History Characters / DragonAgeInquisitionNonPlayableCharacters

* AFatherToHisMen: His army definitely loves him. Some of the Inquisitors' more militaristic companions and advisers approve of him for this reason.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the Grey Wardens' infamous [[TheUnfettered Unfettered]] mindset. Clarel's actions when she and her Wardens heard the False Calling showcases her choosing to go with the most extreme route instead of thinking things through or even questioning the very nature of how all Wardens in Orlais are hearing the Calling at the same time. As a result, Clarel can nearly lead the Wardens into serving the plans of the Elder One, and if the player so chooses, leads to the entire order getting banished and denounced from the south of Thedas itself.

* MuggleBornOfMages: Downplayed. Felix is born with magic. However, his magic is so weak by Tevinter standards that he might as well as to be labeled as ''soporati''. This is normally seen as a bad thing, but the ''World of Thedas'' books note that Felix had the happy experience of being born to parents who truly did not mind his lack of magic, and raised him with love and kindness. So much that when his paternal grandfather had him assassinated, [[MamaBear his mother put a halt on it by killing him without any objection from Alexius.]]

* MuggleBornOfMages: Downplayed. Felix is born with magic. However, his magic is so weak by Tevinter standards that he might as well as to be labeled as ''soporati'' that his grandfather had him assassinated until [[MamaBear his mother put a halt on it by killing him]]. This is normally seen as a bad thing, but the ''World of Thedas'' books note that Felix had the happy experience of being born to parents who truly did not mind his lack of magic, and raised him with love and kindness.

[[folder:Magister Erasthenes]]
!!Magister Erasthenes
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!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Literature/PayingTheFerryman'' | ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Inquisition]]''

Calpernia's former master and a scholar of the Old Gods, Corypheus bound him with a ritual that tortures him to answer every question truthfully. This was in preparation for Calpernia once she drinks from the Well of Sorrows, so that Corypheus could bind her with a perfected version of the same ritual.

[[folder:Felix Alexius]]
!!Felix Alexius
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->''"There are worse things than dying, Dorian."''

Felix is the only child and heir of Magister Gereon Alexius. His mother died in a darkspawn attack en route to Hossberg and Felix caught the Blight from the attack, resulting in him suffering a slow death.

* CallingTheOldManOut: Both Felix and Dorian do this when Alexius goes on a [[MotiveRant lengthy rant]] about how the Elder One will restore Tevinter to glory.
-->'''Felix''': Father, listen to yourself! Don't you realise what you sound like?!
-->'''Dorian''': He sounds exactly like the sort of villainous cliché everyone always expects us to.
* DarkIsNotEvil: He's from Tevinter, but he's a NiceGuy.
* DelicateAndSickly: He's suffering from the Blight. [[spoiler: After his father is defeated, he returns to Tevinter to tell them what happened. Shortly afterwards, his illness catches up with him and he dies. If the Inquisition sides with the Templars, the Venatori execute him before it gets that far.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: He may love his father, but Felix is appalled by what Alexius is doing as part of the Venatori.
-->'''Inquisitor''': Alexius is your father. Why are you working against him?
-->'''Felix''': For the same reason Dorian works against him. I love my father and I love my country, but this- cults, time magic? What he's involved in now is madness. Please, for his own sake, you have to stop him.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Ultimately stops his father's plans by, when Alexius protests that he is going to die, pointing out that "Everyone dies."
* MissingMom: As noted above, he lost his mother in the same darkspawn attack which left him infected with the Blight.
* MoralityPet: Inverted. Felix possesses all of the traits of a standard MoralityPet, being ill and a good person for whom a less good person cares deeply. But it is precisely these traits that cause his father to slip into forbidden magic and abandon the concept of reforming Tevinter in favor of trying to save Felix's life.
* MuggleBornOfMages: Felix is a ''soporati'' - a Tevinter who is not a mage. This is normally seen as a bad thing, but the ''World of Thedas'' books note that Felix had the happy experience of being born to parents who truly did not mind his lack of magic, and raised him with love and kindness.
* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: He loves his father and country, but joining cults and using time magic are taking things too far in his opinion.
* NotAfraidToDie: He comments that there are worse things than dying.
* TheNotLoveInterest: To Dorian. Dorian remarks that he had better things to do than get in trouble for seducing his mentor's son, and they're just good friends. He fondly recalls how young Felix used to sneak him treats while he was studying.
* NiceGuy: He's not only Dorian's best friend, but he's unfailingly polite to everyone, even his father when he's CallingTheOldManOut.
* OnlyChildSyndrome: Felix is an only child, which is how Dorian explains why Alexius fusses over him so much, and [[spoiler:is so desperate to keep him from dying.]]
* ThePigPen: Dorian mentions that Felix occasionally neglected to bathe.
* TheMole: He's Dorian's inside man in the Venatori. [[spoiler:If the player sides with the Templars, the Venatori find out about this and kill Felix.]]
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: No matter what happens, [[spoiler:he dies, and Dorian laments the loss of one of the best people he's ever known. (Should he and the Inquisitor be on good terms, he adds that he's grateful that "Felix wasn't the only decent sort kicking around Thedas.")]]
* TheUndead: In the BadFuture, [[spoiler: Felix becomes a ghoul because his father won't allow him to die.]]
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[[folder:Ser Delrin Barris]]
!!Ser Delrin Barris
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!!!'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Inquisition]]''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Mark Healy
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A Templar who serves at Therinfal Redoubt. He marshals a defense of the remaining Templars to save themselves from their corrupted brethren and pet demons.
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* CanonImmigrant: He originated from the book ''The Masked Empire'', which detailed the beginnings of the Orlesian civil war.

