Isabela's dialogue contains the conversations she shares with The Warden in Dragon Age: Origins and with Hawke and Hawke's companions in Dragon Age II.
Dialogue: Dragon Age: Origins
- Isabela: "Hmm... strong hands. Could I entice you to leave your order and sign up as one of my crewmen? I could use those strong hands at my... helm."
- Warden: "I don't know anything about sailing."
- Isabela: "The ship is the best teacher. She will guide you with her sighs... her shudders, her gentle swaying as she rides the crests of the waves."
- Isabela: "She's quite feisty, isn't she?"
- Warden: "She bites too."
- Leliana: "I do not!"
- Isabela: "And you said she was a cloistered sister? I dare say the cloisters must be teaching things other than the Chant of Light."
- Leliana: "Oh, no, no... I learned those things in Orlais. Bored noblewomen often come up with various methods of self-amusement."
- Isabela: "She's quite feisty isn't she?"
- Warden: "I thought her performance was lackluster today."
- Leliana: "Lackluster! Well, that's a fine way of complimenting a lady!"
- Isabela: "Ha! You might be many things, sweet Leliana, but as you have proven today, you are no lady."
- Leliana: "L-let us never speak of this again."
- Isabela: "Yes, I agree."
- Zevran: "I don't mind never speaking of it again, as long as we could do it again."
- Leliana: "That's a thought..."
- Isabela: "Am I getting old, or has Zevran become even more depraved over the years?"
- Zevran: "I've been about Grey Wardens. Perhaps the taint has rubbed off on me some, hmm? (Chuckles)"
- Isabela: "My dear, you wouldn't consider...leaving Alistair with me, would you? Perhaps let me borrow him for a week every summer? I'm sure we could work out a deal."
- Warden: "Would you lend me your ship?"
- Isabela: "Of course not! You would misuse the ship-- Which, I suppose, is exactly what I would do with Alistair, though I suspect he would enjoy it while the ship wouldn't."
- Alistair: "Not that the idea of being borrowed isn't terribly fascinating, but let's not forget the darkspawn. There may not be a week every summer, or any summer."
- Isabela: "Darkspawn! Is this the only thing men think about these days? What about the good old obsessions? Breasts, firm buttocks, wet frocks?"
- Alistair: "Hmm... wet frocks..."
Dialogue: Dragon Age II
Isabela and Hawke
During Fools Rush In
- Hawke: "Stab first, ask questions later?"
- Isabela: "Trust me, it's better this way."
Act III
During No Rest for the Wicked
Beginning of quest, while talking about how to fool Velasco
- Hawke: "You haven't exactly thought this out, have you?"
- Isabela: "I haven't exactly worked out all of the kinks. Step one, we find Castillon... step two, I don't know. Something exciting happens. Step three, profit. Any questions?" (Possibly a reference to the South Park episode, "Gnomes")
In the Blooming Rose, before pretending to hand Isabela over to trick Velasco
- Isabela: Now, this needs to be convincing. And you'll need to get creative—call me names, even hit me.
- Isabela: Stick with it, no matter what I do. Velasco's a clever son of a bitch. If you waver, he'll notice.
(Diplomatic choice) I'm not sure about this.
- Hawke: I don't know if I can pull this off.
- Isabela: Come on, haven't you ever wanted to slap me? Just a little?
If other party members present
- Aveline: Absolutely.
- Fenris: Yes.
- Anders: Yes.
- Varric: Yes.
- Merrill: Yes... wait, what are we voting on?
- Sebastian: Is that a trick question?
- Isabela: I wasn't asking you people!
- Varric: Face it. You set yourself up for that one.
OR (Humorous choice) You seem a little eager.
- Hawke: I'm worried about you. You're enjoying this a little too much.
- Isabela: I am, aren't I? (Giggles)
OR (Aggressive choice) This will be fun.
- Hawke: I'll make it convincing, not to worry.
- Isabela: Er... now you're making me nervous.
If Hawke spent the night with Fenris, speak to her in The Hanged Man
- Isabela: Speaking of romance... You and Fenris, eh? That taut, controlled body, brooding demeanor and intense gaze... I hear he still wears the shackles from his life in bondage...under his clothes. You know what they say about men like that, don't you?
- Hawke: (Sighs) I'm going to regret asking you to continue, aren't I?
- Isabela: He can't find a saw. (Laughs) I had you there! You thought I was going to say something dirty! (Laughs)
OR
- Hawke: I haven't seen any shackles. You're just making things up.
- Isabela: Oh. But... I had this joke lined up.
- Isabela: You're no fun.
OR
- Hawke: Keep it to yourself, Isabela.
- Isabela: You're no fun.
If Hawke romanced Merrill, speak to her in The Hanged Man
- Isabela: Speaking of romance...
- Isabela: You're interested in Merrill, aren't you?
- Hawke: I have feelings for her/I'm that obvious, am I?
- Isabela: Well, that's good. She always seemed a little lonely.
- Isabela: I get the feeling the girl's messing in something big and dangerous.
- Isabela: Look out for her, will you? Make sure she doesn't hurt herself.
- Isabela: Oh, and if you do anything nasty to her, I'll cut off your balls. (male Hawke)
If Hawke has slept with Isabela and let her take the ship:
- Hawke: "So when do I get the grand tour?"
- Isabela: "Haven't you already - Oh, you mean the ship."
When entering the Blooming Rose for the first time
- Isabela: "The difference between whores and courtesans is...well, they have nicer shoes."
- Hawke: "I don't think anyone's looking at their shoes."
After the events of All That Remains and if you romanced Isabela
- Isabela: "I... uh. I feel I should say... something."
- Hawke: "I know you're not good at... emotional stuff."
- Isabela: "At least your mother loved you. Not everyone can say that."
- Hawke: "Mother was all I had left."
- Isabela: "You don't really think that, do you?"
- Isabela: "Family's not just the people you're related to by blood. There are other people who care about you."
- Isabela: "Like... Aveline."
Isabela and Anders
ACT I
- Isabela: Hello? Is Anders there? Can I speak to Anders?
- Anders: You can stop yelling. It's always me.
- Isabela: Oh, good. I didn't want to talk to that other guy. You know, the stick-in-the-mud.
- Anders: He can still hear you. Justice and I are one.
- Anders: Anyway, you wanted to talk to me?
- Isabela: Not really. I just wanted to make sure it was you.
- Anders: I keep thinking I know you from somewhere...
- Isabela: You're Fereldan, right? Ever spend time at the Pearl?
- Anders: That's it!
- Anders: You used to really like that girl with the griffin tattoos, right? What was her name?
- Isabela: The Lay Warden?
- Anders: That's right! I think you were there the night I—
- Isabela: Oh! Were you the runaway mage who could do that electricity thing? That was nice...
- Hawke: Please stop talking. Now.
Or if Varric is in the party
- Varric: I don't think I need to know this about either of you.
- Anders: Isabela, you never talk about the mages' plight.
- Isabela: What's there to say?
- Anders: There's plenty to say.
- Isabela: And you say enough for the lot of us, don't you think?
- Anders: So you're telling me you have no opinion on the matter?
- Isabela: None whatsoever!
- Anders: That can't be true.
- Isabela: No, I'm afraid I'm really this shallow.
- Anders: Sometimes, I think you have the right idea.
- Isabela: Handcuffs, whipped cream, always be on top?
- Anders: I never used to give two bits what anyone thought of me.
- Anders: Justice once asked me why I didn't do more for other mages. I told him it was too much work.
- Anders: But I couldn't go back after that. Couldn't stop thinking about it.
- Anders: Sometimes, I miss being that selfish.
- Isabela: Huh? Were you talking? I was still at "whipped cream."
ACT II
- Anders: What makes this relic of yours so valuable?
- Isabela: The same thing that makes anything valuable. Someone's willing to pay for it.
- Anders: That's not evasive.
- Isabela: Look, I didn't get where I am by showing my hand, you know?
- Anders: No, your hand isn't what I hear you've been showing.
- Anders: Do you ever have any regrets?
- Isabela: About what?
- Anders: Anything? Everything? I can't figure you out.
- Isabela: The past's past. I learned that young. If it can't bring you gold or giggles, what's the point in dwelling on it?
- Anders: Maybe the chance to fix a mistake? Make things right again?
- Isabela: Eh. Our mistakes make us who we are.
- Anders: That was almost profound.
- Anders: So, this relic you lost... how is it you don't know what it is?
- Isabela: It was in a box.
- Anders: And you didn't open it? You managed to resist the urge?
