Enasal Mahariel

Enasal Mahariel of the Dalish Sabrae clan, Scion of the Emerald Knights, Warden-Commander of Fereldan, "First Matron of House Mahariel," Arlessa of Amaranthine, and Master of Devices

## Real World Information

### Game

Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening

## Biographical Information

### Age

20 (start of Origins)34 (end of Trespasser)

**Enasal "Ena" Mahariel** is an elf born and raised amogst the Sabrae clan, the only child of Lyna and Keeper Theron Mahariel, and the driving force against the Fifth Blight.

## Overview

### **Physical Appearance**

Ena is unusually tall for an elf, standing an inch or two taller than most human women. She has dark brown eyes and long hair she usually wears in two braids coiled into two buns, one behind each ear. She has a simplified version of Ghilan'nain's vallaslin in purple ink, a color she knows her mother was fond of. She rarely wears make-up, not seeing the point of applying it if she's just going to ruin it trekking through a forest. A few months into the Fifth Blight, she starts wearing a rose in her right bun.

### **Personality**

Ena is usually very straightforward and serious. She's used to being the oldest girl in a group, so anyone not obviously older than her registers as a younger brother or sister in her mind and makes her feel compelled to protect and advise them. She grew up hearing stories of humans who hate elves just for being elves and think that they're all thieves, bandits, murderers, etc., so she believes that as the last practitioners of "true" elven culture, the Dalish have a responsibility to always speak and act above reproach to prove to humans that elves are no more - or less - likely to turn to crime than they are.

She is easy to annoy, but hard to genuinely anger. People are often surprised at how violent she can get on their behalf.

### **Talents and Skills**

Like any Dalish hunter, Ena can put an arrow through the eye of a squirrel at a hundred paces, but in actual combat she prefers to wield a pair of daggers, thinking it the more "honorable" approach. The skill she's most proud of, though, is her ability to set and disarm any physical trap and pick any physical lock, hence referring to herself as a "Master of Devices." Following the disaster at Ostagar, she also takes up crafting and carrying fire- and soulrot bombs to "even the odds" against bands of darkspawn.

## Biography

### **Family History**

From an early age, Theron Mahariel and Ashalle were inseparable. Most of the clan considered it a foregone conclusion that the two would marry when they were old enough. Although Theron and Ashalle did love each other, theirs was only ever the love between brother and sister.

Theron met Lyna at the first Arlathvhen after he became his clan's Keeper, and the two immediately fell in love. Lyna was one of her clan's better hunters, and barely old enough to have gotten her vallaslin, so they were reluctant to give her up. Even so, Lyna left the Arlathvhen with Theron's clan against the wishes of her own, and the two of them married shortly afterward.

When Lyna became pregnant, Theron became increasingly reluctant to leave her side, so he was with her when she was ambushed while out foraging in the woods. It was obvious to him that the mob was out for blood - their village's herds had taken sick about the same time the clan had made camp in the area, and they'd lost nearly half their livestock by that point. Theron ordered Lyna to retreat back to the camp, promising to follow her once their attackers had been dealt with.

Despite Lyna's protestations, the clan pulled up stakes and moved on as soon as she explained what had happened.

### **Early Life**

Ena was born on Bloomingtide 25th, 9:10 Dragon, roughly a week after her parents were attacked. The night after her daughter's birth, Lyna walked into the forest with the intent of finding Theron and was never heard from again. When they realized what had happened, Ashalle and her husband, Paivel, adopted the newborn as their own.

Ena was the oldest of the clan's girls - the true oldest, Fenarel, was about a year older than her - and from the time she could walk was eager to help Ashalle care for the younger children, a trait she would maintain long into her adulthood.

Marethari didn't make any real effort to take on a First for several years after Theron's death; it was assumed that Ena would eventually manifest magic, as her father had. When it became clear that she wouldn't, the Alerion clan offered Merrill to fill the position. Ena was the first of the clan's children to reach out to her, and the mage's odd mannerisms made her quickly decide that she would always have to protect her from everything.

Ena got her vallaslin when she was eighteen, choosing to represent Ghilan'nain and promising that she would always serve as a guide and protector for her people. When Tamlen got his a year later, she kissed his older brother Fenarel in a moment of excitement and the two of them began a relationship.

### **The Arlathvhen Incident**

Ena was first allowed to mingle with the other clans when she was nineteen. She wandered away from the gathering fairly early on, more interested in exploring a part of Thedas she hadn't seen before.

A short distance from the main campsite, she stumbled upon a trio of hunters - two roughly her age, one a bit older - tying a young human boy's hands together and attempting to remove his clothes. At first she was afraid that they were going to rape him, but when she noticed one of them brandishing a pair of leather leggings with bits of metal stuck in them, she realized they meant to put him to Fen'harel's Teeth. Furious at their betrayal of the Vir Assan, she shot each of them in the leg with an arrow and knocked them out with the pommels of her dar'misus. She refused to let the boy go immediately, insisting that he "stay and see what a true elf does to those who spit in the Creators' faces." She then cut lines in the younger hunters' cheeks from the corners of their mouths to nearly their ears, calling the wounds "wolf smiles". The older one had Andruil's vallaslin, and she peeled off as much of his tattoos as she could manage, having decided he didn't deserve them.

She finally unbound the boy's hands and returned to the clans to let them know what had happened. When she led a group of her and their clanmates to retrieve them, they were all surprised to find the human boy waiting for them, and even more so when he supported her claim that she had saved him.

Back amongst her people, Ena's actions proved divisive: the more peaceful, cooperative clans praised her heroism and condemned the hunters for their brutality while the more aggressive, isolationist ones accused her of siding with a shemlen over her own people and demanded her exile. Fenarel came to her defense, agreeing that the hunters had violated the Vir Tanadhal by attempting to torture their "prey." Eventually the hahrens and Keepers were able to pacify both sides, and Ena walked away from the Arlathvhen with a reputation as either an example of what all elves should be or a flat-eared sycophant not worthy of her Dalish heritage, depending on who you asked.

## In-Game

### **The Eluvian**

A few days after making camp in the Brecilian Forest, Ena and Tamlen crossed paths with a group of humans while out hunting. While Tamlen was content to simply kill them, Ena was more interested in what they were doing in the forest in the first place. She remained skeptical of their reports of a demon, but accepted their "ruins" story when presented with evidence. The elves agreed to let the humans go on the condition that they leave the forest and not return while the clan was there. Ena suggested that they tell the Keeper about the alleged ruins, or at least about their encounter with the humans, but Tamlen brushed her off and forged ahead.

The sight of what looked like a temple apparently appearing out of nowhere troubled Ena. She pressed Tamlen about why he had been so insistent that they search the place, and he admitted that he was hoping to find something that would get him back into the Keeper's good graces. Ena complained about the fact that he was the only one punished for it when both of them had been involved, but he insisted that he'd refused to rat her out. She told him gratefully that he was a better brother than she deserved, with which he jokingly agreed.

She was pleasantly surprised to find a statue of an elven god that looked like it had been made by humans, believing it meant there was once a time when elves and humans weren't always at each others' throats. The two were attacked by corpses a short distance away from it, apparently confirming Tamlen's fears that the ruin was haunted. Convinced that it was too dangerous for them to keep exploring alone, Ena demanded that they return to the camp for backup, but Tamlen refused, insisting that they had already searched most of it and that turning back only to return was a waste of time. Unwilling to abandon him to whatever dangers she was sure were lying in wait, she continued to follow him.

After Ena disarmed the trap meant to poison the air, they entered the room protected by it and were attacked by a bereskarn. She was able to dispatch it quickly while Tamlen defended himself with his shield. She wondered if the creature had once been a bear and if its current appearance was due to a spell gone wrong and the humans had mistaken it for a demon, or even if there had been a demon and it had possessed a bear after the humans had run.