* WhatTheHellHero: The monarch of Ferelden is outraged that she took advantage of their hospitality by [[spoiler:bringing a Tevinter magister into the country, and evicting Arl Teagan.]] She admits when confronted about it that she was desperate after the Breach, and feared that the Templars were coming, but she really should not have alienated the ''only'' monarch in Thedas openly supportive of her cause. [[spoiler:And if that monarch happens to be her only child, it's so much the worse for her personally.]]

* {{Foil}}: To Marjolaine. Both women are central figures to Leliana's life who exploit her abilities and feelings in order to achieve their personal agenda. The difference is that Justinia taught Leliana that there was a life beyond violent revelry such as the Game. She also feared that she won't be any different from Marjolaine and thus wanted Leliana to move forward from the burdens of being her Left Hand. Meanwhile, Marjolaine taught her the dangerous art of being a bard and clearly showed no regrets about her actions against Leliana.

* OpenSecret: Should the Inquisitor [[spoiler:help Briala blackmail Gaspard into being her puppet king, comments from ambassadors in ''Trespasser'' suggest that pretty much everyone knows Briala keeps the Orlesian Emperor on a tight leash, but no one objects too strongly.]]

** Dorian makes similar remarks about the Qun being worse than slavery, but considering that Dorian himself is a Tevinter aristocrat who benefited from slave labor...

* DistressedDamsel: Leliana and Josephine point out that Celene's life is usually in danger because she's an Empress, but [[spoiler: Grand Duchess Florianne]] can get close and hold her at knifepoint. [[spoiler: If it gets that far, Celene dies.]]

* {{Foil}}:
** To Solas. [[spoiler: As Felassan notes, the two of them are very much alike. Both of them are rebels who try to use the Eluvians to improve the lot of the elven people. While Briala has rejected Elvhenan and seeks to save the elves through political reform, Solas believes that the only way to save the elves is to restore Elvhenan.]]
** To Sera, another lesbian city elven archer who's part of a vast spy network that aims to help the downtrodden. However, while Sera and the Red Jennies are TerroristsWithoutACause whose goal is to "stick it to nobles that abuse commoners, and that's it," Briala and her elven spy network plan to raise Orlais's elves permanently through political reform. And while Sera believes in helping the general common folk and greatly disapproves of helping elves specifically, Briala intends to help elves specifically.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While rude and abrasive to the Inquisitor (regardless of race), at the end of the night Briala just wants to help the most brutalized and hopelessly impoverished population of Orlais. And she is deeply grateful if the Inquisitor helps her - not for herself, but for her people.

* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Part of the reason Halward expected Dorian to do this is because it is heavily implied that he and his wife handled their own marriage the same way.

[[folder:Felix Alexius]]
!!Felix Alexius
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->''"There are worse things than dying, Dorian."''

Felix is the only child and heir of Magister Gereon Alexius. His mother died in a darkspawn attack en route to Hossberg and Felix caught the Blight from the attack, resulting in him suffering a slow death.

* CallingTheOldManOut: Both Felix and Dorian do this when Alexius goes on a [[MotiveRant lengthy rant]] about how the Elder One will restore Tevinter to glory.
-->'''Felix''': Father, listen to yourself! Don't you realise what you sound like?!
-->'''Dorian''': He sounds exactly like the sort of villainous cliché everyone always expects us to.
* DarkIsNotEvil: He's from Tevinter, but he's a NiceGuy.
* DelicateAndSickly: He's suffering from the Blight. [[spoiler: After his father is defeated, he returns to Tevinter to tell them what happened. Shortly afterwards, his illness catches up with him and he dies. If the Inquisition sides with the Templars, the Venatori execute him before it gets that far.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: He may love his father, but Felix is appalled by what Alexius is doing as part of the Venatori.
-->'''Inquisitor''': Alexius is your father. Why are you working against him?
-->'''Felix''': For the same reason Dorian works against him. I love my father and I love my country, but this- cults, time magic? What he's involved in now is madness. Please, for his own sake, you have to stop him.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Ultimately stops his father's plans by, when Alexius protests that he is going to die, pointing out that "Everyone dies."
* MissingMom: As noted above, he lost his mother in the same darkspawn attack which left him infected with the Blight.
* MoralityPet: Inverted. Felix possesses all of the traits of a standard MoralityPet, being ill and a good person for whom a less good person cares deeply. But it is precisely these traits that cause his father to slip into forbidden magic and abandon the concept of reforming Tevinter in favor of trying to save Felix's life.
* MuggleBornOfMages: Felix is a ''soporati'' - a Tevinter who is not a mage. This is normally seen as a bad thing, but the ''World of Thedas'' books note that Felix had the happy experience of being born to parents who truly did not mind his lack of magic, and raised him with love and kindness.
* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: He loves his father and country, but joining cults and using time magic are taking things too far in his opinion.
* NotAfraidToDie: He comments that there are worse things than dying.
* TheNotLoveInterest: To Dorian. Dorian remarks that he had better things to do than get in trouble for seducing his mentor's son, and they're just good friends. He fondly recalls how young Felix used to sneak him treats while he was studying.
* NiceGuy: He's not only Dorian's best friend, but he's unfailingly polite to everyone, even his father when he's CallingTheOldManOut.
* OnlyChildSyndrome: Felix is an only child, which is how Dorian explains why Alexius fusses over him so much, and [[spoiler:is so desperate to keep him from dying.]]
* ThePigPen: Dorian mentions that Felix occasionally neglected to bathe.
* TheMole: He's Dorian's inside man in the Venatori. [[spoiler:If the player sides with the Templars, the Venatori find out about this and kill Felix.]]
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: No matter what happens, [[spoiler:he dies, and Dorian laments the loss of one of the best people he's ever known. (Should he and the Inquisitor be on good terms, he adds that he's grateful that "Felix wasn't the only decent sort kicking around Thedas.")]]
* TheUndead: In the BadFuture, [[spoiler: Felix becomes a ghoul because his father won't allow him to die.]]
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[[folder:Magister Halward Pavus]]
!!Magister Halward Pavus
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!!!'''Appears in:''' ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Inquisition]]''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' David Schofield
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Dorian's father, Lord of Asariel, and a well-respected member of the Magisterium. He is mentioned often by his estranged son, and appears in Dorian's personal quest, "The Last Resort of Good Men."
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[[folder:Ser Delrin Barris]]
!!Ser Delrin Barris
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Mark Healy

A Templar who serves at Therinfal Redoubt. He marshals a defense of the remaining Templars to save themselves from their corrupted brethren and pet demons.