- Isabela: It was locked. It was a locked box!
- Anders: Hasn't stopped you before.
- Isabela: What do you want me to say?
- Anders: Nothing. I just found it curious, that's all.
- Anders: You do have an opinion on mages, don’t you?
- Isabela: Of course I do. I just don't feel a constant need to bring it up.
- Isabela: (Sighs) Mages don’t worry me. And I don't believe the templars when they say I should be worried.
- Isabela: I’m more likely to be shanked in a bar than eaten by an abomination. You can hear those coming a mile away.
- Isabela: "Grr. Argh!" "Oh, is that an abomination coming to eat us? We should get out of here!"
- Anders: Abominations don't go, "Grr. Argh."
- Isabela: They don't? I should rethink the whole thing, then.
ACT III
- Anders: You're not nearly as selfish as you pretend.
- Isabela: Hey! You take that back!
- Anders: You had your relic. You were gone. There was no reason for you to come back and face the Qunari.
- Isabela: I still don't have a ship. I thought I could get one.
- Anders: From a bunch of shipwrecked Qunari?
- Isabela: From the Viscount. I just got here late.
- Anders: I always knew you had a heart of gold.
- Isabela: Shh! Don't tell anyone.
- Anders: I don't know how you live the way you do, blithely ignoring the consequences of your actions.
- Isabela: This is about the Qunari thing, isn't it? I'm not ignoring it. I just recognize that it happened years ago.
- Isabela: There's this fantastic thing called "moving on." You should try it sometime.
- Anders: Has it occurred to you that Kirkwall is only just recovering from the Qunari attack?
- Isabela: And you want me to... what? Flog myself daily?
- Isabela: Has it occurred to you that maybe there's no justice in the world? Other than that voice you keep in your head.
- Anders: I can't believe you're still not taking sides.
- Isabela: I told you, I only like to be on top.
- Anders: I mean against the templars! You like freedom, right? You hate slavery.
- Anders: Why wouldn't you side with the mages?
- Isabela: Maybe I just don't like you.
- Anders: There is justice in the world.
- Isabela: Is there? You want to free the mages. Let's say you do, but to get there, you kill a bunch of innocent people.
- Isabela: What about them? Don't they then deserve justice?
- Anders: Yes.
- Isabela: And then what? Where does it end?
- Isabela: It's like a bar brawl. People are continuously pulled into the fray, and nobody remembers why it started.
- Isabela: Justice is an idea. It makes sense in a world of ideas, but not in our world.
Isabela and Aveline
ACT I
- Aveline: So, Isabela. You're a captain?
- Isabela: That's right, big girl. What of it?
- Aveline: I don't remember your name on any registries. Every ship that docks has to declare.
- Isabela: I never docked, and you're no port authority.
- Aveline: And you... are no merchant.
- Isabela: Ooh... scrutiny.
- Isabela: Do men find you intimidating? What about Wesley? Did he?
- Aveline: Isabela...
- Isabela: What? Too soon?
- Aveline: Too soon, too personal, too... everything coming from you!
- Isabela: Ooh, sore spot?
- Aveline: If you don't shut up, I'll give you a sore spot
- Isabela: You have such pretty hair. What a lovely color.
- Aveline: Other children used to laugh at me for having ginger hair.
- Isabela: Really? Aww. I bet you were cute. Did you have pigtails?
- Aveline: Sometimes.
- Isabela: How precious! Little Aveline, running around the village with her flaming orange pigtails streaming behind her...
- Isabela: ...and little boys all scattering and screaming for mercy as she approached.
- Aveline: Shut up, whore.
Only if you complete The Way It Should Be
- Isabela: Well. "Captain." Can I call you captain? You can call me captain.
- Aveline: I won't be doing that.
- Isabela: Neither will I. Because you're a guard captain. No real authority. Not like on a ship.
- Aveline: Well, you would know about having a large number of men under you.
- Isabela: You've been waiting to use that one. Did you practice?
- Aveline: Shut up.
When entering the Blooming Rose for the first time
- Isabela: "The difference between whores and courtesans is...well, they have nicer shoes."
- Aveline: I think your shoes are fine.
- Isabela: Look at you being funny! That might even get you a man someday.
ACT II
- Aveline: I had trouble with another one of your women, Isabela. She stole from a... distracted client. You're lucky she wasn't jailed.
- Isabela: My women? I am but a shepherd. And what free enterprise are you oppressing now?
- Aveline: Theft is not enterprise.
- Isabela: Opportunities insufficiently guarded. Victimless crimes.
- Aveline: Except for all the victims.
- Isabela: Details. Victimless details.
- Aveline: How are you so successful with men? You're not that pretty.
- Isabela: Cast a wide enough net, and you're bound to catch something.
- Aveline: (Laughs) At least you're willing to admit it.
- Isabela: Trust me. I've heard, "Get away from me, you pirate hag!" more times than I care to count.
- Aveline: Doesn't that bother you?
- Isabela: Why should it? They don't know me. I know me.
- Aveline: You're right.
- Isabela: About?
- Aveline: About knowing who you are.
- Aveline: I'm the captain of the guard. I'm loyal, strong, and I don't look too bad naked.
- Isabela: Exactly. And if I called you a mannish, awkward, ball-crushing do-gooder, you'd say...?
- Aveline: Shut up, whore.
- Isabela: That's my girl.
During The Long Road. Isabela must be in the party when you speak to Aveline after posting the duty roster, and choose, "You've been alone this long?"
- Hawke: So you've been by yourself since we came to Kirkwall?
- Isabela: Wait, you've gone four years without? You must creak like a rusty hinge.
- Aveline: Many people have their lives because of me.
- Isabela: But poor you, no life of your own.
- Aveline: We both place others above ourselves. I happen to do it clothed.
(Isabela approaches Aveline)
- Isabela: You're splitting hairs, but wishing someone would split yours.
- Aveline: I've had enough of your loose lips. Like many, I'm sure.
(they get in each other's face)
- Isabela: Oh, touché. Prig!
- Aveline: Slattern!
(Hawke steps in)
- Hawke: If I might put this back on track.
After completing The Long Road
- Isabela: So, how good is Donnic? Is he cocksure?
- Aveline: (Sighs) Just... get it out of your system.
- Isabela: Did he curl your toes?
Isabela will say four of the following at random:
- Isabela: Dwarf your beard?
- Isabela: Arl your Eamon?
- Isabela: Shank your Jory?
- Isabela: Praise your Maker?
- Isabela: Grope your grinder?
- Isabela: Establish his canon?
- Isabela: Kaddis your Katie?
- Isabela: Dampen your Divine?
- Isabela: Pamper your Paragon?
- Isabela: Grey your Warden?
- Isabela: Pudding your peach?
- Isabela: Float your frigate?
- Isabela: Explore your Deep Roads?
The fifth will always be one of the following:
- Isabela: How about "satisfy a demand of your Qun."
- Isabela: Or did he Cup your Joining?
- Isabela: Or master your taint? That's an old one.
- Aveline: Yes, all right? He is an incredibly proficient lover. Happy?
- Isabela: Well that's rather personal, don't you think?
ACT III
- Aveline: You didn't come to my solstice dinner party.
- Isabela: Look at you! Dinner parties, cooking... do you have a lace apron yet, or should I get one for you?
- Aveline: Don't change the subject. I sent you an invitation, and you didn't show up.
- Isabela: I thought it would be... I mean, I don't know. I just don't do family gatherings.
- Isabela: Besides, one day you and Donnic will have children, and I'll be the last person you want around them.
- Isabela: Imagine all the awkward questions you'd have to answer. "Mother, what's a Slattern?"
- Aveline: I'll just point at you and say, "That's a Slattern."
- Isabela: So, Donnic was in the Rose.
- Aveline: He was not!
- Isabela: Easy, big girl. He wasn't shopping for himself. You're lucky to have a man who wants to please you.
- Isabela: But, maybe you could indulge him more. Are there areas of intimacy you haven't explored?
- Aveline: Why? Why do you give me these doubts!
- Isabela: Aveline. If you shove your thumb up his ass, I win.
The last line depends on who else is in the party:
- Anders: Just... no.
- Fenris: (laughs)
- Merrill: Ew!
- Varric: Ah, that old chestnut.
- Sebastian: Ugh. Maker.
- Hawke: (Coughs)
- Isabela: How's marriage been treating you, big girl?
- Aveline: It's been good. No, great. I'd forgotten what it was like to...
- Isabela: Be flipped ass over tits and hammered like a bent nail?
- Aveline: To. Be. Loved.