Tamlen admitted his surprise at finding an intact mirror so far into the ruin, and Ena suggested that Marethari might be able to translate the runes carved into it. She ordered Tamlen away from it when he claimed to see something moving in it, even physically pulling him toward the door, but he continued to ignore her and approached it. She wondered if the "blackness" and "underground city" he claimed to see meant that it was connected to "the durgen'len" somehow.

Tamlen suddenly screamed for her help, unable to move. The taint passed to Ena through him when she grabbed his arm to pull him to safety, and she was thrown backward by an unseen force.

Weak from a sudden fever and dazed from her head hitting the stone floor, Ena managed to climb back up the steps to try to help Tamlen pull himself to safety, only for him to be sucked into the mirror, which immediately solidified behind him. Aware even through her delirium that she wouldn't be able to help him on her own, Ena stumbled - and ultimately crawled - her way out of the ruin, only for her strength to fail her shortly past the mouth of the cave.

She awoke two days later back at the camp to find Fenarel waiting for her outside the Keeper's aravel. She was horrified to learn how much time had passed and demanded to know if anyone was looking for Tamlen. Fenarel brought Marethari to speak to her, and Ena recounted what she remembered. Marethari explained that she had been returned to the camp by a human calling himself Duncan and claiming to be a Grey Warden. She agreed to return to the cave to search for Tamlen and complained bitterly when the Keeper admitted that the clan was moving on, insisting that they shouldn't have to leave if they hadn't done anything wrong. She was more hesitant to bring Merrill to with her, worried that being around the mirror would make her as sick as she was. Marethari insisted that her magic would be enough to protect her, and that bringing her would better Tamlen's chances of survival, so Ena agreed.

Fenarel stopped them at the edge of the camp and asked to come along. Although unhappy with the idea of risking his health along with Merrill's, Ena understood his wanting to make sure for himself that his brother and girlfriend were both safe, so she convinced the Keeper to let him join their search.

Ena was initially wary of Duncan, questioning why he hadn't intervened if he'd heard them fighting darkspawn in the hall. She angrily refused his suggestion that they leave the ruin without thoroughly searching for Tamlen, accusing him of asking her to abandon her brother. She insisted that even if she couldn't bring him back alive, she was at least going to recover his body and agreed to speak with Duncan again at the camp.

She was disheartened to have to return to the camp empty-handed, admitting to hahren Paivel that she felt like she had failed the clan. She initially refused Duncan's offer to join the Grey Wardens, thinking he was still asking her to abandon her people. Marethari insisted that joining Duncan was the only way to truly save herself, and that the Dalish were sworn to fight with the Grey Wardens during a Blight. Seeing no other option, Ena accepted Duncan's offer. She retrieved the amulet that her father had given her mother and assured Fenarel that she loved him before leaving, but asked him not to wait for her.

### **Ostagar**

Upon arriving at Ostagar, Ena was surprised by king Cailan's welcoming attitude towards her, admitting that she'd expected to be treated with suspicion and distrust. She was taken aback by his apparent eagerness to face the Archdemon - still a bit shaken from her brush with the darkspawn herself - and noticed that Duncan didn't share his optimism about their chances. Although openly annoyed by his refusal to explain what the "Joining ritual" entailed, she agreed to meet up with him again after speaking with "Alistair" and set off to explore the camp.

She spoke briefly with Wynne and even crossed paths with teyrn Loghain, noticing that he shared Duncan's unease about the coming battle and his apparent dislike of Cailan. Pity drove her to agree to help the kennel master treat a sick mabari, and to convince a soldier to give a prisoner he was guarding what was left of his lunch. She expressed similar pity for the Tranquil guarding the chest when she went to return the key the prisoner had stolen, calling the practice monstrous and offering him her sympathy.

As she and her fellow recruits searched the Korcari Wilds for darkspawn blood, she quickly grew to like Daveth - thinking he was strangely likable for a shemlen thief, even addressing him fondly as "cutpurse" - and dislike ser Jory - accusing him of abandoning his wife and child to chase glory and all but explicitly calling him a coward. She did briefly scold Daveth when he suggested she break open the missionary's strongbox when she found it, instead resolving to bring it to his widow after the battle was won.

When Duncan finally explained what the Joining was, she felt oddly relieved, admitting that she'd been afraid that they would have to survive being stabbed with a blade coated in darkspawn blood. She reminded Daveth that they weren't all guaranteed to die, and even offered to buy him a pint at the nearest tavern when the darkspawn had been beaten.

She held Daveth as he died, unable to do more than tell him "dareth shiral." Despite her admitted dislike of him, she still tried to stop Duncan from attacking Jory without success, and was horrified at what she thought was a cold-blooded execution. Just before drinking her own vial, she whispered "For my clan" to steel herself.

She awoke a short while after surviving her Joining and rounded on Duncan again, insisting that he hadn't needed to kill Jory and demanding to know why he hadn't simply had the mages alter his memory. Rather than wear the pendant Alistair offered her around her neck, she opted to tie it around her wrist. Although the request confused her, she agreed to attend Cailan's war meeting.

She accepted the king's congratulations and sided with his argument against Loghain, reminding the teyrn that cooperation wasn't the same thing as surrender. She offered to light the beacon at the tower of Ishal herself if it wasn't a dangerous or demanding task, but didn't protest when Cailan insisted that Alistair accompany her. She stood up for Uldred when the priest rebuffed his offer for the mages to light the beacon, stating that she'd sooner trust her life to spells than prayers.

Ena tried one last time to persuade Duncan to let her and Alistair join the fighting after lighting the beacon, making a thinly-veiled accusation that their armies didn't have enough men to spare them. She backed off when she realized that he was going to be stubborn about it, instead asking for information about their assignment: how much time they had, what they could expect to find in the tower and what they should do if the Archdemon did appear, amending the question to "Anything useful?" when Alistair suggested they soil their drawers.

As a precaution against the worst-case scenario, she unlocked the cages and pens around the camp en route to the tower so that the occupants could run if need be. The mabari inside the tower proved to be particularly helpful against the darkspawn swarming the place. Having heard earlier that Loghain's forces were collapsing the tunnels under the tower, she decided to "have a word" with him about their work in the morning.

Enraged at an ogre killing a soldier and mage accompanying her and Alistair, Ena managed to gut the creature before being brought down by darkspawn arrows.

She was more than a bit surprised to wake up in Flemeth's hut after the battle, and crushed to hear about Loghain's betrayal. She scolded Morrigan for mocking Alistair's grief at the Wardens' deaths, but still thanked her for her help before going out to speak with her mother. She assured Alistair that it would take more than a few dozen darkspawn to kill her, but admitted her doubts about their chances to Flemeth, not convinced that two Grey Wardens could curtail the Blight on their own. She agreed with Alistair's plan to go to arl Eamon in Redcliffe, thanking Flemeth for her help and promising her that she would keep Morrigan alive.

She was pleasantly surprised to find the mabari from Ostagar, now cured of his illness, searching for her and accepted him into the group, opting to name him after Duncan.

After driving the bandits outside of Lothering off with a warning that she would find them again if they returned to highway robbery, she accepted the various odd jobs in the village, reminding Morrigan when she complained that they would most likely benefit from having a good reputation if teryn Loghain was blaming them for the massacre at Ostagar.

Sten's casual admission that he had murdered an entire family made her immediately wary of him, but she still believed that his sitting in a cage waiting to die was a waste. She persuaded the revered mother to release him into her custody, and convinced him that joining her in stopping the Blight would be better atonement than dying.

