Bellara Lutare

Bellara Lutare is a Veil Jumper and companion in the upcoming Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
== Background ==
Bellara is described as being plucky, hyper-focused, creative, and having an obsessive interest in ancient Elvhenan and its secrets. As well as being creative and romantic with a strong sense of self; having a clear idea of who she is and what she wants, she is willing to push herself to her limits in her pursuit of finding answers.
== Involvement ==
=== Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance ===
Bellara has stolen an elven artifact from the Tevinter Imperium and is on the run from Imperial templars in Arlathan Forest. Using the dangers of the forest to distract her templar pursuers, Bellara was about to enter a Fade tear portal but instead was surprised to find Nadia Carcosa and Drayden Kiel exiting the portal. Bellara warns them her templar pursuers are out for blood and tells them that they all must flee immediately. Nadia and Drayden follow Bellara but are eventually captured by the templars. 
The templar captain demands that Bellara return the artifact she stole but Bellara argues that the Tevinter Imperium are the true thieves, as the Imperial templars come to Arlathan Forest to steal elven artifacts and magic in the Imperium's attempts to control everyone. Bellara proclaims her reclaiming of the artifact was liberation of what was stolen, which resulted in the templar captain and Bellara exchanging threats. Nadia interjects by saying she and Drayden are strangers to Bellara and don't even know what a Veil Jumper is. 
Bellara tells Nadia that she needs them to create a distraction so Nadia and Drayden started an annoying argument with each other to distract and lure in the templars. Once properly positioned, Drayden threw at the templars a grenade, which put their jailors in disarray. Bellara then used a magical amulet to temporarily animate some trees into sylvans, which distracted the guards long enough for the trio to escape. 
Bellara guided Nadia and Drayden in traversing the magical anomalies of the forest, including walking on the water of a river, so they can reach the bubble at the bottom of a waterfall. A bubble is a shimmer, similar to a one-way doorway, that will teleport them to a small area spared from Arlathan's anomalies. 
They jump into the bubble, which was a small Fade tear just beneath the surface of the basin water, which teleports them to a less chaotic location. Bellara explained that Veil Jumpers coined the teleportation process as a veil jump. 
After reaching safety, Bellara, Drayden and Nadia make formal introductions. Bellara and Drayden seem delighted in their shared love of books, discoveries, and writing, while Nadia is more pushy towards Bellara and tries to steer the conversation to learning details of Veil Jumpers, where they are, and how it can help her quest to rescue her lover Elio. Bellara answers Nadia's questions and Nadia becomes interested in Bellara's ability to enter the Fade and her work in trying to map it. However, Bellara clarifies that mapping of the Fade is somewhat misleading as once in the Fade, the space is reflective and shifting; the deeper one looks, the less they seem to know about the Fade. 
Nadia requests Bellara take them to the Fade and explains her quest to rescue Elio. Bellara questions Nadia if she is certain Elio is still alive as the Fade is a hostile realm. Nadia tells Bellara about the headaches she gets when she's close to a Fade tear and how she can briefly hear Elio calling out to her during such times. After deep consideration, Bellara agrees to help Nadia, and tells her that she too had once lost someone dear to her in an accident involving an artifact gone wrong. Like Nadia, Bellara states she too would have done anything to save them. Bellara uses the elven artifact she had recently stole, called the Flicker, which they plan to use as a guide in the Fade. To power the Flicker, the group ventured back into the anomalies of the forest to a lyrium field where the Veil is thin. As the group traverses to their destination, Bellara tells Nadia and Drayden that the Veil Jumpers fear the magical chaos found in Arlathan Forest will spread to all of Thedas if the Veil Jumpers don't stop the Dread Wolf, and that the Dread Wolf had already taken an ancient stone imbued with dangerous magic from the forest. Nadia reveals she's been searching for the Dread Wolf and the group agrees that both their plights seem connected. 
Bellara repaired the Flicker but needs to generate a Fade spark. Drayden requests they power the Flicker since they have been Fade-touched ever since they were a child. Lastly, Bellara requests something personal of Elio's to guide the Flicker, and Nadia offered her Elio's great-grandmother's ring. After completing the necessary preparations, the group enters the Fade but they are separated from Nadia.
Bellara and Drayden use the Flicker to find Nadia and defends her from a demon in the guise of a templar captain. Bellara attempts to hold off the templar captain, who seems to only grow stronger, while Drayden secures a wounded Nadia. Eventually, the Fade starts to become unstable and begins to manifest a storm. Bellara orders a retreat and tells Drayden to pick up Nadia. The templar captain begins summoning an army of lyrium-corrupted knights from the Fade and orders them to hunt the trio down. The trio escapes from the templar army by running into the Fade storm. The Fade started erecting walls to block their path, so Bellara tells the Flicker to forget the ring and to instead guide them to an escape from the Fade. With Flicker's guidance, the group is led to a fluctuation in the Veil that Bellara used to create a temporary, unstable Fade tear. However, Bellara warns that there is no guarantee any of them will wind up at the same place. 
Before they could enter the Fade tear, they are assaulted by the templar captain and his army. Bellara made sure Drayden and Nadia entered the Fade tear first and was about to let the Flicker follow suit, but the templar captain caught the Flicker and destroyed it and took Nadia's ring. This enraged Bellara, who unleashed a severe attack against the templar captain. With the templar captain knocked out, Bellara too escaped into the Fade tear.Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance, Episode 4: Beyond the Veil
=== Dragon Age: The Veilguard ===
== Quests ==
This is a preparatory section for Bellara's personal quests.
== Approval ==
This is a preparatory section for Bellara's approval and disapproval.
== Romance ==
This is a preparatory section for Bellara's romance content.
== Statistics ==
This is a preparatory section for Bellara's starting statistics.
== Quotes ==
This is a preparatory section for select Bellara quotes.
== Codex entries ==
This is a preparatory section for Bellara's codex entries.
== Notes ==
* Bellara's last name was misspelled during early marketing as Lutara instead of Lutare. It was later corrected by her writer, John Epler.
== Trivia ==
* Bellara was written by John Epler.
* Bellara was one of the first companions to be heard. In Dragon Age 4 - Official Behind the Scenes Teaser Trailer, actress Jee Young Han, portraying Bellara, is shown saying: "No, no, no, it's okay... That's the good kind of rumble". 
* Despite being a mage, Bellara wields a gauntlet that can turn into a hunting bow. The gauntlet was discovered by the Veil Jumpers and originally was created to make manipulating magic easier.
* Bellara's vallaslin honors Dirthamen.
* Bellara's favorite food is pan-fried fish.
* Lutare is a family name rather than a clan name.Clarified by John Epler in response to a fan question 
* Bellara was originally intended to be 28-29, but has now evolved to be around 31-32.
* BioWare polled the Dragon Age game developers with the question "If our companions worked at the studio what would their jobs be?", Bellara's top vote was ART with runner-up votes being in IT and programming. The included commentary stated:
** “Bellara is very creative, so she’d work in the Art department.”
** “Game Programmer, because she’s always tinkering and building things.”
** “Definitely IT because Bellara is a mad genius."
== Gallery ==
Bellara Tarot.jpg|Tarot card
Bellara Concept Art.jpg|Concept art for Bellara
== References ==
Category:Characters
Category:Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance characters
Category:Dragon Age: The Veilguard characters
Category:Elves
Category:Magi
Category:Companions
Category:Dragon Age: The Veilguard companions
Category:Veil Jumpers
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