- Isabela: Oh. Right, of course.
- Aveline: Not that I'm complaining about the other thing.
- Aveline: You know, Isabela, if someone had told me that I'd put up with you for all these years, I'd have punched them flat.
- Isabela: And if someone had told me I'd still be here, I'd have done the same.
If No Rest for the Wicked has been completed
- Aveline: You have your ship, what's stopping you?
Otherwise
- Aveline: Save your bits, you'll have your ship one day.
- Isabela: And what would you do without me as a constant headache in the Rose?
- Aveline: Someone would rush to fill the hole. You know, like you never left.
- Isabela: That's my girl.
- Aveline: Maybe you win once in a while.
- Aveline: (Laughs)
- Isabela: And then he says...he says, "I swear I had two when I came in here."
- Isabela: You know, those stains never did come out.
- Aveline: You are horrible. Every inch.
- Isabela: You love it, big girl. And you owe me for the bottle.
- Isabela: Hawke.
- Aveline: She's not so bad. Except when she is.
- Aveline: Isabela, I realize that you are always prepared for a sudden random phallus, but for your own safety, shut your mouth!
During Champions and Captains, and you choose "How was the honeymoon?"
- Hawke: You never said how your three weeks in Orlais went.
- Aveline: You're right. I didn't.
- Isabela: Ohh. Shivery.
During On The Loose, when talking with Emile de Launcet
- Isabela: Aww, he's like you were. Do you remember, Aveline? When you were stupid over Donnic?
- Aveline: Yes, I remember. Thank you.
Isabela and Bethany
- Bethany: What were you before you were a pirate?
- Isabela: I had a husband. He didn’t beat me, that’s about the best I can say about it.
- Bethany: So you left him?
- Isabela: He was murdered. By my lover. It was all very... Antivan.
- Bethany: Oh. I don’t think I’d like to live in Antiva.
- Bethany: So you've... been with women. In bed?
- Isabela: I know. Shocking, isn't it?
- Isabela: You see, sweetness, men are only good for one thing. Women are good for six.
- Bethany: Six? Which six?
- Hawke: Isabela!
- Isabela: (Laughs)
- Bethany: I guess you've been with a lot of men.
- Isabela: Men. Women. Elves. A dwarf in drag once, but I don't recommend that.
- Bethany: Oh.
- Isabela: Aw... you're blushing! Why? How many lovers have you had?
- Bethany: I-I never—
- Isabela: You're a virgin? Hawke, you've been holding out on the poor girl! Get her a night at the Blooming Rose. On me!
- Bethany: That's, um, very generous.
- Isabela: I'm a giver.
- Bethany: That book you were reading this morning, "Hesserian's Spear"— I don't think he had a spear in the legends.
- Isabela: He does in this one. Read the description.
- Bethany: "Andraste knelt before no man but her Maker, but she hadn't counted on the archon Hesserian."
- Bethany: "Can Hesserian penetrate the tight-knit defenses of the warrior-prophetess? Will she be prepared to face the full blast of his... power?"
- Bethany: Wait a minute... Isabela! This is a vulgar thing!
- Isabela: You want to borrow it?
- Bethany: No!
- Isabela: You sure? It has pictures!
- Bethany: Not listening! I'm not listening!
(When entering the barracks in the Viscount's Keep)
- Isabela: Coming here of my own free will feels wrong... Like diddling a sister.
- Bethany: Why? Why do you say these things?
Isabela and Carver
- Carver: So, Isabela. You captained a ship? That's a lot of men to handle. For you to command.
- Isabela: Well aren't you just adorable fumbling for a topic.
- Carver: You say that like I'm harmless.
- Isabela: As harmless as a pup that will someday grow into its fangs and sink them deep.
- Carver: Sure, keep teasing. I'll show you how much of a pup I am.
- Isabela: I know. That's why I do it.
- Isabela: You look like a man I once dueled.
- Isabela: He was a little intimated by my reputation as a vicious pirate, but rose to the challenge.
- Carver: He looked like me, you say?
- Isabela: It went on all night, under the stars, the waves lapping at our ankles.
- Carver: On the beach? In the surf? How did you get proper footing?
- Isabela: We didn't. There was quite a bit of tumbling around, and we were soaked and sore by the time the sun came up.
- Carver: Did you... win?
- Isabela: I managed to get on top in the end, but I considered it a tie.
- Carver: Why is it always about sex with you?
- Isabela: It's not. Sometimes it's about sex with other people.
- Carver: You see? It comes up every single time we talk.
- Isabela: We're just talking, Carver. If it comes up, that's not my fault.
- Carver: What? I mean... that's not what I meant. It... it doesn't!
- Carver: I hate you so much.
Isabela and Fenris
ACT I
- Isabela: So what's with that magical fisting thing you do?
- Fenris: I'm... sorry?
- Isabela: You know, when you stick your hand into people.
- Fenris: Oh. That. Yes. It's a... talent.
- Isabela: You could make so much coin with that.
- Isabela: This one time, I was sailing to Llomerryn, and there was a fight between two of my men.
- Isabela: It was over a dice game, or the last piece of toast, or something. Sailors—they’re touchy about their toast.
- Fenris: Is this going anywhere?
- Isabela: It will if you let me finish.
- Isabela: So, there’s a knife fight, and Jim ends up with a broken-off blade stuck in his shoulder.
- Isabela: It’s buried deep in there, and we’re out at sea, at least a week from the nearest port.
- Isabela: If you were there, you could've reached in and plucked that blade right from his flesh.
- Fenris: That’s your whole point?
- Isabela: Pretty much.
- Isabela: I enjoy a man with markings like that.
- Fenris: You've enjoyed many, I suspect.
- Isabela: Where I come from, they're called "tattoos." Sailors get them all the time.
- Fenris: Not made of lyrium, I'd imagine.
- Isabela: Not a one. And the pictures are different—usually breasts.
- Fenris: I suppose a pair of lyrium breasts tattooed onto my chest would make things better.
- Isabela: That's me. I'm a helper.
- Fenris: So this relic you mentioned losing...
- Isabela: You have pretty eyes.
- Fenris: I... have pretty eyes.
- Isabela: You elves have such pretty eyes, even the men. It makes me want to pluck them out and wear them as a necklace.
- Fenris: I wouldn't suggest trying.
- Isabela: Oh, I would never try. Not without reason, of course.
- Fenris: Forget I said anything.
- Fenris: So you freed a group of slaves?
- Isabela: Would-be slaves. They weren't slaves yet.
- Fenris: Still, you did the right thing. Many would turn a blind eye.
- Isabela: Don't read too much into it, all right? It just seemed a good idea at the time.
In front of The Hanged Man
- Fenris: I still don't get the name. Did they hang someone here?
- Isabela: It means being drunk.
If Varric is in the party
- Varric: Actually they used to hang men there. By their feet...until they starved.
- Fenris: Well, good thing they were drunk then.
While speaking to Jethann in The Blooming Rose during the quest The First Sacrifice
- Isabela: Ooh, I like him. He reminds me of someone.
- Fenris: Can't imagine who.
In the Hanged Man
- Fenris: Sour ale, vomit, and the smell of desperation.
- Isabela: I live here you know.
- Fenris: Then I stand corrected.
ACT II
- Fenris: So I hear you think mages should be free.
- Isabela: Everyone should be free. Not just mages.
- Fenris: Not everyone's dangerous.
- Isabela: It's not about who's dangerous. It's about having choices made for you.
- Isabela: Don't you wish you had the choice not to have lyrium stuck under your skin?
- Fenris: I do.
- Isabela: (Sighs) This is silly. I don't want to argue.
- Fenris: Do you want to guess what color my underclothes are again?
- Isabela: Oh, yes, that's much more fun.
- Fenris: You keep staring at me. Is it my eyes again?
- Isabela: You're very lanky for an elf. I like lanky.
- Fenris: From what I gather, you like a lot of things.
- Isabela: Nonsense. But when I see something I like, I go after it.
If Hawke is romancing Fenris:
- Fenris: I suggest keeping your distance.
- Isabela: Now you're just making it challenging.
If not:
- Fenris: Do you intend to go after me, then?
- Isabela: Will you take off all that spiky armor you're wearing?
- Fenris: It's been known to happen.
- Isabela: Then forget it.
- Isabela: So what duties did you have? As a slave, I mean?
- Fenris: Not this again.
- Isabela: I heard that Tevinter slaves are kept oiled so they glisten. Did your master oil you up? Did you glisten for him?
- Fenris: I was his bodyguard.
