Ellana is definitely one of my more trickier muses to figure out, personally. However, she always took a more sympathetic and strong-willed approach to life and the things that have come her way. Always shown mercy towards her captives.
Her Calamity Self is anything but, knowing she was far too lenient on those who treated her fellow mages like tools for a war she fought desperately to undermine. Even though the war is mainly targeting the very people who have wronged her own kind for centuries... since the fall of their empire, in fact.
How she wants this all to end, so she can return to a simple life, perhaps even find Solas once more and wander the Fade with him, seeking spirits of wisdom and knowledge. Yet that's all it ever will be: a dream. She'd only have two years to continue her life's work (a fate forced upon her for being in the wrong place at the wrong time), before the green mark on her left hand will have killed her. She knows this. Her advisors knew this. Yet why does she hesitate to tell her new friends~?
Truth is, she has little to no respect for humans and their politics, yet so long as the music plays... she dances. Just as Asha'belannar does. As they all do. There is only death on this journey, this dance they all perform. Whether it is only she who perishes on the Din'anshiral, or everyone else as well.
Of course, she won't find it easy to accept this part of her, and it isn't as though she made close friends here like she had back in Thedas. So if any will join her, most of this will likely come as a shock. She always was more merciful and polite in front of them, after all.
Plotting for Ellana
Her Calamity Self is anything but, knowing she was far too lenient on those who treated her fellow mages like tools for a war she fought desperately to undermine. Even though the war is mainly targeting the very people who have wronged her own kind for centuries... since the fall of their empire, in fact.
How she wants this all to end, so she can return to a simple life, perhaps even find Solas once more and wander the Fade with him, seeking spirits of wisdom and knowledge. Yet that's all it ever will be: a dream. She'd only have two years to continue her life's work (a fate forced upon her for being in the wrong place at the wrong time), before the green mark on her left hand will have killed her. She knows this. Her advisors knew this. Yet why does she hesitate to tell her new friends~?
Truth is, she has little to no respect for humans and their politics, yet so long as the music plays... she dances. Just as Asha'belannar does. As they all do. There is only death on this journey, this dance they all perform. Whether it is only she who perishes on the Din'anshiral, or everyone else as well.
Of course, she won't find it easy to accept this part of her, and it isn't as though she made close friends here like she had back in Thedas. So if any will join her, most of this will likely come as a shock. She always was more merciful and polite in front of them, after all.