### **Redcliffe**

When Alistair stopped her outside of Redcliffe and admitted who his father was, Ena didn't take it as well as she could have - she felt more than slightly betrayed that he had kept the truth from her, and she worried at the probability that Loghain knew. After hearing about what had happened to the village from bann Teagan, Ena agreed to help fend off the undead hordes that night, pointedly reminding a complaining Morrigan and Sten that they had no other option for getting to the only man they could even assume would be willing to help them.

Using the lamp oil she'd pilfered from the general store, she and Ser Perth set up a first line of defense, hoping to set at least the first wave of corpses burning. She managed to convince revered mother Hannah that telling the knights that the Maker protected them personally was reassurance rather than lying, and agreed to search the castle for the smith's daughter in exchange for his fixing the militia's weapons and armor. Fed up with Morrigan and Sten constantly questioning her decisions even when she explained them, she ordered them back to the village to scout for any undead activity and prepare the villagers for the battle, respectively. Shortly before nightfall, she found Bevin on his sister's request and convinced him to return to her in the chantry, promising to return his grandfather's sword to him once the village was saved.

While she and her party discussed ways to get into the castle the next morning, they were approached by arlessa Isolde, who begged Teagan to return to the castle with her alone. Ena questioned the arlessa about the situation and accused her of hiding something, first pointing out that her defensiveness made her look suspicious and then asking if she simply thought it was "impertinent" for an elf to question a human. She stood by her suspicion that Isolde was leading Teagan into a trap, but agreed to sneak into the castle behind him and let the knights in to secure it.

She saved Jowan from a band of corpses swarming his cell and questioned him, confirming her suspicion that a demon was behind the attacks. She offered to free him in exchange for his accompanying them, but left him to the relative safety of his cell when he refused.

The sight of Teagan dancing for Connor confused her, but she admitted it was nowhere near as bad as what she'd expected to find. She accused Connor of being the evil that had taken over the castle and blamed Isolde for the attacks. When it asked, she explained to the demon that she had come to the castle to rescue Teagan from the trap she was sure that "the lady fenhedis" had led him into, and to Redcliffe itself first to seek arl Eamon's aid, then to see if she could help him after learning of his illness. When the demon ordered its guards to attack them, she ordered her party not to kill them, as they were "out of their minds." She rounded on Isolde again after subduing them, personally blaming her for Redcliffe's suffering and coldly saying that to never see her son again was the least of what she deserved. When Teagan expressed some uncertainty about bringing Jowan up from the dungeons, she suggested that he tell him that "the elf wanted to speak to him" on the off chance that he resisted.

As they considered how to resolve the situation, Ena questioned Jowan about whether blood and lyrium functioned the same way. Having no intention of going through with it, but wanting to see the arlessa squirm a bit more, she callously agreed that she deserved to die for what she'd done, but that doing so to atone for her crimes was more noble than she deserved and that it would take "so much less time and effort” to simply kill the demon by killing Connor, which was still better than what she truly deserved. She reminded Isolde that she would be well within her rights as a Grey Warden to do it, since killing the demon might wake Eamon and free him up to aid against the Blight. However, she also "recognized" that the arl would likely be much less inclined to help her if he woke up to find that she'd killed his "bitch wife or brat," so she "agreed" to go to the Circle of Magi for help, and tasked Jowan with keeping the demon contained while she was gone. She asked Morrigan stay behind as well, both to back Jowan up against the demon and to avoid a possible conflict with the templars.

### **Broken Circle**

After bluffing their way past Carroll at the docks, Ena and her party arrived at Kinloch hold to find Knight-Commander Greagoir blocking the tower off. When he explained the situation, and that he had called for the Right of Annulment, Ena accused him of abandoning his men and his charges and demanded to be allowed inside to look for survivors. After hearing what the Qunari did with their mages from Sten, which she called monstrous to his face, she asked him to stay and guard the door in the event that they failed.

They found some of the survivors a short way past the entrance, including Wynne. Ena confirmed that Greagoir had sent for the Right of Annulment, and asked about how the crisis had gotten started. She agreed to bring Wynne with them to clear the tower, leaving Duncan behind to help protect the children.

She was a bit shocked to find Owain in one of the storerooms, demanding to know why he hadn't run or hidden with the others. The likelihood that blood mages were responsible for the state of the tower worried her, but she maintained that the four of them would be enough to handle them. When they managed to take one such blood mage alive, she sympathized with her reasoning but reminded her that turning to blood magic would only convince the Chantry that the harsh conditions she was trying to change were necessary. She allowed her to walk away from the fight, but refused to help her escape.

Despite her best efforts, she was overcome by the sloth demon and had to fight her way to freedom, both for herself and her friends. She was suspicious about Niall's apparent refusal to join them at first, but alarmed when he suggested that he would die. She insisted that she and Wynne together would be able to heal him, but accepted his reasoning when he explained what had been done to him. She assured him that his mother would have been proud of him and thanked him for his efforts - both while in the Fade and after waking up - before taking the Litany of Adralla from his body.

She initially felt pity for Cullen upon finding him outside the Harrowing chamber, even asking for advice on how to free him, but quickly backslid on her offer when he made it clear how much he wanted to kill the surviving mages. She insisted that the only person she fully intended to kill was Uldred, and that she would prefer to save as many as she could. Still, she agreed with Cullen's worry that her being merciful would only lead to more problems down the line.

She and Uldred recognized each other from Cailan's war council at Ostagar. He praised her for her wisdom in defending him against the priest and offered her an alliance rather than enslavement. She refused, claiming that she was content with her life as it was and pointing out to Uldred that he was only hurting his cause by forcing a change on mages who didn't want it. Although she was well aware that he wouldn’t listen to her, she insisted that others would come around in time if his way truly was the better one. She kept close to the captured mages during the ensuing fight in order to free them using the Litany, supporting her friends with arrows. She ordered Cullen to take point on the trek back to the main chamber, not trusting him to not put his sword through their backs if she couldn't see him.

She presented the Knight-Commander with First Enchanter Irving, who confirmed that the tower was saved. When Cullen insisted that the mages were still a threat, she pointedly asked the Knight–Commander for his opinion on the matter to shut him up. Although she didn't quite understand her reasons for doing so, she accepted Wynne's request to join her in fighting the darkspawn. After securing the mages' allegiance, Ena explained the situation in Redcliffe to Irving, and he agreed to gather a small cadre of enchanters to travel to the village with him.

Back at Redcliffe castle, Ena volunteered Jowan to face the demon in the Fade. She assured Irving that Jowan could be trusted, but was blunter to Jowan himself, essentially telling him to put up or shut up about wanting to make things right. While he was in the Fade, she warned Irving that if arl Eamon decided to return him to the Circle she would be checking in regularly to see how he was doing, and that if she ever found him Tranquil, he was sent to another tower, or she just didn't find him, she would "kill everything in the tower and burn it to ash."

When Eamon didn't recover even after the demon was dead, Isolde insisted that finding Andraste's ashes was the only way to save him. Ena berated her again for sending Redcliffe's knights away with everything going on, and asked her why she was so convinced that the Urn even existed. She made a show of being skeptical, but agreed to follow the offered lead on brother Genitivi. She spoke with Connor before she left, clarifying that it was Jowan who had actually saved him, even if she had "given him the kick in the butt he needed." She explained his reasoning for what he had done as best she could, and offered him her father's amulet for protection before setting off.

After returning Bevin's sword on her way out of Redcliffe, she loudly proclaimed in the village square that the arlessa was responsible for the corpses attacking them and asked that the people be as cruel to her as possible for it.

