Dragon Age: Inquisition Character Profiles, Continued

I have to admit I’m not familiar with any of the Dragon Age “expanded universe” content, and as such I felt a little bit left out when I read this character profile for Leliana, the Dragon Age: Origins companion who will make an appearance in Dragon Age: Inquisition as one of the “advisor” characters for the inquisition. Here’s a snippet:

[DA]: How did you find revisiting Leliana?

[SC]: Coming back to Leliana gave me the chance to pull everything from Leliana’s various appearances throughout the Dragon Age world and fit them together.

[DA]: In what way?

[SC]: Leliana’s Song shared her backstory, establishing her relationship with the woman who would become the Divine. In Dragon Age: Origins, Leliana is coming to terms with her past and trying to figure out who she is. In Dragon Age II, and the Asunder and Masked Empire novels, we see Leliana in her role as Left Hand of the Divine. It’s been a long road for her, and in Inquisition, we’ll get to see how her journey has shaped her as a person, and where the path might take her in the future.

[DA]: Were there any challenges?

[SC]: Leliana is always a little tricky because of how the player’s choices in Origins can affect her. I had to make sure that no matter what the player did in Origins, Leliana’s role and character in Inquisition made sense. It’s a matter of respecting her core nature, so that regardless of what happened (or happens) to her, she’s always clearly “Leliana.”

[DA]: You said that Leliana is now (Left Hand of the Divine.) What exactly does that mean?

[SC]: As we know, Cassandra is Right Hand of the Divine: the warrior who puts herself front and center, she’s bold and direct and driven. Leliana is the Left Hand the (sinister) hand, as it were. She hangs back in the shadows. She watches the Divine’s back, watches for enemies, waits for them to reveal their weaknesses, and comes at them from the shadows.