#alia lore

AKA where her romantic/sexual relationships fit into her canon timeline

K'LYHIA

dated from early 2.0 until the 2.55 banquet

SIDURGU ORL

developed feelings during 3.0 when DRK 50-60 coincided with msq

casual sex during 4.0 (DRK 63) between ala mhigo and kugane travels

dated from the immediate end of 4.0 (DRK 70) until the end of 6.0 timeskip

CYELLA VALTHANE

casual proxy sex during the 6.5 visit to the first

KOANA

developed feelings during the 7.0 rite of succession

dated from the immediate end of 7.0 until the 7.3 timeskip

VAMP FATALE

casual sex during the 7.3 timeskip at the end of the arcadion raids

SIDURGU ORL

reunited after 7.4 when the 7.0 tank role quests occur

@ahollowgrave [re: this post] it is a short time yeah 😭

part of it is their mutual responsibilities: koana is tied to tural with his dawnservant duties, and d’alia was only ever going to be around temporarily because of her wol duties and wanderlust, which they both knew on some level deep down. he could ask her to stay together with him, something she’s been wanting from someone for a long time, but there’s some mutual hesitance as well.

d’alia has never gotten over sid, and until she returns to ishgard and talks things through with him, since their issue was one of not communicating with each other (d’alia assuming what’s best for him, sid not speaking up that he wants her to stay with him regardless of everything else in her life and how far she goes), she thinks she’s ruined that for good by pushing him away and leaving. and I don’t think she’s talked about any of it to koana while he’s aware there’s history she’s emotionally clinging to still, even if he doesn’t doubt how she feels about him, so there’s a sid-shaped ghost in the relationship that prevents them from really going anywhere as a couple, too.

it’s ultimately tragic to me because they’ve had so much meaningful growth as people with each other and could have a lasting relationship if they tried, but. koana is the one to take a step back with both the political weight on his shoulders and barrier between them. (…..conversely I’m trying not to think about the AU idea that’s been haunting me where there’s an oops we’re parents situation that leads to d’alia actually opening up to koana and moving past her residual sid feelings, and koana actually asking her to stay, so she remains in tural, and two adopted people with complicated parental feelings get to build a family. :faceinhands:).

ANYWAY! as for the timing of the relationships (leaving out the ONS hook-ups), I’ve been operating under the rough (and often-shifting lol) timeline that including patches ARR is 2 years, HW is half of a year, STB is 1.5 years, SHB is a few months, ENW is a really intense year, and DT is less than a year, so we’d have:

k’lyhia: a bit less than 2 years

sid: a little more than 2 years but in love with each other for much longer

koana: several months but less than a year

wahhh ty for asking beloved <:

so I knew I wanted to base her backstory on the concept behind mahariel background of DA origins + rayla and runan of the dragon prince, where she’s raised by a close friend of her biological parents, and it really affects how d’liveq treats the situation. he doesn’t want to overstep or replace his friends in her life, but he’s the one who steps up to raise her in a safer environment.

I retconned that they aren’t alive and don’t think I’ve shared the updated lore yet, but d’alia’s birth parents are chimalli (she/her, “nunh” in more of a protector role than a progenitor of the clan) and eleuia (they/them, sort of an oral historian speaker of the clan), and they opted to stick with leading the others elsewhere in mor dhona after silvertear skies, choosing duty (stares directly at d’alia…..), while d’liveq chose d’alia in offering to raise her in revenant’s toll himself. he already was a large part of her upbringing, and as a culinarian and alchemist, he could easily find work in a settlement, which would be safer for both of them with any lingering garlean threat.

anyway, because of all the complicated feelings around all that and being so young (12-13) at the time, d’alia struggles to come around to why they left her, how little contact she has with them up to the calamity with the clan being nomadic, and the loneliness of going from a close communal environment to just d’liveq and her, and taking on eorzean-styled names. she holds fondness for memories with chimalli and eleuia, but in her heart, d’liveq is her parent, even if she’s always referred to him by his name (mihua) instead of parent or dad or anything.