### **The Urn of Sacred Ashes**

Upon meeting Weylon in Denerim, she realized fairly quickly that he was lying but initially believed his excuse that he was simply unwilling to risk anyone else's life over what Genitivi was searching for. When her insistence on searching the brother's room made him turn violent, she initially just knocked him out, but went back and killed him when she discovered the real Weylon's corpse. Now knowing that Genitivi had found and traveled to the lost village of Haven, she and her group set out to find it and him.

She asked the guard several questions about Haven at the village gate, unhappy with his insistence on repeating that things had always been done that way there, but realizing that he wouldn't say anything more. She finally lost her temper with Sten when he complained about their being there, angrily reminding him that they weren’t “all equal under the Qun” in Fereldan, so no human would follow “(her) ears” unless it was on the order of a more powerful human than them, and that finding “the charred remains of a dead woman” was the only lead she had on bringing the only human she had any possible sway back from the brink of death. She assured him that he was welcome to return to Par Vollen if he was so unhappy following her and started to storm up the hill to the general store, but stopped when she heard a local boy repeating a nursery rhyme to himself. She convinced him to tell her a little about Haven, and was incredibly unnerved by the finger bone he was carrying. They snuck into an unlocked house when the coast looked clear and discovered a bloodstained altar, confirming her suspicion that the townsfolk were hiding something.

The group fought their way through the village, finding the bodies of Redcliffe's knights stashed in the general store, and confronted father Eirik in the chantry, where Ena demanded he tell them where Genitivi was. When they were forced to kill him and his followers, Ena finally discovered the brother's cell hidden behind a wall. She and Wynne tended to his damaged leg as best they could before she pressed him for information about the Urn, admitting sadly that the cultists had killed Weylon. Although she worried for his health, she agreed to bring Genitivi to the temple, assuming they would need his expertise to navigate it.

They left Genitivi near the temple's entrance at his insistence, arming him with a spare dagger and Duncan, and entered the ruins. After fighting their way to a dragon's nest, Ena admitted to some regret at leaving the eggs to die and even considered taking one for herself, debating with Alistair whether the Grey Wardens could ride dragons now that the griffons were extinct. When confronted by father Kolgrim and his guards, she questioned him about how the cult had gotten started - not in so many words - and how they could be sure that the dragon they worshiped was really Andraste reborn. Not interested in dabbling in what sounded like blood magic, but looking to avoid another fight right away, she agreed to his request.

After an impossibly tense walk to the temple proper, they were stopped by the Guardian of the Sacred Ashes. She was intrigued by his claim of personally smuggling Andraste's ashes out of Tevinter, and asked him what she had been like when she was alive. She admitted her unease about undertaking the Gauntlet to him, aware of just how much was at stake if she wasn't found worthy. She agreed with his suggestion that she had abandoned Tamlen in the Brecilian forest, repeating that she should never have let him go in in the first place and not truly believing her friends' insistence that she was wrong to blame herself.

When confronted with the Tamlen specter, she hugged it fiercely and reaffirmed her love for her little brother, assuring him that she had "(torn) that place apart" looking for him. She accepted the pendant it offered her and continued to wear it throughout the Blight.

After completing the Gauntlet and being allowed to approach the Urn, she thanked Andraste for everything she had done for her people and apologized for taking some of her ashes. Kolgrim confronted them again outside the temple and demanded to know why the ritual hadn't been completed. Ena finally admitted that she had never intended to help him and tossed the vial of blood he had given her back at his feet. Kolgrim and his men attacked them in a rage, but were quickly cut down, and the group continued back to Redcliffe.

Ena stopped Alistair down the hill from Redcliffe castle and presented him with a broken–and–remade amulet of Andraste she had found while searching Eamon’s study, which he confirmed had belonged to his mother. She agreed, with some bitterness, that Eamon might have cared about him after all, at least enough to try to return his amulet to him. When Alistair admitted his surprise at her remembering him mentioning it, she asked whether it was so hard to imagine that she cared about him, but quickly decided that his answer would only make her sad. He admitted that he cared about her too and offered her the rose he had picked back in Lothering, which she tucked into her hair for “safekeeping.”

Ena and Alistair were in the room when Eamon regained consciousness, with Ena continuing to be surprised by the ashes' power. When the arl asked about what had happened, Ena harshly claimed that Isolde had a lot of explaining to do. She refused Eamon's offer of a personal reward, insisting that she would throw anything he offered back at his feet and spit on and that the only part of him she wanted anything to do with were his armies. When he refused to let her conscript Jowan, instead deciding to return him to the Circle, she assured the mage that she'd convinced Irving to be somewhat merciful, but warned him that if she ever heard that he was so much as thinking about blood magic again, she would Tranquil him herself. Eamon's decision to put Alistair forward as a possible successor to Cailan confused her, and she asked if her knowledge of humans hating having bastards on their thrones was wrong. She agreed with Eamon's decision to continue gathering allies against the Blight while he organized his against Loghain, adding that she was eager to be as far from "(him) and (his) bitch wife" as possible.

### **Nature of the Beast**

Even considering what had happened the last time she had been there, Ena was glad to be back in the Brecilian forest, claiming that it made her feel less lonely to be there even before finding the Dalish. She was deeply disturbed by the state of the clan and, feeling compelled to help her people, agreed to find the werewolves’ leader but avoided specifically agreeing to bring Zathrian its heart.

She was more surprised than frightened to learn that the werewolves could speak, asking why they had attacked the clan in the first place and about Swiftrunner's apparently personal hatred for them, and insisting that she only wished to speak with their leader - she hadn't thought it would be wise to mention her hope for a truce to Zathrian. Although she did convince Swiftrunner and his group not to attack them, they refused to let her speak to Witherfang and retreated.

Eventually the group was able to get into the werewolves' lair with the Grand Oak’s help and the guards offered to let them speak with "the Lady." Ena was suspicious of their offer, questioning why they hadn't been interested in speaking earlier and not entirely convinced that they weren't being led into a trap, but accepted their offered reasons why they wouldn't and agreed not to start a fight if they didn't.

She admitted her surprise at meeting the Lady of the Forest, having expected her to be another werewolf, and questioned how she knew what Zathrian had and hadn't told her. She was horrified to learn what had happened to his children, agreeing that the men responsible deserved worse than what they got. Although she maintained her certainty that Zathrian was only interested in curing his clan and would happily leave them to rot, she agreed to return to the camp and convince him to come speak with the Lady.

When the group found him waiting in the antechamber, she confronted him with the truth of how the curse had begun. She was surprised to learn that the Lady was also Witherfang, having believed that he only existed as a male wolf. When challenged, she agreed that if what was done to his son and daughter had been done to hers, she would have made his actions look "downright merciful," but that she "would've left their great-great-grandchildren out of the conflict, or however many generations (it had) been." She agreed to protect Zathrian from the werewolves, on the condition that he didn't throw the first punch.

She wasn't surprised when he refused to lift the curse, but argued with him that the werewolves would only attack her if she sided with him, "which (wasn't) going to happen." She insisted that he would lift the curse, "no matter how many times (she had to) punch (him) to make it happen." She whispered a prayer for forgiveness to the Creators before joining the Lady and werewolves against Zathrian and his sylvans and spirits.

The Keeper surrendered before she could strike the final blow, but he insisted that he had held on to his hatred for so long that he didn't know anything else. Ena maintained that the curse had gone on longer than enough, and reminded him that his children were waiting for him in the Beyond. Before he finally undid his ritual, she assured him that they would be proud of him for doing so.