- Isabela: Always close at hand. Always within reach. Glistening.
- Fenris: You have an entire story written in your head already, don't you?
- Isabela: Mmm.
ACT III
- Isabela: You seem especially broody today.
- Fenris: Does it bother you? Should I stop?
- Isabela: No, don't stop. But could you add some smoldering to the routine? Just for me?
- Fenris: Smolder?
- Isabela: Oh, and while you're at it, perhaps some cold insolence.
- Fenris: You want me to smolder and be cold at the same time? Those don't go together...
- Isabela: Shush. Don't distract me with your logic.
- Fenris: So you engaged a Qunari dreadnaught in battle.
- Isabela: They engaged me in battle. I was just trying to get away.
- Isabela: Sailing into the storm was a gamble. Took care of the dreadnaught, but it did us in too. Can't win them all.
- Fenris: Where I come from, we would call that insanity.
- Isabela: Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Fenris: I still can't believe Hawke saved you.
- Isabela: You've been saying that for years. Would you have turned me over to the Qunari?
- Fenris: No, but I know what they do to their prisoners.
- Isabela: Execute them horribly, I imagine.
- Fenris: The Qunari waste nothing. They would reeducate you into a loyal follower of the Qun.
- Isabela: Pfft. Could I refuse?
- Fenris: There's always qamek, which turns you into a mindless laborer. Like I said, they waste nothing.
- Isabela: Oh.
- Fenris: If you wish to thank Hawke, he's/she's standing right there.
If neither is in a romance with Hawke:
- Isabela: That night, I can't stop thinking about it.
- Fenris: Well, then I'll see you later.
- Isabela: That was direct.
- Fenris: I thought I'd get straight to the point. Were you expecting flowers or something?
- Isabela: Don't be absurd.
- Fenris: Then I'll see you tonight.
Isabela and Flemeth
- Isabela: Friend of yours?
- Flemeth: You speak the word as if it were cheap coin, meant for spending.
- Isabela: You don't know me.
- Flemeth: Oh, I know your type.
Isabela and Leliana
If you romanced Leliana in Dragon Age: Origins and had a threesome with Isabela:
- Isabela: Leliana?
- Leliana: Isabela?
- Isabela: "Sister Nightingale," indeed. I remember it didn't take much to make you sing.
- Leliana: *laughs awkwardly*
- Merrill: I like singing! Were you in a choir together?
- Isabela: Not exactly, Kitten.
- Varric: Is there anyone in Ferelden you haven't slept with, Rivaini?
- Merrill: Oh, is that what she... oh. Oh.
- Leliana: Perhaps we... should get back to the reason I'm here.
Isabela and Merrill
ACT I
- Merrill: How do you do that?
- Isabela: Do what, Kitten?
- Merrill: You sort of... swagger when you walk. I've been trying, but I trip over my own feet when I do it.
- Isabela: You just strut. It's not something you practice.
- Merrill: How do I learn it, then?
- Isabela: It comes to you. Usually at night. It's like a lover... or maybe a burglar.
- Isabela: Either it ravishes you or runs off with all your jewelry. And you have to run it down and stab it in the heart.
- Isabela: And... that metaphor got a bit away from me, didn't it?
- Merrill: I think it did, but it was certainly exciting!
- Merrill: Do you really like sailing?
- Isabela: Like it? I love it! The salt spray on my face, the wind whipping by my ears, the gulls screaming overhead—I love it all.
- Merrill: Don't you get sick? I was so sick on our trip across the sea.
- Isabela: Were you in the hold?
- Merrill: Everyone was in the hold.
- Isabela: There's your problem. You need to be up on deck, under the sky, with nothing between you and the horizon.
- Isabela: Sailing is like sex. Do it wrong, and it'll make you sick.
- Isabela: But do it right, and there's no feeling in the world like it.
- Merrill: Do you have a parrot, Isabela?
- Isabela: What would I want a parrot for?
- Merrill: What about a peg leg? Do you have one of those?
- Isabela: You can see that I don't, dear.
- Merrill: Eye patch?
- Isabela: I'm disappointing you terribly, aren't I? And no hook for a hand, either.
- Merrill: Seems that Varric's pirate stories are awfully inaccurate.
- Isabela: He knows, Kitten. He likes them better that way.
- Isabela: It's not always fun and games on the sea, though. There are storms and hostile pirates.
- Isabela: And it's trying being cooped up with men who haven't seen a woman in months.
- Merrill: You're a woman.
- Isabela: Exactly. And I don't usually let them touch me, so they get... frustrated.
- Isabela: I insist all of them get alone time. Helps with the crankiness.
- Merrill: But they're already lonely! Why would you insist that they be alone some more?
- Isabela: Merrill.
- Merrill: What? Did I miss something?
- Isabela: Go think about it. Maybe it'll come to you.
While speaking to Jethann in The Blooming Rose during the quest The First Sacrifice
- Isabela: Ooh, I like him. He reminds me of someone.
- Merrill: He does? Who is it?
- Isabela: Think about it, Kitten.
- Merrill: Well, you couldn't have meant Varric, because he's not even an elf—oh... Ohh! You were referring to yourself. Sorry!
- Isabela: See? I knew it'd come to you.
ACT II
- Merrill: (Sighs) Why do you even like me? I must seem so dull.
- Isabela: What brought this on?
- Merrill: Your life has been... so exciting. The adventures, the duels, the passionate love affairs.
- Merrill: Compared to that, my life is a stale, dry biscuit. (Sighs) I wish I had your life.
- Isabela: No. You don't want my life.
- Merrill: Why?
- Isabela: Because you have a good heart, and you deserve better.
- Merrill: What was Llomerryn like? I’ve never heard of a Dalish who’s been there.
- Isabela: I don’t imagine your people travel between islands much.
- Merrill: Not really, no.
- Isabela: I wouldn’t start waterproofing your wagons, then. I don’t think Llomerryn is ready for the Dalish.
- Merrill: What do you mean? Would we upset the people there?
- Isabela: It’s not really the kind of place where one turns down a tumble. Even refuse a fortune teller, and they’d run your lot out of town.
- Merrill: How do you suppose the Qunari scratch their heads with those horns in the way?
- Isabela: Why do you think I would know?
- Merrill: Because you know lots of things! I wonder if they rub their heads against tree trunks like halla do.
- Isabela: I'd pay a sovereign to see that.
- Merrill: No wonder they seem so cranky all the time.
- Merrill: You've had many lovers, haven't you?
- Isabela: Fewer than some think.
- Merrill: But you never stay with them.
- Isabela: No, why should I?
- Merrill: But the act of lovemaking is so... intimate.
- Isabela: I don't "make love." What I do is only skin-deep, Kitten.
- Isabela: Don't worry your pretty little head about it.
If Hawke is romancing Merrill
- Isabela: You and Hawke... something's there, isn't there?
- Merrill: He's clever, strong, and wonderful. How can anyone not love him?
- Merrill: She's so amazing and beautiful. How could anyone not love her? (if Hawke is female)
- Isabela: Oh, I could give you a list, but that might just bore you.
- Isabela: So... did you get naked?
- Merrill: Isabela!
- Isabela: Ooh, look at that blush. That good, huh?
If Hawke also romanced Isabela:
- Isabela: How could anyone not?
- Merrill: <gasps> It's me. I said something wrong, didn't I?
- Isabela: No, of course not. You could never say anything wrong.
- Isabela: I'm happy for you, Kitten. You've been alone long enough.
ACT III
If Hawke has accepted Isabela's love
- Merrill: I think Hawke likes you, Isabela
- Isabela: I certainly hope so!
- Merrill: Of course, it's not surprising at all that anybody would love you, but it's nice to see you two happy.
- Isabela: Merrill, sometimes you're so sweet I could eat you for dessert.
If Hawke hasn't accepted her love yet
- Merrill: I think Hawke likes you, Isabela.
- Isabela: You think so, do you?
- Merrill: S/he looks at you all the time, and then s/he looks embarrassed and pretends s/he's busy with something else.
- Hawke: I can hear you, you know.
- Merrill: (Giggles) See?
- Isabela: Hmm. I'll have to think about that...
- Merrill: Do you think you'll leave Kirkwall someday?
If Hawke has romanced Isabela
- Isabela: I might if I can persuade the right person to come away with me.
If not
- Isabela: Of course I will! As soon as I get myself a ship, I'm sailing wherever the sea takes me.
- Merrill: I'll miss you. You'll write to me, won't you? Do pirates write letters?
- Isabela: Badly. Hook hands make for awful pennmanship, Kitten.
