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During In Your Heart Shall Burn[]
- Giselle: Shh, you need rest.
- Inquisitor: They've been at it for hours.
- Giselle: They have that luxury, thanks to you. The enemy could not follow, and with time to doubt, we turn to blame. Infighting may threaten as much as this Corypheus.
Investigate: (Where is Corypheus now?)
- Inquisitor: Do we know where Corypheus and his forces are?
- Giselle: We are not sure where we are. Which may be why, despite the numbers he still commands, there is no sign of him. That, or you are believed dead. Or without Haven, we are thought helpless. Or he girds for another attack. I cannot claim to know the mind of that creature, only his effect on us.
(I should help plan.)
- Inquisitor: If they're arguing about what we do next, I need to be there.
- Giselle: Another heated voice won't help. Even yours. Perhaps especially yours.
(Yelling won't help.)
- Inquisitor: The only thing yelling gets us is a headache. Another headache.
- Giselle: They know. But our situation— your situation— is complicated.
(We can't let him find us.)
- Inquisitor: If that thing is still out there, we need to move.
- Giselle: They are uncertain where. And there are other questions. About you.
- Giselle: Our leaders struggle because of what we survivors witnessed. We saw our defender stand... and fall. And now, we have seen her/him return. The more the enemy is beyond us, the more miraculous your actions appear. And the more our trials seem ordained. That is hard to accept, no? What "we" have been called to endure? What "we," perhaps, must come to believe?
Investigate: (I didn't die and come back.)
- Inquisitor: I escaped the avalanche. Barely, perhaps, but I didn't die.
- Giselle: Of course, and the dead cannot return from across the Veil. But the people know what they saw. Or, perhaps, what they needed to see. The Maker works both in the moment, and in how it is remembered. Can we truly know the heavens are not with us?
Investigate: (Should we believe Corypheus?)
- Inquisitor: You saw Corypheus. What do you think of his claims of assaulting the heavens?
- Giselle: Scripture says magisters, Tevinter servants of the false Old Gods, entered the Fade to reach the Golden City, seat of the Maker. For their crime, they were cast out as darkspawn. Their hubris is why we suffer Blight, and why the Maker turned from us. If such is the claim of this Corypheus, he is a monster beyond imagining. All mankind continues to suffer for that sin. If even a shred of it is true, all the more reason Andraste would choose someone to rise against him.
Continue investigation: (He said the heavens are empty.)
- Inquisitor: Corypheus said he found only corruption and emptiness. Nothing golden.
- Giselle: If he entered that place, it has changed him without and within. The living are not meant to make that journey. Perhaps these are the lies he must tell himself, rather than accept that he earned the scorn of the Maker. I know I could not bear such.
The following dialogue options result in Giselle leading most of the Inquisition in singing The Dawn Will Come. After the song has finished, she will say one more line based on the dialogue option the Inquisitor chose:
(Fanatical belief is to blame.)
- Inquisitor: All of this happened because of fanatics, and arguments about the next world. It's time we start believing in this one.
- Giselle: It's all one world, Herald. All that changes is our place in it.
(We need more than faith.)
- Inquisitor: Mother Giselle, I just don't see how what I believe matters. Lies or not, Corypheus is a real, physical threat. We can't match that with hope alone.
- Giselle: An army needs more than an enemy. It needs a cause.
(This is a waste of time.)
- Inquisitor: If the enemy is still out there, these questions don't matter. We need soldiers, weapons. Corypheus doesn't care what we believe.
- Giselle: Corypheus will care. The best answer to powerful lies are certain truths.
Faithful only: (I've lost faith.)
- Inquisitor: Whatever I may have believed, I felt no divine aid while Haven was destroyed. I want to believe that Andraste is with me, but doubt is everywhere.
- Giselle: You may have lost faith, but they haven't. They have found it.
Faithful only: (I believe, but it didn't help.)
- Inquisitor: I know in my heart that I was meant for this, but that didn't help at Haven. I want to believe that Andrate is with me, but doubt is everywhere.
- Giselle: Faith is made stronger by facing doubt. Untested, it is nothing.
Non-faithful only: (I believe, but is that enough?) - Choosing this option will change the Inquisitor's flag to Faithful.
- Inquisitor: Perhaps I was meant for this, but that didn’t help at Haven. I want to believe Andraste is with me, but doubt is everywhere.
- Giselle: Faith is made stronger by facing doubt. Untested, it is nothing.
Non-faithful only: (I still don't believe.)
- Inquisitor: Whatever the rest of you say, I felt no divine aid at the Conclave or Haven. The struggle ahead seems mine alone.
- Giselle: Faith may have yet to find you, but it has already found them.