The Wrath of Heaven Deleted Dialogue
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Various snippets of dialogue that didn’t make it into the final cut of the game - listed in scene order.
Cassandra: Maker’s breath.
Varric: (Sighs.) Unbelievable, isn’t it?
Cassandra: What happened here is difficult to bear.
Varric: Hard to accept this could really happen.
Cassandra: A greater demon!
Solas: None of this explains how that mark was acquired, however.
Cassandra: [They] claim not to remember.
Solas: And you do not believe that?
Cassandra: It is to convenient.
Solas: Sometimes the mind buries what it cannot endure.
Cassandra: And sometimes the guilty lie. Let us press onwards.
PC: Why do you call her “Seeker”?
Varric: Because that’s what Cassandra is: a Seeker of truth. A… sort of templar. Didn’t she tell you? I’ll bet they didn’t even introduce themselves properly, or mention who all these soldiers are.
Cassandra: The prisoner is accused of a terrible crime.
Varric (male PC): But you still need his help. Unless you’re taking him into the valley for a brisk walk and some air?
Varric (female PC): And yet, you still want her help. Unless you just decided to take her out and show her the sights?
So who are they?
PC: So who are they then?
Varric: Cassandra and Leliana were the Right Hand and Left Hand of the Divine, respectively. They were the Divine’s… unofficial agents. Doing things like gathering these soldiers.
PC: For what purpose?
Solas: The Templar Order was once the Chantry’s army, but it abandoned them to hunt mages. A replacement was needed.
Cassandra: It is more than that.
Varric: So she claims. Clearly the Divine had something in mind.
Cassandra: Let’s move on.
Varric: So you’re a mage.
Qunari PC: Qunari can be mages.
Varric: True, though Qunari saarebas I ever saw was kept on a leash.
Dalish PC: The Dalish have mages. Varric: Oh, I knew one once. Pretty girl, had a thing for mirrors.
Human PC: You didn't know?
Varric: I assumed if Cassandra’s prisoner was a mage, she’d have announced it far and wide by now.
Cassandra: Questions yet remain.
Varric: Just not about his guilt.
Varric: Just not, “is she guilty?”
Cassandra: We don’t know why [they were] at the Conclave or who [they] worked for.
Varric: So you’re not a mage, and presumably not a templar.
Cassandra: Certainly not.
Varric (Qunari PC): So what was a Qunari even doing at the Conclave?
Varric (dwarf PC): So what was a sensible dwarf like yourself even doing at the Conclave?
Varric (Dalish PC): So what was a Dalish elf like yourself doing at the Conclave?
Human PC: I’m not a templar.
Varric: So what were you even doing at the Conclave?
Cassandra: Why bother asking? You can trust nothing [they] say.
Varric: You’d prefer to guess?
Cassandra: First we deal with the Breach. Then, we learn the truth.
Solas: I am curious why you were not at the Temple of Sacred Ashes, Cassandra.
Cassandra: We were delayed in Kirkwall.
Varric: By “delayed,” she means “we were interrogating a dwarf.”
Solas: A fortunate delay, considering it saved your lives.
Cassandra: There was nothing fortunate about it! If we’d been there, we could have…. this might all have…
Stop tormenting her
PC: Why would you ask her that?
Solas: It was a simple question.
PC: You don’t think she’s torturing herself about it?
Cassandra: You do not know me.
Varric: I think [they’ve] got you figured out pretty well, Seeker.
You’d be dead too.
PC: You’d probably have died along with everyone else.
Cassandra: Or stopped you.
Varric: You really want to torture yourself with “what if,” Seeker?
Cassandra: No, I want justice.
And yet you survived.
PC: So the Divine’s closest agents survived because of a convenient delay?
Cassandra: What are you implying?
PC: Well, survival seems to be evidence—for some people.
Varric: [They’ve] got you there.
Cassandra: I don’t have the mark… but point taken.
[Don’t respond.]
Solas: I apologize. I did not mean to cause you pain.
Cassandra: It is a question Leliana and I will ask ourselves for the rest of our lives, I assure you.
PC: So you and Cassandra know each other.
Varric: you could say that. She stabbed my books.
Cassandra: I did no such thing.
Varric: She questioned me, and then dragged me here to give evidence at the Conclave.
Cassandra: Which means you are now free to go.
Varric: You ever get the feeling you’re not wanted?
Varric: Will all these demons, why haven’t you called for help?
Solas: Would you wish to come to the site of so much death?
Varric: Good point. Still, if they knew there was a chance to close the Breach…
Cassandra: They don’t know that. And neither do we… yet.
Varric: So… Solas, is it?
Solas: You’ve yet to come up with a nickname for me, I see.
Varric: I was thinking “Apostate,” but that might make our Seeker twitch.
Solas: It is also meaningless. With the Circle of Magi gone, all mages are now apostates.
Varric: yet none of them showed up to help.
Solas: Perhaps they do not see the bigger picture, despite it looming in the sky.
Varric: So let’s say you fix this hole in the sky, Seeker. What, then?
Cassandra: A new Divine. Hopefully a new attempt at peace.
Varric: You think the mages and templars will come together after all this? Mighty optimistic. And that’s assuming the new Divine would even try. I wouldn’t.
Cassandra: Of course you wouldn’t
Varric: See, this is why I stuck around. All the love and respect.
Stop arguing.
PC: Do you hear yourselves? You’re getting nowhere!
Roderick: Oh, do tell us what your suggestion is.
Let’s decide before I’m dead.
PC: This thing is killing me, so how about you decide before I die?
Roderick: When you die is of no consequence.
We only have one chance.
PC: I’m your *only* chance at closing the Breach. I have to try.
Roderick: You’re no chance at all.
PC: Do you really think we can get to Val Royeaux before the breach swallows everything?
Leliana: There is another way: the mountain path.
Varric: There are soldiers up there? Shouldn’t you look for them?
Cassandra: I’ll hold them!
Cassandra: Careful—more enemies over there!
Cassandra: Just keep fighting!
Solas: I will protect us.
Cassandra: Use a healing potion!
Cassandra: We should find more potions.
Solas: The rift respond to your mark—try to disrupt its power!
Solas: The mark on your hand—use it on the rift!
Solas: Try to disrupt the rift with your mark!
Lake Villager 4: Who is that anyway?
Lake Villager 4: Are the corpses still out there?
Assassin: This is not how we succeed.
Shopper(???) 1: Maker, this is awful!
Shopper 2: This is terrible!
Shopper 3: Something must be done. It’s madness.
Shopper 4: I can’t believe this. I won’t.
Shopper 5: Who would allow this? This can’t be allowed!
Shopper 6: What a horrible state of affairs.
Shopper 1: I don’t understand this at all. What has happened?
Shopper 2: What can this mean? What do we do?
Shopper 3: Troubling. I’m at a loss.
Shopper 4: Everyone is confused.
Shopper 5: What does it all mean?
Shopper 6: I have no idea what’s next.
[Worth noting that these are the same names used for the templars in the great hall during CotJ]
Dieran: Heard he killed the Divine.
Dieran: She killed the Divine. I know it.
Esmia: Why didn’t he save her?
Esmia: What good is she if she couldn’t save the Divine?
Tavus: He survived the Fade. Only someone touched by Andraste could survive.
Tavus: She survived the Fade. Only Andraste could have saved her.