If No Rest for the Wicked & Questioning Beliefs have been completed and Hawke accepted Isabela's love
- Merrill: Why are you smiling?
- Isabela: No reason.
- Merrill: Ooh, ooh! It's something dirty, isn't it? Tell me, tell me!
- Isabela: It... it isn't anything dirty. I'm just... happy.
- Merrill: Oh. That's good, too, but I was hoping for something dirty.
- Isabela: Come by the tavern later. I've got stories that will make your toes curl.
Isabela and Sebastian
ACT II
- Sebastian: Is this getting you any closer to your ship?
- Isabela: Huh?
- Sebastian: I just... don't understand why you're working with Hawke. You don't seem to care about anything we do.
- Sebastian: What's keeping you here?
If Hawke and Isabela have slept together:
- Isabela: Mostly the sex. Hawke is an absolute tiger between the sheets. I mean all night, every night.
- Isabela: Oh cute! You're blushing.
If not:
- Isabela: Mostly the Blooming Rose. I'm paid up through the end of the year. I'd hate not to use it.
- Sebastian: The... brothel?
- Isabela: What? Women can't go to brothels, too? You're just not using your imagination.
- Isabela: Oh, look! Now you are. You're cute when you're blushing.
- Sebastian: I notice you talk about... vulgar things quite a bit.
- Isabela: Do you want me to stop? Do I make you... uncomfortable?
- Sebastian: It was just an observation, really.
- Isabela: It's a bad habit I picked up, spending years with foul-mouthed pirates.
- Isabela: Pirates only care about a small number of very specific things: the sea, strong drink, and booty. Both kinds.
- Sebastian: I used to be like you, you know.
- Isabela: You used to be a woman?
- Sebastian: No!
- Isabela: That explains a lot.
- Sebastian: My family put me in the Chantry because I was giving them a bad name.
- Sebastian: It was the best thing that ever happened to me. I found peace. I found a purpose.
- Sebastian: Before I came here, I used to be out to all hours, drinking and whoring. I didn't believe in anything except my own pleasure.
- Isabela: Why couldn't I have met you then?
- Isabela: All right, let's just get this over with.
- Sebastian: A duel?
- Isabela: No, the sermon. The finger-wagging, the guilt-trips, telling me how an unexamined life isn't worth living.
- Sebastian: I wasn't going to—
- Isabela: You weren't? You weren't going to tell me to comfort the needy and give freely of myself?
- Sebastian: From what I hear, you already give yourself quite freely.
- Isabela: Ooh. You got me there.
ACT III
- Sebastian: That was very brave, coming back to face the Qunari.
- Isabela: It was idiotic. They would have killed me.
- Sebastian: And you returned anyway. You couldn't face the thought of so many innocents dying for something you could prevent.
- Isabela: Tell that to the viscount.
- Sebastian: It's frightening, isn't it, to realize you have the potential to be a better person?
- Sebastian: You've been watching me all day. It's getting a little... distracting.
- Isabela: Merrill's right. Your armor is shiny. I can see myself in it. Look!
- Isabela: Shit. Oh, shit. Is that a wrinkle? Is that a wrinkle between my brows?
- Sebastian: Um. I don't see—
- Isabela: Hold still!
- Isabela: So, I've never understood why the Chantry says if you're good, you'll be taken up to the Maker's side.
- Sebastian: Those who die with the sins cleansed from their souls will walk beside the Maker in eternity.
- Isabela: That doesn't sound fun!
- Isabela: If they really want people to be good, shouldn't they offer an afterlife with... lakes of wine and a dozen naked virgins?
- Sebastian: Anyone who wants that will be going to the Void.
- Isabela: Sounds like that's where all the good parties will be.
- Isabela: It's been years, and not once have you tried to get me to repent or turn to the Maker.
- Sebastian: Preaching seldom works, Isabela. To change a person's heart, one has to lead by example.
- Isabela: Huh. That makes sense. I can respect that.
- Sebastian: I grew weary of the strings of nameless lovers and the nights full of mindless pleasure. You will, too.
- Isabela: (Gasps) That's the cruelest thing anyone's ever said to me!
- Isabela: I think I'm going to cry.
Isabela and Varric
ACT I
- Varric: I shit you not, Rivaini, it was this big.
- Isabela: There's no way. Impossible! I've had hundreds of those in my hands, and they're never that size.
- Varric: Would I lie about something so critical?
Next line is dependent on third party member
- Anders: I can't stand it anymore—what are you two talking about?
- Aveline: I'm afraid to ask, but... what are you two going on about?
- Carver: What is wrong with you two? Can't you ever have a conversation that isn't dirty?
- Hawke: What are you two talking about?
- Varric: We're discussing knives, of course. Well, daggers, technically. I never remember the difference.
- Varric: Why? What did you think we were talking about?
- Varric: Rivaini, stop looking at my chest. My eyes are up here.
- Isabela: But the chest hair...
- Varric: Do you know how much I suffer under your gaze? I am a person, not an object!
- Isabela: Uh, Varric?
- Varric: (Laughs) Just shitting you.
- Varric: You know, Rivaini, you promised me you'd tell me how your ship wrecked.
- Isabela: I was drunk. I thought the reefs around the Wounded Coast were made of candy.
- Varric: Oh, come on.
- Isabela: And a demon told me to do it. It bet me sixty sovereigns and a bottle of port.
- Isabela: You're not the only one here who can bullshit, you know.
- Varric: I'll let you run your fingers through it, if you want.
- Isabela: Your chest hair? My fingers? Oh, Varric, stop! You're making me quiver.
- Varric: You know you want to.
- Isabela: Oh, I do... I can't resist you. No woman can.
- Varric: I know. It's a terrible burden.
ACT II
- Varric: Were you listening to that guy in the Hanged Man last night?
- Isabela: "Your eyes are like bumblebees, flying into the window of my soul." (Laughs)
- Varric: My favorite was, "Your lips are like the wings of sparrows. Red ones. With no feathers."
- Isabela: "Oh, speak! And send the plucked wings of your lips soaring."
- Varric: I'd buy the guy a drink, but I don't think he needs one.
- Varric: You have got to tell me what was in that box, Rivaini.
- Isabela: Which box? I've opened so many...
- Varric: Well, those too. But later. Right now: that Qunari relic.
- Isabela: I'll make you a deal: I'll tell you what was in that box if you tell me how Bianca got her name.
- Varric: Fine, forget I asked. Evil woman.
- Isabela: Come to me, and I'll take you to places you've never been...
- Varric: Isabela... Are you talking to Bianca?
- Isabela: I think she deserves to feel a woman's touch on her trigger, don't you?
- Varric: Bianca responds to my touch. She'd never give it up for you.
- Isabela: That's what they always say, and I always prove them wrong.
- Varric: Stop it. You're confusing her. And me.
If you complete The Long Road
- Isabela: Psst. I've got some of it written down now.
- Varric: Give it here.
- Varric: "Her breasts strained against the leather jerkin like two wild stallions corralled against their will." (Chuckles)
- Varric: "She pounced—the smooth moves of a jungle cat—and locked her thighs around Donnic's waist. He—"
If Aveline is in the party:
- Aveline: What?
- Isabela: Nothing.
- Aveline: What is that?
- Isabela: Shh! (Giggles)
- Varric: Isabela just thought she'd celebrate your love affair with a... written dedication.
- Isabela: It's "friend-fiction!" I do it out of love.
- Aveline: I will never, ever be clean again.
If not:
- Isabela: Maybe you should read the rest of it in private.
- Varric: I think that's best.
ACT III
- Isabela: Varric, how does one get made a Paragon?
- Varric: The Assembly votes on it. Enough votes, and—BAM!—you're a living God!
- Isabela: You should ask to be made a Paragon. Of manliness.
- Varric: I like the way you think, Rivaini, but one doesn't just ask to be made a Paragon.
- Isabela: Why not? Everyone can see you're a paragon of manliness. It's just a matter of making it official.
- Varric: After all this, the life of a pirate is going to be dull, isn't it?
- Isabela: I know! I'll have to steal myself another Qunari relic.
- Varric: The scary thing is, I don't know if you're joking!
- Isabela: Of course I'm joking. I'm not getting involved with those people again.
- Isabela: No... this time, I'll steal the Queen of Antiva. There's no way that could go wrong.
If Hawke romances Merrill
- Varric: So, Hawke and Daisy.
- Isabela: I think they're darling together.
- Varric: It's almost too adorable. Well, except for the evil blood magic thing.
- Isabela: The most evil thing Merrill does most days is pick the flowers out of other people's gardens.