%%%* BadassBaritone

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Like [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins Anora]] before her, Celene tries to convince her lover Briala that her aloof attitude toward her elven subjects and ruthless political tactics are a necessary front to survive the Grand Game and run the Orlesian Empire. It takes most of ''Literature/TheMaskedEmpire'' for Briala to realize this isn't a mask, but who Celene really is. When Briala learns that Celene [[spoiler:arranged Briala's family's slaughter]] even ''before'' she became Empress, this is her final push to leave.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Downplayed. Yes, trusting a Tevinter Magister is widely known to be a bad idea. But Alexius ''didn't'' just walk up to her and suggest she and her mages join the Venatori, like Erimond did with the Grey Wardens. He carefully isolated her from any other potential allies and made sure to plant Venatori agents among the Rebel Mages to trick her into thinking that the alliance was something her people ''wanted''. Not to mention that with his time magic, he had as many tries as he needed to figure out how best to manipulate her; she might have actually repeatedly rejected his offer, only for him to rewind until he finally got her to agree in the timeline that the player sees.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Downplayed. Yes, trusting a Tevinter Magister is widely known to be a bad idea. But Alexius ''didn't'' just walk up to her and suggest she and her mages join the Venatori, like Erimond did with the Grey Wardens. He carefully isolated her from any other potential allies and made sure to plant Venatori agents among the Rebel Mages to trick her into thinking that the alliance was something her people ''wanted''. Not to mention that with his time magic, he had as many tries as he needed to figure out how best to manipulate her; she might have actually repeatedly rejected his offer, only for him to rewind until he finally got he to agree in the timeline that the player sees.

* BenevolentBoss: On the one hand, he was a temperate man who treated his own slaves relatively better than other slave owners, even training Calpernia to use her magic for a time. On the other, he was still a slave owner, and Calpernia sometimes found his absent-mindedness more frustrating than outright malice.
-->''If he had viciously beaten or humiliated her, Calpernia would have had somewhere to direct what burned inside her. But Erasthenes wanted only to potter about his relics or study with Anodatus, oblivious to everything else.''

** Corypheus turned him into an undying vessel of knowledge tortured to answer every question truthfully.
** He can even [[spoiler: be made Tranquil if a mage Inquisitor so chooses.]]

* SympatheticSlaveOwner: He is shown, particularly in a side story written by the devs, to have been a (relatively) kind owner who did not treat Calpernia cruelly. It is Deconstructed, as Calpernia was obviously not happy about being a slave no matter how 'nice' he is.

* SympatheticSlaveOwner: He is shown, particularly in a side story written by the devs, to have been a kind owner who treated Calpernia respectfully, and she was fond of him.

* EarlyBirdCameo: Not in appearance, but she's mentioned in ''Dragon Age II'' in party banter between Varric and Merrill. She asks about the crossbow and why he won't talk about it, and he explains that "There was a girl, and I made a promise. It's the one story I can never tell." The girl in question was, of course, Bianca.

* DeathSeeker: Out of guilt for her parts in [[spoiler: the Wardens' blood rituals,]] she asks not only for death, but for public humiliation so she can serve as an example and warning to the other Grey Wardens. She's not very happy with the traditional way of dying in the Deep Roads though, since she feels she has to be used as an example of what the Wardens should not do, something the Deep Roads would not do.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the Grey Wardens IDidWhatIHadToDo mindset. Specifically, she calls out the actions of those who invoke said trope as a defense, seeing it as a form of KarmaHoudini when the Wardens should be held accountable for their actions.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: {{Defied}}. Ruth refuses to use this in her defense, believing that the Wardens should not hide behind this since it makes them EasilyForgiven and that after how horrible they acted, they need to answer for their crimes.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The signs are there, if the Inquisitor digs deep enough, that she and Briala still have feelings for each other, but there's too much pride, pain and too many politics in the way for them to reconcile. [[spoiler:You can help them overcome this if you wish, though the Epilogue makes it clear that there's still a long way to go.]] Publicly crowning Briala Marquise of the Dales is at least a start, finally risking Celene's standing with the racist members of her court to help them and hand them power.

