The Lady of the Forest

"I have known love and hope, pain and fear...yet I desire nothing more than an end."

The Lady of the Forest is a mysterious creature who dwells with werewolves in the Brecilian Forest.

Background
{{SpoilerDAO| She is the very spirit of the forest itself, bound to the body of a silver wolf; the legendary Witherfang. However, none of the Werewolves address her as such(They simply say "our lady"). When Zathrian's children were attacked by humans centuries ago, his son murdered and his daughter raped; he brought forth her spirit for revenge. This spirit was not taken from across the Fade, but from the forest itself. The spirit was bound to the body of a wolf and spread the disease of lycanthropy to the humans who had hurt Zathrian's family. The infected became mindless beasts and/or died, exacting his revenge. But the curse lived on past its intended purpose, spreading pain and death to countless more innocent victims over the centuries; until the Lady of the Forest came back to the wolves in the form of a beautiful woman. She then began to look over the werewolves and helped to calm their savage nature, though she could not cure the disease that ravaged their bodies and minds. She and the cursed wolves now seek to end their curse, and bring peace back to everyone. Since only Zathrian, the one that created the curse, can cure it, they started engaging the elves. Their plan is to spread the disease to his own people so he would finally be forced to cure it. This causes Zathrian to ask you to go hunt and kill Witherfang.

Involvement
The Lady will ask that the Warden and his/her party reason with Zathrian to end the curse. If they help the werewolves by ending the curse she will die along with Zathrian. But if you decide not to help the werewolves and wish to slay her instead, she transforms into Witherfang and attacks you alongside the werewolves. There is also a persuade option that allows the werewolves to kill all the elves. This is the only option that allows her to live past this section of the game, but it also ensures that the elves are all killed and that the Werewolves cannot be cured. They will, however, join the Warden in the battle against the Blight. Swiftrunner will state that the world will never accept their savage race. The Lady will then state that helping against the Blight will help bring honor from the other races to their cursed kind.

If the player sides with the Werewolves, the Lady is present in Redcliffe Castle before the final battle and appears at the Warden's funeral in the Ultimate Sacrifice ending.

If you choose do help the Lady Of The Forest, she stay in your camp.

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Quotes

 * "You are my maker Zathrian. You gave me form and consciousness where none existed. I have known pain and love, hope and fear, all the joy that is life. Yet of all things, I desire nothing more than an end. I beg you maker, put an end to me... we beg you... Show mercy."
 * "We seek to end the curse. The crimes committed against Zathrian's children were terrible, but they were committed centuries ago by those who are long dead."
 * "This is an old forest, mortal, and I am its spirit, its heart. I was not summoned from across the Fade, but pulled from the rocks, the trees and the very soil. I was then bound into the body of the wolf who became Witherfang: not possessing a host like a sylvan or one of the undead, but bound into a single being. But such a process could not have been accomplished without Zathrian's blood...a great deal of his blood. The curse and his life...are intertwined.
 * "Your people believe you have rediscovered the immortality of their ancestors, Zathrian, but that is not true. So long as the curse exists, so do you".