- Varric: I know, I have to bribe most of the gardeners in Hightown to keep it quiet.
(Alternate dialogue if Hawke previously slept with Isabela)
During The Last Straw after choosing sides
- Varric: Just curious, does any of this make sense to you?
- Isabela: What? This whole "everyone's waiting for the world to end" thing?
- Varric: Yeah, that.
- Isabela: Not remotely.
- Varric: Good. It's not just me, then.
Isabela and Zevran
- Zevran: My dear Isabela, it has been a delight to see you again. You travel in fine company.
- Isabela: That's it? You're leaving? What about sex?
If in a romance with Isabela
- Zevran: *laughs* Still blunt as a dwarven hammer, hmmm? Well, why not!
- Hawke: Um, hello? I'm standing right here.
- Isabela: What? You can come too.
- Zevran: Indeed! The more the merrier!
- Hawke: Let's find someplace quieter.
If not in a romance with Isabela
- Zevran: Ah, Isabela. I did so miss you.
- Isabela: That's because you're a piss-poor shot. Thankfully, you have other uses.
The last line depends on party members:
- Aveline: I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.
- Merrill: Ew.
- Anders: Ha!
- Fenris: Are we sure he was part of a guild of assassins?
- Varric: That girl has curious standards.
Quotes: Dragon Age II
- Isabela: Coming in here of my own free will seems wrong... like diddling a sister. (entering guard barracks)
- Isabela: There's no way this Javaris stole from the Qunari. That's hard... I heard.
- Isabela: Oh you don't want me in there - female troubles. (going near Qunari compound)
- Isabela: I need a stiff one... and a drink. (going near the Qunari compound)
- Isabela: Aww... an empty chest is like an empty bed. What a waste!
- Isabela: Must be something in the water.
- Isabela: If we kill them, we get their stuff!
- Isabela: (After battle) Hawke helped a little bit.
- Isabela: I like big boats, I cannot lie.(Being tempted by the desire demon during the quest, Night Terrors)
- Isabela: Oh, look at them! They're like kittens...who want to eat you. (referring to dragonlings)
- Isabela: I finally got on top in the end, but I still considered it a draw.
- Isabela: You're leaving? Just like that? What about sex? (To Zevran)
- Isabela: Aveline, if you shove your thumb up his ass, I win.
- Isabela: Looking for a ditch to lay facedown in? I can recommend one.
- Isabela: Something about this place is unsettling. It's like... underwear that never quite sits right. (about the fade)
- Isabela: Step 1: We find Velasco. Step 2: Something exciting happens. Step 3: Profit
- Isabela: Need a hand? Why yes! Yes I do! (when you find the severed hand in The First Sacrifice quest)
- Isabela: I'm sorry, I don't speak never-gets-sex-again.
- Isabela: I bet all he wants is to go chasing after thrown sticks. And someone to rub his belly. (referring to Ketojan)
- Isabela: The darkspawn smashed the chest, but did they really have to piss on it too? Those were my best boots. (during Fool's Gold)
- Isabela: Buck up, big girl. It's a wonderful day¡ (during To Catch a Thief)
- Isabela: I think I need a bath. Do you think I need a bath?
- Isabela: There was a brothel on the sunny side of Antiva called "The Bone Pit". It was entirely different from this.
- Isabela: You take me to all the nice places. (Bone Pit)
- Isabela: I really should have gone to the privy before coming here. (during Haunted)
- Isabela: Watch out for the squirrels. They can be vicious little bastards. (on the Wounded Coast)
Legacy
Isabela's Remarks
- Isabela: What's wrong with this place? Why don't they have one decent regular lock to pick. No, it's got to be all magic and blowy lights. Pfft.
- Isabela: So, no Bartrand. Who do you think's going to betray you this time?
- Isabela: If I still had my ship, I'd offer you a berth. Anything beats living with Gamlen and crawling around tunnels to make your fortune.
- Isabela: Try to do someone a favor and you end up trapped in a giant magical prison. There's a lesson here. Next time you ask if I want to help with something, I'm going to say no.
- Isabela: (sighs) Is this the perk you get for being Champion? Because if so, I'm not applying for the position.
- Isabela: Great, now I guess we run in circles until he tires?
- Isabela: I prefer towers full of coin to towers full of darkspawn. For future reference.
Isabela and Hawke
- Hawke: Someday I'll visit a place with no ancient evils, horrors, devouring plagues, or insanity.
- Hawke: Maybe a beach.
- Isabela: I can recommend a few, if you'd like.
- Hawke: Please do.
If Varric is in the party:
- Varric: The day you go to the beach is the day an armada of angry demon pirates show up.
- Hawke: I've got a bad feeling all of a sudden.
- Isabela: Watch out, the ground looks treacherous here.
If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality:
- Hawke: Thank you.
If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality:
- Hawke: Showing concern for others, Isabela? Tongues will wag.
- Varric: Oh you can bet they will.
If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality:
- Hawke: Hmm, I didn't think you cared.
- Isabela: I...just don't want to see your brains dashed on the ground, that's all. Stop looking at me like that. I shouldn't have said anything.
- Isabela: So now you're the target of batty dwarven assassins? You do attract the strangest types.
If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality:
- Hawke: It does seem that way, doesn't it?
- Isabela: I wonder what it is. Perhaps you should bathe more frequently.
If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality:
- Hawke: Yes. Like lust addled pirates.
- Isabela: (laughs) Ooh, touché.
If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality:
- Hawke: You think I asked for this?
- Isabela: I'm just making an observation.
- Isabela: Do you hope to learn something about your father down here?
If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality:
- Hawke: Of course, I barely remember him.
If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality:
- Hawke: So long as it doesn't also involve my mother. Some things about your parents should never see the light of day.
If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality:
- Hawke: Haven't thought about it. I just want to get out of here. Alive, if possible.
- Isabela: Well, I think your father sounds like someone worth knowing. According my mother, my father wasn't. Not even for one night.
During the battle with Corypheus:
- Isabela: Get his armor off!
- Hawke: Really, Isabela?
- Isabela: I don't mean that! Stun him, paralyze him!
Isabela and Anders
- Isabela: Don't you hate the Deep Roads? And look, here you are anyway.
- Anders: Did you have to remind me? I was so close to forgetting.
- Isabela: If it makes you feel better, you can always blame Hawke.
- Anders: Believe me, I do.
- Anders: I always thought it'd be fun to be a pirate.
- Isabela: More fun than being a moody, possessed vagrant in the sewers? You don't say...
Or, depending on what Act you are playing in:
- Isabela: More fun than starting a revolution?
- Anders: I'm not sure I'd call that fun.
- Anders: When I was stuck at Vigil's Keep, I dreamed of stealing a ship and sailing to exotic lands... When I left the Wardens, I tried to plant a rumor that that's where I went. Even mentioned your name a few times...
Isabela and Aveline
- Isabela: I spy with my little eye, something that is...red. And socially uncomfortable.
- Aveline: Ugh.
- Isabela: No guesses? It starts with A.
- Aveline: Shut up.
- Isabela: My mistake. It starts with such a B.
- Aveline: Time and a place, Isabela. No game when we're this deep in a mess.
- Isabela: Fine. Gone from a B to a C, anyway.
- Aveline: Isabela. That...demonstration you put on two nights ago in the Viscount's Keep.
- Isabela: Ooh. Are you going to arrest me, Captain.
- Aveline: No. You did that on purpose and I will not be baited.
- Isabela: Oh, come on!
- Aveline: I will also no longer you for your...choices. I will make a concerted attempt to be understanding.
- Isabela: What? Does this mean you'll no longer call me a whore?
- Aveline: As you so rightly pointed out, whores accept gold for services rendered. You do not.
- Isabela: But...
- Aveline: Poxy tart. (Laughs) Had you there.
Isabela and Bethany
In Act 1:
- Bethany: How do you stand the Hanged Man?
- Isabela: Drink enough, my dear, and standing is the least of your worries.
If Bethany is in the Circle:
- Bethany: They took away the books you sent. "Non-curricular." And illegal in some countries.
- Isabela: No appreciation for the classics. Why read if it's not inspiring?
- Bethany: I'm not sure they were even anatomically possible.
- Isabela: Dream of a day, sweetness.
If Bethany is a Grey Warden:
- Bethany: Still in the Hanged Man?
- Isabela: When I can be. I miss you, sweetness.
- Bethany: I do too.
- Isabela: Well, you save the world, the rest of us will be waiting.
- Bethany: Fair enough.