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: In the novel, she continually promises Briala she'll help the elves, and continually disappoints her. At times it seems she honestly believes herself when she makes these promises, but when the going gets tough Celene ''always'' chooses to protect her own power. [[spoiler:Realizing this is what gives Briala the strength to finally leave her.]] The incident also cause Celene to do some soul-searching, and contributes to her [[spoiler:finally giving the Dales an elven leader - Marquise Briala. Though given that, in ''Literature/TheMaskedEmpire'' Celene also helped elves get into the University of Orlais but turned on them the second it threatened her power, we'll see how long this lasts.]]

* EasilyForgiven: All it takes is for the Inquisitor to find a locket to convince Briala to forgive all the horrible things Celene did to her and her people in ''Literature/TheMaskedEmpire'': [[spoiler:She flung racial slurs against Briala when they were children, had Briala's family slaughtered in a fake assassination attempt on herself to gain the nobles' sympathy for the throne, allowed Briala to think someone else did it for ''decades'' to keep her unwittingly as a lover, trivialized and dismissed Briala's repeated requests that she use her influence as Empress to help the elves, and then [[YankTheDogsChain shortly after promising to help them]] she personally butchered and burned over 3,000 elves alive just to show the nobles she "wasn't soft with elves," then tried to have Briala house-arrested on trumped up charges to keep her under her control.]] Celene never even gives a verbal apology or offers to make amends ''before'' receiving it; she simply makes puppy eyes at Briala and all is forgiven. Granted, [[spoiler:Celene then openly makes Briala Marquise of the Dales, symbolically giving the elves their land back. However, Celene also helped elves get into the University of Orlais, which got her mocked with said play and caused her to massacre the elves the second her support for them became a liability]].

* LoveCannotOvercome: Her feelings for Briala don't curb her ruthless ambition nor callous slaughter of [[spoiler:Briala's family or people]], nor spur her to ''ever'' give a true apology. [[spoiler:Even if the two are reunited.]] If the Inquisitor doesn't [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther do the work of bringing them together]], they can remain on bad terms [[spoiler:and one can outlive the other]].
* LovedINotHonorMore: Well, "Honor" may be a stretch. Celene has grand ambitions to restore the Empire, and she's willing to share her vision with her elven handmaiden and lover Briala... provided Bria is ''useful'' to her plans. Celene had [[spoiler:Briala's family murdered in a fake assassination attempt on herself]] to seize the throne, lied about it for ''decades'' to keep her as a lover and spymaster, and manipulated her into doing her dirty work on the vague promise that she'll ''eventually'' return the favor to help elves. However, the ''second'' Celene's love for Briala and support for her elven subjects becomes a liability, she never hesitates to throw both under the carriage to save her own power and vision for the Empire. See WhatYouAreInTheDark
* LoveIsAWeakness: And one that Gaspard exploited, since he mocked Celene for being "soft with elves" in a play, turned her into a laughing stock and [[spoiler:indirectly outed her relationship with her elven handmaiden since he depicted "Andraste" (clearly Celene) as neglecting her forces in favor of screwing her elven lover "Shartan" (clearly Briala) and leading "her forces" (Orlais) to ruin]]. Celene is [[BerserkButton so embarrassed and enraged]] that she goes straight to Halamshiral Alienage to put down a rebellion [[spoiler:by having her Chevaliers butcher and burn every elf alive]] to save face.

* MasochismTango: Has shades of this with Briala in ''Literature/TheMaskedEmpire'', given Celene's contempt for elves and Briala's [[YouKnowImBlackRight increasing discontent over it.]] [[spoiler:More overt after Briala discovers Celene's massacre of the alienage and murder of her family, yet the two still harbor feelings for each other.]] ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' doesn't fill the player in on this backstory.

