So reading the last couple of pages about how different Wardens might react differently to the potential Divine Victoria thing made me curious: how did all you with non-Andrastian Wardens see their relationship with Leliana? Brosca/Aeducan/Mahariel/etc x Leliana has always been interesting to me because it probably needs a bit more thinking on with the obvious hurdles there. My Surana was a bit of an Andrastian, but not especailly devout by any definition of the term.
Hm, basically, I think my Mahariel is a bit of a pessimist who dearly wishes she could be an optimist. She sees a little something of how she wishes she could be in Leliana, in a way. She was brought up being told her gods were gone, betrayed, locked away, whatever. She would have wanted to have a little faith like the others around her, but she's someone who could never find any motivation to revere anything that apparently isn't there to hear you anymore. That's just how she works. I don't think I ever made her express any particular belief in anything at any point.
Then Leliana comes along, who was told essentially the same thing about the Maker as she was about the Creators. Despite all the horrible stuff Leliana's been through she actually had a bright outlook at the end of it all. Whereas one might expect there would be a rift coming from two opposite ends of the spectrum as they do, all there was, was a sort of...admiration there. One of the reasons the Warden's letter in Inquisition begging the Inquisitor to help stop her from losing that faith and slipping was so beautifully in-character for me. May or may not have been some eyeball-sweat there.
She never became an Andrastian, never really changed her views on anything in the spiritual regard - I don't imagine Leliana ever tried to make her do so. That's not how she is. But I like to think Leliana gave her a little...something, y'know. ("I should be the one thanking you...") There's a mutual understanding and respect there. Both gave each other a little uplifting, and even if they don't share the same ways of thinking, they appreciate that difference.
Despite that, though...she most certainly would not want her to become Divine. She'd grit her teeth and support her if it happened. If she really got the sense it was what Leliana wanted, she wouldn't stop her. But she'd really feel like the last precious thing in her life was being lost down a path that she likely wouldn't be able to follow her down. That's...not the place for her, and there's no way she'd want to put Leliana in more danger than she's already in. She would have enough on her plate. Being with a Dalish Elf while being the head of the Chantry, Hero of Ferelden or not, would be a burden she wouldn't want her to have to deal with. Especially on top of everything else already.
Luckily that never happens. I like to think she's sipping martinis on some beach in Antiva or something right now, both of them free of it all, as I've said before. Much prefer it that way. The two of them have been through enough already. Time for some good ol' hell yuss adventures part two, because part one was postponed when she became Left Hand.
Damn that was a longer ramble than I'd thought. All before my morning coffee too.
better get on that