

She finds Sketch, and a Ferelden trapped in the dungeon for poaching named Silas Corthwaite. Leliana reluctantly follows this advice, taking the items left for her, and begins searching for her companions. However, Sketch and Tug are assailed by guards and Leliana is is betrayed by her bardmaster: stabbed and left to the mercy of Commander Raleigh, who has no love of Orlais.Īfter days of torture and terrible abuse at the hands of Raleigh's men, Leliana is roused from her cell in the Arl of Denerim's dungeon by a mysterious voice urging her to keep fighting and to let the need of those who cannot fight be her strength. Once the document is stolen back, Leliana and her companions make with difficulty for their intended meeting place with Marjolaine.

That night they return, with difficulty, to make it right. Persuaded by Leliana's distress and fear for her, Marjolaine agrees to return to the palace and retrieve the document, foiling the mission. Leliana recognizes this as treason but is forced by Marjolaine to escape with her from the palace before they are overrun by guards.īack in Marjolaine's safehouse, Leliana discusses this revelation with Sketch and Tug, and finally with Marjolaine herself. There they are surprised to encounter Marjolaine fraternizing with Ferelden Commander Harwen Raleigh as well as elite guards harrying them on their way to Marjolaine's real objective: planting a document bearing Orlesian military seals. These hijinks have a practical purpose, however, and provide cover for Marjolaine to lead Leliana, Tug and Sketch into the Arl of Denerim's Estate amidst the chaos. Under the auspices of Orlesian intrigue known to bards and other practitioners as " The Game", the party steals goods from several stalls in the market, attacks the Fereldan Bann Perrin for his disrespect of an Orlesian noble, and kills Jovi Merice for insulting the reputation of many members of Orlais' nobility. In Leliana's Song, you assume the role of Leliana-a female bard living in a world of political secrets, seduction and murder-in the pivotal telling of her past.Īccompanying her bardmaster Marjolaine on a high-risk mission from Orlais to Denerim, Leliana and her companions and fellow agents Tug, the enigmatic dwarven warrior, and the elven apostate Sketch (as well as the human fence Bonny Lem), are bid to create chaos in the Denerim Market District as well as settle a few debts.