Isabela and Carver
In Act 1:
- Carver: So...Isabela.
- Isabela: Oh, Carver, I do love the way you say my name.
- Carver: I...er...thank you?
- Isabela: Carver, if you stop breathing every time a woman compliments you, you'll never be awake when the fun starts.
If Carver joins the templars:
- Isabela: You certainly fill out a skirt Carver. A shame, I suppose you're all religious and such now.
- Carver: Do you know how long the Chant of Light is? How much stamina it requires?
- Isabela: Go on...
- Carver: With passion'd breath comes darkness, but with many against Her, She finds His light untiring as it parts the Veil.
- Isabela: Not sure if I'm aroused or scared. I like it.
If Hawke is in a romance with Isabela:
- Hawke: No you don't. No, she doesn't!
If Sebastian is in the party:
- Sebastian: Don't do that to the Chant!
- Isabela: Shush, you.
If Carver is a Grey Warden
- Isabela: You've certainly...filled out, Carver. Shame, really, I hear joining the Wardens separates the men from their "boys."
- Carver: We rarely have children, true. But don't worry, that just means I try ever so much harder.
- Isabela: Ooh, I like you all grown up.
If Hawke is in a romance with Isabela:
- Hawke: No you don't. No, she doesn't!
If Varric is in the party:
- Varric: Junior took down the Rivaini? Who's telling this story?
If Aveline is in the party:
- Aveline: You'd better not.
Isabela and Fenris
- Fenris: Interesting story I heard about you, Isabela...
- Isabela: Yes, yes, all right. I just want it known I never asked for the goat. And the fire was accidental.
- Fenris: I... that wasn't the story.
- Fenris: So these slaves you freed...
- Isabela: This again.
- Fenris: Such an act seems out of character.
- Isabela: Temporary insanity. A bout of foul morality. A horrifying fit of decency.
- Isabela: What? I got better.
If neither is in a romance with Hawke:
- Isabela: So, when we get back to the city, do you...?
- Fenris: Not in front of everyone, if you please.
- Isabela: And he blushes! So cute!
If neither Isabela or Fenris are in a romance with Hawke:
- Varric: So, elf, what's this I've been hearing about you and the Rivaini?
- Fenris: None of your business, dwarf.
- Varric: Just be careful. I get the impression that Isabela's breakups turn into bloodbaths.
- Isabela: That's part of the fun.
Isabela and Merrill
- Merrill: Ugh. I think I stepped in something again.
- Isabela: I keep telling you Kitten, get a pair of proper boots. Like mine!
- Merrill: I can't. I just can't. Your boots go on forever. I'd get so lost in them. I've dropped marbles in. They take an eternity to reach the bottom.
- Isabela: That's the reason I've been finding marbles in my boots?
- Merrill: Um. No. I'm just rambling. Look, a rock!
- Merrill: (Giggles) You're not going to say anything?
- Isabela: No! And don't you say anything either! I want to see how long it takes her/him to notice...
- Hawke: I'm right here, you know. What are you going on about?
- Merrill: You have a bit of... something... on your nose there.
- Hawke: What? How long has it been there?
- Isabela: Oh, now you've gone and ruined it.
- Merrill: What a dreadful place. If I were a darkspawn, I'd plant flowers. Brighten it up.
- Isabela: Kitten, any flowers would turn into a man-eating petal monsters within the hour.
- Merrill: Maybe just a nice still-life, then.
Isabela and Sebastian
- Sebastian: Why the aversion to bows?
- Isabela: A one armed man named Molly once shot me in the shoulder with a bow. It hurt. Now can we drop this?
- Sebastian: I don't understand. You could learn to shoot a bow, if you tried.
- Isabela: (Sighs) You have pretty eyes.
- Sebastian: I suppose the conversation's over, then.
- Sebastian: You don't look very happy down here.
- Isabela: I'm a pirate, sweetheart. I belong on the open sea, not squished under a thousand tons of rock.
- Sebastian: It's an adventure. Don't pirates like adventures?
- Isabela: Only if they end with a gallon of rum and a new bed to plunder.
- Sebastian: Well, there's treasure here. Pirates like treasure, right?
- Isabela: (Grunts) That's just what we use to keep score.
- Isabela: And you've all been wondering why I don't wear pants. So much less toxic goo to clean off.
- Sebastian: (Sighs) I should have thought of that.
- Isabela: It's not like I change my clothing every time I go home, like Hawke does.
Isabela and Varric
- Varric: We passed another broken pillar. You know what that means.
- Isabela: Everybody take a drink!
If Anders is in the party:
- Anders: The last time we played this game, I kissed an ogre. Please let's not go there again.
If Aveline is in the party:
- Aveline: Didn't the last game end with Isabela getting Orlesian with a lyrium vein?
- Varric: Yep!
- Aveline: Carry on then.
- Isabela: You've a nickname for everyone.
- Varric: That's true. Rivaini.
- Isabela: But everyone just calls you Varric. That's hardly fair.
- Varric: Well, it's my story.
- Isabela: What?
- Varric: Nothing.
Approaching the abandoned quarry in the Vimmark Wasteland
- Isabela: Dwarves are funny. Look at them scurrying away on their stumpy little legs.
- Varric: I heard that.
- Isabela: It's cute when you do it.
- Varric: Well, it's my story.
Mark of the Assassin
Isabela's remarks
- "She's got style. I'll give her that."
- "Oh, stop. You're such a tease."
- "I hope I'm not expected to eat roast wyvern after this."
- "Get Duke Fancypants first! And if that wyvern spits at you, run like your arse is on fire!"
- "Which of these lizards do we drag back to the Duke so we can get to the drinking?"
- (When clicked) "I hope I'm not expected to eat roast wyvern after this."
- (After some hunters make remarks about wyverns during the hunt) "And here I thought Orlesians only hunted other Orlesians for horrendous crimes against fashion."
- (After leaving the Dungeons, if Hawke leaves Tallis) "What a strange little person."
Isabela and Hawke
(After the ambush in Hightown)
- Isabela: Don't forget to loot the bodies!
- Hawke: Do I ever?
- Tallis: Do you really need to pillage the dead?
- Isabela: Pillage and plunder is half the fun!
- Isabela: Would you tell your uncle to leave me alone? He's often... inappropriate.
(If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality)
- Hawke: How so?
- Isabela: Please don't make me go into the details.
- Hawke: I'll see what I can do. And thank you for not breaking his legs.
- Isabela: I don't beat on the elderly. And... I really don't want to touch him.
- Isabela: How are you two even related? It boggles the mind.
(If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality)
- Hawke: You find something inappropriate?
- Isabela: Extremely so! It's... rather repulsive, actually. Please talk to him.
- Hawke: But it's more entertaining if I don't.
- Isabela: Hawke!
- Hawke: You have pretty eyes.
- Isabela: Oh, you're impossible!
(If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality)
- Hawke: You're perfectly capable of dealing with such things yourself. I've seen it.
- Isabela: You want me to beat up a feeble old man?
- Isabela: That's cold, even for you.
- Isabela: I know. I'll ask Lady Biceps. She'll have an answer.
- Aveline: Break him. And wear pants.
- Isabela: (Snickers)
- Hawke: What is it now?
- Isabela: Ghast hole.
(If Aveline is in the party)
- Aveline: (Snickers) Not funny.
Isabela and Anders
- Anders: I'm a little surprised the duke let you come here.
- Isabela: I'll have you know I'm perfectly capable of carrying on polite conversation without using the word "shit" or "ass."
- Isabela: And all these jewels everyone's wearing? It's too easy. No challenge.
- Anders: I didn't think you were going to steal anything.
- Isabela: Then what's your problem?
- Anders: Just... I would imagine most fancy Orlesian hunting parties require, um...
- Isabela: What?
- Anders: Pants.
- Anders: You owe me fifty silvers.
- Isabela: You were cheating!
- Anders: So were you!
- Isabela: You had supernatural help.
- Anders: Excuses! Just admit it. I beat you at your own game.
- Isabela: Ugh.
- Anders: Fifty silvers.
(While looking for Hawke and Tallis)
- Anders: All right, we should have tried your suggestion.
- Isabela: Which? Challenging the guards to a game of riddles and making, "Where is Hawke?" one of the questions?
- Anders: I meant the, "Follow one wall, and you'll navigate the maze," idea.
- Isabela: Well, we can try it next time. Either that, or, "Let's get a sledgehammer and break down the walls," I thought that had merit.
Isabela and Aveline
- Isabela: So you say a witch helped you get to Kirkwall.