* RuleOfSymbolism: Reuniting Celene with [[spoiler:Briala]] is framed as an unambiguously happy outcome: An example of humans and elves ending TheChainOfHarm for a brighter future. However, given the harm in question involved Celene [[spoiler:murdering Briala's family and people]] while manipulating her into doing her dirty work for years, less charitable players might note it's less a case of [[GreyAndGreyMorality both sides]] [[TheChainOfHarm putting aside past hurts]] and more a case of elves forgiving countlress travesties humans committed against them and accepting whatever scraps humans throw them.

* StraightGay: She is a lesbian. Her prospective relationship with [[spoiler: King Cailan]] was purely political.

* UnequalPairing: Her relationship with Briala. While they're both gifted bards in The Game, Celene is still the Empress of an Empire steeped in FantasticRacism, and thus has the final say in both their relationship and how the Empire is run. [[spoiler:When she uses her power as Empress to massacre the alienage and have Briala arrested on trumped up charges, this convinces Briala to leave.]]

* BetterTheDevilYouKnow: Some companions and advisers suggest siding with Gaspard on the grounds that the entire Olesian Court is a den of vipers, but [[AtLeastIAdmitIt at least Gaspard is honest about his intentions]], and his [[NobleDemon Chevalier's Code]] compells him to [[IGaveMyWord keep his word to aid the Inquisition]]. By contrast, Celene and Briala have their own hidden agendas and a long history of political backbiting (including with each other), and might be flaky allies.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: In the game, Gaspard acts like a coarse but friendly straight-shooter who has no patience for Orlais' political games. ''Literature/TheMaskedEmpire'' reveals this is all an act. Gaspard is just as scheming and manipulative as the nobles he claims to despise, and has his own share of atrocities. ''Acting'' like he hates the Game ''is'' his mask in the Game... one that a few companions can pick up on.

* FalseDichotomy: In a darkly hilarious example of just how the Orlesian nobility views the elves of Orlais, Gaspard expresses his belief in ''The Masked Empire'' that the elves will never be happy in Orlais' slums or in their forests, and so Celene should stop relying on their allegiance, because the idea of elves being equal citizens and living anywhere other the slums or the forests is beyond the comprehension of most human nobles.

* ManipulativeBastard: Commissioned a play to not-so-sublty mock Celene for being "soft with elves" to force her either remain a laughing stock by remaining lenient with the rebelling elves, or crack down on them to save face. When she ''[[WhatYouAreInTheDark predictably]]'' did the latter, Gaspard ambushed and routed Celene's exhausted troops, and almost killed her as well. This eliminated her forces, forced her to go on the run, and cost her relationship with her elven lover/spy/assassin. Either way, he knew her well and played her like a ''fiddle''.

* OldSoldier: Retains much of his martial skill even though at the time of ''Inquisition,'' he is ''sixty-seven'' years old.

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Celene and Gaspard both committed travesties for ''decades'' in their fight over the throne, and this is largely shrugged off as a political necessity for surviving the Grand Game. Meanwhile Briala only ever supported her lover Celene. However, Briala [[spoiler:forcing Michel to forfeit his duel with Gaspard after learning how Celene murdered her family]] at the end of ''Literature/TheMaskedEmpire'' is very much held against her in ''[=DAI=]'', with pretty much all companions and advisers (save a few) condeming her as a "jilted lover" and power-hungry wanna-be despot.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Briala has been Celene's handmaid since they were children, and has used her position to subtly help elves throughout Orlais.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In ''Literature/TheMaskedEmpire'', Briala shows signs of being in an emotionally imbalanced or codependent relationship, with Celene as the "victim/taker" and Briala as the "caretaker/giver." Even outside their literal roles as empress and handmaiden, Briala often suppresses her own desires to support Celene's, who [[AllTakeAndNoGive barely if ever returns the favor]]. Even after Celene [[spoiler:massacres an entire city full of elves]], Briala's thoughts remain all for her. This is lampshaded by her TricksterMentor Felassan, who points out how twisted and unhealthy it is that Briala remains obsessed with and ready to take back the woman who committed [[spoiler:literal genocide]] against her people. It also takes Felassan urging Briala to [[ArmorPiercingQuestion demand that Celene explain HOW she intends to help her people this time]] in order for Briala to find the strength not to run back into her arms, and the ensuing revelations eventually convinces Briala to leave for good. Briala's StoryArc in the book basically resemble a woman finding the mental strength to leave a toxic and codependent relationship.

