Velanna

Velanna
Race	Elf
Gender	Female
Class	Mage
Specialization	Keeper
Voice	Grey DeLisle
Appearances	Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening

Velanna is a Dalish elven mage and one of the companions in the Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening expansion.

Background

Raised as the first to her clan's Keeper, Velanna knows how much has been lost, and her pride demands that her people lose no more. When you first meet her she has been harrassing anyone who passes through the Wending Wood believing humans have kidnapped her sister. She is nature's hand, an instrument of vengeance, and she will never submit. She has the new Keeper specialization.

Velanna is rather impatient and makes a similar impression as Morrigan from Dragon Age: Origins. But while she usually likes to avoid pointless trouble, and has a hatred of humans, she will willingly help people if shown reason. Dealing with Velanna requires patience, many of her replies are snaps, and she dislikes it when someone assumes something about simply because she's an elf, she may take some getting used to.

Involvement

You can find Velanna in the Wending Woods. She has been murdering humans who cross her path in an attempt to terrorize the nearby villages into releasing her sister.

Quotes

See Velanna's Dialogue.

• "All people with power never fail to abuse it, even those with good intentions"
• "You killed my friends and the merchants kidnapped my sister... They brought this on themselves just as you have!"
• "By the Creators! It's like being pestered by a child!"

Dialogue Points

Below are the spots where you can initiate dialogue with Velanna. On the PC, it can be hard to find the correct spot to click; make sure to hit "tab" and rotate the camera if it's not letting you click on it.

• City of Amaranthine: a tree by the stairs to the Chantry -- Dialogue about her life with the Dalish.
  • Note: The "comforting" answer - "I think you would have made a good Keeper" - makes Velanna disapprove.
• City of Amaranthine: as soon as you enter the Amaranthine map, there is an abandoned house on your right (later used for the Till Death Do Us Part quest) and two city elves nearby. Walking near them triggers a dialogue with Velanna, if she's in the party.
  • Note: There is only one combination that nets you positive approval (+2): "You two should have chosen your words more carefully." "They cower because you yelled at them" and then "You are one scary passersby"

• Vigil's Keep: the statue of Andraste in the middle of the courtyard.

Quests

• Velanna's Exile
• Velanna's Joining

Gifts

Name	Notes	Description
Blank Journal	Located: City of Amaranthine - Chantry of Our Lady Redeemer Plot Item	A fine leather binding surrounds crisp, wordless pages.
Carved Greenstone	Located: Kal'Hirol - Treasury in the trade quarter	Delicate greenstone engraved with eye-catching swirls.
Discarded Journal	Located: City of Amaranthine - Village	In this old journal, an elf who lived in Amaranthine writes about the hardships of daily life and the unrealized hopes of his people.
Elven Runestone	Located: Vigil's Keep- Deep roads Gem Mine	A flat stone bearing an elven rune.
Elven Trinket	Found in the Wending Wood	A carved ironbark trinket inlaid with silver and suspended from a leather cord.
Ornate Silver Bowl	Located: Blackmarsh	This antique bowl is embossed with graceful representations of elven halla.
Shiny Malachite	Located: Silverite Mines	A smooth piece of malachite, polished until glossy.

Bugs

Bug! Proceeding to complete the Silverite Mine without Velanna in the party will cause the plotline to be broken resulting in all sorts of strange behaviour (players are unable to leave the mine, awaken yet again imprisoned but without a key, etc.)

Bug! It is possible to have Velanna undergo The Joining and become a Grey Warden prior to completing the Silverite Mine and still get the dialogue where she asks to become a Grey Warden.

Bug! If Anders and Velanna are in the party simultaneously, Anders will sometimes initiate the same small talk lines multiple times with Velanna: "Have I ever told you that I find tattoos on women..."

Bug! If Velanna is to become a Grey Warden, she must undergo The Joining prior to completing the events in the Blackmarsh or she won't be able to. A possible fix is, if the Knotwood Hills has not yet been completed , then you may be able to recruit Sigrun, proceed through the ruins of Kal'Hirol until the end of the Trade Quarter, take the exit as opposed to the stairs to the lower levels, return to Vigil's Keep and have both Sigrun and Velanna undergo the Joining together.

It is possible to get Velanna's approval to +100 by giving her a gift when she first joins your party.

Trivia

• She wears a blond version of Morrigan's "unique" hairstyle.

• Her character has superficial simililarities with Morrigan; they both live in the wilderness, they look somewhat similar, and they are both trying to gain more power (although their reasons for this are very different).