- Aveline: Flemeth, the Witch of the Wilds.
- Isabela: Oh. Her. I see her at the Hanged Man sometimes.
- Aveline: What?
- Isabela: Threatens to turn you into a toad and eat your babies if you beat her at cards.
- Aveline: You're... joking.
- Isabela: Perhaps.
- Isabela: Imagine going to one of those Orlesian parties. I'd feel underdressed.
- Aveline: (Scoffs) Undressed, you mean.
- Isabela: Well, I don't need to hide from the world by encasing myself in steel up to my eyebrows.
- Aveline: Right, let it all hang out so everyone knows what they're getting.
(If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality)
- Hawke: Can't you two just get along?
- Aveline: This is us getting along. Isn't that right, whore?
(If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality)
- Hawke: Catfight? Catfight!
- Aveline: We're not fighting. Isn't that right, whore?
(If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality)
- Hawke: If you can't get along, stop talking to each other.
- Aveline: This is us getting along. Isn't that right, whore?
- Isabela: That's right, man-chin.
(The insults are randomized.)
- Aveline:
- Strumpet.
- Wine-soaked pearl diver.
- Poxy tart.
- Scurvy tramp.
- Isabela:
- Guardswoman.
- Griffon-lips.
- Carrot head.
- Aveline: See? We love each other.
(While looking for Hawke and Tallis)
- Isabela: If you'd let me handle that last guard, we'd have found Hawke by now!
- Aveline: Right. You'd be bent over a desk, and we'd be no closer than we are now.
- Isabela: Well, I'd be closer to something.
- Aveline: Shut up whore.
Isabela and Bethany
- Isabela: Just like old times, isn't it? Going on adventures, getting into scrapes. It's like you're free again.
- Bethany: I don't mind it so much. I don't have to hide, or worry about templars hunting me.
- Bethany: It's funny. The idea of the Circle is much more terrifying than the reality of it.
- Bethany: Thought perhaps my transition was made easier by the books you sent along with your letters.
- Isabela: Oh, you liked them, did you?
- Bethany: They were wicked. It was like you were there.
- Hawke:
- (If Hawke has a diplomatic/helpful personality) Please, for the love of all that's holy, don't write to my sister anymore.
- (If Hawke has a humorous/charming personality) What am I hearing? I don't want to hear this! I'm not hearing this!
- (If Hawke has an aggressive/direct personality) Ugh. Must you talk about this within earshot?
Isabela and Carver
(If Hawke does not romance Merrill)
- Carver: So... how is Merrill? Sad that she couldn't come along.
- Isabela: She's fine, all things considered. Why do you—Wait.
- Carver: What?
- Isabela: You. Merrill. Andraste's granny pants, I can't believe I never saw it before!
- Carver: What? No! No no no no. You've got it wrong.
- Isabela: Stop fretting. I'm on your side, and I always win.
- Carver: She's not a game of cards!
- Isabela: Whatever. Good at matchmaking, not so good at the analogies.
- Carver: Ridiculous.
- Isabela: (Sighs) What has your critical gaze fallen upon now?
- Carver: Why do Orlesians need to have so many parties all the time?
- Isabela: So it is merry-making that offends you.
- Carver: Posturing affairs, filled with foppish, wine-sipping, pinkie-extenders.
- Isabela: So along with mages, your life, and the weather most days, you also hate Orlesians and merry-making.
- Carver: Are you mocking me?
- Isabela: Never.
(While looking for Hawke and Tallis)
- Carver: You just leave this to me. I can handle everything.
- Isabela: I'm starting to think you could.
- Carver: What was that? A compliment? I'm a little frightened.
- Isabela: I know! Let's get these people rescued before it happens again.
Isabela and Fenris
- Isabela: So why haven't you converted to the Qun? You seem to know it well.
- Fenris: And you know the letter of the law, yet choose to ignore it.
- Isabela: Ah, good point.
- Fenris: I didn't escape one form of slavery only to become slave to myself.
- Isabela: Er, what does that mean?
- Fenris: I'm... not sure. But it sounded profound, didn't it?
- Fenris: You've been to Orlais, Isabela?
- Isabela: Once or twice. Spent some time in a prison in Val Chevin.
- Fenris: But you broke out?
- Isabela: Broke into, actually. Getting out was the easy part.
- Fenris: All to steal something magnificent, I imagine?
- Isabela: No! They threw my first mate in there. I'd always liked Casavir, so I wasn't going to just abandon him.
- Fenris: Ah. And he is dead now, along with the rest of your crew?
- Isabela: Him? No, I left him on the docks. The idiot.
(While trying to find Hawke and Tallis)
- Fenris: So... we're lost?
- Isabela: Definitely.
- Fenris: Now what do we do?
- Isabela: I could try to guess the color of your underclothes again.
Isabela and Merrill
- Merrill: If you weren't a pirate, what do you think you would've been?
- Isabela: I haven't given it much thought. Maybe a poet? (Laughs)
- Merrill: You would've made a great griffon-wrangler.
- Isabela: I'm sorry... what?
- Merrill: You're so quick and clever. You'd be perfect. And you'd get a baby griffon for me, wouldn't you?
- Isabela: Kitten, if griffons existed, and if I was a... griffon-wrangler and not a pirate, yes. I would find you a baby griffon.
- Merrill: Thanks. I've always wanted a baby griffon called Feathers.
(While trying to find Hawke and Tallis)
- Merrill: Isabela? Um... I think we've been here before. We've passed that same cracked tile six times now.
- Isabela: Andraste's granny-panties! I knew things were going too smoothly!
- Merrill: Does Andraste really wear granny-panties? How do you know all these things?
- Isabela: (Sighs) Come on, Kitten. Let's see if we can find the entrance and start again.
Isabela and Sebastian
- Sebastian: It was nice to see you in the Chantry, listening to Sister Etheline's testimony.
- Sebastian: I was surprised, but very glad.
- Isabela: I was surprised as well, and not quite as glad.
- Sebastian: ? Sister Etheline's words always inspire me. Was it not so for you?
- Isabela: You didn't notice I was bound, gagged, and had a contusion on my forehead?
- Sebastian: What?
- Isabela: Just... don't ask for the "bad girl special" at the Blooming Rose.
- Isabela: My husband used to have hunting parties like this.
- Sebastian: I'd forgotten you were married.
- Sebastian: It's hard to picture you playing the hostess, taking cloaks and kissing babies.
- Isabela: No, there were servants for that. I just had to sit there and look pretty.
- Isabela: If I got out of hand, he would lock me away with a bottle of wine and a dirty book.
- Isabela: Told everyone I was indisposed.
- Sebastian: My parents used to do the same thing! Minus the wine. And the, uh, dirty book.
Isabela and Varric
Isabela and Tallis
- Tallis: So these are the hunting grounds.
- Isabela: Do we need a lure? What do wyverns like?
(If Aveline is also in the party.)
- Aveline: If we're lucky: slutty pirates.
- Isabela: Or prudish man-virgins, maybe?
- Tallis: We just need to look for signs, and be careful. We get this over with, we get in the keep.
- Hawke: And that's where the jewel is?
- Tallis: That's where the jewel is.
- Isabela: And here I thought Orlesians only hunted other Orlesians for horrendous crimes against fashion.
- Tallis: Just ignore them.
- Isabela: Can I just imagine that wyverns are small, completely non-poisonous bunny-like creatures?
- Tallis: Not unless you picture it eating you.
- Isabela: Spoilsport.
- Tallis: The sooner we get the hunt over with, the sooner we'll be at the Chateau to finish this.
- Tallis: So you were the one who stole the Tome. Did you read it?
- Isabela: In between running for my life? Of course I read it.
- Tallis: Ah, sarcasm is one of the demands of the Qun, did you know?
- Isabela: No, it's not.
- Tallis: So you did read it, then.
- Tallis: Watch out! Big-hat ghast!
- Isabela: (Snickers) Ghast hat.
(If Isabela is romanced.)
- Tallis: I've struggled to find that peace, that certainty. I know it's there, I just... keep falling short.
- Isabela: Maybe you should take that as a sign?
- Tallis: I used to be like you. I told myself if I never cared about anyone or anything, I could never be hurt. Life would be fun.
- Tallis: But it wasn't. There was a hole inside me. Nothing I did ever filled it.
- Isabela: Oh, that's too easy.
- Tallis: Not everything should be easy. Don't you wonder what it would be like? A life with meaning, with purpose?
- Isabela: I... have a purpose. I have Hawke.
- Tallis: Lucky you.