* LoveMartyr: Downplayed. Briala spent ''decades'' supporting Celene's vision for the Empire by waiting on her hand and foot, spying on her rivals, and assassinating her enemies. Briala also swallowed her discontent over Celene's racist comments against her when they were children, and dismissive attitude toward helping her people as adults. Briala also makes endless excuses for Celene's more selfish and ruthless actions, such as Celene's [[spoiler:literal genocide against her people]], which Briala blamed ''herself'' for since she wasn't there to talk her out of it. It takes Felassan urging Briala to ask Celene ''how'' she intends to help the elves to stop Bria from rushing back into her arms, and [[spoiler:learning that Celene was the one who arranged her family's murder]] for Briala to ''finally'' find the strength to leave. Even then, Briala still harbored feelings for the woman who effectly [[spoiler:slaughtered her family and people, and then lied to and used her for years.]]

* TheScapegoat: In ''Inquisition'', when Celene's burning of Halamshiral comes up, it's used as blackmail material against ''Briala'' because they were in a relationship at the time (and it was one of the many things that led to the ''end'' of the relationship). Justified, to an extent, because the Inquisitor has no way of knowing that the burning partially caused the breakup; the elf who shares this intelligence with them probably doesn't know it either, nor does Briala offer it as any sort of defense. Celene's burning is also

** That said, [[SubvertedTrope you'd be hard-pressed to find any characters who acknowledge this]] in ''[=DAI=]''. Every character (even fellow city elves) take it for granted that ''of course'' their relationship was fully consensual and Briala on board with every part of it, despite many human nobles in the setting taking elves to bed against their will (like [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins Vaughan Kendells]] to Shianni, [[Literature/TheCalling Compte Dorian]] to Fiona, [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Danarius]] to Fenris, etc). What's more, Celene's [[spoiler:purge]] of the Halamshiral Alienage is only ever held against ''Briala'' since [[GuiltByAssociation they were together at the time]], despite the obvious rebuttal that an ''elven servant'' might not have had full say against the wishes of a ''human empress''.

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KathSoucie (''Dragon Age: Origins - Leliana's Song''), Ève Karpf (''Dragon Age: Inquisition'')

->'''Voiced by''': Christopher Godwin
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-> '''Voiced by''': Sara Powell

-> '''Voiced by''': Katherine Pageon

->''"I stand against the Blight, and no man, no Inquisitor, and no magister will get in my way."''
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->'''Voiced by''': Stephane Cornicard

->''"Being a Grey Warden is not a cure. It is a calling."''

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-> '''Voiced by''': Creator/JenniferHale

->''"I can't use the greater good to justify my crimes, as if it would create a future I could be a part of!"''

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->'''Voiced by''': Katherine Pageon

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/AnthonyHowell

->'''Voiced by''': Siobhan Hewlett

->'''Voiced by''': Ève Karpf

->''"I came to the Circle from the Grey Wardens because I saw something had to be done. In the Wardens, we learn to watch for our moment and seize it-- and that moment is now."''

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->''"There are worse things than dying, Dorian."''

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->'''Voiced by''': David Schofield

->'''Voiced by''': Matthew Gravelle

->''"We awaken only when called, and each time find the world more foreign than before. It is meaningless. We endure."''

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->'''Voiced by''': Creator/LauraBailey

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/JenniferHale

->'''Voiced by''': Mark Healy

->'''Played By''': Odin Black

-> ''"I like my place and knowing it's the right place."''

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-> '''Voiced by''': James Daniel Wilson

->'''Voiced by''': Creator/KathSoucie