leliaana:

playing as lavellan is honestly so fucking distressing like:

• you’re a figurehead for a predominantly human organization that is exploiting the terror and misplaced faith of the masses to expand their influence
• you get no say in your appointment as figurehead and are effectively setup into accepting the role
• everyone ignores your repeated insistence that you not be referred to in terms of a human prophetess whose adherents destroyed your homeland and culture
• your companions disrespect your religion and culture
• your clan can get wiped out
• in your travels you discover information holding your people responsible for their own genocide
• you discover your ancestral people are still alive only for them to effectively dismiss you
• you discover one of the goddesses you’ve revered your whole life exists, has been ignoring your prayers and wears the face of a human woman
• a human tries to argue that she’s a better candidate for drinking from the Well of Sorrows – that holds of centuries of knowledge of your culture and heritage
• should you choose to romance within your own race, both sera and solas are unsympathetic towards the dalish 
• sera doesn’t like if you think your history is relevant to you and this difference will eventually result in open confrontation and possibly an end to your relationship
• solas will break up with you anyway
• you discover the vallaslin – a time honored rite of passage – were actually slave markings; you learn this either from your romantic partner, or from fucking corypheus 
• should you decide that – since you are stuck in this position, you might as well utilize your influence to better the lives of elves and human/elven relationships – you eventually discover that your predecessor, an elven mage, also attempted to do the same, and after he died, the chantry erased all record of him and shit all over your people anyway

being lavellan is fucking suffering