Warden: Why do you want me to come to your tent?
Leliana: So I can show you my collection of pressed flowers... obviously.
Warden: I didn't know you collect pressed flowers!
Leliana: I... don't. Stop pretending you don't know what I want!
Warden: I have no idea what's going on.
Leliana: *sigh* The games you play. Listen, I want you to spend the night with me. There. I said it.
Love this exchange. In my head the Warden is playing innocent. Love to tease!
Picking between going down the "I'm going to stay up and write in my journal" path or going down the "You don't want to talk to me anymore? -> "Well, I shan't keep you" (pressed flower collection) is truly the most difficult choice in the game 
Leliana looks so done with the Warden's shenanigans in that one, lol.
My oblivious!Warden never went beyond the journal bit. She wasn't teasing though, I think she was genuinely clueless. Between her and Merrill it's probably a Dalish thing. :S
man I'm firing up DAO in a bit. I can't handle all these memories!
I'm planning on doing that eventually. I know I'll probably explode with feels at certain conversations, though.
L: "I'd hate to be apart from you. You are the first thing I see in the morning, the last I see at night. I don't want that to change."
W: "I love you, and would follow you to the ends of the earth."
L: "Ooooh, how dramatic. I'm going to hold you to your word. I mean it."
Just thinking on that in context after playing DA:I...Warden will keep her promise Leliana, she will! 
While I'm partial to my F!Mahariel, I suppose there's something poetic about Tabris and Leliana, seeing as after Leliana's song we know Tabris' mum told her stories of some human girl who happened to be Leliana.
Too bad they'll probably never make the connection. :S
They might figure it out eventually. If Leliana ever mentions rescuing an elf from the Arl's estate, that might help make the connection.
I was always a bit confused about that timeline, but it seems like Mama Tabris was imprisoned for a few years, got busted out by Leliana but then died shortly after. That kinda sucks for Tabris..
I originally thought that Mama Tabris wasn't really dead but was thought dead by her family since she was imprisoned for all those years. Then, Leliana rescues her but she doesn't return home for some reason. I'm pretty sure I'm wrong about that one...
*waves her lone F!Surana x Leliana flag*
Woot woot.
That's pretty much my favourite conversation in the series. The Dalish version is basically the same, except it starts with Leliana talking about the stereotypes of the Dalish like them being savages who snatch up children or something, which my Mahariel...probably didn't care for joking about.
If only we could have responded to that with Flemeth's line from DA2 when she's accused of the same thing? It would have been some very nice and subtle foreshadowing after we learned in Inquisition who she really is and her ties to the Dalish?
"Bah, as if I didn't have anything better to do?!"
They might figure it out eventually. If Leliana ever mentions rescuing an elf from the Arl's estate, that might help make the connection.
I was always a bit confused about that timeline, but it seems like Mama Tabris was imprisoned for a few years, got busted out by Leliana but then died shortly after. That kinda sucks for Tabris..
I originally thought that Mama Tabris wasn't really dead but was thought dead by her family since she was imprisoned for all those years. Then, Leliana rescues her but she doesn't return home for some reason. I'm pretty sure I'm wrong about that one...
What really confused me about that was the implied age difference. She spoke like her child was...well, a wee child. Leliana's Song takes place...what, four years before DA:O?
Though I guess it makes sense for a City Elf Warden to be, like, 18. Newly arranged marriages and all.
If only we could have responded to that with Flemeth's line from DA2 when she's accused of the same thing? It would have been some very nice and subtle foreshadowing after we learned in Inquisition who she really is and her ties to the Dalish?
"Bah, as if I didn't have anything better to do?!"
Well, you can basically say:
"Oh, I only do that when you're not looking."
Well, you can basically say:
"Oh, I only do that when you're not looking."
I'd have loved to have had more options to poke fun;
"Yes... and we don't feed them enough to stunt their growth, then when they get older, overfeed them and force them to all grow beards! And now you know where dwarves come from!"
"I thought you felt comfortable around me."
"I, yes, but - don't question me! I am a woman, and I reserve the right to be inconsistent!"
So gud. :3
Oh I never got that reply! I always went with "That's me, I'm a terrible person"
Picking between going down the "I'm going to stay up and write in my journal" path or going down the "You don't want to talk to me anymore? -> "Well, I shan't keep you" (pressed flower collection) is truly the most difficult choice in the game
I love these dialogue options, and it was good to get something similar in Josie's romance ("Would you care to walk the castle with me?" "Sure, let me fetch the steward" "That's... not what I was hoping for").
Meanwhile my Warden still wonders if Leliana ever actually had a collection of pressed flowers.
What really confused me about that was the implied age difference. She spoke like her child was...well, a wee child. Leliana's Song takes place...what, four years before DA:O?
Though I guess it makes sense for a City Elf Warden to be, like, 18. Newly arranged marriages and all.
Tabris timeline is strange. Your father has lines that Tabris still has her mothers smart mouth and how your mom taught you all your sword and martial training (which seems pretty damn important). The family friends have lines about how It's sad she never got to see you all grown up (maybe it refers to "adulthood"/seeing the wedding?). Then there's a Morrigan conversation where your response is my mother died when I was born. Given the timeline and your training I would assume Tabris is at least mid teens when Leliana rescued her mother. As a random aside I'm sure that Leliana would appreciate the city elfs boots "Some mothers knit booties for their unborn babes. Adaia, who was much more practical, made leather boots adorned with patterns of vines."
I think the lines with Morrigan about your Warden's mother are just generic lines across all origins. Probably implying your Warden is lying if they choose one that doesn't match up with the truth.
My Dalish Warden had the option to tell her that her mother was alive and well, and that she loved her, when in reality her mother basically abandoned her when she was a few days old.
Oh, the days when dialogue options didn't have [Lie] in front or behind them...
[Lie] I miss those days.
*waves her lone F!Surana x Leliana flag*
Woot woot.
I can see DA:O having another play through for me after this all this reading....still it will only be my 15th Play through .
I always thought Leliana's dialogue was funny if you have MCousland act surprised that Leliana is interested.
"Why can't I like you? You're a good person, a great listener, a remarkable warrior. And… you're fairly good-looking. Most of your facial features are in the right place."
Leliana's romance is great regardless what origin or gender you pick. The devs did a really good job balancing all that out.
Objectively, all DAO romances are really well-done and I never felt any of them was lacking in content. 
Leliana's romance is great regardless what origin or gender you pick. The devs did a really good job balancing all that out.
Objectively, all DAO romances are really well-done and I never felt any of them was lacking in content.
Agreed. All told, I think the Origins romances are the best in the franchise; every potential romance option is interesting and likeable in their own way, and you could definitely see why someone would want to be with them. Leliana's my favourite, of course, though all of them are worthwhile. (Second favourite romance, franchise-wise, would probably have to be the Friendship romance with Merrill.)
Also, as a bit of a crazy aside, anyone else think that Leliana and Merrill would really hit it off, despite the whole blood magic thing? Similiar curiosity about other cultures, similiar love of stories, both generally nice people who want to make the world a better place, etc...
Also, as a bit of a crazy aside, anyone else think that Leliana and Merrill would really hit it off, despite the whole blood magic thing? Similiar curiosity about other cultures, similiar love of stories, both generally nice people who want to make the world a better place, etc...
If the Warden shows up in a future DLC, I wonder what would happen if My Fem!Inqusitor flirted with him in front of Leliana ....
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