With the clan saved and the werewolves cured, Ena looked for excuses to linger with the Dalish. When he asked, she admitted to Alistair that she was reluctant to immediately walk away from her people again, and that she was lonely being so far from her own clan. Although sympathetic, he reminded her that the longer they stayed in the forest, the more time the darkspawn had to spread the Blight and endanger them, and she agreed to move on.

Once the group had put some distance between themselves and the Dalish, Alistair admitted to Ena that he cared “a great deal” for her and wanted to stay together once the Blight had been ended. She admitted her surprise to hear that he felt that way about an elf, but agreed that she felt the same way about him.

Their own camp was attacked by shrieks that night, and Ena was confronted by a partially-transformed Tamlen. She assured him that he could be cured just like she had been, even though she wasn't sure of it, and refused to kill him without at least trying to help him. Ultimately, he made the decision for her and impaled himself on one of her daggers. She assured her little brother of love for him one last time before his body melted into the ground.

### **Honnleath**

While passing through Sulcher's Pass on the way to Orzammar, the group came across a man calling himself Felix and claiming to be a merchant. Although he declined Ena’s offer to find his missing mule, he offered her a golem's control rod, allegedly for convenience. Intrigued by the prospect of finding a golem, and feeling compelled to fend off the darkspawn attacking the village, Ena accepted his offer and doubled back to Honnleath.

When the activation code failed, Ena searched the town for a reason why. She was surprised to find survivors hiding in a cellar, having assumed the villagers had all been killed or abducted by the darkspawn. She explained that she had learned about the village from a merchant, and that her attempt to activate the golem in the square had failed. Although Matthais' claim that "Shale" had killed his father worried her, she agreed to rescue his daughter in exchange for the true activation code.

Ena agreed to free the demon holding Amalia in its thrall, on the condition that it remain in the cat's body and leave the village. When it tried to go back on their deal, she and her friends attacked it to buy Amalia time to escape. They returned to Matthais once it was dead, and finally learned how to activate the golem.

Although Shale's apparent bloodlust gave her pause, and she was more than a bit annoyed at the golem's insistence on referring to her as "it," she assured her that traveling with them would give her an endless supply of darkspawn to crush, and no birds to have to look at, in the Deep Roads. Due to what she thought was a slight feminine inflection to her voice, she insisted that the group refer to Shale as female.

### **Orzammar**

Upon learning of the political situation in Orzammar, Ena decided early on to throw her lot in with Harrowmont, believing that a man capable of killing his father and brother couldn't be trusted as a leader. She would come to deeply regret her decision in later years, holding herself personally responsible for the kingdom's decline.

While performing some busywork while waiting for a deshyr's authorization to enter the Deep Roads, she learned of the Anvil of the Void in the Diamond Quarter, along with the story behind the dwarf she overheard arguing with one of the guards, Oghren. When they were finally allowed to enter the Deep Roads to search for the Anvil, he approached her and asked to join the search for his wife, to which she agreed. She brought Shale along as well, hoping they might find some answers about her on their way.

As they learned the truth of what had happened to Branka and her family, she gave Oghren “fair warning” that "(she hated his) wife," a sentiment she maintained when they finally found her. She argued with Branka that letting her clan be made into ghouls and broodmothers had been "the only way" because she hadn't cared enough about them to look for any other options.

Upon finding Caridin alive as a golem, she questioned him about the Anvil and its ability to create life out of curiosity. Although sympathetic to her reasons for wanting it, Ena refused to let Branka have the Anvil when she demanded, not trusting an object that could steal souls to a woman who would sacrifice her entire family to get it. She conceded the boon Caridin offered after the fight to Oghren, regretful that she'd put him in the position of having to join in killing his wife. Caridin agreed to forge a crown for whoever they decided to name king before Ena destroyed the Anvil. She was sorry to lose such a potentially useful artifact, but understood why it had to be destroyed.

With Harrowmont on the throne, Ena returned to fulfilling the various promises she'd made around the city. It took a bit longer to get Dagna accepted into the Circle, but eventually she was able to secure her a place at Kinloch hold.

With all possible Grey Warden alliances secured, Ena returned to arl Eamon to prepare for the Landsmeet.

### **The Landsmeet**

Shortly after arriving in Denerim, the group was confronted by Loghain at Eamon's estate. She dismissed his condolences, saying she didn't accept sympathy from "deserters and kinslayers." She insisted that Anora could speak for herself if she was as capable a leader as Loghain said, and accused arl Howe of "asskissing" when hearing of his numerous titles. When Cauthrien scolded her for interrupting "her betters," she asked her why she had opened her mouth if she wasn't on her knees in front of Loghain. As the teryn and his entourage walked away, she mockingly thanked him for his work collapsing the tunnels at Ostagar and assured him that the darkspawn would likely send their finest ogre as a suitor for Anora to thank him.

She agreed to break Anora out of arl Howe's estate when they were approached by Erlina, but asked Alistair to stay behind on the chance that his men had orders to kill him on sight. Searching the building turned up plenty of evidence of Loghain's crimes, although she did threaten a man on the rack to mind his manners when his life was literally in his rescuer's hands - even going as far as to turn the wheels a click - before letting him go. Upon finding the man responsible for triggering the riots in the Alienage, she forced him to give her the key to his private stash and let Zevran beat him bloody, but still left his cage door open. She freed one of the elves that had been imprisoned, Soris, and ordered Zevran to shut up when he noticed her staring at him. It frustrated her that she couldn't convince the templar Irminric to escape with them, but agreed to give his sister his ring to prove he was alive and, after he admitted to having been hunting Jowan, assured him that the mage was no longer a danger. In lieu of a blanket, she offered him a set of clothes she'd looted from an earlier trunk.

When Howe confronted them in his cellar, she was surprised by how easy it was to make him reveal Loghain's plans, and assured him that he deserved exactly what he’d gotten as he lay dying. She offered herself to Cauthrien as a prisoner in exchange for her friends' freedom, feigning anger on Anora's behalf when she sent Erlina with them. Once imprisoned in Fort Drakon, she decided that she didn't like her chances of escaping on her own without weapons or armor and opted to wait for her friends to break her out, which Alistair and Duncan quickly did.

Back at Eamon's estate, Ena questioned Anora about her certainty that Eamon would take a "knife - ear's" opinions seriously over his own, or even his fellow nobles, and admitted that her decision to support her relied on whether she would make her father face consequences for his desertion or not. She demanded to know whether she had actually cared about Cailan or if she had just thought of him as a means to secure her own power. Satisfied with her answer, she offered Anora her sympathies for her loss and questioned whether Cailan may have been the barren one between them, if he had allegedly been sleeping around for a while but no one had come forward claiming to have given birth to his bastard. She agreed to support her claim to the throne, but asked her to keep it hidden from arl Eamon, wanting him to be as blindsided by her "betrayal" as possible.

While investigating the trouble in the Alienage, she quickly figured out the truth about the Tevinter "clinics" and feigned illness to get inside. After killing the slavers and learning where to find their base, she ran back out to warn the rest of the elves what was going on, and was horrified when some of them fought with the slavers.

When she and her friends reached the warehouse, she demanded to know why one of them, an elf, would even consider working in the slave trade. Disgusted with her answer, she denounced her as a traitor as well as a slaver and called her "(her) two favorite things to kill, at the same time." Out of spite, she killed her by impaling her though the stomach with the tip of her own bow.

She pretended to be interested in bargaining with Caladrius, but offered her own "counter-proposal" after hearing his offer: rather than pay him and/or let him leave, she would kill him and his cronies and take the documents she needed off his corpse. When he asked what she meant to do with him once his men were dead, she told him "(she was) going to open (the) cages and (was) going to watch," responding to his offer to augment her health and plea to let him go with "\*expletive\* you" and "\*expletive\* you harder" in that order before finally killing him.

