'm 100% correct, but it was something like all the companions got the taint so at the landsmeet Riordan makes them all grey wardens.
Yeah that and Lycanthropy! I wonder how different the Dalish segment would've been if 1 of your companions contracted it and that would give you the incentive to try and cure it. Although players who would side with the werewolves probably would have been screwed over...
Yeah that and Lycanthropy! I wonder how different the Dalish segment would've been if 1 of your companions contracted it and that would give you the incentive to try and cure it. Although players who would side with the werewolves probably would have been screwed over...
I think a 'find the cure' type of quest is more suited to a smaller scale hero rather than one who wants to save the country/world. A different story for a different hero.
I always a little disappointed that the Blight ended up essentially being Thedas' answer to the zombie apocalypse. I think it would have been great is it has been more like bubonic plague. A disease that spreads quickly, is deadly and people have no idea how they get infected. An invisible enemy is tricky to fight.
So relieved that didn't happen. I read about what they originally had planned not that long ago, not sure if I'm 100% correct, but it was something like all the companions got the taint so at the landsmeet Riordan makes them all grey wardens.
Yikes wouldn't have wanted that even if it sounds dramatic. Watching several companions dying during the joining would have been horrible.
So relieved that didn't happen. I read about what they originally had planned not that long ago, not sure if I'm 100% correct, but it was something like all the companions got the taint so at the landsmeet Riordan makes them all grey wardens.
If everyone is potentially a warden.... Does that mean Morrigan (now a warden) can do the dark ritual with any normal male?
So relieved that didn't happen. I read about what they originally had planned not that long ago, not sure if I'm 100% correct, but it was something like all the companions got the taint so at the landsmeet Riordan makes them all grey wardens.
I'd have loved that. It made absolutely no sense that nobody in Origins ever suffered any ill-effects from the Blight despite being ass-deep in darkspawn blood and guts all the time. I was actually hoping we'd lose at least a few of the non-Wardens over the course of the game, just to add some much-needed tension. Unfortunately, the lethality of the Blight ended up being yet another Bioware red herring -- a plot/background/character "hook" that fascinated me and that I hoped would be central to the game because that was what it was being set up as ... only to be swept under the rug, loose ends and plot holes and all.
There's at least one of those red herrings in every single game they've made, and it really annoys me.
Isn't that a goat skin?
So Leliana is the only prisoner in Redcliffe who shows the most resistance to the Blight, it's very hard for her to get infected, though it isn't explained why.
If you killed her in Origins, she survives, the same way as the Inquisitor, who died at the same place, 11 years later. When she woke she says the ashes were gone and she was still hurting from her wounds, which seems to hint it wasn't the ashes that healed her.
She apparently had a vision from the Maker about the Blight (and possibly the Breach) even though it is known that the only person the Maker ever spoke to was Andraste. And we know she didn't lie about her vision since she still believes in what she saw during Inquisition.
...
Leliana is definitely a strange human being. Like, why do these things happen only to her and not someone else.
Descendant of Andraste anyone? Maybe she is a descendant of an illegitimate child between Andraste and Shartan?
Then there is this banter where Cass says Andraste may have been a redhead.
Or maybe Leliana is constantly being watched by some sort of spirit of luck which enables her to survive any mortal danger and sent her the vision she thinks is from the Maker as a warning to get out of Lothering before the darkspawn arrive.
Or rather leliana is just writers pet and they tried to create mary sue
I had no idea leliana is my mother. ![]()
And I think the taint resistance thing is probably just something she built up over the Blight, as she was in the thick of it.
Alexius might have gotten decent results from any of the other Origins companions too.
Ah, that comic again. ![]()
[reunion headcanon feels intensifies]
Remember everyone today is kiss a ginger day (January 12th.) Quickly go into Dragon Age Origins and give Leliana a kiss!
The more you know.
*does so*

*may or may not be having sudden nostalgia feels atm*
I swear I must be only the one person who romanced Leliana as a male.
I swear I must be only the one person who romanced Leliana as a male.
I'm heavily biased towards female!WardenxLeliana myself, cause my canon female Dalish romancing her is about the only person I can see as 'the Warden' anymore. Like, 90% of my playthroughs are the same. Kinda cemented my preference. :S
But hey, Leliana don't discriminate, right? ![]()