Velanna

Velanna is a Dalish elf mage and a potential companion in Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening. 
== Background ==
Velanna was a quiet child who struggled to understand social interaction, and spent her time obsessively studying Elven history. This was in sharp contrast to her sister Seranni, who was two years her junior. Seranni was a cheerful and popular child who often attempted to include Velanna when she played with her friends. Velanna always failed to understand both the point of playing games and how to interact with her peers, and faced constant rejection.
Seranni's friends eventually stopped allowing Velanna to play with them. Velanna was devastated at the rejection, and she began to delve deeper and deeper into her studies. Her magic manifested when she was nine years old. She had long dreamed of being a mage, as she thought it would tie her further to the ancient elves, and when she finally produced a single flame in her hand, she immediately brought it to Keeper Ilshae and proclaimed that she would be the Keeper's First. Ilshae was impressed by Velanna's boldness and agreed. Ilshae nurtured Velanna's love of Elven history and in-time became like a second mother to her.
== Involvement ==
=== Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening ===
== Quests ==
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== Gifts ==
Velanna favors items of elven heritage and objects that are of her favorite color—green. Special dialogue can be obtained through befriending her and giving her a blank journal.
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== Statistics ==
=== Initial specialization ===
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=== Initial skills ===
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=== Initial spells ===
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Entropy 	         
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=== Plot skills ===
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== Dialogue points ==
Below are the spots where you can initiate dialogue with Velanna. On the PC, it can be hard to find the correct spot to click; make sure to hit "tab" and rotate the camera if it's not letting you click on it.
* City of Amaranthine: a tree by the stairs to the Chantry
* City of Amaranthine: as soon as you enter the city, there is an abandoned house on your right (later used for the Till Death Do Us Part quest) and two city elves nearby.
* City of Amaranthine: Mervis (when handing in Trading Troubles)
* Vigil's Keep: the statue of Andraste in the middle of the courtyard.
== Quotes ==
* "You killed my friends and the merchants kidnapped my sister... They brought this on themselves just as you have!"
* (About Andraste) "I should hate her, but I don't. I can respect a woman who fights for freedom and justice."
* "Funny isn't it? Andraste fought a tyrannical empire, only to have her followers become one themselves."
* "Stories connect us to our past. They shape a people in profound ways."
* "I'm right here, you slack-jawed oafs! At least have the courtesy to speak when I pass by."
=== Dialogue ===
(When talking about Keenan)
* Velanna: "'He wanted to make the world a better place'? What an insipid line. Is that really supposed to make her feel better about his death?"
* Warden: "I'm not with her!"
== Codex entries ==
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== Notes ==
* If Sigrun and Justice are recruited before Velanna, the Warden-Commander will not be able to perform Velanna's Joining. To avoid this, simply head back to Vigil's Keep and talk to Varel before completing The Righteous Path.
* The choices made regarding her are not customizable in the Dragon Age Keep.
== Trivia ==
* Velanna's favorite color is green.
* The writers originally were not sure if Anders would be the Awakening character coming over to Dragon Age II and merging with Justice—for a while it was intended to be Velanna.
* Anders makes a possible reference to Velanna whilst at the Dalish camp during Dragon Age II, stating how his experiences with Dalish women in the past have been crazy. He may potentially be referring to the Warden-Commander, if they were of also of Dalish origin and female.
* When Velanna is recruited, she is wearing a Ring of Study, however it is unknown how this came into her possession.
* Velanna's vallaslin is unique to her and Seranni.
* Writers Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir once considered a very different direction for Dragon Age: Blue Wraith. In these preliminary plans, the plot involved the group tracking down someone who was replicating Fenris' origins to recreate elven immortality, as Fenris himself hadn't aged a day since getting his markings. It would be revealed that the tests were being done by Velanna, with the assistance of her lover Sigrun, whose Calling had come and was trying to avoid death. Velanna would eventually see the error of her ways and go into the Deep Roads to die, while Sigrun would join the group until her Calling came. DeFilippis however clarified that he was doubtful whether he could have truly gone ahead with turning Velanna into an outright villain however well-intentioned, and stated that he was glad the idea never came to fruition. This idea was never taken beyond the planning stages, and was never pitched to either Dark Horse Comics or BioWare.
== Bugs ==
* Proceeding to complete the Silverite Mine without Velanna in the party will cause the plotline to be broken resulting in all sorts of strange behavior such as Velanna becoming a permanent member of the team (see below for solution) and waking up back in the cell without the key when attempting to leave the mines.
* In addition to the bug where Velanna becomes locked to the party, it is also possible to have a full party and have her as an extra. Meaning you can have 5 party members but you cannot control her, the only fix to this bug is to restart the game (exit to the dashboard and go back). This also glitches the game—npcs with no body, white loading screen and blood appears as a red box on dead bodies.
* It is possible to have Velanna undergo The Joining and become a Grey Warden prior to completing the Silverite Mine and still get the dialogue where she asks to become a Grey Warden. This also clears the bug where she is locked to the team.
* If Anders and Velanna are in the party simultaneously, Anders will sometimes initiate the same small talk lines multiple times with Velanna: "Have I ever told you that I find tattoos on women..."
* It is possible to get Velanna's approval to +100 by giving her a gift when she first joins your party. In order to not get the +100 approval bug with any of the characters, you need to do the "Blight Orfans Notis Bord" quests or Chanter's Board quests, that give (dis)approval to a character, only after you recruit that character. For example, if you do the From the Living Wood quest (which normally gives -1 approval to Velanna) before actually recruiting Velanna, that will get you the +100 approval bug with Velanna. Same goes for the quests for the "Blight Orfans". If you do quests that give (dis)approval to Justice or Sigrun before recruiting them, that will lead to the bug with them.
* For an elven mage Warden, her dialogue appears not to take the player's race into consideration. she consistently describes the Warden as human ("humans are all the same"), and Sigrun still informs Velanna that she is the first elf she has met, despite meeting the Warden earlier. This appears exclusive to mages, however, as Velanna gives the Warden a more friendly welcome if the Warden is of Dalish or City Elf origin.
* While exploring the Wending Wood it is possible to accidentally trigger the conversation with the dying soldier at the Makeshift Lean-To by standing too far to the north of the very beginning portion of the map by the destroyed caravans. If this happens prior to your first meeting with Velanna it will break the plotline and make it impossible for you to trigger the second meeting and therefore prevents you from adding her as a party member.
* If you kill Velanna instead of recruiting her and choose to defend Amaranthine you will get a codex entry saying she died at Vigil's Keep.
== Gallery ==
Velanna casting spell.png|Encountering Velanna in the Wending Wood
Gxa velanna.png|Velanna's epilogue slide in Awakening
Velanna HoDA tier.jpg|Artwork of Velanna's tier progression in Heroes of Dragon Age
VelannaHoDA_Tier4.jpg|Tier progression of Velanna in Heroes of Dragon Age
HoDA_GW_Velanna.jpg|Tier progression of Grey Warden Velanna in Heroes of Dragon Age
== References ==
Category:Characters
Category:Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening characters
Category:Heroes of Dragon Age characters
Category:Elves
Category:Dalish
Category:Magi
Category:Apostates
Category:Grey Wardens
Category:Companions
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