Once the captured elves had been returned to their homes, she offered hahren Valendrian further service, but accepted his offer of Gift of the Grey when he turned her down. Before finally returning to the city proper, she helped ser Otto clear the orphanage of whatever was haunting it and learned what had happened when the riots in the city had begun.

Overall, her time in the Alienage proved to be traumatic for her, due to both seeing what “her people” had to endure and the knowledge that they would likely never abandon their families to leave it.

She and Alistair were stopped outside the Landsmeet itself by Cauthrien. She was able to convince her to stand aside, ostensibly to rein in Loghain’s madness, although she did punch a few of her teeth loose for insulting Alistair. She dismissed Loghain’s labeling her a puppeteer, insisting that she had no interest in “shemlen squabbling.” She accused him of kidnapping and torturing his people and selling them to Tevinter as slaves, and nearly attacked him when he implied that the elves he had sold were better off for it. She physically stepped between him and Anora when she backed her up against her father, afraid that he would attack his daughter to break whatever hold he thought she had over her. When he refused to accept the Landsmeet’s decision to support her, she agreed to face him in a duel. She engaged in a bit of trash talking beforehand, admitting that she’d considered letting Duncan fight him but hadn’t wanted to insult her dog.

Despite getting off to a rough start, she managed to turn things around with some underhanded tactics and eventually gained the upper hand. She punched Loghain when he dismissed Cailan as “a child wanting to play at war,” snappishly reminding him that “his widow’s right there, you ass.” She accepted his surrender despite Alistair’s protestations, but refused Riordan’s suggestion that they make him a Grey Warden, believing that he would abandon them again and unwilling to risk Alistair’s life. She made a show of not being able to bring herself to kill Loghain, claiming that she believed “(he) deserved to be hanged for a deserter, not killed with honor in a duel” – while partially true, she mostly didn’t want to give Anora a reason to betray them – but she wasn’t able to stop Alistair from doing so. After confirming with Alistair one last time that he was sure he didn’t want to be king, and being frustrated at his apparent inability to give her a straight answer on the matter, Ena upheld her promise to support Anora's candidacy for ruler. When Eamon protested, she explained her reasoning as "she wants the throne, he doesn't, I don't have to give up my (boyfriend), you don't get what you want - Everyone important wins."

### **The Battle of Denerim**

Ena agreed when Anora came to speak with her that she regretted Loghain's death, at least immediately, and did argue with Alistair that his killing her father risked Anora betraying them in vengeance. When he thanked her for letting him stay with the Wardens, she explained that the Dalish had never put the interests of humans before those of "their own," and she had seen no reason to start then.

Going off Riordan's information, the army marched to Redcliffe to confront the Archdemon and its horde, only to find that it was a feint while the real attack was launched on Denerim. Ena worried whether they would be able to get to the capitol in time to save it, or if the Archdemon would even stay in one place long enough to for them to kill it. When Riordan pulled her and Alistair aside to explain why only a Grey Warden could kill an Archdemon, she asked whether it was due to the taint they all shared. Horrified by the truth, she volunteered to be the one to kill the Archdemon, but agreed to let Riordan take the first shot if he survived that long.

Morrigan’s proposed ritual made her curious rather than jealous, although she did question her about why it couldn’t be done with Riordan, and even joked that she’d assumed Morrigan would sooner sleep with Duncan. After assuring that the unborn child wouldn’t be hurt by the process, and trying unsuccessfully to convince Morrigan that she didn’t need to leave them when it was done, she agreed to convince Alistair to do it, but explained to him exactly what it entailed. She later admitted to him that she had imagined a sort of domestic life for all of them at Weisshaupt fortress while he was with her: its father teaching it to fight, its uncles Zevran and Oghren teaching it to “have fun,” it possibly studying magic with its mother and Grandmother Wynne, learning the Vir Tanadhal from auntie Ena, a little girl learning to sing and dance from aunt Lily and decorating Shale with various crystals, magic or otherwise, it possibly learning to ride on Duncan despite auntie Ena’s complaints. She agreed that doing so only made Morrigan leaving more difficult in the long run, but that it had made her happy at the time.

When the army finally reached Denerim, Ena agreed to Riordan’s suggestion that she take Alistair, along with Morrigan and Leliana, to clear the city out a bit while he scouted ahead and left the rest of the group under Sten’s command to defend the gate. Before moving out, she assured Alistair that neither of them were going to die in the battle, and reasserted that she loved him.

While hunting down the Archdemon’s generals spread throughout the city, she saw Riordan cripple it before falling to his death. She later admitted to Alistair that watching him fall had shaken her, but also hardened her resolve - made her all the more determined to get him out of the battle alive.

With the Archdemon dead, Ena formally took up the role of Commander of Fereldan's Grey Wardens. When Anora offered her a royal boon, she asked her to set aside land for the Dalish to settle in Fereldan. She realized that if Morrigan didn't want to be found she wouldn't be, and agreed with Alistair to feign ignorance if questioned about how they had both survived. Before going out to greet the city's survivors as "the Hero of Fereldan," she introduced Alistair to Ashalle as her lover and wished her friends well, reminding them that she was always available if they had need of her.

### **Amaranthine**

About a month into rebuilding after the Blight, Alistair asked Ena to marry him. He opted to take her last name, rather than the both of them taking Maric's. They spent the next three months hunting down darkspawn stragglers together before she was called to Amaranthine to assume the role of arlessa, and he traveled to Highever to place a memorial for Duncan and the Wardens.

Finding the Keep under attack by darkspawn confused her, since they were supposed to be incapable of organizing without an Archdemon to direct them. She initially didn't believe a dying soldier's claim that they could speak, assuming he had mistaken their various noises for speech in his delirium. After finding captain Varel proved him right, she was incredibly fascinated and wanted to talk to it, but wasn't able to stop her comrades from attacking and had to join them in killing it.

With the exception of passing judgement on criminals, Ena was largely uninterested in the administrative side of ruling, preferring to gather resources and deal with the arling's problems personally while leaving the business side of things to what she dubbed "her court." Despite the strategic risk it presented, she insisted that the Keep's remaining forces be spread out through as much of Amaranthine as possible to protect her people. Her disinterest in politicking left her unprepared for bann Esmerelle's attempted coup, nearly costing seneschal Varel his life.

When the Mother attacked Vigil's Keep after drawing Ena away from it by attacking Amaranthine, she couldn't bring herself to abandon the city, trusting that the various improvements she'd had made to the Keep and its forces would be enough to withstand the siege. After tracking the Mother to the Dragonbone Wastes, she was wary of it when she and her friends were confronted by the Architect again after what had happened in the Wending Wood's silverite mine. After questioning him about himself and his work, she agreed to join forces with him against the Mother and possibly the Blight, pointing out to Sigrun when she protested that he seemed to want the Mother dead just as much as they did, and that they could always come back and kill him later if he went back on his word.

She berated the Architect for it when the Mother revealed how he had started the Fifth Blight, angrily asking whether he ever considered whether his actions might have consequences. Once the Mother was dead, she returned to Amaranthine with the intent of rebuilding her arling.

## Post-game

Although she was largely condemned by the leaders of the Grey Wardens for it, Ena stood by her decision to ally with the Architect, and was more than a little smug about it when doing so seemed to cause darkspawn activity to plummet. She continued to prefer leading from the front while leaving the day-to-day management to her court, but despite her best efforts to be a good leader - or maybe because of them - she was unable to quell the infighting amongst the bannorn and merchants, and eventually had to forcefully put down a rebellion she had tried to more peacefully disperse. Many of the citizens displaced by the darkspawn civil war came to settle around the keep itself, including several Dalish clans when they were eventually driven out of the Hinterlands. They dubbed the burgeoning village “Enasalin,” both in honor of its arlessa and its survival of the Mother's siege.

Eventually, Ena stopped being able to accept the idea of herself and Alistair dying relatively young and without a family of their own, and she set out to find a way to cure the darkspawn taint once and for all. When her search of the far-western lands turned up nothing useful, she returned to Thedas and learned of her clan's massacre and Merrill's hand in it, and of her work trying to rebuild the Eluvian from the Brecilian Forest. She tracked her old clanmate down to the Free Marches and feigned relief at seeing her alive, then slit the mage's throat at the first opportunity. She forced Merrill to look at her as she died by stepping on her hair, coldly requesting that she "save (her) a place in the Abyss." Her last words to Merrill were "Fen'harel ma halam, harellan."

Merrill's murder was never connected to Ena, and she soon disappeared completely again. Most assumed that she had abandoned her mission to cure the taint when she learned of her husband's death and gone into the Deep Roads to answer the Calling. In truth, she used her old friend Divine Victoria's spy network to track down Feynriel, "the Dream Lord of Tevinter," and convinced him to send her physically into the Fade, intending to either bring Alistair back to Thedas safely or recover his body for a proper burial.

## Relationships

### **Alistair**

Ena was initially a bit confused by Alistair, not quite understanding how someone could say anything good about the Blight, even as a joke. They didn't get off to the best start, as she was still bitter at Duncan about having to leave her clan and admitted that she wasn't exactly fond of him. Even so, she realized that Alistair saw Duncan as a father figure, and was quick to offer him her sympathy for his loss after Loghain's betrayal at Ostagar. She was glad when he understood the reasoning behind Dalish burial practices without her having to explain, and quickly developed a protective instinct towards him. She apologized to him after saving the Circle, regretful that she'd had to make him leave a place where he seemed genuinely happy.

Goldanna's rejecting him in Denerim enraged her, to the point that she threatened to cut out her "venomous tongue" and feed it to the city's mongrels. She assured Alistair later that even if his sister didn't care about him, he still had people in his life that did, including her. She never questioned him about his experience with women, explaining later that she cared more about *him* than his body, so was surprised when he admitted to being a virgin, having assumed that he'd had to have been with at least one other woman before. She often scolded the others for teasing him, claiming that their doing so took all the fun out of it for herself even though she never did. Although she personally believed that he would make a good king, and told him so, she respected the fact that he was happier as a Grey Warden and agreed to leave Anora on the throne.

Despite the stigma against relationships between humans and elves, particularly among the Dalish, she was never reluctant to admit to her relationship with Alistair, pointing out whenever someone did complain that they were both unlikely to ever have children either way.

### **Morrigan**

Ena was unsure what to make of Morrigan when she confronted the Warden recruits in the Korcari Wilds. She was a bit suspicious of her motives, but generally thought she wasn't a danger to them, although they might not have gotten off to the best start, as she joined Flemeth in giggling over the thought of Morrigan "(dancing) under the moon." Morrigan's description of her upbringing confused her a bit, as although they had both grown up outside of human society, Morrigan had apparently only ever stayed in one place. She was very curious about her shapeshifting ability, having heard of Keepers practicing similar magic and wondering if what Morrigan had learned was similar to what the elves of Arlathan had known. She often offered her her sympathies for how she had been raised, admitting that she found it overly harsh. Overall she got along with Morrigan well, although she was often annoyed at her more pointless cruelty and having to constantly break up her and Alistair's squabbling.

When Morrigan learned how her mother had survived as long as she had, Ena opted not to kill her, thinking it would be more difficult for her to possess Morrigan or anyone else if she was still at least somewhat tethered to her current body. Before leaving with her grimoire, Ena told Flemeth that she had been a terrible mother to Morrigan.

She spent more than a year actively regretting that she hadn't been able to convince Morrigan not to disappear after the Blight ended, admitting more than once that she wished she could thank her and her child for her and Alistair's lives.

### **Leliana**

Ena was curious about Leliana's "vision," and not entirely dismissive of the idea that it really was a sign from the Maker. She took most of her clumsier comments in good stride, joking that she was "sorry to disappoint (her)" for not being savage or kidnapping women and children, although she was troubled by her description of how elves lived in Orlais, thinking it sounded like they were treated more like exotic pets than people. She agreed to confront Marjolaine with her in Denerim, ordering her to return to Orlais and warning her that she wouldn't let her walk away from it if she targeted Leliana again. When Leliana admitted that everything she had said had given her doubts about herself, Ena reminded her that she had been willing to leave the safety of the chantry to help fight the darkspawn, and that Marjolaine had chosen to become as cruel and deceitful as she was, just like she could choose to keep caring about others.

She never picked up on Leliana's attraction to her, although she did figure out that she and Marjolaine had been lovers back in Orlais. Although she never said anything about it to either of them, she secretly hoped that she and Zevran would get together.

### **Sten**

Sten made Ena uneasy at first due to his open admission of killing eight people, and she was often annoyed by his questioning her decisions and condescension toward her, but she still asked him about life in Seheron, intrigued by the idea of everyone being considered equal, and did her best to explain Fereldan customs and culture to him. Although she didn't quite understand how someone could consider a weapon to be part of themselves, she recognized how important it was to him - and that he would be killed if he returned without it either way - and helped him track it down from where it had been lost. She admitted to him that she would miss him when he returned to his people after the Blight, and offered him a few cookie recipes to take with him as a parting gift.

After finding and returning his sword to him, and thus earning his respect, he agreed to teach her a few words and phrases in Qunlat, although the only ones she uses regularly are "parshaara" and "vashedan."

### **Zevran**

Ena was justifiably suspicious of Zevran's trustworthiness at the beginning, and wasn't entirely sure what to say to him - hearing what city elves said about the Dalish from Pol made her worry that he would think the same. When he admitted that his mother had been born Dalish, she offered to do what she could to connect him with her old clan - she didn't entirely understand his reasons for it when he declined, but accepted them either way. She sometimes addressed him fondly as "flat-ear" early on, and eventually took to also calling him "lethallin."

She was frustrated at first when Zevran revealed himself to Taliesen in Denerim, as she'd been trying to cover for him to protect him, but was still a bit blindsided when he sided with her over his former friend even when she insisted she wouldn't ask him to. She admitted that she was glad for it when he decided to continue traveling with them, and later when he agreed that he wasn't hoping to die anymore. She pointed out after the Blight ended that he was likely safer from the Crows in her company than not, but didn't argue with him when he insisted on keeping his distance to lower the chances of her being killed in the crossfire.

Although she was aware of his occasionally flirting with her, she pretended not to notice and opted to prove through action that she was only interested in Alistair. Before leaving to search for a cure for the Blight, she gave him one of her swords, Starfang, to help him in his fight against the Crows.

### **Oghren**

Ena actually made a good first impression on Oghren - even though she didn't notice him, he saw her accost Ordel in Tapsters Tavern and browbeat him into letting his daughter and her son return home, which convinced him that she would be willing to help him find his family. She initially felt a bit awkward around him after leaving Orzammar due to her guilt about killing his wife and getting him exiled from his home, and when she did finally convince herself to "make amends" with him she quickly figured out that he was more hurt by everything that had happened than he let on. Even so, they became friends fairly easily, with Ena coming to see Oghren as something of an uncle. When he announced his plans to join the army after the Blight, she assured him that he would always have a place within "House Mahariel," but that he would have to be second patriarch after Alistair.

She was thrilled to find him fighting darkspawn in Vigil's Keep, and happily accepted his request to join the Grey Wardens. She was surprised when Felsi came to the Keep looking for him, as despite her best efforts she'd spectacularly botched their reunion months ago, but still offered to help mend the rift between them and reminded Oghren that even if he couldn't stay off the battlefield, he could still be a part of his wife and child's lives. The couple eventually named their child in Ena's honor.

### **Shale**

The idea of actually meeting and speaking with a golem intrigued Ena, as she'd only ever heard a handful of stories about them from hahren Paivel. She was initially disappointed that Shale couldn't remember much of her past, but quickly came to feel sorry for her loss and for the way she was treated by Wilhelm. The Shaper's offer to buy Shale enraged her, and she pointedly insisted that she was her friend, not some trinket to be passed around. She jumped at the chance to explore Shale's home thaig when speaking with Caridin jogged her memory, both for her own curiosity and out of a desire to help her. She frequently chastised Shale for referring to her as "it," and was openly thrilled when she finally addressed her as "you." When Shale expressed an interest in becoming a dwarf again, Ena joked that she'd assumed she would want to become a Qunari, teasing her about her apparent crush on Sten.

### **Wynne**

Ena didn't spend enough time with Wynne at Ostagar to form an opinion about her then, although she did find her story interesting. She was grateful for her help in clearing out the Circle tower, but she didn't quite understand why she would rather travel with a relative stranger than help rebuild her home. While she initially agreed that Wynne was a very capable fighter, she became more openly fussy over her when the truth about her health came to light. She felt sorry for her blaming herself for what had happened with her apprentice, and she jumped at the chance to reconcile them when she thought she could. Wynne reminded Ena a bit of Keeper Marethari, and she often addressed her respectfully as "hahren."

When word finally reached her that Wynne had died, she felt like she had betrayed her by not attending her funeral, even though she had been halfway across the world at the time.

### **Anders**

As Ena would later come to attest, "(she) knew something was wrong with (Anders) the minute he opened his mouth." She was immediately doubtful of his claim that he hadn't killed the templars along with the darkspawn where she found him, and largely accepted his help out of necessity. She pointedly reminded him in Amaranthine that people with more power than others had an obligation to use it responsibility, and coldly insisted that "some men deserve it" when he sarcastically asked whether power also entitled people to "suspicion, condemnation and the loss of all personal freedom." Even so, she was never purposefully cruel to him, agreeing after they had killed Rylock that she had no desire to see him killed or Tranquiled, and even seeking out a kitten for him to keep as a pet after he told her about a cat he had loved back in the Circle.

When she learned the truth about what had happened in Kirkwall she was both enraged and guilt-stricken, as she had supported the idea of Justice possessing a willing living body out of curiosity. She placed the blame for the destruction of the chantry and Justice's corruption into Vengeance entirely on Anders, and swore that if she ever crossed paths with him again she would "rip every single piece of that thing out of Justice" and kill whatever was left. She has admitted that in one of her darker moments, she considered making him Tranquil and selling his body to anyone who could afford it.

### **Velanna**

Ena was initially very happy to meet Velanna, having remained lonely without any other Dalish around, but she quickly became nervous when she realized that she was attacking humans on flimsy evidence, unsure whether she would change her mind even when shown the truth. She agreed to help her rescue her sister from the darkspawn, although she did get annoyed when she appeared to stop caring about any of them when they finally found her, sarcastically thanking her for her concern when she only specifically asked Seranni to free her so the two of them could leave. She was reluctant to put her through the Joining, uncertain whether she would survive, but ultimately agreed. When a few of Velanna's old clanmates confronted them in their travels, she insisted that "whatever else might (have been) wrong with her" she cared about her people, and especially her sister. The two became fairly close during the darkspawn civil war.

When Velanna disappeared into the Deep Roads, Ena spent nearly a year searching for her and only reluctantly called it off. She continued to hope that she would eventually cross paths with her, and possibly Seranni, again.

### **Sigrun**

Although she never said it to her face, Ena agreed that Sigrun had a lot to make up for after abandoning her team to the darkspawn. Still, she was willing to help her try to rescue them and grateful for her help in clearing the broodmothers out of Kal'Hirol. As she learned more about her life in Orzammar, she initially felt sorry for her having to live the way she had, but berated her harshly for her betrayal of Mischa and demanded that she make amends. She appreciated her generally cheerful nature and occasionally joined her in teasing Nathaniel for his dourness.

Their relationship became more distant after Ena agreed to join forces with the Architect, but she was still sorry to lose Sigrun when she left to answer her Calling and openly admitted that she would miss her.

### **Justice**

Ena felt sorry for Justice when he was forced out of the Fade and into Kristoff's body, apparently unable to leave it, and agreed to travel with him largely out of pity. She did what she could to make him feel comfortable in the physical world, and she enjoyed hearing about the Fade from him, finding the concept of spirits questioning the nature of their existence much like mortals did fascinating. She assured him that he had done the right thing by trying to comfort Kristoff's widow, and that his wanting to experience a love like theirs didn't make him like a demon, as he wasn't taking it from someone else. She was glad to hear it when he decided that the mortal world was worth caring about, and admitted that she considered him a friend.

She tried to contact him a few times in the Fade after Kristoff's body was burned, but nothing ever came of it and she assumed he had been killed in the siege. Learning the truth of what had happened to him devastated her, mostly because she believed that he would never have considered what "Anders" had done if they hadn't been merged. She admitted that her thoughts often wandered to images of Justice watching helplessly as Vengeance and Anders maimed and murdered anyone who got in their way.

### **Nathaniel**

After questioning the man who had needed four Grey Wardens to bring him down while trying to kill her, she felt too sorry for him to go through with killing him and decided to let him leave with a few of his family's heirlooms. She didn't quite understand why when he later returned to the Keep asking to join the Grey Wardens, but agreed to it anyway. She proved to be a decent friend to him after that, returning his grandfather's bow to him and readily agreeing to help him find his sister in Amaranthine when he asked. She good-naturedly poked fun at him in the Blackmarsh, teasing him about wanting to ride in on a shining steed and drive out the evil within it when he was a boy, and agreed that he might be able to do so as a man. She became very fond of Nathaniel in the time she knew him, even implying at least once that she would be willing to pursue a relationship with him under different circumstances ("Ah, Nate, would that I wasn't already happily married to another shem").

## Miscellaneous

* Ena speaks with the Experienced voice set.
* Despite being trained primarily as a rogue, Ena also took up strength training during the Blight in order to face the Archdemon wearing silverite scale armor and wielding two dragonbone dar'missans. She returned to wearing leather armor after the Blight ended, but continued to fight with swords rather than daggers.
* Although formally recognized as a champion of Redcliffe, she refuses to acknowledge the title out of contempt for arl Eamon. She stands by this decision even after Teagan assumes the position despite having no real animosity towards him, partially due to not knowing how much he was involved in how Alistair was raised.
* She named her favorite halla in her clan Da’assan, meaning “little arrow.”
* Ena often refers to Alistair affectionately as "lathallin," a name she first used during their first night together. She claims that it's a combination of the words "lath" and "lethallin," essentially recognizing Alistair as one of her people as well as the man she loves.
* Ena had a similar relationship with Tamlen to what her father had had with Ashalle.
* Even though Oghren and Felsi's child was male, they named him in Ena's honor but pronounced as a more dwarven - sounding "EN-uh-S'ALL-in." She usually refers to him as "Salin."
* Although she never called Zevran by his nickname, even years later, she was the only one of the group who pronounced it correctly.
* Ena didn't learn what had happened in Crestwood until after she and her friends had returned from Orzammar. She blames herself for what happened to the villagers, and believes that at least a few of them could have been saved if she hadn't "wasted" so much time exploring the Deep Roads.